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aid station

American  

noun

Military.
  1. a medical installation located in a forward or isolated position in the field for providing routine or emergency medical treatment to the troops.


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"It's truly touching," said Stone Ngai, 38, one of the organisers of an impromptu aid station.

From Barron's Nov. 27, 2025

Every hour or so, I would cruise into an aid station and eat whatever I felt like eating.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 30, 2025

Just over 10 years earlier, Courtney Dauwalter sat alone and dejected at an aid station after dropping out of her first 100-mile race, Run Rabbit Run,, external in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

From BBC Jan. 17, 2024

When he rolled into a firehouse transformed into an aid station in Kansas, a volunteer had decorated a cookie with “Bottle Claus.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 22, 2023

A soldier alerts my mother that she’s needed in the first- aid station.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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