[JumpCrisscross]

> don’t think much of the medical advances that prevent that came from combat medicine

Triage and ambulances come from battle medicine [1]. (Not sure about communicable-disease prevention.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Jean_Larrey

[wat10000]

Right, those are relatively minor improvements compared to soldiers no longer dying en masse from typhoid, smallpox, measles, etc. Good improvements to be sure, but not quite as significant.