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A lack of appropriately trained emergency personnel at every level of care had been identified in the NAS‐NRC document [16]. After 1973, extensive effort and money were directed at addressing this educational deficiency. Serendipitously, a large number of medical corpsmen, physicians, and nurses were returning from Vietnam; they understood that trained non‐physicians could perform life‐saving tasks in the field. Many argued that rapid transport and early surgery could improve civilian trauma practice as it had done on the battlefield.