 Soldiers with eight forward surgical team, alongside Marines assigned to Marine Medium Tilt Rotor Squadron, VMM 363, participate in a field training exercise. They treated simulated patients and transported them via an MV-22 Osprey, from Schofield Barracks to Tripler Army Medical Center. We're conducting tetherback drills or trigger-picker drills with eight FRSD. It benefits us through joint training, so coordinating with the Army and their agencies, as well as interoperability to make sure that they can operate with us and us with them. The pilots are involved with the crew chiefs. We're connected over an ICS or Interaction Communication System, so we're talking to each other and the crew chiefs kind of tell the pilots what's going on, what is happening in the back of the aircraft, medical personnel to get the cabin set up correctly for, we call it stanchions and litters, so the way we would load litterboard patients into the aircraft. Today's exercise goes to show how, you know, working side-by-side with the Marines that have part of the puzzle, our forward surgical teams that have the other part of the puzzle, and then our roll four facility are here being tripler, we fill that last part of that patient transport platform. They were simulating point of care injury, so they were soldiers that were in the field that had gone through some pretty traumatic experiences. The four surgical team went and patched up and did their piece of the puzzle to stabilize them enough to transport on the Osprey, and the Osprey brought them here to the helipad. Typically we chose to use the Ospreys because the Ospreys are an incredibly fast type of aircraft, so if you have a casualty, you'll experience trauma and is degrading. You can quickly get them from any role of care to a higher level of care with an Osprey because they're so fast. Exercises like this enable all services to prepare for any contingencies, including assisting the community during natural disasters.