 Sailors with Regimental Combat Team 8 trained soldiers with the Afghan National Army's Second Brigade 215th Corps in the fundamentals of basic first aid. The medics from each Kandak, or battalion-sized element, were given hands-on instruction from a naval corpsman. You know, there's a couple occasions or missions I went where we actually had medics out there, the ANA medics out there, helping us medivac their personnel, helping us with our patients. It plays a pretty vital role, and I'm glad that they're there to help us out, and I'm there to help them out when they need it. The soldiers' medical skills will continue to be developed in further classes given by the sailors. Corporal Clayton Vandera, forward operating base of Dalaram II, Afghanistan.