Word: biotrauma
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...Tell me about your company. We call what we do "biotrauma remediation." We're providing the remedy for not only the biological hazard but also the trauma that stems from that hazard. Our service is twofold: we do the cleanups, but we also care about the people and try to provide the most sensitive service that we possibly could...
...over the country to search for, recover and clean up the remains of fallen soldiers - one of the most important and gruesome yet least talked-about military assignments. TIME spoke with Lichtenwalner about his experiences and why he and fellow Marine Ryan Sawyer decided to launch a company called Biotrauma Inc. in their native Georgia that performs similar tasks...
...When did you and Ryan decide to launch Biotrauma? My second deployment, the one that Ryan was on, was from February to September '05. We would get to talking with the escorts as they were hanging out in our lobby prior to shipping the remains out. We got to talking with these people and started to notice how emotionally distraught they were when they were connected to such traumatic incidents. And we realized we had the skills to help these people out back home who were going through these types of things, and what came to mind was homicides...
...that, there really was no psychological training. They put us in shock-value scenarios, like viewing those autopsies. They put us in front of that to gauge our reactions, and I think most everybody dealt with it pretty well. That being said, one thing we do back home at Biotrauma, we've identified the fact that stress has a cumulative effect on the body. We seem to be strong, or at least we tell ourselves that [laughs], and we haven't had any problems, but that's not to say something couldn't happen down the line. So we keep...
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