ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Textbook of Military Medicine

So imagine you're playing soldier with your friends and one of them falls down and gets hurt. You want to help, but you're not really sure how to make them feel better.

Well, Military doctors and nurses are kind of like grown-up versions of your mom or dad who can help when you get hurt. But they have a really big job because they have to take care of all the soldiers in the army, not just your friends.

To do their job, they use a big book called the "Textbook of Military Medicine." This book has lots of information about how to take care of soldiers who are hurt or sick. It has pictures and step-by-step instructions to help the military doctors and nurses know what to do.

The book has different sections, just like how you have different books for different subjects in school. One section might be about how to treat someone who has been hurt in a war, while another section might be about how to keep soldiers healthy while they're on a mission.

So just like how your teacher uses a book to help teach you things in school, military doctors and nurses use the "Textbook of Military Medicine" to help them take care of their patients.