Over $300 000 from donors: Come Back Alive Foundation helped to equip two training centers for combat medics

The Come Back Alive Foundation equipped training spaces for combat medics of two military units. The project cost over $300 000 funded by foreign donors who chose to remain anonymous to the general public.

The funding enabled the Foundation to install seven modular training classrooms with air conditioning, heating, and autonomous power supply, instead of standard tents, seven living modules for personnel and instructors, two bathhouses and laundry complexes, and two warehouses in two training centers.

In 2022, Come Back Alive Foundation instructors began to teach military medics on a spot basis. Later, we created an ecosystem for studying tactical medicine during basic military training as part of the “Holding you” project: we equipped classrooms, provided instructor groups with property for high-quality teaching, and contributed to the high-quality training of instructors in tactical medicine.

“In those training centers where we deployed these training bases, instructors underwent professional training and gained new skills and advanced in their roles. So later, professional training of combat medics began in these centers,” — says Bohdan Statkevych, a specialist at the Come Back Alive Foundation.

Retired US Army General Mark Arnold decided to support and improve the conditions for training combat medics. His support helped us raise the necessary funds.

“We purchased training and simulation equipment, medical supplies. Later, we set a new goal — to improve the living conditions of cadets and instructors.

Cadets come to the training ground for a month, while instructors are stationed there full-time. And, as a rule, such training bases are located far from civilization, so cadets can usually only take a shower and do laundry once a week. In such conditions, it is difficult to study effectively, and especially to teach. Among our priorities is to allow instructors and cadets to focus on learning, not on everyday problems,” — adds Bohdan Statkevych.

The Foundation continues to support and strengthen its cooperation with training centers.