Students in the Combat Medic Specialist Training Program look at a layout of Forward Operating Base Courage during training to become an Army combat medic, Sept. 29, 2022 at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis, Texas. During their 16 weeks of initial training, Soldiers go through a three-tier training program to become an Army combat medic. They complete casualty assessments, learn to apply a tourniquet, initiate IVs, dress battlefield wounds and conduct other complex medical procedures needed in combat.

Students in the Combat Medic Specialist Training Program receive instructions on what’s inside their medical kits before the field training exercise, where they will use their classroom training for the realistic combat scenarios, Sept. 29, 2022 at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis. After 14 weeks of classroom and simulated field training, students are transported from JBSA-Fort Sam Houston to Foward Operating Base Courage for their final two weeks. Here they combine and apply their training: conducting exercises in mounted and dismounted patrols, treating patients in a mass casualty situation and transporting injured patients to a higher-level facility for care.

Students in the Combat Medic Specialist Training Program receive instructions on what’s inside their medical kits before the field training exercise, where they will use their classroom training for the realistic combat scenarios, Sept. 29, 2022 at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis. After 14 weeks of classroom and simulated field training, students are transported from JBSA-Fort Sam Houston to Foward Operating Base Courage for their final two weeks. Here they combine and apply their training: conducting exercises in mounted and dismounted patrols, treating patients in a mass casualty situation and transporting injured patients to a higher-level facility for care. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tristin English

A student in the Combat Medic Specialist Training Program provides security for his platoon during combat field training, Sept. 29, 2022 at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis. The training facility allows soldiers to train under conditions that simulate what they are going to see on the battlefield. Soldier medics will train in the environment and the conditions of stress.

A student in the Combat Medic Specialist Training Program provides security for his platoon during combat field training, Sept. 29, 2022 at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis. The training facility allows soldiers to train under conditions that simulate what they are going to see on the battlefield. Soldier medics will train in the environment and the conditions of stress.

Soldiers participating in the Combat Medic Specialist Training Program provide medical attention to a simulated patient during their field training portion of the program, Sept. 29 at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis. The training scenarios are based on lessons learned from battlefields and include operations based both inside and outside the Foward Operating Base. The scenarios include operating a battalion aid station, dismounted combat patrols, mounted patrols, convoy operations, FOB security and reacting to both direct and indirect attacks. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tristin English)

Soldiers participating in the Combat Medic Specialist Training Program provide medical attention to a simulated patient during their field training portion of the program Sept. 29 at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis. The training scenarios are based on lessons learned from battlefields and include operations based both inside and outside the Foward Operating Base. The scenarios include operating a battalion aid station, dismounted combat patrols, mounted patrols, convoy operations, FOB security and reacting to both direct and indirect attacks.

Soldiers participating in the Combat Medic Specialist Training Program provide medical attention to a simulated patient during their field training portion of the program Sept. 29 at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis. The training scenarios are based on lessons learned from battlefields and include operations based both inside and outside the Forward Operating Base. The scenarios include operating a battalion aid station, dismounted combat patrols, mounted patrols, convoy operations, FOB security and reacting to both direct and indirect attacks.

A student in the Combat Medic Specialist Training Program provides security for medics as they a simulated injured solider to safety during combat field training Sept. 29 at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis. The training facility allows soldiers to train under conditions that simulate what they are going to see on the battlefield. Soldier medics will train in the environment and the conditions of stress.

A student, participating in the Combat Medic Specialist Training Program, calls in a Nine Line, an emergency medical evacuation request, to save a simulated patient during a field exercise Sept. 29 at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis. After 14 weeks of classroom and simulated field training, students are transported from JBSA-Fort Sam Houston to Forward Operating Base Courage for their final two weeks. Here they combine and apply their training: conducting exercises in mounted and dismounted patrols, treating patients in a mass casualty situation and transporting injured patients to a higher-level facility for care.