Being an infantry unit leader in the Marine Corps there is guarantee that a person will be impacted by armed conflict in some nature or another. I have been personally affected by multiple traumatic experiences that resulted in wounded or killed personnel. One of many impacts that I think of often, is when we reacted to an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) near the south gate of Camp Fallujah detonated under the second and fourth vehicles. When contacted, I was out on a presence patrol and my patrol was the closest unit capable of emergency response. On arrival to the scene it was chaos from the Marines impacted, and we quickly had to set up a cordon around the site, and dispatch sweepers with the corpsman to assist in removing and triaging
