MCLSS: Marine Corps Life Saving Steps.
This is one cache in a 5-part series to celebrate Memorial Day, 2014.
In Marine Corps Recruit Training (boot camp), we were first introduced to the Marine Corps Common Skills Handbook, aka the “little green monster” since it was a smallish, yet many-paged camouflaged book detailing the basic knowledge and skills of Marines.
In the book, we had to memorize the Marine Corps Life Saving Steps:
Start the Breathing
Stop the Bleeding
Protect the Wound
Treat for Shock
-- obviously, those were just the basics. When things “got serious” we counted on our Navy Corpsmen. Although there is quite a bit of friendly competition among the different military services, we accepted these Navy enlisted folks as our brothers.
Navy corpsmen have a variety of duty options, including attaching to a Marine field unit to offer medical support during operations and battle. A corpsman interested in working with Marines must undergo special training and be willing to fight alongside the Marines.
To get the final 5th cache puzzle (MCLSS Corpsman Up!!! – GC54C90), please take note of the Navy Enlisted Rank inside the logbook of the four MCLSS caches. These caches include:
MCLSS Start the Breathing GC54C7Y
MCLSS Stop the Bleeding GC54C87
MCLSS Protect the Wound GC54C8E
MCLSS Treat for Shock GC54C8F
These caches follow all rules listed on the Eden Prairie geocache website.
Semper Fi!