NO EXCUSE FOR IGNORANCE
As you cruise along the highway listening to your favorite podcast, you watch in disbelief and horror as a car a few lengths in front of you swerves violently, knocking a biker clear across three lanes of traffic. You pull over immediately and feel that natural desire to help. But what are you going to do? Do you have the knowledge and willingness to become part of the scene? Are you a bystander or a “by-doer?”
Never at a loss for a smile or a Southern phrase that will keep you grinning from ear-to-ear like a mule eatin’ saw briars, Kerry Davis of Dark Angel Medical wants to create a vast army of “bydoers” — regular people with the ability and willingness to help save a human life. Effortlessly blending complex medical information with an easy to understand trauma care curriculum, Davis provides training for everyone, as well as a suite of medical kits specifically designed to complement your everyday lifestyle.
Affectionately known as “Pocket Doc” to those closest to him, Davis is a humble, quiet professional who lives and breathes what he teaches, referring to himself as “just a nurse.” Dig a little deeper and you’ll find that this Air Force vet has more than 29 years of medical experience as a military flight medic, paramedic, and ER nurse. In addition to running Dark Angel Medical, Davis is also an adjunct instructor at SIG Sauer Academy. He has dedicated his adulthood to the preservation of life and hopes that through Dark Angel Medical, he can train the masses to be positively reactive instead of being as useful as a steering wheel on a mule.
RECOIL OFFGRID: When you entered the Air Force, did you plan on being a medic?
Kerry Davis: I came into the military as an open general classification, but I wanted to be a medic. Prior to that, I was in pre-med in college and I wanted to be a doctor. That was my life’s goal, to take care of people in some capacity.
We got to work very closely with the Special Tactics Squadron (STS), the Pararescue Jumpers (PJs), the Combat Controllers, Tactical Air Control Party (TACP), all those guys. I was up at Ft.
