Mass Casualty Training Exercise At Camp Parks: Helicopter To Buzz

DUBLIN, CA — If you hear a military helicopter buzzing overhead this weekend, it may be part of a mass casualty training exercise at U.S. Army Camp Parks dubbed "Western Sky."

Camp Parks is hosting the joint training Saturday and Sunday with U.S. Navy Reserve and Army Reserve medical personnel participation. As part of the exercise, simulated casualties will be triaged, assessed and treated in a mobile aid facility, then medevacked aboard an MH-605 Seahawk Multi-mission Naval Helicopter that is normally based out of Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada. The Navy Reserve Expeditionary Medical Facility out of Camp Pendleton, California, is conducting the exercise.

The medevac exercises conclude two weeks of classroom and internal training that
began Sept. 4. The exercise continues through Sept. 15 with military helicopter activity.