U.S. Air Force Emergency Managers and U.S. Army CBRN Specialists and medics react to a simulated contamination of a UH-60L Black Hawk transporting role players during integrated training as part of exercise Patriot Warrior August 20, 2019, at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. Patriot Warrior is Air Force Reserve Command’s premier exercise providing Airmen an opportunity to train with joint and international partners in airlift, aeromedical evacuation, and mobility support. The exercise builds on capabilities for the future fight, increasing the readiness, lethality and agility of the Air Force Reserve. (U.S. Air Force Video by Staff Sgt. Shellby Matullo)
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As an Air Force Emergency Manager, you always have to be ready. I work with chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear. Today we are embedded with the Army so it’s an Air Force-Army operation just to get a little bit more cohesiveness between the two.
You try out this one? You good?
I’m good.
Today, we actually landed a live Blackhawk and offloaded causalities that had been contaminated with some sort of chemical agent. We got them to the decontamination line, treated them with first aid, the ones that needed it, moved them through, decontaminated them and their equipment and then sent them off to medical.
Hold T-spine and turn him over.
And after that we decontaminated ourselves and closed the line.
Anytime we’re gonna be deployed downrange, we’re going to work hand-in-hand, so it’s very humbling to know that we’re gonna know what to do and how to work better as a team.