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Global Medic 2015 is the largest patient movement and medical field training exercise within the DoD.  From June 6 to June 26 1600 medical personnel from 17 states and 3 countries put their collective heads together to strengthen their working relationship.

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The Chairman's capstone concept for joint operations places a premium on partnerships and he understands that in this environment we're going to have to rely on our global partners and so for us having our military medical partners participate allows us to practice interoperability in multiple scenarios.

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Those scenarios include patient evacuation and treatment using high-tech tools such as cut-suits which allow military surgeons to cut into the abdominal wall for exploratory surgery, insert chest tubes and close an opening using sutures.

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There are a lot of innovative techniques that are being practiced out there which i think is giving really realistic training to the medical personnel and the surgical teams.

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The joint exercise also allowed active and reserve personnel to learn from one another in a real world scenario.

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It cannot be overstated how important our reserve component is, especially to our medical.  A lot of our enablers are in the reserves and in the National Guard, especially for medical, a lot of our evacuation assets, our combat support hospitals, our forward surgical teams.  Many of those reside in the reserve component.

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The rapidly changing security environment puts exercises such as global medic on the front line of service member care on the battlefield.

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In this environment, agility, adaptability, resilience all of those types of attributes not only to the personnel but to the equipment and to the capabilities we bring are going to be very important to the future.

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But more than anything, medical personnel get the chance to utilize their top notch training to ensure the men and women who raised their right hand for a cause greater than themselves, have a chance to see home again.

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Sometimes with exercises there's just a thought, it's part of our training and it's kind of what we do but when you really look deeper in what we do in medical you know we're here as medics to make sure America's sons and daughters, the young people that parents sent to us to take care of our nation, are taken care of.