Military Operations and Support

Images depict military personnel collaborating on advanced weaponry and medical rescue efforts, illustrating teamwork and readiness in diverse environments.

The Yuma Proving Ground Fire Department arrived within minutes to provide support by moving the patient on to the gurney and transporting the patient to their ambulance to protect him from the outdoor elements until CareFlight arrived.

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Teams from NASA, the Department of Defense Human Space Flight Support and SpaceX conduct a joint medical triage and medical evacuation (medevac) training exercise at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was the second of two emergency medical services simulations performed before commercial crew flight tests, which are scheduled for 2019. As NASAs Commercial Crew Program prepares to begin launching astronauts once again from American soil, teams are sharpening their launch day operations procedures, including responses during the unlikely event of an emergency.

$LS Iliesa Rainima, Republic of Fiji Navy, center, evaluates the patient. At the same time, SGT Amanda M. McGowan, 402nd Forward Resuscitative Surgical Team or FRST, left grades scenario two, with Maj Rena M . White, the 402nd FRST Commander, acting as a patient who fell and has sustained a pelvic fracture and penetrating wound. Skills testing is conducted so students can implement what they have learned during the Tactical Combat Care Course at Exercise Cartwheel 2022. Exercise Cartwheel 2022 builds readiness through military-to-military training. The U.S. Army stands trained and ready to set the conditions for success across the Indo-Pacific. Exercise Cartwheel is a multilateral military-to-military training exercise with the United States, Republic of Fiji Military, Australian, New Zealand, and British forces that builds expeditionary readiness and interoperability by increasing the capacity to face a crisis and contingencies by developing and stressing units at the highest training$