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U.S. troops punched so deeply into Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War that it took an average of two hours to get a casualty to rear-guard hospitals -- four times longer than in Vietnam.
But if it comes to another war with Iraq, the Marine Corps' ''Devil Docs'' will chase the front lines on trucks and helicopters, in a first-ever effort to persistently push top-flight medical care close to combat.
''As the battlefield stretches out, we'll move up,'' said Navy Cmdr. Peter Mishky, 40, of San Diego, Calif., a trauma doctor who heads Combat Service Support Company 117, the Marines' equivalent of a six-bed emergency room.
Tested in Afghanistan, the concept of sending mobile but well-equipped medical units to the edge of combat has been embraced by the Seventh Marine Regiment, with 10 emergency rooms and six resuscitation-surgery units.
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