 From Soldiers Radio and Television, this is the Army Now. The importance of battlefield first aid cannot be undervalued, and to ensure that the Afghan National Army is trained in the needed combat medical care, the 2-1 Infantry Battalion recently paired with its ANA partners to provide first aid training at the Argendob District Center. The medics' training focused on ensuring that the ANA soldiers were skilled enough to not only practice the techniques, but teach them as well. What it was designed for was to give them something sustainable to go off of, because with us leaving the battle space, they need to know certain life-saving steps on the battlefield. The ANA were taught how to dress wounds, splint broken bones, apply tourniquets, and various other techniques, and to ensure that the soldiers could perform the first aid, they practice each skill with hands-on training until they met the approval of the medics. That's the Army Now.