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I first went to SOMA in 1994 when it was still at Bragg. This year marks my fourth conference. I can't believe how large it's become and it just keeps getting bigger.
In 1994, with very few deployments, there couldn't have been more than a couple hundred people. This year it looks like we're pushing 1,000 despite a very demanding op tempo. The number of foreign nationals is impressive. I've seen many from Israel, Sweden, Canada, Germany, the UK, etc....
I'm not going to cover every lecture, but want to pull out a few pertinent points from the most important ones as far as operational and tactical medicine is concerned.
There is no syllabus (hardcopy or CD/DVD/USB), there are no lecture notes, and there are no handouts. So all my info is based on rapid fire note taking and may be incomplete.
So not to create a separate thread for each lecture and gum up the board, I'll instead post all notes here in this thread. However, I'll have a separate post with title within this thread for each lecture covered. (If that's acceptable to the moderators).
Please feel free to chime in.
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