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The exercise, which started with a simulated improvised explosive device (IED) blast on a convoy, included twenty-five volunteers that had been moulaged with various simulated injuries requiring triage and treatment. Guardsmen from the Texas Army National Guard\u2019s 3rd Battalion, 144th Infantry Regiment arrived on scene as the quick-reaction force and secured the area. At the same time, pararescuemen (PJs) from the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron (82nd ERSQ) circled above in a C-130J Super Hercules operated by the 75th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, preparing to jump to the site below.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe overall goal is to demonstrate a capability to interoperate with all of these different partners as part of a mass-casualty exercise,\u201d said 1st Lt. Jake, with the 82nd ERSQ. \u201cWe can jump the PJs in, establish site security with the site security team and then the PJs can treat and determine who needs the most critical care.\u201d<\/p>\n
The PJs also jumped with a couple of tandem passengers, including the tactical air control party (TACP) and a doctor. After hitting the ground, the doctor took over the casualty collection point and began triaging and treating patients, while the TACP maintained airspace deconfliction and surveyed helicopter landing zones to expedite evacuation of the simulated casualties. Simultaneously, the PJs began extricating individuals that were trapped inside of the crushed vehicles.<\/p>\n
Staff Sgt. Matthew, who works in material management support for the 82nd ERSQ, volunteered to be one of the simulated casualties.<\/p>\n
\u201cI volunteered because I wanted to support an exercise that could potentially be a real world medevac response,\u201d Matthew said. \u201cI think this [training] is important because being in a deployed environment, this could potentially become a real world situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
While planning for the exercise was lengthy, it was training that was well worth the time and effort that it took to put together<\/p>\n
\u201cDoing this exercise, not only does it demonstrate that we have these capabilities, but it also means that we are training with these capabilities as we go along,\u201d said Jake. \u201cSo if this were to happen real word, then we\u2019ve already done training with these guys and agencies before, so it would be easy to put together different pieces of what we\u2019ve already done today.\u201d<\/p>\n
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This story extracted from DVIDS.<\/a><\/p>\n For more Battlefield Airmen stories such as this, click HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DJIBOUTI 04.24.2018 Story by\u00a0Master Sgt. Sarah Mattison\u00a0 Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa\u00a0\u00a0 DJIBOUTI, Africa – Service members assigned to Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) and Camp Lemonnier participated in a joint mass-casualty exercise, April 24. This exercise enabled multiple units to work together to tackle complex issues, while securing, treating, …<\/p>\n