Pennsylvania Air National Guard conducts mass casualty training on remote Alaskan island
(WHTM)– Members of Pennsylvania’s Air National Guard are on a unique mission.
They’re on the remote Kodiak Island in Alaska, which is a nine-and-a-half-hour ferry ride out to sea.
The 193rd Special Operations wing is getting mass casualty training which includes practicing for situations in which resources are limited. This is a readiness training program by the Department of Defense.
“Instead of the falsified world of drill, of hey I did this hey I did that, it’s like no, do it! Show me that you can and show me the time it takes and that you can manage the patient as other patients continue to flow in,” Colonel for the Pennsylvania Air National Guard Adam Colombo said.
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Since Kodiak Island is so remote the people who live there don’t have good access to health care, so the 193rd is providing no-cost medical, dental, and veterinary care.
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