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Exercise Nexus Rising tests readiness Lt. Col. Amy Hansen 349TH AMW PUBLIC AFFAIRS

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — Alarms sounded, airplanes launched and medics triaged patients with mock injuries for aeromedical evacuation at Travis Air Force Base and Moffett Federal Airfield, during Exercise Nexus Rising June 4-6.

The joint readiness exercise was a collaboration between Air Force Reserve units from the 349th Air Mobility Wing and California National Guard members from the 129th Rescue Wing and the 49th Military Police Brigade, and was designed to challenge participants with realistic combat scenarios for training purposes.The exercise events combined a variety of joint Air Force and National Guard missions, including cargo and passenger airlift, aerial refueling, deployment processing, aerial port operations, command and control, and aeromedical staging and evacuation.

“Exercises like this give us a platform to determine if we are ready for war, and how successfully we can accomplish our wing’s mission,” said Lt. Col. Gerard Guevara, 349 AMW Director of Inspector General Inspections.

Guevara added that it was important to include partners in the California National Guard to increase the realism and the functionality of the evaluation, and

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also to nurture long-term working relationships with the wing’s California partners.

Planning for the exercise began earlier this year when the IGI team selected about 20 subject matter experts from squadrons across the 2,600-member wing to serve as exercise planners. The team was tasked with planning and designing realistic scenarios that would test how well the wing’s Reserve Citizen Airmen can perform their jobs in a simulated combat environment.

A significant component of the exercise was carried out by 349th Medical Group members, whose war-time job is to process, treat, and potentially evacuate injured troops, said Tech. Sgt. Alyssa Yarbrough, 349th Aerospace Medicine Squadron surgical technician.

“You’re seeing what happens, from getting blown up, to going to the hospital and everything that is happening on that spectrum,” said Yarbrough. “In a deployed environment, you may not have the medical supplies you typically would in your regular medical treatment facility, so you may need to improvise things.”

For reservists, who often have full-time civilian jobs, the opportunity to practice working in the field in combat conditions is invaluable.

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ABOVE: Tech Sgt. Lisa Gonzales-Marin, 349th Medical Squadron, provides medical treatment for Exercise Nexus Rising at Travis Air Force Base, June 3. Nexus Rising is a readiness exercise designed to test the ability of the 349th Air Mobility Wing to generate, employ and sustain air operations in a simulated combat environment.

Missions in Nexus Rising include air rescue, aeromedical evacuation, airlift for cargo and personnel, aerial refueling, deployment processing, aerial port operations, and command and control.

RIGHT: Airmen from the 349th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron prepare equipment in support of a simulated mission during Exercise Nexus Rising held at Travis Air See Nexus, Page 15 Force Base, June 4.

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Travis AFB First Sergeant’s Council hosts 12th annual 10k Ruck March Story and photos by Senior Airman Karla Parra 60TH AIR MOBILITY WING PUBLIC AFFAIRS

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — More than 300 U.S. service members and civilians from Northern California participated in the 12th annual Gold Star Families 10K Ruck March at Travis Air Force Base, June 11.

The initiative led by the Travis AFB First Sergeant’s Council served as a reminder of the base’s dedication to honoring the Gold Star Family tradition as well as remembering those who paid the ultimate price to ensure our freedom.

During the opening ceremony, Chief Master Sgt. Keith Scott, 60th Air Mobility Wing command chief, recognized the importance of keeping the memory of our fallen heroes alive as he recalled a quote of a Gold Star mother.

“Please don’t let my son die twice. The first, is when he did die. The second, is when we forget his name and we stop remembering him,” said Chief Scott. “And that’s why we are here, to pay respect.”

Among the 90 Gold Star Family members who attended the event, Pearl Velono and her two children stood near her deceased husband’s memorabilia.

“I was 38 weeks pregnant with a 1 year-old in Japan when my husband, [Master Sgt. Jonathan M. Velono] died. I felt so helpless,” said Velono.

“I gave birth at David Grant Medical Center and was so grateful when a Travis Spouses Club member offered help,” expressed Velono. “Ever since, I kept close to the Travis See March, Page 15

LEFT: A U.S. Service member stops to photograph his friend during the 12th annual Gold Star Families 10K Ruck March at Travis Air Force Base, Saturday. The Travis AFB First Sergeant’s Council led the ruck march initiative to honor Gold Star Families and their loved ones who lost their lives while serving their country.

BOTTOM LEFT: The Velono family gather around memorabilia of their father and husband, U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jonathan Velono, during the 12th annual Gold Star Families 10K Ruck March at Travis Air Force Base, Saturday.

BOTTOM RIGHT: More than 300 U.S. service members and civilians participated in the 12th annual Gold Star Families 10K Ruck March at Travis Air Force Base, Saturday.

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Military medicine is preparing for the next conflict Janet A. Aker MHS COMMUNICATIONS

During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, military medical teams were well positioned on the battlefield to support the “golden hour” response – the ability to get wounded warfighters off the battlefield and delivered to the care of a full-scale military hospital within about an hour.

And that was a realistic goal, given that the U.S. military had total air superiority and maintained top-tier, in-country trauma centers. Wounded troops were rarely far from the life-saving care they needed.

But the next conflict might be very different.

As the Pentagon prepares today’s force for a near-peer fight against a large military adversary, the Military Health System is challenged to provide life-saving support for large-scale and dispersed operations. That’s especially true for the medics supporting troops on the front lines.

For example, if a Marine was wounded on a remote island in the Pacific, the highest level of care available might be an independent duty corpsman. Evacuation to a higher level of care might take several days. For military medics, this scenario requires a new kind of training, new equipment and a new approach to casualty care.

“We’re worried about future casualties because those

distances [to hospitals] are so great,” said Air Force Col. Stacy Shackelford, chief of the Joint Trauma System in Joint Base San Antonio, Texas.

In the future, a lack of U.S. air superiority and vast distances could prohibit quick evacuations.

Those conditions likely mean that the golden-hour handoff to a surgical team will not be possible, Shackelford warned.

The golden hour is the critical time window for trauma patients to receive a series of lifesaving interventions – starting at the point of injury and transitioning to handoff to a surgical team.

Moving patients quickly through that process is essential to saving lives and improving outcomes.

If wounded warriors are unable to get that care, service medics, special operations medics and independent duty corpsmen will “need a lot of skills, such as in administering pain medications, long-term pain control, airway management, and nursing skills like changing dressings – even things like rolling the patient,” Shackelford said.

A near-peer conflict in the Pacific could leave injured warfighters near front lines for days.

“Africa would be the same type of issue, when we would have overland transport versus water evacuation,” Shackelford said.

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Medicine From Page 4 ics’ skills are being upgraded from the very start of their training, and the entire DHA is developing or reworking tactics and stratagems to reflect the new reality.

“We expect that with largescale combat operations, every echelon of medical care will need to be better prepared to treat large numbers of casualties with limited resources,” said Army Col. Johnny Paul, department chair for the Army Combat Medic Specialist Training Program at the San Antonio Medical Education and Training Campus at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

For example, Paul said, you may get whole blood transfusions through donations to the Armed Services Blood Program or from “walking blood banks,” combat buddies who can donate fresh blood via direct transfusion.

Medics are now receiving newer, more advanced training, instilling in them potential

life-saving skills and methods.

Paul said that includes: n Use of whole blood. n Operating a walking blood bank. n Telemedicine. n Bladder catheterization. n Ventilator management. n Airway management. n Prolonged casualty monitoring to include nutrition and nursing care.

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DoD preparing for climate change impacts David Vergun DOD NEWS

Climate change has serious implications for national security, said the Defense Department’s chief sustainability officer and senior advisor for climate.

Joe Bryan joined a panel discussion yesterday on “U.S. Climate Security Investments: Changing Plans into Actions” at a virtual Center for Climate and Security event.

“Climate change is dramatically increasing the demand for military operations and, at the same time, impacting our readiness and our ability to meet those demands while imposing unsustainable costs on the department,” he said.

Among the global effects of climate change are a warmer climate; changing precipitation patterns; and, more frequent, intense and unpredictable extreme weather.

Besides climate impacts on the physical environment, climate change is altering technology and markets as the world adjusts to the reality and a rapidly advancing energy transition, he said.

Climate change also affects the militaries of allies and partners, as well as competitors and adversaries. The nations that are most resilient and best able to manage the effects of climate change will secure an advantage, Bryan said.

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As such, the department’s portion of President Joe Biden’s fiscal year 2023 budget request makes significant new investments that will make installations and operations more resilient to climate change and increase operational capability, he said.

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Climate From Page 6 “Our climate investments are not only aligned with mission objectives, increasing resiliency and enhancing combat capability, but those investments are absolutely necessary for future mission success,” he said.

Bryan provided an overview of DoD’s portion of the budget request related to climate change initiatives: n $2 billion investment for installation resiliency and adaptation, including $550 million for the Energy Resilience and Conservation Improvement Program. n $20 million in contingency preparedness that includes incorporating climate risk scenarios in war games and exercises, humanitarian assistance, disaster relief and defense support to civil authorities’ activities. n Nearly $250 million in operational energy and buying power to improve the efficiency of operational platforms while increasing their capability and mitigating logistics risk. n More than $800 million in science and technology investments that includes hybrid tactical vehicles, to enhance capability like extended range and persistence and provide silent watch. It also includes investments in new technologies like blended wing body aircraft, which have the potential to increase range and payload while improving efficiency.

“These investments . . . put us in a position to make real progress against our climate and mission objectives,” he said.

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Medicine From Page 5 2021, and its medics are trained to transfuse blood on the frontlines. That is a skill that medics have traditionally learned only later in their careers.

Paul said the addition of prolonged casualty-care training puts a different focus on the advanced knowledge and skill sets students will need to learn in class. That’s a big change from previous combat medic courses, which focused on the treatment of casualties at the point of injury with the assumption that a patient would soon be evacuated.

A new training program for all medics, known as Tactical Combat Casualty Care, became operational on Dec. 15, 2021. The curriculum includes training for care under fire, tactical field Care and tactical evacuation

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TCCC guidelines are the blueprint for combat care at the frontlines for all branches of service and they are updated continually with best clinical practices.

The courses for prolonged casualty care include airway management, acute traumatic wound care, analgesia and sedation management, burn wounds, and crush injuries.

Some of the TCCC curriculum is given to first responders in all services in case there is no medic or corpsmen immediately available.

“This additional training will result in a higher level [Emergency Medical Technician] certification for graduates,” Paul said. “[That] will directly translate to more advanced medical credentials for combat medics.”

Currently, medics are on a national certification registry at the basic EMT level. The new curriculum will upgrade that

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Master Sgt. Matt Hecht/U.S. Air National Guard

New Jersey Army National Guard combat medics pull simulated casualties to safety during a tactical trauma care course on Joint Base McGuire-DixLakehurst, N.J., in 2018. certification to Advanced EMT. “These certifications are nationally recognized,” Paul noted.

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are also preparing corpsmen for prolonged casualty care and for crisis situations that might require healthy Marines to donate blood on the battlefield to help treat injuries.

On the battlefield, combat life saver-trained Marines are an

essential asset in stopping preventable deaths before a corpsman is available.

However, the skills learned in CLS aren’t only relevant to the battlefield. The principles of CLS can be applied across a range of medical emergencies, a Marine Corps official said. Clearing an airway, mitigating blood loss and splinting a potentially fatal bone fracture are some of the skills taught during CLS. Lt. Gen. Robert Miller, Air Force Surgeon General, testified recently at a Senate appropriations hearing, where he emphasized the importance of preparing today for tomorrow’s battlespace.

“Future conflicts may see medics needing to hold and treat patients in deployed settings for longer periods than in the past,” said Miller. “We are actively evaluating how our teams can remain agile and leverage technology to provide trusted care . . . anytime, anywhere.”

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Tips for military parents planning PCS moves with children Sonia Clark MHS COMMUNICATIONS

Moving can be hard on military families, especially on children. Moving to a new home, going to a new school, finding new friends – it can be unsettling for kids of any age.

Yet there are things that service members can do to prepare for a permanent change of station move that can make for a smoother transition for the children.

Army Maj. (Dr.) Dominique Holley, a child psychiatrist and deputy chief at Fort Campbell’s Department of Behavioral Health, shared some important tips for military families to help in the PCS process for kids.

How far in advance should parents start connecting with the community they will be moving to?

“Short answer is as soon as possible,” Holley said. Sharing information with children about

the new location where website. Providers in most circumstances they will live can be very reach out to receiving helpful in helping kids adinstallations to provide just to the idea of living in warm handoffs to receiva new place. ing clinics.

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Nevertheless, she said: A child at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, in Japan, to the next, Holley explained.

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are transferring from or to is not yet using MHS GENESIS. “Once MTFs migrate to MHS GENESIS from the Armed Forces Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) EHR, then they will no longer need to transport paper medical records from one MTF to another,” Holley stated.

The process of requesting medical records takes about one or two weeks and requires the approval of behavioral health care providers. “This request should be made about a month prior to PCS to ensure time to obtain records when needed,” Holley said.

When traveling to the new location, Holley suggested these activities to keep children engaged while en route: “Ensure easy access to the most commonly used games and activities and toys while traveling,” Holley said.

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Tips From Page 9 of the child, can be engaging.

Should parents try to keep kids involved in the same type of activities at the new location?

“There are no correct activities necessarily to involve kids

in. It largely depends on interests or passions of the kids,” Holley said. “If they love certain sports or hobbies, then it makes sense to ensure to make efforts to continue those.”

She also suggested that the move might also be an opportunity to try new things and introduce kids to new interest that may be unique to the new school or area.

Are there ways to make goodbyes less NAZARENE

difficult for the kids?

“Focus on all the positives of a new place,” Holley suggested.

“Parents should highlight unique features of the new environment with activities that kids would enjoy.”

Planning enjoyable activities in the new city or state ahead of the move can help make the move something to look forward to. Another thing to consider is to plan a return visit to see close friends or family. “Leaving

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certain people is particularly difficult for kids as well as adults,” Holley said.

Make sure to keep commonly used games and toys away from movers so that they are easily accessible for kids during the move. The same applies for their favorite items of clothing, shoes, etc.

Help kids pack a personal bag of their most beloved items to give them a sense of responsibility or control over those things.

“Often times, kids don’t have a lot of control over what’s happening,” Holley said. “Giving them options and helping them to feel empowered with small decisions can be helpful.”

Additionally, consider assigning specific tasks during the move for children to focus on.

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Nexus From Page 2 “I feel like as reservists, we’re there to jump in at any time, so our readiness has to be super onpar, and this is what makes us ready—practicing all the things that we need to be able to do to take on any fight and win,” said Capt. Erin McIlvaine, a nurse with the 349th Aeromedical Staging Squadron.

Senior Airman Cai Yang, also assigned to the 349th ASTS, agreed that the exercise experience improved his readiness, which is more difficult to maintain when compared to his active duty counterparts.

“As a reservist, you don’t generally get the opportunity to do what you do in the Air Force,” Yang said. “We are only here two days a month, and so being in a training environment allows me to immerse myself in what I’m supposed to be doing in a deployed environment.”

Senior Airman Kristie DeJesus, 82nd Aerial Port Squadron cargo processor, volunteered to participate in the exercise to improve her job skills, such as serving on a joint inspection line that processed California Army National Guard vehicles and equipment that was later loaded onto a C-5M Super Galaxy and deployed to Moffett.

“I had never ‘JIed’ (Joint Inspected) a vehicle with eight wheels before, so that was a cool experience,” DeJesus said.

DeJesus added that the simulated combat scenarios helped her improve the speed at which she can get fully dressed in chemical warfare protective clothing and equipment, which she had previously only accomplished in a classroom setting.

Following the exercise, the inspection teams distilled their findings into strengths, recommended improvement areas and deficiencies. That information will be delivered to the IGI team, who will submit a comprehensive report to the wing commander.

“In any real world or training exercise, we have the good, bad and the ugly, said Guevara.

“Our report gives the commander a roadmap for improving the wing’s ability to generate, sustain combat-ready Airmen.”

Another important post-exercise step will be the development of lessons learned, so that the 349th AMW and others can learn and improve from the exercise’s successes and failures.

“We know that we will get from exercises what we put into them,” said Guevara. “I’m incredibly humbled to see how well the players executed, and I’m blessed to be part of the planning team that put so much energy to devise as good a plan as we possibly could.”

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Like Velono, every Gold Star Family who attended was eager to share about their loved one and their experience.

“They want to tell their story.” said Master Sgt. Cole

Shepard, 60th Civil Engineer Squadron first sergeant and lead coordinator.

Before the run, competitors were assigned a Gold Star Family as a way to bring more meaning to the event.

“They [the competitors] value meeting the Gold Star Families whose loved ones they are dedicating their ruck to,” said Sheppard. “It grants both the family and the competitors a more significant connection versus just reading someone’s

profile.”

“We will never forget them [Gold Star Families] or what their loved ones gave for our freedom.” said Shepard. “We will uphold this tradition and allow them to continue to tell their stories.”

To learn more about Gold Star Family benefits and resources, visit https:// www.militaryonesource.mil/ family-relationships/gold-starsurviving-family/.

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