SHAPING FUTURE MILITARY PHYSICIANS: D.C. ARMY NATIONAL GUARD AVIATION CONDUCTS MEDEVAC TRAINING WITH UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY

BALTIMORE, Md., April 24 -- The Uniformed Services University issued the following news release:

The thrum of rotor blades cut across a clear sky as a UH-60L MEDEVAC Black Hawk descended onto a training field in Bethesda, kicking up dust and drawing a tight circle of onlookers; many of them future physicians weighing careers that could place them in a moment exactly like this one.

First-year medical students and prospective applicants at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) participated in a medical evacuation exercise alongside the D.C. Army National Guard Aviation Battalion on April 10, simulating the urgent choreography expected and often witnessed in battlefield medicine.

The training paired classroom instru...