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- [Man] Blood pressure's 106 over 60, pulse 112.

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- [Woman] This is the best hospital in the world.

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- [Reporter] She's talking about

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the Craig Join Theater Hospital of Bagram Airfield.

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And today it looks like there's a lot of chaos going on,

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but what you're really looking at

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is the staff working together.

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- [Man Assessing Patient] No trauma to his back.

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- Organized chaos seems like it's chaos,

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but it's really not.

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So, we have various teams that are working simultaneously.

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They all know what's going on within their team

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and within the other teams.

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- Up on three.

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One, two, three.

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- [Reporter] Today these teams are being tested

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during a mass casualty exercise.

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And the scenario isn't new for some people.

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- This is not unusual,

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a situation to have an IED explode multiple vehicles

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and to have multiple levels of sick people.

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This is actually very realistic to what we'd seen.

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- [Reporter] For others, this is a new environment,

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which is why exercises like this help.

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- The biggest takeaway, I think,

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is the patient flow through the hospital.

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We have a lot of new airmen

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that maybe haven't been deployed before,

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haven't been in this type of situation.

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And so the patient flow through the hospital

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is really important.

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They need to know what to do and quickly do that.

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- I hope that everybody who went through here

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got some understanding

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of how to do it calmly and efficiently.

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As a medic, all of our job has to be done that way

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so that we can think clearly.

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- [Reporter] The correct care for these patients

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starts before they enter the hospital.

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- In Warriors Way,

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we quickly triage them before they come in.

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They're triaged out in the field before they come in,

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but we re-triage them.

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- [Reporter] The goal is to receive the patients,

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get the patients the right treatment,

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and do it in the most efficient way,

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because one day this might not be a drill.

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- You don't get to learn in real life here.

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- [Reporter] Technical Sergeant Robert Smith,

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Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.