A Green Beret Medic’s Hard Truths: SFC(R) Luke Sciulli on Risk, Resilience, and Casualty Care at Scale

Podcast: WarDocs - The Military Medicine Podcast · Doug Soderdahl, Wayne Causey

Opublikowano: 2026-07-22

Episode Summary On January 18, 2018, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Green Beret combat medic Luke Sciulli stopped being the medic and became the patient. A booby-trapped building collapsed on him during a personnel-recovery operation, fracturing his C4, C5, and C6 vertebrae, both scapulas, and his pelvis, and leaving him with a spinal cord injury at C5. In this episode of WarDocs, SFC(R) Luke Sciulli walks through that day and the MEDEVAC chain that followed — forward surgical team, Kandahar, Landstuhl, and Walter Reed — and explains how living through the system he once operated permanently reshaped his view of casualty care, pa...