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She is supposed to have military trianing and stuff.
But when she jumped down to the ledge where her father had fallen the first thing that she should have said is, "Don't try to move."
Not only does he roll over, but he hugs her. That could have caused some serious internal and spinal damage!
I'm not even a medic but even I know this. Surely she should have received some rudimentary training in this to go along with her training in rapelling and such.
1st of all... She didn't move him. I've just re-watched the DVD, and he moved all on his own. Before she toched him. She rappels down, then the rope is not long enough, so she drops down, hard. Before she can get up after that hard landing, her father rolls around to see if SHE'S okay. She doesn't touch him until she knows that he can move alright.
2nd... We may have seen her go on that ropes/survival course (or whatever it's called), but we did NOT see her do a First Aid course, even a basic one. We cannot assume she even KNOWS first aid... so, she probably wouldn't have known the rules to disobey them.
3rd... Hugging does not cause serious internal or spinal damage! The fall would have caused this, not the hug. Sure, the hug may (or may not) have made any injury worse, but it would not have CAUSED the injury!
I'm not a medic, either, but I have done first aid courses. Plus, I'm older than Cadet Kelly Collins, so have more life experience. She led a somewhat sheltered life (yes, even in NYC) before going to GWMA, so she probably wouldn't have known about the basics of first aid -- even if she WAS all that accident-prone! ;-D
Yeah, but I'm still suprised that not moving a victim of such a fall wasn't a part of basic military training. I've never been in the military, but just by being in boy scouts I was expected to learn a battery of basic first aid.
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