Polar Force 13-3

Members of the combined-forces emergency medical support team attend to several simulated casualties at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson April 7, after a simulated attack during Exercise Polar Force 13-3. The readiness exercise is designed to validate the wing's ability to integrate, mobilize, and prepare assigned personnel, aircraft and equipment for their wartime mission and to employ forces and weapons systems to perform their assigned tasked missions. (National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. N. Alicia Goldberger)

Polar Force 13-3

Members of the combined-forces emergency medical support team attend to several simulated casualties at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson April 7, after a simulated attack during Exercise Polar Force 13-3. The readiness exercise is designed to validate the wing's ability to integrate, mobilize, and prepare assigned personnel, aircraft and equipment for their wartime mission and to employ forces and weapons systems to perform their assigned tasked missions. (National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. N. Alicia Goldberger)

Polar Force 13-3

Members of the combined-forces emergency medical support team don their gas masks for a simulated chemical attack at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson April 7, during Exercise Polar Force 13-3. The readiness exercise is designed to validate the wing's ability to integrate, mobilize, and prepare assigned personnel, aircraft and equipment for their wartime mission and to employ forces and weapons systems to perform their assigned tasked missions. (National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. N. Alicia Goldberger)

Polar Force 13-3

Airman 1st Class Merlin Jewell, a 176th Medical Group medical technician and an emergency room technician on the combined-forces emergency medical support team, practices a suture on a dummy at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson April 7. The readiness exercise is designed to validate the wing's ability to integrate, mobilize, and prepare assigned personnel, aircraft and equipment for their wartime mission and to employ forces and weapons systems to perform their assigned tasked missions. (National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. N. Alicia Goldberger)

Polar Force 13-3

Master Sgt. Micheal Karl, a member of the 673d Medical Group, applies a moulage burn to the hands of Senior Airman Micheal Burket on JBER, April 7, 2013. Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Airmen are participating in exercise Polar Force 13-3 through April 8. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Airman 1st Class Omari Bernard)

Polar Force 13-3

Master Sgt. Micheal Karl, a member of the 673d Medical Group, applies a moulage burn to the hands of Senior Airman Micheal Burket on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, April 7, 2013. JBER Airmen are participating in exercise Polar Force 13-3 through April 8. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Airman 1st Class Omari Bernard)