JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. —
The 459th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron lately carried out a neighborhood C-130T Aeromedical Evacuation static coaching mission right here together with the Fleet Logistics Help Squadron 53 “Capital Categorical” Naval Air Facility, Washington, D.C., the 459th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, 459th Safety Forces Squadron, and Essential Care Air Transport Crew members from the 316th Medical Group and 113th Wing, D.C. Air Nationwide Guard.
This collaborative coaching was centered round a simulated INDOPACIFIC mission with escalating tensions within the area the place the staff wanted to maneuver casualties from a contested atmosphere to a secure location whereas below simulated small arms hearth and missile assaults.
The C-130 crewmembers carried out simulated engine operating on and offloads throughout three sorties for 25 litter sufferers, 20 ambulatory sufferers, and 10 attendants. The train included physique armor and weapons coaching, and the medical personnel have been examined on managing cardiac arrest, respiratory misery, psychiatric emergencies, and working below missile assaults. The 459th SFS members additionally utilized their medical coaching as they carried out tactical fight casualty care (TCCC) when one among their defenders skilled a simulated gunshot wound.
“This coaching mission exercised a number of army specialties between medical, aircrew, and safety forces personnel which developed our warfighters’ tactical abilities and important pondering past routine operations,” mentioned Maj. Aaron Rankin, 459th AES Flight Examiner. “Airmen have been pressured to make selections based mostly off commanders’ intent with restricted entry to command and management. Coaching eventualities included stress inoculation in a managed atmosphere to incorporate high-acuity sufferers, care below hearth, and multi-trauma accidents. These eventualities have been deliberately chosen to raised put together our airmen for future operations.”
The joint atmosphere ensured each Airmen and Sailors are higher ready to work collectively in future operations by studying the distinctive variations in how every function. “One of many largest takeaways was joint interoperability on a non-USAF airframe as we proceed to pursue coaching alternatives on numerous plane to raised put together for tomorrow’s combat,” mentioned Rankin.
For some Airmen and Sailors, this was their first time interfacing with one another’s distinctive mission units. Whereas AE isn’t any stranger to the C-130, interfacing with the Navy supplied a studying alternative on the variations in how every service operates.
