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    Multinational Medical Training einforces trust and refines skills in combat casualty care

    Multinational Brigade and U.S. Soldiers team up for Causality  Training Care

    Photo By Philip Steiner | Polish Soldiers from the 9th Recon Regiment and U.S Soldiers from the 1st Squadron,...... read more read more

    POLAND

    06.08.2016

    Courtesy Story

    173rd Airborne Brigade

    Nowa Deba, Poland – Lithuanian, Polish, Ukrainian, and U.S. soldiers tested their shared first responder and combat casualty (CCC) care techniques during Exercise Anakonda 16 (AN16), here, on June 7, 2016.
    The soldiers of the Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian (LITPOLUKR) Multinational Brigade, the Polish 9th Reconnaissance Regiment, and the paratroopers of the U.S. 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment (1-91 CAV), 173rd Airborne Brigade aligned in the woods of the Nowa Deba training area in south east Poland to rehearse treating wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
    The unified force trained on injury identification, wound assessment and evacuation procedures in a combat scenario. The soldiers of each unit demonstrated their way of treating the three main causes of preventable death on the battlefield: airway obstruction, air pressure in the lung cavity, and excessive bleeding from a leg or arm wound.
    “Everything that we do is a medical practice. Every time we encounter a different country we encounter a different practice,” said Staff Sgt. Stephen Craycraft, a medic from 1-91 CAV. “The practices that we have learned here today from the long range reconnaissance regiment and multinational brigade have helped us to refine our own. As we learn the different techniques, we are able to care for our soldiers better.”
    While the soldiers didn’t all speak the same language, the techniques, tactics, and procedures employed transcended differences in dialect. They used hand and arm signals to communicate maneuvers and injuries.
    “The language of the multinational brigade is English, but the level of knowledge of English is different. However, we can communicate quite easily because we use a ‘military English’ that everyone in the armed forces can understand,” said Brigadier General Adam Joks, commander of the LITPOLUKR Multinational Brigade.
    The soldiers and paratroopers integrated formations to test their ability to care for causalities in a real life scenario. The officers and senior non-commissioned officers of the 1-91 CAV placed mannequins throughout the densely wooded training area, each with a specific simulated injury. The mixed teams of 5 soldiers encountered simulated fire while trying to care for the staged causalities, increasing the intensity and stress of the situational exercise.
    “I like this kind of training,” said PFC Sebastian Tomaszczuk, a medic with the LITPOLUKR Multinational Brigade. “It is very challenging. We learn together through our shared experience.”
    The teams worked together to transport the mannequin casualties, weighing up to 200 pounds, to a casualty collection point where their treatment methods were assessed by senior medics from both all three units.
    “Overall we have been able to improve our communication and our partnership together, so if we find ourselves on the battlefield side by side, we know we will provide the best care possible for each other,” said Craycraft. “Having that knowledge of how we operate together will carry us a long way.”
    AN 16 marks the first exercise where the soldiers of the LITPOLUKR Multinational Brigade train together. The medical training in Nowa Deba refined the shared practices between the U.S. and the individual nations of the LITPOLUKR Brigade. More significantly, however, it provided the opportunity to standardize internal medical treatment methods for the multinational brigade.
    1-91 CAV is an integral part of the 25,000 strong multinational force participating in AN16. This Polish national exercise seeks to train, exercise and integrate Polish national command and force structures into an Allied, joint, multinational environment. This exercise further supports assurance and deterrence measures by demonstrating Allied defense capabilities to deploy, mass and sustain combat power. The U.S. paratroopers train side by side with 24 other allied and partner nations in order to create a unified, ready, and equipped force throughout Europe.
    The 173rd Airborne Brigade based in Vicenza, Italy, is the Army Contingency Response Force in Europe, and is capable of projecting forces to conduct the full of range of military operations across the United State European, Central and Africa Commands areas of responsibility.


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    Date Taken: 06.08.2016
    Date Posted: 06.09.2016 03:37
    Story ID: 200466
    Location: PL

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