By: Brittany Toolis
MIDWEST CITY, Oklahoma -
Medics at Tinker Air Force Base received hands-on training on base Friday morning. They were thrown into action during a simulated mass casualty event, without knowing any information beforehand.
The training exercise began around 8 a.m. with people covered in blood and varying injuries strewn across a parking lot.
The volunteer victims called for help, as teams of medics assessed and treated their severe wounds, put them on stretchers and carried them away from the causality site. [My] Adrenaline was absolutely pumping when the first patient came in. Someone referred to me as a G.I. Joe medic cause as soon as I saw the patient, I was like let s do it, said Senior Airmen and medic Thomas Sackett.