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Wednesday, August 31, 2022
‘Stop the Bleed’ kit donated to Anthem council BY ALLISON BROWN Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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aisy Mountain Fire and Medical conducted critical response training and donated emergency medical treatment supplies for incidents involving traumatic bleeding injuries to the Anthem Community Council. Josh Jones, a captain at Daisy Mountain Fire and Medical Station 142 in Anthem, spoke about some of the work the department had been doing to help people be more prepared for emergency situations. “Last month, myself and colleagues from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office took part in presenting training to approximately 42 of
the members of Anthem Community Council staff,” Jones said. “During those two day sessions, we had not only active shooter response — which we call ALICE, which is an acronym for alert, lockdown, inform, counter and evacuate — we also followed that up with ‘Stop the Bleed’ training.” Jones said following the armed robbery in-
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Daisy Mountain Fire and Medical, in partnership with HonorHealth, donated a kit with emergency medical supplies to the Anthem Community Council to help “Stop the Bleed.” (Stop the Bleed/Submitted)
The Army Signal Corps’ impact on one young man
Desert Dogs is providing jobs to veterans
Arizona to add shot clocks for high school basketball
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The Foothills Focus, in partnership with the An them Veterans Memorial, ho nors a local veteran each mo nth. This is another in a series of articles about local veterans wh o are commemorated at the Anthem Veterans Memo rial. This is the story of Domi nique Wilson Woods. BY ELIZABETH TURNER Anthem Veterans Memorial
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n 1856, an Army medical officer and surgeon, Maj. Albert J. Myer, recommended his visual communication system, aerial telegraphy, be used as a means for communication among soldiers and command. Aerial telegraphy, or wigwag, used two flags of two sizes. The waving of the flag from left to right, or wigwagging motion, created a code, with letters designated to each motion sequence, much like morse code. Myer first used his visual signaling system on active service in New Mexico during the Navajo expedition. He used flags for daytime signaling and a torch at night. The wigwag
was then tested in Civil War combat to direct the fire of a harbor battery at Fort Wool against Confederate positions opposite Fort Monroe. For three years, Myer relied on detailed personnel, although he always envisioned a separate, trained military signal service. His system was adopted June 21, 1860, and, in 1863, the Army Signal Corps was born with Myer as the first and only signal officer. As visual signaling became increasingly difficult, the electric telegraph was added to the
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