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band-aid brigade

noun

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  1. Emergency medical technicians, first-aiders, or other pre-hospital medical workers.

    • One of the things I absolutely detest is someone calling the ambulance a “boo-boo bus” or saying we are the “band-aid brigade” or anything that minimizes or dismisses the level of skill and knowledge required to be a Paramedic in 2024!

  2. A group that applies temporary or makeshift solutions to problems.

  3. A group of injured people.

    • We were in the same company in bootcamp until I got hurt and ended up spending a month in X ray company (a medical company often called “the band aid brigade” and that was the end of our time together in the Coast Guard.

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