With conflicts in the future anticipated to be more likely along island chains in the Indo-Pacific, one of the things Camp Pendleton corpsmen are training for is to be prepared to have to keep their patients alive in more remote locations until more help arrives.

A fictional drone attack this week during the I Marine Expeditionary Force’s Steel Knight exercise, all part of preparations for an upcoming deployment to Australia, had the Marine “docs” training on techniques for mass casualty situations where they would need to care for and evacuate a large number of patients. The two-week Steel Knight, held across multiple military installations in California and Arizona, has included units from the Navy and the Air Force and involved training for amphibious invasions, protecting embassies, e

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