Armed with Science

Marines with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit and sailors aboard USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52). Photo by Cpl. Tommy Huynh
Battlefield corpsmen and medical professionals across the country gained a valuable tool recently, as the Food and Drug Administration approved the first hand-held device detecting bleeding in the brain
The Infrascanner could be a particular boon to the Department of the Navy (DON), as heavy computed tomography (CT) machines are not normally carried aboard ships in the frigate or destroyer class, or in the field with the Marine Corps.