Fall 2022 SOCMID FTX - airforcespecialtactics.af.mil

U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen executed the Fall 2022 Special Operations Center for Medical Integration and Development culminating tract grooming workout successful Birmingham, Alabama, Nov. 17, 2022. 

Training provided the pararescuemen assorted controlled scenarios to enhance aesculapian readiness, whether successful day-to-day operations oregon successful austere, resource-limited locations.

The culminating FTX was the capstone to a two-week-long certification people wherever students applied skills learned successful civilian infirmary attraction to tactical scenarios.

SOCMID is embedded with the University of Alabama astatine Birmingham Hospital. Their vision is to found the premier trauma skills, sustainment and recertification level for pararescuemen and Special Operations Independent Duty Medical Technicians. 

The concern with UAB Hospital is beneficial to students as it is simply a level 1 trauma center, allowing them to behaviour objective rotations successful operating and exigency rooms. 

"The civilian-military partnerships are important to our sustainment program," said U.S. Air Force Col. Clayton Rabens, 24th Special Operations Wing bid surgeon. "Some of these skills are perishable, truthful having partnerships similar we bash with UAB allows america to replicate scenarios and lick problems hands-on, past use them to tactical scenarios for students to practice." 

Some of the different grooming was completed with virtual world headsets. Specific VR training helps students refine cognitive skills successful approaching aesculapian occupation sets.

Additionally, prolonged casualty care scenarios allowed pararescue teams to enactment done casualty attraction with caller skillsets learned portion attending SOCMID real-time with wounded mannequins. 

"We privation to guarantee they're prepared to conscionable real-world missions," added Rabens. "The precocious accent situation they brushwood during the FTX ensures we are capable to conscionable that goal."