The United States Army posted an online solicitation last week that wasn't looking for warm bodies to meet recruiting quotas, but cold bodies for medical purposes.
The Army is looking for fresh frozen cadavers from pelvis to the toe tip with sacrum, shoulders with arms and clavicles and various other body parts.
The body parts and cadavers are for medical training for field surgery for combat medics. The body parts requested will find their way to the Department of Anatomy and Physiology, U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, Texas.
The full list of items wanted can be found on the Army's
online solicitation. The requisition title is simply labeled, "Fresh frozen Cadaver limbs."
But before you consider chopping off ears, fingers, toes, hands, feet and thighs, the request was short-lived on a tight deadline. The Army posted the request on September 19 and had a five-day turnaround with a deadline that ended Tuesday morning.
The Army compensates for its annual body parts request to keep their newest field combat medics trained and up-to-date. The solicitation even indicates when trainees will begin to start working with them during their "Combat Extremity Surgery Course." The total price tag associated with the endeavor is a cool $32.5 million, and it was an open competition for individuals or businesses.
"This procurement is being conducted as a Full and Open competition. All eligible businesses may submit an offer, which will be considered," the Army wrote.
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