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Medical Evacuations and Triage

Emergency medical scenarios with service members providing care and transport for injured individuals during military operations and rescue missions.

After a chemical spill, a firefighter wearing a protective suit is preparing himself to carry out his mission, Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe
After a chemical spill, a firefighter wearing a protective suit is preparing himself to carry out his mission, Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe
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New York Army National Guard Spc. Shevon Reid assigned to the 107th Military Police Company, 53rd Troop Command, New York Army National Guard, alongside Spc. Jason Trinadad, 369th Sustainment Brigade HHC, 53rd Troop Command, gives instructions to people at a COVID-19 Mobile Testing Center in Glenn Island Park, New Rochelle, April. 4, 2020. The New York National Guard continues support at seven drive-thru testing sites. Soldiers and Airmen are collecting samples and providing general-purpose support at the testing locations, now exceeding 5,000 tests per day in total.
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In a ravine, rescue workers from Ventura County strap a 180 lb. mannequin into a Stokes litter to be hoisted up to a helicopter during the 76th Rescue Flight 1995 Rescue Symposium. Base: Vandenberg Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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070510-A-0559K-019. Base: Camp Atterbury State: Indiana (IN) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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060307-N-9742R-069. Base: USS Enterprise (CVN 65) Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
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Airmen of the 172nd Airlift Wing experienced some of the most engaging and intense Tactical Combat Casualty Care training available. Students applied two days of classroom instruction to a culminating event that cast them into highly-stressful scenarios with moulaged victims covered in realistic blood, wounds and various trauma. U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Jared Bounds.
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060910-N-6106R-007. Base: USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63)
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Participants practice applying a torniquet on a realistic medical training dummy during the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference visit, Oct. 25, 2022, at Fort Carson, Colorado. Tactical Combat Casualty Care guidelines are evidence-based and battlefield-proven to reduce deaths at the point of injury.
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Gunshot wound on the soldier leg
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A member of the Military Airlift Command's 2nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron listens as Afghan patients converse aboard a C-141B Starlifter aircraft. The men are among 25 Afghan civilians being transported to the US Air Force Regional Medical Center at Weisbaden, West Germany, for specialized medical treatment following injuries incurred as a result of Afghanistan's civil war. They will later be evacuated to hospitals in Europe and the United States for donated medical assistance. Country: Unknown
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U.S. Marines with Onslow Beach Marine Detachment perform Tactical Combat Casualty Care on a distressed swimmer brought ashore during a simulated response training exercise at Onslow Beach on Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, May 19, 2022. The Onslow Beach Marine Detachment in coordination with MCB Camp Lejeune Fire and Emergency Services Division and the Provost Marshal Office conducted a training exercise to familiarize first responders with responding in case of an emergency.
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Coast Guard personnel from the Gulf, Atlantic, and Pacific Strike teams assist the people of the Sanibel Island, Florida community on Sept. 30, 2022. The strike forces transferred over 30 people to Floridas mainland to seek shelter and resources after Hurricane Ian.
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Members of the West Virginia National Guard CBRN Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) participate in a semi-annual Collective Training Exercise (CTE) evolution at Camp Dawson, Kingwood, West Virginia, August 17, 2022. Approximately 193 personnel spent three days in the field learning and refining CERFP capabilities including Command and Control, Mass Casualty Decontamination, Search and Rescue, Communications, Medical Operations, and Fatality Search and Rescue Team functions. (U.S. Army National Guard photograph by Edwin L. Wriston)
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970628-N-3149V-005. Subject Operation/Series: KERNEL BLITZ '97 Base: Uss Tarawa (LHA 1) Country: Pacific Ocean (POC) Scene Major Command Shown: USS TARAWA
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U.S. Army Field Hospital at the Airfield at Maneuver Training Area. A sickroom awaiting patients during Defender 22. DEFENDER-Europe is an annual large-scale U.S. Army-led, multinational, joint exercise designed to build readiness and interoperability between U.S., NATO and partner militaries.Baumholder, Germany, May 03, 2022.
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PHILIPPINE SEA (Aug. 25, 2022) - U.S. Navy Sailors aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) prepare to move casualties during a mass casualty drill while underway during Pacific Partnership 2022. Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific.
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A delegation from the Kingdom of Morocco toured Orem City Fire Department, Station 33, and Mountainstar Healthcares Timpanogos Regional Hospital in Orem, Utah, Nov. 30, 2022. Firefighters and hospital staff demonstrated the full emergency response process from when a person is first extracted from a vehicle to when the person is triaged and treated at the hospital. The Utah National Guards State Partnership Program with Morocco allows for cross-exchange training and collaboration between military personnel and civilian agencies.
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Emergency Services Rehearse to Emergency Major Earthquake Exercise in Baden Württemberg The Major International EU Exercise Magnitude Rehearses at Earthquake Emergen
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220721-N-IL330-1025 PACIFIC OCEAN (July 21, 2022) - Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Christopher McCloskey, from Ocean Side, California, conducts stretcher barer training in main medical aboard amphibious assault carrier USS Tripoli (LHA 7), July 21, 2022. Tripoli is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and maintain stability in the Indo-Pacific region.
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060723-N-6403R-011. Base: USS Trenton (LPD 14)
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A bloody crime scene awaits 96th Security Forces Squadron Airmen and firefighters prior to an active assailant exercise March 27 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The goal of the exercise, which took place at Eglin Elementary School and other areas, was to test base emergency response plans.
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Gaza City, Palestine. 9th May 2023. mourners gather around the body of Palestinian boy Ali Ezzedine, son of Islamic Jihad member Tareq Ezzedine, at a morgue in Gaza. They were both killed in a pre/dawn Israeli air raid. The Israeli army said it killed three leaders of the Islamic Jihad militant group in air strikes, which left at least nine dead according to the Palestinian territory's Hamas/controlled health ministry, adding that women and children were among them.
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010404-F-8748C-003. Base: Raf Lakenheath State: East Anglia Country: England / Great Britain (ENG)