Ragged Edge Solutions

EDUCATION | RESEARCH | INTEGRATION

A team moving a packaged casualty across an alpine slope during a course exercise

04  ·  Global delivery

One standard. Delivered where the work is.

RES teaches in the environments its customers operate in, working through host-nation partners, regional points of contact, and the professional bodies that set practice in each region.

Preparing you for your worst day through effective training.

The portfolio does not change by country. What changes is the host, the evacuation problem, and the system a course has to fit into. RES works through host-nation partners and regional points of contact, adapts delivery to local practice and regulation, and brings what it learns in one region back into the curriculum everywhere else.

Early morning mist over rural country in New Zealand

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Asia-Pacific

Australia · New Zealand · Regional delivery

  • Australia
  • New Zealand

Serious medicine for places where help is not close.

RES runs courses across Australia and New Zealand the same way it runs them anywhere else, drawing on the full RES education system with offerings selected for civilian clinicians, emergency services, remote industry, rescue organisations, and government partners. Delivery in the region is coordinated through an RES regional point of contact.

Long evacuation times, non-standard transport, and limited support are the normal conditions here rather than the exception, so courses are built around the judgment required when definitive care is far away.

Responders packaging a casualty on an exposed alpine slope during a course exercise
Packaging for a long carrySouthern Alps, New Zealand
A course group receiving a brief at a rescue helicopter during an evacuation serial
Working with the aircraft that will actually comeNew Zealand

Upcoming courses

2027 dates for this region are being scheduled. Listings and registration run through the RES course portal, and unit-hosted delivery can be arranged at any time.

Events and engagements

Australian Tactical Medical Conference

Annual · Australia

Run by ATMA. RES is a supporter and conference sponsor, has delivered pre-conference labs, and schedules an RES training event before or after the main program each year.

CRiC, Critical Resuscitation in Chaos

Annual · Christchurch, New Zealand

Hosted by Kaitiaki Ora. RES is a supporter and sponsor, has run pre-conference labs, and schedules a course around the conference so practitioners travelling for it can train in the same week.

Unit-hosted delivery

Australia and New Zealand

Courses hosted on site for services, agencies, and remote industry operators, built around the host's own evacuation problem.

Partners

Australian Tactical Medical Association

Australian Tactical Medical Association

The not-for-profit association for Australians working in tactical medicine, from emergency services response through to military, police, and special operations practice. Runs the Australian Tactical Medical Conference.

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Kaitiaki Ora, Tactical Medicine New Zealand

Kaitiaki Ora, Tactical Medicine New Zealand

A volunteer-run, not-for-profit association of tactical medicine practitioners and a registered charity, drawing on first responders, military medics, and clinicians. Hosts CRiC.

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Regional contact

alex@raggededgesolutions.com+64 27 241 0666

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Europe

Germany · Poland · Denmark · Lithuania · France

  • Germany
  • Poland
  • Denmark
  • Lithuania
  • France

Working inside allied systems rather than beside them.

European engagements run through host-nation forces, national services, and the conference circuit where the regional standard of practice is set. The work ranges from exercise support to capability programs built for a specific national requirement, and to the scientific program at the symposia where that work is reported back.

RES attends the ISTC Medical Symposium at Pfullendorf every year as a supporter and sponsor. Collaboration with European Medics, based in Germany and Poland, continues to expand into joint courses and projects.

The through-line runs back further than the current calendar. Exercise Baldr grew out of Mountain Path, the medical training and sustainment program a small group of SOF medics and physicians built with the Prolonged Field Care Working Group in 2014.

The RES stand at the ISTC Medical Symposium, with the ISTC colours behind it
The RES stand at the ISTC Medical SymposiumPfullendorf, Germany
The RES, Global Response Medicine and UNC team after presenting STORM-2 at the ISTC Medical Symposium
STORM-2 presented with Global Response Medicine and UNCPfullendorf, Germany

Upcoming courses

2027 dates for this region are being scheduled. Listings and registration run through the RES course portal, and unit-hosted delivery can be arranged at any time.

Events and engagements

Exercise Baldr

Denmark

An invitation-only international SOF medical training event built and run by RES with Danish special operations hosts. First held in 2022 over seven days, with presentations from the Prolonged Field Care Working Group and subject matter experts in SOF medicine and prolonged care.

ISTC Medical Symposium

Staufer Kaserne, Pfullendorf, Germany

Annual. RES attends every year as a supporter and sponsor. The symposium brings together SOF medics, medical providers, and the decision-makers supporting them.

Blood and transfusion program

Lithuania

A whole blood and transfusion program delivered for a national customer.

Joint courses with European Medics

Germany and Poland

Collaboration on austere and prolonged care courses, with further joint courses and projects planned.

CMC

Paris, France

Conference participation.

Partners

International Special Training Centre

International Special Training Centre

A multinational centre that has trained NATO and partner-nation Special Operations Forces at Pfullendorf since 1979. Its medical symposium brings together SOF medics, medical providers, and the decision-makers supporting them.

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European Medics

European Medics

A community of medical professionals working on emergency medicine in unconventional environments, based in Germany and Poland, running austere and prolonged care courses across Europe. A close RES partner, with further joint courses and projects planned.

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European inquiries

info@raggededgesolutions.com252-643-5333

A course serial running in a wooded training area

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North America

Greenville, North Carolina · Customer sites

The home system, and where the curriculum is built.

Most RES course development happens here, at the RES MERC in eastern North Carolina and at customer sites across the United States. DARK+WOODS, SO+AMT, PECC, TCCC, and the Grindstone modules all run domestically, hosted at the MERC or delivered to the unit.

The clinical side of the progression runs through the UNC military-civilian partnership, with proctored trauma rotations through the Carolina Medic program.

A treatment position established in an austere field environment during a course
Sustained casualty management in the fieldRES MERC, North Carolina
Clinical skills practice during a course lab
Skills labs ahead of the full mission profileRES MERC, North Carolina

Upcoming courses

2027 dates for this region are being scheduled. Listings and registration run through the RES course portal, and unit-hosted delivery can be arranged at any time.

Events and engagements

Carolina Medic

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Proctored trauma rotations at a Level 1 trauma center through UNC's military-civilian partnership, and the capstone of the Grindstone progression.

Scheduled courses at the MERC

Greenville, North Carolina

DARK+WOODS, PECC, SO+AMT, TCCC, and the Grindstone modules, run on the RES training site.

Unit-hosted delivery and exercise support

United States

Courses taken to the unit, plus moulage, role players, and embedded instructor support for unit-led exercises and full mission profiles.

Partners

Carolina Medic

University of North Carolina

A military-civilian partnership providing proctored trauma rotations through the Carolina Medic program, alongside PECC delivery and STORM-2 course support.

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Contact

info@raggededgesolutions.com252-643-5333

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Built for the environment

Better decisions with what you have.

It is not about carrying more equipment. The clinical problems of delayed evacuation are not limited to military medicine, and distance, weather, infrastructure, transport, and resource limitations affect care in every region RES works in.

  • Remote healthcare, ambulance and retrieval services
  • Fire, rescue, and disaster response
  • Expedition medicine and remote industry
  • Government agencies and high-risk teams

Host a program

Bring RES to your organisation.

Courses can be hosted at the RES MERC, at your site, or delivered in region, subject to confirmation by RES.

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