 For the past eight weeks, Afghan National Security Forces students in the Combat Medic course at Joint Sustainment Academy Southwest aboard Camp Leatherneck have learned the essential skills to be a field medic. The students recently put their new skills to the test in a final field training exercise at Combat Town. While performing life-saving measures on the victim, there was a simulated improvised explosive device blast injuring many civilians. The students had to quickly set up security and treat the victims before calling in for medical evacuation. We're basically giving them the ability to save a life. Once we pull out and go home, these men are still going to be here fighting the Taliban, trying to protect their country. More than 40 ANSAAF service members graduated from the course and will return to their units as trained combat medics. Reporting from Camp Leatherneck, Helmand Province, I'm Corporal Meredith Brown.