US Army doctor used ’macabre methods’

Since retiring from the US Army in 2000, Dr John Henry Hagmann has helped train thousands of soldiers and medical personnel in how to treat battlefield wounds. 

His company, Deployment Medicine International, has received more than $10.5m (€9.3m) in business from the federal government.

The taxpayer-funded training has long troubled animal rights activists, who contend that Hagmann’s use of live, wounded pigs to simulate combat injuries is unnecessarily cruel.