"If tomorrow you were going to be in a fight for your life, how would you train today?" The protection and safety provided by a Bearcat G4 allows operators to deploy very close to the target, avoid the danger of open ground approaches and improve visual coverage for the snipers. The vehicle also creates significant cover if a firefight erupts and team members need to fall back for protection and regrouping. The distance and time between rally point and an officer rescue should dramatically improve as well. If the rescue team is not close to the injured officer, the Bearcat can deliver the rescue team right to the officer or at least to the entry of the structure containing the "officer down". The trained driver can position the vehicle as to provide maximum protection for the down officer and the rescue team. Within seconds, the injured officer can be loaded into the vehicle and full advanced traumatic life support initiated within the safety of armored walls. Penetrating chest trauma and major vascular injuries, the two most survivable lethal injuries law enforcement officers face, will be treated immediately. The Bearcat will provide the medical platform for large volume fluid resuscitation, chest decompression, vascular injury control and intubation with dual and single lung ventilation. Along with trauma care, advanced cardiac life support capabilities will be present. Treatment of cardiac arrhythmia's and defibrillation of a lethal heart rhythm can occur in seconds and not minutes--the time often separating life and death. With arrival of our new Lenco Bearcat G4, officer safety for our SWAT team has reached a new level. Like all aspects of law enforcement, training with new equipment is paramount. A new leap in safety has arrived for our SWAT team.
