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Military Medical Training Exercises

Images show U.S. Navy and Army personnel engaged in medical training, simulating casualty care during exercises at sea and in urban settings, highlighting teamwork and readiness.

220912-N-GF955-1821BALTIC SEA (Sept. 12, 2022) U.S. Navy Sailors treat a simulated casualty during medical training drills aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117), Sept. 12, 2022. Paul Ignatius is part of the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group and embarked 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, under the command and control of Task Force 61/2, on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied and partner interests.
220912-N-GF955-1821BALTIC SEA (Sept. 12, 2022) U.S. Navy Sailors treat a simulated casualty during medical training drills aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117), Sept. 12, 2022. Paul Ignatius is part of the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group and embarked 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, under the command and control of Task Force 61/2, on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied and partner interests.
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SGT Carl Mayberry, Joint Task Force B, prepares to X-ray an injured Honduran. Base: Soto Cano Air Base Country: Honduras (HND)
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040917-F-1467B-008. Base: Misawa Air Base Country: Japan (JPN)
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050720-A-1566H-010. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Echo Country: Iraq (IRQ)
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Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART) - Marine Safety Office St. Louis - 26-HK-120-114. Hurricane Katrina
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CELTIC SEA (Sept. 30, 2022) Sailors participate in medical training aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG 80), Sept. 30, 2022. Roosevelt, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is on its fourth patrol in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied and partner interests.
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Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency is carried by support personal from the Soyuz TMA-03M capsule to a chair shortly after he and Expedition 31 Commander Oleg Kononenko of Russia, and Flight Engineer Don Pettit of NASA landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Sunday, July 1, 2012. Pettit, Kononenko and Kuipers returned from more than six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 30 and 31 crews.
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US Army (USA) Private First Class (PFC) Jessica D. Lynch, 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company, is returned to US Military custody following a daring rescue mission by US Special Forces, from a hospital in Nassiriya, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. (VIDEO FRAME CAPTURE). Country: Unknown
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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Ashley Helmer, 60th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron AE technician, extinguishes a simulated fire on a KC-46A Pegasus, assigned to the 22nd Air Refueling Wing at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, for KC-46A training at Travis Air Force Base, California, Aug. 16, 2022. In addition to aerial refueling, the KC-46A can accommodate a mixed load of passengers, aeromedical evacuation and cargo transport.
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Sept. 30, 2022) Chief (Sel) Ricky Williams, from Fayetteville, N.C., gives medical training to Sailors during a general quarters drill in the hangar bay aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Abraham Lincoln is currently underway conducting routine operations in U.S. 3rd Fleet.
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U.S. Marines with Provost Marshals Office, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, and a Federal Firefighter carry a simulated casualty to an aid station during Exercise Lethal Breeze 2022, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, June 23, 2022. The exercise was an aircraft mishap response scenario, which included entities from on and off the installation, an opportunity to increase interagency response capabilities.
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Georgia Air National Guard firefighters from the 165th Civil Engineering Squadron conduct a simulated search and rescue mission during a 96-hour contingency training at the 165th Airlift Wing, Sept. 14, 2022 in Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this training exercise was designed to incorporate agile combat employment capabilities as well as challenge the firefighters to think and respond as a multi-capable Airmen force.
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221006-N-LK647-0283 NAVAL WEAPONS STATION YORKTOWNBoatswains Mate 2nd Class Justin Smith, assigned to the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60), takes a pin out of a stanchion on the accommodation ladder during sea and anchor detail as Normandy gets underway as part of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, Oct. 6, 2022. The first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is on its inaugural deployment conducting training and operations alongside NATO Allies and partners to enhance integration for future operations and demonstrate the U.S. Navys commitment to a peaceful, stable and conflict-free Atlantic region.
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The soldiers shown are from the Air Force 514th Air Mobility Wing. They are at the Fort Dix MSTC (Medical Simulation Training Center) during their TC3 Medical Provider training. The TC3X is a state-of-the-art medical training device used to simulate an actual casualty that could be found on the battlefield. (photos taken by the Fort Dix Training Support Center / Daniel Amburg)
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060818-N-0411D-081. Base: Camp Lonestar State: Nginyang Country: Kenya (KEN)
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Russian medical personnel monitor Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt onboard a helicopter heading to Kustanay, Kazakhstan shortly after Barratt, Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, and spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté landed their Soyuz TMA-14 capsule near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft.
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Firefighters with Marine Corps Installations Pacific Fire and Emergency Services move a simulated casualty to perform lifesaving procedures in a multi-vehicle accident crisis response drill during Exercise Constant Vigilance 2022 on Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan, Oct. 19, 2022. The annual drill was held to convey the readiness and capabilities of various installations and first responders in the event of an emergency. CV22 is a Force Protection Condition and crisis response evaluation to validate regional installations, camps, and tenant antiterrorism plans and policies.
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Coast Guard Personnel - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-90-203. Coast Guardsman in aircraft. Hurricane Katrina
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PANAMA CITY (April 19, 2012) Navy Diver 2nd Class Matthew Kelly, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2, Company 2-1, is placed on a stretcher by Panamanian divers during a training scenario aboard the Military Sealift Command rescue and salvage ship USNS Grapple (T-ARS 53). Company 2-1 is participating in Navy Dive-Southern Partnership Station 2012, a multinational partnership engagement designed to increase interoperability and partner nation capacity through diving operations.
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Captains Roderick Reid, center, and Carol Nicholson, flight nurses from the 775th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Flight, fold an American flag on a C-17A Globemaster III aircraft Sunday June 20, 2010 at Naval Air Station North Island, Calif., as Staff Sgt Brittany Zavala, an 775th EAES aeromedical evacuation technician watches, during the weekly Integrated Continental United States Medical Operations Plan mission or ICMOP mission as it's known by it's acronym. Capt Nicholson, a dual qualified flight nurse for the Canadian and U.S. air forces participating in an exchange program, says the flag belongs to her and she always flys it during the ICMOP. "It means a lot to me to fly the flag and brings a tear to my eye to see it flying over the cargo area when there are wounded Americans onboard." The mission picks up war wounded and other patients at Andrews Air Force Base, Calif., and returns them to their homes throughout the United States.
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Soldiers of 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) apply pressure dressing during Combat Life Saver (CLS) training May 20, 2022 on Camp Bull Simons, Fla. This annual class helps increase combat effectiveness by testing their knowledge in skills they have trained for as if it were a real world mission.
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Members of the 51st Medical Group, Osan Air Base, cut the contaminated clothing off an airman simulating shrapnel wounds and chemical contamination, during a Combat Employment Readiness Exercise held in conjunction with exercise Foal Eagle '98. Subject Operation/Series: FOAL EAGLE '98KOREA CD Base: Osan Air Base Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)
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Fire brigade personnel demonstrate emergency rescue skill for KEM college students in Bombay Mumbai Copyright: xHemangixNakwe/DinodiaxPhotox
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051226-A-7969G-045. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Cooke State: Taji Country: Iraq (IRQ)
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A member of the 82nd Airborne Division, injured in an air drop, is transferred from a C-130 Hercules aircraft by California Air National Guardsmen, to a waiting C-141 Starlifter aircraft for medical evacuation to Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina. The injury took place during Exercise Gallant Eagle. Subject Operation/Series: GALLANT EAGLE Base: Norton Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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020910-F-1413J-008. Base: Altus Air Force Base State: Oklahoma (OK) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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PHILLIPINE SEA (April 20, 2022) Sailors assigned to amphibious transport dock ship USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) assess a simulated casualty during a Tactical Combat Casualty Care training, April 20. John P. Murtha is underway conducting routine operations in U.S. 7th Fleet.
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221202-N-TC847-1382 ADRIATIC SEA (Dec. 2, 2022) Cryptologic Technician (Collection) 3rd Class Devin Day, assigned to the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55), performs a takedown during security reaction force basic training, Dec. 2, 2022. The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied, and partner interests.
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030711-F-5586B-005. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad (BIAP) Country: Iraq (IRQ)
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Public Affairs - Rescue - 26-HK-418-13. Hurricane Katrina
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030711-F-5586B-002. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad (BIAP) Country: Iraq (IRQ)
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Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to the U.S. Air Force's Ramstein Air Base, Ramstein, Germany
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British Army field ambulance
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The marine fire brigade in action (exercise rescue and resuscitation of a drowning car from the car) in March 1990.
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Members of the Ohio National Guard Homeland Response Forces Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Task Force practice conducting search and rescue operations, utilizing a rubber training dummy, during a July 2022 exercise at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Butlerville, Ind. Members of the CBRN-TFs medical element, in conjunction with the search and extraction team, are trained to conduct ropes rescues in full hazmat gear if casualties are trapped in hard-to-reach places, need lifesaving treatment quickly and cant be evacuated.
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Members of the 435th Security Police Squadron, Rhein-Main Air Base, and German Fire Department personnel shore up a weakened dam complex with sandbags at the ESWE Waterworks plant along the swollen Rhine River. The river, which reached its highest level i. Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)
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Coast Guard Structures - Air Stations - New Orleans - 26-HK-95-135. AIRSTA NOLA--CG personnel giving rescue swimmer a haircut2. Hurricane Katrina
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Crew members from the 55th Aeromedical Airlift squadron carry a patient from a C-9 Nightingale aircraft which is evacuating patients from Zagreb, Croatia. The C-9 belongs to the 2nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron. Base: Rhein-Main Air Base Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)
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Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART) - Marine Safety Office St. Louis - 26-HK-123-94. Hurricane Katrina
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Expedition 66 NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei arrives at the Karaganda Airport in Kazakhstan after he and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov landed in their Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. Vande Hei and Dubrov are returning to Earth after logging 355 days in space as members of Expeditions 64-66 aboard the International Space Station. For Vande Hei, his mission is the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut in history. Shkaplerov is returning after 176 days in space, serving as a Flight Engineer for Expedition 65 and commander of Expedition 66.
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CORAL SEA (June 27, 2023) Sailors assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious assault carrier USS America (LHA 6) and Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), conduct a mass casualty drill in the ships primary triage, while sailing in the Coral Sea, June 27. America, lead ship of the America Amphibious Ready Group, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. U.S. 7th Fleet is the U.S. Navys largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, and routinely interacts and operates with allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific region.
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SGT Walter Michener and CPL William Lowry, Medics of the 546th Medical Company (Area Support) out of Fort Hood, Texas, conduct an Advanced First Responder Training Program class with firefighters at the Camp Bondsteel Fire and Emergency Services on Nov. 25, 2022. Topics covered during the training included initial casualty triage, casualty placement in an FLA, loading and unloading the FLA, and how to set-up and utilize a SKED for aeromedical evacuation.(U.S. Army photos by Staff Sgt. Anna Pongo, 111th Public Affairs Detachment, Nebraska National Guard)
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220613-N-BR419-2055 PHILIPPINE SEA (June 13, 2022) Sailors prepare to carry a simulated casualty aboard the U.S. Navys only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) during a medical training exercise. Ronald Reagan, the flagship of Carrier Strike Group 5, provides a combat-ready force that protects and defends the United States, and supports alliances, partnerships and collective maritime interests in the Indo-Pacific region.
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The ground rescue team sets a Stokes Litter holding a rescued injured victim on the ground while waiting for air lift assistance during a training exercise at 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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020528-F-2902B-011. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Air Base State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)
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040811-A-7629B-026. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Pana Country: Afghanistan (AFG)
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Airmen and soldiers from the Indiana National Guard establish, operate and coordinate from mobile and deployable structures during a simulated emergency and disaster scenario during a pre-external evaluation sustainment year collective training event at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center, Ind., Aug. 10, 2022. Indianas 19th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and high-yield Explosives Enhanced Response Force Package is one of 17 strategically located CERFP units throughout the nation aligned within FEMA Region 5. (Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. L. Roland Sturm)
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Melinda Case, director of trauma at Palomar Medical Center, left, discusses the clinical experience Sailors gain in the trauma unit with U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Philip N. Frietze, commanding general of 1st Marine Logistics Group, and U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Stennett W. Rey, sergeant major of 1st MLG, during a tour at Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, California, Nov. 30, 2022. Palomar Medical Center partnered with 1st Medical Battalion, 1st MLG, for Sailors to gain clinical experience and skills in order to enhance clinical sustainment in an operational environment.
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HURRICANE KATRINA COAST GUARD. Pictures from the media. Hurricane Katrina
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Soyuz Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri is carried in a chair from the Soyuz landing site to an inflatable medical tent after he and Expedition 8 Commander Mike Foale and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers, of the Netherlands, landed in north central Kazakhstan, Friday, April 30, 2004, in a Soyuz TMA-3 capsule. Foale and Kaleri completed 195 days in space aboard the International Space Station, while Kuipers returned after an 11-day research mission as part of a commercial agreement between ESA and the Russian Federal Space Agency.
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U.S. Air Force basic trainee, Constance Smith, center, 322nd Training Squadron, Flight 631, counts sit-ups for U.S. Air Force basic trainee Ayanna Smith during basic military training morning physical training and exercises Aug. 22, 2022, at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. C. Smith is from Cumby, Texas and A. Smith is from Charleston, S.C.
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