In this ITSEC 2010 trade‑show segment, host Ryan Dohrn interviews Lieutenant Colonel Ariza inside the U.S. Army medical simulation tent. Ariza explains that the day showcases the final, intensive training session for combat medics, where trainees apply a week’s worth of instruction in a single, realistic battlefield scenario using various simulators. He highlights the scale of the Army’s medical simulation program—23 dedicated training centers worldwide, each training roughly 2,500 soldiers. The segment also features a dramatized casualty audio clip to illustrate the type of injuries medics must treat on the battlefield.
Hi everybody, Ryan Dohrn here continuing our coverage from ITSEC 2010, and I'm here with Lieutenant Colonel Ariza of the United States Army, and we're here in the medical simulation tent. Tell us a little bit about what we're gonna see today.
What you will see today is a medical simulation training center. What we're about to do is the last day of the training. My job is to train all the combat medics that we have in the United States Army. During the last day of training, they put everything that they have learned throughout the week in just one day. You'll see different simulators, and they have to treat the simulators as if they were patients. Obviously, today in the battlefield, we're going to replicate the type of injury that those medics will see in the battlefield. Currently, I have 23 medics medical simulation training centers worldwide, and I train an average of 2,500 soldiers per facility.
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As you'll see throughout our coverage of ITSEC 2010, there's all kinds of different simulation scenarios. What you just happened to see here inside the Army Military Simulation Tent, real-world, real-life situations. Everything you saw happened in real time in front of real people. They've trained over 125,000 troops all across the country with real smells, real sounds, and even real people within the simulation. I'm Ryan Dohrn reporting live here from ITSEC 2010.
