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B-roll: Medical Evacuation Training Lands during Hospital Exercise

221st Public Affairs Detachment

June 6, 2023 | 3:30

U.S. Air Force Airmen and U.S. Army Soldiers medically evacuated role players with simulated injuries from Romania to Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany, on an U.S. C130J during SABER GUARDIAN 23 Hospital Exercise, a military crisis-response training-event for multinational forces June 6, 2023. HOSPEX 23 is a joint, multinational hospital-exercise that took place May 22 to June 9, to evaluate and train deployed medical capabilities, and was part of DEFENDER 23.

DEFENDER 23 is a U.S. Army Europe and Africa-led exercise focused on the strategic deployment of continental United States-based forces, employment of Army Prepositioned Stocks and interoperability with Allies and partners. Taking place from April 22 to June 23, DEFENDER 23 demonstrates USAREU-AF’s ability to aggregate U.S.-based combat power quickly in Eastern Europe, increase lethality of the NATO Alliance through long-distance fires, build unit readiness in a complex joint, multi-national environment and leverage host nation capabilities to increase USAREUR-AF’s operational reach. DEFENDER 23 includes more than 7,000 U.S. and 17,000 multi-national service members from more than 20 nations who will participate including, but not limited to: Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States. (U.S. Army Reserve video by Staff Sgt. Angela O’Hearn)