Sailors with 1st Medical Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 15, 1st Marine Logistics Group monitor a “patient” after providing combat trauma care to stabilize a casualty during Exercise Desert Scimitar 2014 aboard Marine Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., May 13, 2014. Desert Scimitar is an annual Marine Expeditionary Force level exercise conducted by 1st Marine Division, 3rd Marine Air Wing and 1st Marine Logistics Group. The realistic live-fire training allows 1st Marine Logistics Group to meet current and future real-world operational demands of providing tactical-level logistics support above the capabilities of other elements of the MEF. It is critical for a shock trauma platoon to be prepared to perform life-saving measures and make correct decisions when lives are on the line. “It is impossible to get training that is exactly the same as real-life combat trauma care, but this is as close as we can get to the real thing without actually doing it,” said Cmdr. Sean Hussey, surgeon for 1st MLG.
<br>Unit: 1st Marine Logistics Group
Lance Cpl. Keenan Zelazoski
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