The learning goes two ways. I had one of our elite soldiers who's also a medic come and work with me on a Saturday. I don't normally oblige them to come in on a Saturday, so I thought I'd give him a cup of coffee and teach him something.
I gave him the scenario that an IED had gone off, his Buffalo had turned upside down—that's their ambulance—and he had to do a cricothyrotomy because the patient had an emergency airway obstruction. I asked him to tell me what steps he would go through. He said, “Dr. Ballagh, in the three that I've done, this is what I did.” I don't mind telling you that as a certified specialist in ear, nose, and throat, I've not done one. I actually learned from him that day, so the transfer of information goes back and forth.