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An Afghan man with a wounded hand waits for medicine

An Afghan man with a wounded hand waits for medicine

An Afghan man with a wounded hand waits for medicine to kick in while lying in the aid station at Forward Operating Base Bostick in eastern Afghanistan Feb. 2. Soldiers assigned to 102nd Forward Surgical Team a... More

Iraqi soldiers of 4th Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Division

Iraqi soldiers of 4th Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Division

Iraqi soldiers of 4th Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Division Iraqi army relocate a simulated casualty to a safe zone during medical training on Camp Diwaniyah, Iraq, Dec. 20. The soldiers train on several differe... More

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Sean Buckley, the

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Sean Buckley, the

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Sean Buckley, the NATO Training Mission Afghanistan biomedical engineering mentor, and two of the three-person Afghan team he mentors stand in the biomedical engineering shop a... More

Soldiers of the 5th Kandak, 1st Brigade, 215th Corps,

Soldiers of the 5th Kandak, 1st Brigade, 215th Corps,

Soldiers of the 5th Kandak, 1st Brigade, 215th Corps, partnered with the Embedded Partnering Team, Combat Logistics Battalion 5, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), form up to head to a training exercise aboa... More

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Marvin Floer, a hospital

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Marvin Floer, a hospital

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Marvin Floer, a hospital corpsman with Headquarters Battalion, 1st Marine Division, walks around the classroom with an assembled intravenous fluid bag to show to the students during... More

Afghan Commandos from 2nd Commando Kandak, mentored

Afghan Commandos from 2nd Commando Kandak, mentored

Afghan Commandos from 2nd Commando Kandak, mentored by U.S. Special Forces from Special Operations Task Force- East, conduct combat related medical training in preparation for future combat operations, Gardez d... More

An Afghan National Army soldier, who suffered a dislocated

An Afghan National Army soldier, who suffered a dislocated

An Afghan National Army soldier, who suffered a dislocated shoulder after an improvised explosive device detonated, receives treatment from another ANA soldier while being supervised by U.S. Army Pvt. Matthew W... More

Marines and sailors with the 2nd Marine Logistics Group

Marines and sailors with the 2nd Marine Logistics Group

Marines and sailors with the 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward), Embedded Partnering Team used smoke and training grenades to simulate an improvised explosive device blast Sept. 10, 2011, aboard Camp Shorabak... More

Commandos with the Afghan National Army's 5th Commando

Commandos with the Afghan National Army's 5th Commando

Commandos with the Afghan National Army's 5th Commando Kandak prepare to move a litter to an extraction point during medical training Camp Jordania, Balkh province, Sept. 27. With the support of Task Force-1 Pa... More

Afghan National Army Sgt. Zahir Atifi, 52nd Medical

Afghan National Army Sgt. Zahir Atifi, 52nd Medical

Afghan National Army Sgt. Zahir Atifi, 52nd Medical Company, teaches his soldiers how to stop the bleeding of a casualty Oct. 25.

Coalition special operations forces soldiers explore

Coalition special operations forces soldiers explore

Coalition special operations forces soldiers explore the delivery room of the Unkhai Basic Health Clinic, Sayed Abad district, Nov. 5. The soldiers visited the clinic to check on the level of training and educa... More

Spc. Eric Wise, a UH-60 Black Hawk crew chief assigned

Spc. Eric Wise, a UH-60 Black Hawk crew chief assigned

Spc. Eric Wise, a UH-60 Black Hawk crew chief assigned to B Company, 209th Aviation Support Battalion, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, checks his medical bag and refills it with missing items during a Combat Life... More

Kandahar Air Wing pilot Ismaeel, Afghan air force,

Kandahar Air Wing pilot Ismaeel, Afghan air force,

Kandahar Air Wing pilot Ismaeel, Afghan air force, prepares to conduct a hearing test during a training session with Afghan National Army and 25th Combat Aviation Brigade medical personnel on Kandahar Airfield,... More

Medical training at Multinational Base Tarin Kot: Members

Medical training at Multinational Base Tarin Kot: Members

Medical training at Multinational Base Tarin Kot: Members of the Afghan National Army’s 4th Kandak, 205th Corp Medical Company, gathered at Multinational Base Tarin Kot this week, to learn how to train their ow... More

Staff Sgt. Derrick Hensley, a medic with Task Force

Staff Sgt. Derrick Hensley, a medic with Task Force

Staff Sgt. Derrick Hensley, a medic with Task Force Ready, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, applies a chest seal to Spc. Melvin Boyce, a simulated casualty with a sucking chest wound, during a mass-casualty traini... More

U.S. Navy Cmdr. Michael Lavor, foreground, a student

U.S. Navy Cmdr. Michael Lavor, foreground, a student

U.S. Navy Cmdr. Michael Lavor, foreground, a student with the Naval Expeditionary Medical Training Institute Role 3 Kandahar Course, reports his platoon during morning muster at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton... More

U.S Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael Samosorn instructs

U.S Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael Samosorn instructs

U.S Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael Samosorn instructs soldiers how to properly insert a nasopharyngeal airway in Forward Operating Base Shank, Oct. 15, 2012, in Logar province, Afghanistan. Samosorn is assigned to... More

Afghan security guards practice litter procedures during

Afghan security guards practice litter procedures during

Afghan security guards practice litter procedures during a medical training scenario at Forward Operating Base Lightning in Paktya province, Afghanistan, Feb. 19, 2013. The training, provided by coalition force... More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Cole Weih assigned to Headquarters

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Cole Weih assigned to Headquarters

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Cole Weih assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, conducts a class for Afghan National A... More

An Afghan National Army soldier assigned to the 2nd

An Afghan National Army soldier assigned to the 2nd

An Afghan National Army soldier assigned to the 2nd Brigade, 201st Corps teaches fellow combat medics how to apply a tourniquet to an upper extremity during ANA medical training at Forward Operating Base Joyce,... More

An Afghan National Army commando with the 6th Special

An Afghan National Army commando with the 6th Special

An Afghan National Army commando with the 6th Special Operations Kandak, simulates a patient during medical training in Kabul district, Kabul province, Afghanistan, March 18, 2013. Commandos at every level rece... More

U.S. Army Spc. Joshua Adams, a medic with the Headquarters

U.S. Army Spc. Joshua Adams, a medic with the Headquarters

U.S. Army Spc. Joshua Adams, a medic with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 555th Engineer Brigade, picks up medical supplies during a company mass casualty training exercise at Bagram Airfield in Parw... More

A coalition force member clears a room during a tactical

A coalition force member clears a room during a tactical

A coalition force member clears a room during a tactical training exercise in Kabul province, March 27, 2013. The training is necessary to stay proficient in proper room-clearing procedures while deployed to A... More

Coalition forces practice room clearing techniques

Coalition forces practice room clearing techniques

Coalition forces practice room clearing techniques during a medical first responder training exercise in Kabul province, April 22, 2013. The training is required to keep vital first responder skills current whi... More

Coalition force member fills out a casualty card during

Coalition force member fills out a casualty card during

Coalition force member fills out a casualty card during a medical first responder training exercise in Kabul province, April 23, 2013. The training is required to keep vital first responder skills current while... More

A coalition force member reads off the manifest before

A coalition force member reads off the manifest before

A coalition force member reads off the manifest before a field training exercise in Kabul province, April 28, 2013. The training is essential for troops to remain tactically proficient while deployed in Afghani... More

U.S. Army Sgt. Jessica Hornes, right, demonstrates

U.S. Army Sgt. Jessica Hornes, right, demonstrates

U.S. Army Sgt. Jessica Hornes, right, demonstrates how to insert a nasopharyngeal airway tube into a mannequin during medical training with members of the Afghan National Army at Forward Operating Base Shank in... More

Afghan National Army soldier Amrullah, noncommissioned

Afghan National Army soldier Amrullah, noncommissioned

Afghan National Army soldier Amrullah, noncommissioned officer with the 203rd Corps, takes a written examination on the last day of a Senior Medical Leader course on Forward Operating Base Thunder, Paktiya prov... More

U.S. Army Sgt. David Williams, medic with the 801st

U.S. Army Sgt. David Williams, medic with the 801st

U.S. Army Sgt. David Williams, medic with the 801st Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) wraps a field dressing around his leg during a first aid class on Fo... More

An Afghan National Army infantry officer with the 203rd

An Afghan National Army infantry officer with the 203rd

An Afghan National Army infantry officer with the 203rd Corps asks questions during a first aid class on Forward Operating Base Thunder, Paktiya province, Afghanistan, Dec. 2, 2013. The class is intended to ref... More

Sixteen members of the Kandahar Regional Military Hospital

Sixteen members of the Kandahar Regional Military Hospital

Sixteen members of the Kandahar Regional Military Hospital attend mechanical ventilation introductory training Jan. 19, 2014, Kandahar, Afghanistan. The class was held by members of the Kandahar Airfield Role 3... More

Coalition force members assemble around an MH-47 Chinook

Coalition force members assemble around an MH-47 Chinook

Coalition force members assemble around an MH-47 Chinook helicopter and prepare for a training exercise on Kandahar Air Field, in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, Jan. 22, 2014. Force members were instructed on ... More

Master Sgt. Agustin Cruz (left), Intelligence and JTF

Master Sgt. Agustin Cruz (left), Intelligence and JTF

Master Sgt. Agustin Cruz (left), Intelligence and JTF Sapper PSD NCOIC, places a tourniquet on Sgt. 1st Class Jeremiah Galyon, JTF Sapper Future Plans NCO, during a medical training refresher course at New Kabu... More

Patrolmen of the Provincial Response Company, Task

Patrolmen of the Provincial Response Company, Task

Patrolmen of the Provincial Response Company, Task Unit Wardak, stand ready to conduct a firing range safety brief at Forward Operating Base Airborne, Wardak province, Afghanistan, March 26, 2014. The patrolmen... More

U.S. Army Spc. Evan P. Nelson, a gunner, carries Sgt.

U.S. Army Spc. Evan P. Nelson, a gunner, carries Sgt.

U.S. Army Spc. Evan P. Nelson, a gunner, carries Sgt. Stephen M. Owen, a vehicle commander, both of 2nd Platoon, Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry, 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Oregon Army Nati... More

Jamie Baxter, Emergency Operations Coordinator, Grand

Jamie Baxter, Emergency Operations Coordinator, Grand

Jamie Baxter, Emergency Operations Coordinator, Grand Ronde Police Department, Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, kicks off the Cascadia Rising training exercise June 9, 2016, in Grand Ronde, Ore. Cascadia... More

Medical training, Afghanistan

Medical training, Afghanistan

Raider Brigade Soldiers from 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, conduct Medevac Training in Eastern Afghanistan. Soldiers are ready to provide medical ... More

The insides of a ventilator, a device used to breathe

The insides of a ventilator, a device used to breathe

The insides of a ventilator, a device used to breathe for patients at Afghan National Army Camp Shaheen regional hospital, Mazar-e-sharif, Afghanistan, May 19, 2010. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Christo... More

Soldiers of the 5th Kandak, 1st Brigade, 215th Corps,

Soldiers of the 5th Kandak, 1st Brigade, 215th Corps,

Soldiers of the 5th Kandak, 1st Brigade, 215th Corps, partnered with the Embedded Partnering Team, Combat Logistics Battalion 5, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), listen to an interpreter (right), translate... More

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Melvin Martinez, a hospital

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Melvin Martinez, a hospital

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Melvin Martinez, a hospital corpsman with Headquarters Battalion, 1st Marine Division, receives an intravenous fluid from another corpsman to show the Afghan Border Patrol officers ... More

An Afghan man simulates a penetrating eye injury during

An Afghan man simulates a penetrating eye injury during

An Afghan man simulates a penetrating eye injury during a recent mass-casualty exercise as a medic checks his condition at Forward Operating Base Bostick in eastern Afghanistan Feb. 2.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Shareef Stokely, right, a medic

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Shareef Stokely, right, a medic

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Shareef Stokely, right, a medic with Headquarters Support Company, Task Force Mountain Eagle, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, Task Force Falcon from Eastover, S.C., instructs U.S. Army Spc. J... More

Afghan Commandos from 2nd Commando Kandak, mentored

Afghan Commandos from 2nd Commando Kandak, mentored

Afghan Commandos from 2nd Commando Kandak, mentored by U.S. Special Forces from Special Operations Task Force- East, apply a chest seal to a simulated gunshot wound during medical training in preparation for fu... More

Afghan National Army soldiers move a wounded ANA soldier

Afghan National Army soldiers move a wounded ANA soldier

Afghan National Army soldiers move a wounded ANA soldier to a medical evacuation helicopter May 10 after an improvised explosive device detonated during a patrol in western Zormat District, Paktya province. The... More

Participants in Project Gemini, an exchange program

Participants in Project Gemini, an exchange program

Participants in Project Gemini, an exchange program between the Blinded Veterans Association and St. Dunstan’s to help slight impaired American and British veterans learn about new research and technology. The ... More

Seaman Joshua L. McFarland (left), from Port Angeles,

Seaman Joshua L. McFarland (left), from Port Angeles,

Seaman Joshua L. McFarland (left), from Port Angeles, Wash., and Seaman Keene R. Davis (background), from Alma, Ga., two hospital corpsmen with the Embedded Partnering Team, 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward)... More

A senior medic with the Afghan National Army's 5th

A senior medic with the Afghan National Army's 5th

A senior medic with the Afghan National Army's 5th Commando Kandak explains to students how to move a casualty onto a litter during medical training Camp Jordania, Balkh province, Sept. 27. With the support of ... More

Army Staff Sgt. Sean Segroves, a senior medical advisor,

Army Staff Sgt. Sean Segroves, a senior medical advisor,

Army Staff Sgt. Sean Segroves, a senior medical advisor, 172nd Support Battalion, teaches four Afghan National Army soldiers medical techniques using a body dummy training aid Oct. 25.

Coalition special operations forces soldiers view the

Coalition special operations forces soldiers view the

Coalition special operations forces soldiers view the educational pamphlets used to teach mid-wives at the Unkhai Basic Health Clinic, Sayed Abad district, Nov. 5. The soldiers visited the clinic to check on th... More

Spc. Eric Wise, a UH-60 Black Hawk crew chief assigned

Spc. Eric Wise, a UH-60 Black Hawk crew chief assigned

Spc. Eric Wise, a UH-60 Black Hawk crew chief assigned to B Company, 209th Aviation Support Battalion, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, inserts a nasal tube on a medical test mannequin during a Combat Life Saver c... More

Master Sgt. Rahim, Afghan National Army, watches the

Master Sgt. Rahim, Afghan National Army, watches the

Master Sgt. Rahim, Afghan National Army, watches the program that runs the hearing test while administering it to a pilot from the Kandahar Air Wing during a training session with ANA and 25th Combat Aviation B... More

Medical training at Multinational Base Tarin Kot: Members

Medical training at Multinational Base Tarin Kot: Members

Medical training at Multinational Base Tarin Kot: Members of the Afghan National Army’s 4th Kandak, 205th Corp Medical Company, gathered at Multinational Base Tarin Kot this week, to learn how to train their ow... More

Spc. Isaac Malit, a medic with the 12th Combat Aviation

Spc. Isaac Malit, a medic with the 12th Combat Aviation

Spc. Isaac Malit, a medic with the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, applies a combat application tourniquet to Sgt. Jerrell Blaylock, a simulated amputee, during a mass-casualty training exercise the morning of J... More

U.S. Navy Cmdr. Mike Coffel, a subject matter expert

U.S. Navy Cmdr. Mike Coffel, a subject matter expert

U.S. Navy Cmdr. Mike Coffel, a subject matter expert and guest lecturer with the Naval Expeditionary Medical Training Institute Role 3 Kanadahar Course, instructs other sailors in a tourniquet class during a cl... More

U.S Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael Samosorn demonstrates

U.S Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael Samosorn demonstrates

U.S Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael Samosorn demonstrates an insertion a nasopharyngeal airway in Forward Operating Base Shank, Oct. 15, 2012, in Logar province, Afghanistan. Samosorn is assigned to Headquarters an... More

Afghan National Army soldiers  conduct medical training

Afghan National Army soldiers conduct medical training

Afghan National Army soldiers conduct medical training in Forward Operating Base Airborne, Nov. 5, 2012, in Wardak province, Afghanistan. The ANA are instructed on how to apply appropriate action and perform t... More

U.S. Army Pfc. Joshua Greenman, left, a combat medic

U.S. Army Pfc. Joshua Greenman, left, a combat medic

U.S. Army Pfc. Joshua Greenman, left, a combat medic with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), teaches hands-on training t... More

A senior Afghan National Army soldier assigned to 2nd

A senior Afghan National Army soldier assigned to 2nd

A senior Afghan National Army soldier assigned to 2nd Brigade, 201st Corps, takes part in teaching a medical class during ANA medical training at Forward Operating Base Joyce, Kunar province, Afghanistan, March... More

An Afghan National Army soldier assigned to 2nd Brigade,

An Afghan National Army soldier assigned to 2nd Brigade,

An Afghan National Army soldier assigned to 2nd Brigade, 201st Corps, teaches fellow combat medics how to apply a tourniquet to a lower extremity during ANA medical training at Forward Operating Base Joyce, Kun... More

An Afghan National Army commando with the 6th Special

An Afghan National Army commando with the 6th Special

An Afghan National Army commando with the 6th Special Operations Kandak, observes a demonstration during medical training in Kabul district, Kabul province, Afghanistan, March 18, 2013. Commandos at every level... More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Maria Morales, center, a medic

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Maria Morales, center, a medic

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Maria Morales, center, a medic with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 555th Engineer Brigade, applies a tourniquet to the leg of Spc. Tanisha Ponder as she plays the part of a simu... More

A coalition force member clears a room during a tactical

A coalition force member clears a room during a tactical

A coalition force member clears a room during a tactical training exercise in Kabul province, March 27, 2013. The training is necessary to stay proficient in proper room-clearing procedures while deployed to A... More

Coalition force member begins to assess a medical roleplayer

Coalition force member begins to assess a medical roleplayer

Coalition force member begins to assess a medical roleplayer during a medical first responder training exercise in Kabul province, April 22, 2013. The training is required to keep vital first responder skills c... More

Coalition force member looks onward during a medical

Coalition force member looks onward during a medical

Coalition force member looks onward during a medical first responder training exercise in Kabul province, April 23, 2013. The training is required to keep vital first responder skills current while deployed in ... More

Coalition forces share information during a leadership

Coalition forces share information during a leadership

Coalition forces share information during a leadership huddle during a field training exercise in Kabul province, April 28, 2013. The training is essential for troops to remain tactically proficient while deplo... More

Afghan National Army Sgt. Mohammad Niab, a medic with

Afghan National Army Sgt. Mohammad Niab, a medic with

Afghan National Army Sgt. Mohammad Niab, a medic with the 5th Kandak, 4th Brigade, 203rd Corps, practices new airway management skills while U.S. Army Sgt. Jessica Hornes, an Apopka, Fla., native and a combat m... More

Afghan National Army soldier M. Nasim, noncommissioned

Afghan National Army soldier M. Nasim, noncommissioned

Afghan National Army soldier M. Nasim, noncommissioned officer with the 203rd Corps, takes a written examination on the last day of a Senior Medical Leader course on Forward Operating Base Thunder, Paktiya prov... More

U.S. Army Sgt. David Williams, left, and Staff Sgt.

U.S. Army Sgt. David Williams, left, and Staff Sgt.

U.S. Army Sgt. David Williams, left, and Staff Sgt. Marcus Freeman, both medics with the 801st Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) talk about the importance... More

U.S. Army Sgt. David Williams, medic with the 801st

U.S. Army Sgt. David Williams, medic with the 801st

U.S. Army Sgt. David Williams, medic with the 801st Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne (Air Assault), explains the use of a tourniquet during a first aid class on Forward Operati... More

Lt. Cmdr. Jimmy Suvatne (left), Medical Doctor of pulmonary

Lt. Cmdr. Jimmy Suvatne (left), Medical Doctor of pulmonary

Lt. Cmdr. Jimmy Suvatne (left), Medical Doctor of pulmonary and critical care medicine, of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Multinational Medical Unit, teaches a course on introductory ventilation trainin... More

Crewmembers train coalition force members on the basic

Crewmembers train coalition force members on the basic

Crewmembers train coalition force members on the basic maintenance and functionality of the MH-47 Chinook helicopter on Kandahar Air Field, in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, Jan. 22, 2014. This kind of trainin... More

Capt. Matthew Jordan, Headquarter and Headquarter Company

Capt. Matthew Jordan, Headquarter and Headquarter Company

Capt. Matthew Jordan, Headquarter and Headquarter Company Commander, 130th Engineer Brigade, places a tourniquet on himself during a medical training refresher course at New Kabul Compound, Jan. 30. The soldie... More

Patrolmen of the Provincial Response Company, Task

Patrolmen of the Provincial Response Company, Task

Patrolmen of the Provincial Response Company, Task Unit Wardak, prepare to fire their weapons at Forward Operating Base Airborne, Wardak province, Afghanistan, March 26, 2014. The patrolmen are learning how to ... More

U.S. Army Pfc. Robbin M. Chambers, a driver for 2nd

U.S. Army Pfc. Robbin M. Chambers, a driver for 2nd

U.S. Army Pfc. Robbin M. Chambers, a driver for 2nd Platoon, Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry, 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Oregon Army National Guard, tears open a package of gauze during a t... More

Sgt. First Class Frank Muramoto, 101st Airborne Division

Sgt. First Class Frank Muramoto, 101st Airborne Division

Sgt. First Class Frank Muramoto, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Resolute Support Sustainment Brigade medical operations non-commissioned officer in charge, observes while PFC Keith Brown and PFC Eder Que... More

Hospital corpsmen with the Embedded Partnering Team,

Hospital corpsmen with the Embedded Partnering Team,

Hospital corpsmen with the Embedded Partnering Team, Combat Logistics Battalion 5, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), partnered with soldiers of the 5th Kandak, 1st Brigade, 215th Corps, demonstrate the prop... More

Khan Agha, an Afghan Border Patrol officer, gives a

Khan Agha, an Afghan Border Patrol officer, gives a

Khan Agha, an Afghan Border Patrol officer, gives a fellow student in the medical training course at the Joint Security Academy Southwest, Camp Leatherneck Afghanistan, an intravenous fluid drip, Oct. 3. The st... More

An Afghan Border Patrol officer attempts to restore

An Afghan Border Patrol officer attempts to restore

An Afghan Border Patrol officer attempts to restore breathing on a cardiopulmonary resuscitation training mannequin. A class of ABP officers practiced the fundamentals of cardiopulmonary resuscitation during an... More

Afghan Commandos from 2nd Commando Kandak, mentored

Afghan Commandos from 2nd Commando Kandak, mentored

Afghan Commandos from 2nd Commando Kandak, mentored by U.S. Special Forces from Special Operations Task Force- East, apply a chest seal to a simulated gunshot wound during medical training in preparation for fu... More

Seaman Joshua L. McFarland, from Port Angeles, Wash.,

Seaman Joshua L. McFarland, from Port Angeles, Wash.,

Seaman Joshua L. McFarland, from Port Angeles, Wash., a hospital corpsman with the Embedded Partnering Team, 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward), assists a medic with the 215th Corps Logistics Battalion, Afgha... More

A senior medic with the Afghan National Army's 5th

A senior medic with the Afghan National Army's 5th

A senior medic with the Afghan National Army's 5th Commando Kandak explains to students how to move a casualty onto a litter during medical training Camp Jordania, Balkh province, Sept. 27. With the support of ... More

The midwife at the Unkhai Basic Health Clinic shows

The midwife at the Unkhai Basic Health Clinic shows

The midwife at the Unkhai Basic Health Clinic shows a coalition special operations forces soldier a board which describes common pregnancy complications, Sayed Abad district, Nov. 5. The soldiers visited the cl... More

Spc. Mary Clarke, a supply specialist with Headquarters

Spc. Mary Clarke, a supply specialist with Headquarters

Spc. Mary Clarke, a supply specialist with Headquarters Support Company, 209th Aviation Support Battalion, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, navigates an obstacle while caring a simulated patient to a secure locati... More

Kandahar Air Wing pilot Ismaeel, afghan air force,

Kandahar Air Wing pilot Ismaeel, afghan air force,

Kandahar Air Wing pilot Ismaeel, afghan air force, finishes a hearing test with guidance from Master Sgt. Rahim, Afghan National Army, during a training session with ANA and 25th Combat Aviation Brigade medical... More

Medical training at Multinational Base Tarin Kot: Members

Medical training at Multinational Base Tarin Kot: Members

Medical training at Multinational Base Tarin Kot: Members of the Afghan National Army’s 4th Kandak, 205th Corp Medical Company, gathered at Multinational Base Tarin Kot this week, to learn how to train their ow... More

Spc. Emily Fitzrandolph, a medic with the 412th Aviation

Spc. Emily Fitzrandolph, a medic with the 412th Aviation

Spc. Emily Fitzrandolph, a medic with the 412th Aviation Support Battalion, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, applies pressure to a simulated casualty with a head wound while explaining the casualty's condition to ... More

U.S Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael Samosorn demonstrates

U.S Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael Samosorn demonstrates

U.S Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael Samosorn demonstrates an insertion a nasopharyngeal airway in Forward Operating Base Shank, Oct. 15, 2012, in Logar province, Afghanistan. Samosorn is assigned to Headquarters an... More

U.S. Army Pfc. Joshua Greenman, a combat medic with

U.S. Army Pfc. Joshua Greenman, a combat medic with

U.S. Army Pfc. Joshua Greenman, a combat medic with Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), helps an Afghan security guard se... More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Cole Weih assigned to Headquarters

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Cole Weih assigned to Headquarters

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Cole Weih assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, conducts a class for Afghan National A... More

U.S. Army Capt. Seth Enterline assigned to the 2nd

U.S. Army Capt. Seth Enterline assigned to the 2nd

U.S. Army Capt. Seth Enterline assigned to the 2nd Brigade, 201st Corps Security Force Advisory and Assistance Team, asks questions to check on learning during Afghan National Army (ANA) medical training at For... More

An Afghan National Army commando medic with the 6th

An Afghan National Army commando medic with the 6th

An Afghan National Army commando medic with the 6th Special Operations Kandak, teaches his platoon during medical training in Kabul district, Kabul province, Afghanistan, March 18, 2013. Commandos at every leve... More

U.S. Army Pfc. Moody Watson, kneeling, a medic with

U.S. Army Pfc. Moody Watson, kneeling, a medic with

U.S. Army Pfc. Moody Watson, kneeling, a medic with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 555th Engineer Brigade, provides aid to Spc. English Mclemore as she plays the part of a simulated casualty during a co... More

A coalition force member writes on a casualty-card

A coalition force member writes on a casualty-card

A coalition force member writes on a casualty-card during first-responder training exercise, Kabul province, March 27, 2013. The training is necessary to stay proficient in treating casualties while deployed to... More

Coalition force member practices room clearing techniques

Coalition force member practices room clearing techniques

Coalition force member practices room clearing techniques during a medical first responder training exercise in Kabul province, April 22, 2013. The training is required to keep vital first responder skills curr... More

Coalition forces practice first responder techniques

Coalition forces practice first responder techniques

Coalition forces practice first responder techniques during a training exercise in Kabul province, April 23, 2013. The training is required to keep vital first responder skills current while deployed in Afghani... More

Coalition forces share information during a leadership

Coalition forces share information during a leadership

Coalition forces share information during a leadership huddle during a field training exercise in Kabul province, April 28, 2013. The training is essential for troops to remain tactically proficient while deplo... More

Afghan National Army Sgt. Maj. Said Kamal with the

Afghan National Army Sgt. Maj. Said Kamal with the

Afghan National Army Sgt. Maj. Said Kamal with the 203rd Corps demonstrates how to apply an improvised tourniquet on another Afghan soldier on Forward Operating Base Thunder, Paktiya province, Afghanistan, Nov.... More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Marcus Freeman, medic with the

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Marcus Freeman, medic with the

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Marcus Freeman, medic with the 801st Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) talks about the importance of nasopharyngeal tubes during a fi... More

An Afghan National Army infantry officer with the 203rd

An Afghan National Army infantry officer with the 203rd

An Afghan National Army infantry officer with the 203rd Corps applies a tourniquet to a simulated casualty during a first aid class on Forward Operating Base Thunder, Paktiya province, Dec. 2, 2013. The class i... More

Sixteen members of the Kandahar Regional Military Hospital

Sixteen members of the Kandahar Regional Military Hospital

Sixteen members of the Kandahar Regional Military Hospital listen during a lecture at a mechanical ventilation introductory training course held at the Kandahar Regional Military Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan... More

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