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Video by Staff Sgt. Roman Gamble
B-Roll: 2024 Iowa National Guard XCTC Mass Casualty Exercise
135th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
July 18, 2024 | 13:05
Combat Medics from the 224th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, Iowa Army National Guard, provide emergency medical care and evacuate Soldiers with simulated injuries via a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter piloted by Soldiers from Company G, 1st Battalion, 189th Aviation Regiment, Oregon Army National Guard, during a mass casualty exercise as part of an eXportable Combat Training Capability (XCTC) rotation at Camp Ripley, Minn., on July 18, 2024. During XCTC, components of the 2/34th BCT (including infantry, cavalry, field artillery and engineers) train in dynamic and challenging scenarios, both day and night operations, in maneuvers and live-fire exercises specific to the combat and domestic taskings of each unit. (U.S. Army National Guard video by Staff Sgt. Roman Gamble)
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LTC Elizabeth Cordon

LTC Elizabeth Cordon,
WRF Resiliency Branch Chief

MAJ Giovanni Siaca

MAJ Giovanni Siaca,
Joint Suicide Prevention
Program Manager

CPT Shannon Bush-Smith

CPT Shannon Bush-Smith,
Army National Guard Suicide Prevention Program Coordinator

Capt. Ashley Hollingsworth

Capt. Ashley Hollingsworth,
Air National Guard Suicide Prevention Program Coordinator

 

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