Positivity: Iraq War Veteran Teaches Law Enforcement

From Milwaukee, Wisconsin:

POSTED: 3:28 pm CDT May 22, 2009
UPDATED: 4:45 pm CDT May 22, 2009

Teaches Life Saving Skills From Battlefield

An Iraq war veteran is teaching local law enforcement officers some life saving techniques from the battlefield. The skills that saved his life could also save officers caught in extreme situations.
Chris Cook knows the heat of battle and what it takes to save a life.

“We have to turn the heat up a little bit.” Cook said, “Knowing that the techniques we’re talking about today actually work, obviously I’m evidence that I’m standing here today.”

On Sept. 11th, 2004 Cook was serving in Iraq with the National Guard when his unit was attacked by a suicide bomber.

Cook shot the bomber, saving his unit. After the explosion, Cook said he (applied a) tourniquet on his own shattered leg. It probably saved his life.

Cook and others started a company, Medicor Proeliator, and today they’re teaching officers battlefield tested techniques that are now used to save lives on the streets, when a shooter is still out there.

“It has such greater meaning for me than just a class,” Cook said, “We arm officers with the tools to save other people’s lives, but we don’t arm them with the ability to save their own.”

The key is committing these techniques to muscle memory so they become instinct when the bullets fly for real, he said.

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