 Limited visibility, chaos, and disorientation. This is what the fog of war looks like, and this is what the Marines must work through to complete the combat lifesavers course. We had five separate teams go through and do a tactical sweep of a building, finding casualties, assessing those casualties, and bringing them all safely to an LZ or landing zone and calling a nine line out and getting these casualties tack-a-backed out to a higher echelon of care. Here we get into more detail and we make sure that they know what they're doing. We ask them questions. We distract them to see how they will do in an actual live combat situation. All 23 Marines participating in the course volunteered to be combat lifesavers, each of them having their own personal motivation for taking the course, both in and out of the Marine Corps. I'm hoping I'll be able to see some combat action one day, no matter what I do, whether I have to lat move or just stick around and see whatever happens, just always have to be ready. I want to be a doctor and ENT when I get out of the Marine Corps, so it's a stepping stone to help me get where I want to be. These Marines are the only ones with a personal investment in the course. Instructor H.M. 3 Miller, who worked in the medical fields before joining the Navy, believes that past life experiences are essential awareness to the table. When I was still a civilian, I was driving and I witnessed a car accident. I had a young, seven-year-old girl who ended up having a broken femur because the car got crushed on her left side and I had to get her out of the car and I had to help stabilize and split it until the 911 responders got there. When dealing with a patient that young, it's very, very hard and very, very difficult, so the more serious you take it, the better care you give and I ended up saving that girl's life. The purpose of a combat lifesaver is to provide first-response medical aid in the event that a corpsman is injured or preoccupied with another casualty. This means that these skills can be utilized anywhere at any time. Anything when you're in combat can happen. We were going through patrolling and we had an IED go off and we had to take our casualty and treat them and take care of them and remove him into a safe area and then we went in and worked on all the other casualties in the building so you never know what can happen. You always have to stay on your toes and be ready. Reporting from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, I'm Corporal Fariza Ali.