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MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – Marines and sailors of 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, honed individual and unit skills, during a week-long battalion field exercise at Range 800, April 14.
“The exercise we’re conducting this week is the battalion field exercise, basically focusing on offense,” said 2nd Lt. Thomas F. Cutsinger, a platoon commander with Fox Company, 2/4. “As we progress through the exercise, we’re also going to focus on company size defense and patrols.”
The battalion began sharpening basic individual skills such as casualty response and weapon skills with the M240 Bravo machine gun and AT4 light anti-armor rocket launcher, said Cutsinger.
Warriors of 2/4 learned a new casualty response method called, P.M.A.R.C.H.P., which stands for patient movement, massive hemorrhaging, airway management, respiration, circulation, head and hypothermia, pain management and patient evacuation.
It is important for Marines and sailors to consistantly practice casualty response skills because they are constantly being updated. New techniques created for casualty response in Afghanistan are always being added, said Petty Officer 3rd Class Hussein Fattahy, a 23-year-old corpsman with Fox Company, 2/4.
During the exercise, Marines and sailors also became acquainted with the Marine Corps Experimental Forward Operating Base program. Marines learned to use a Solar Portable Alternative Communication Energy System to charge batteries for radios and other electronics.
“Prior to this evolution we worked with the individual skills of the Marines, then we worked up to fire teams, squads and platoons,” said Cutsinger. “Now we’re culminating with company sized elements. This reinforces communication between the units, as well as building unit cohesion.”
The battalion will continue the exercise next week, moving to the next phase of their pre-deployment training. The battalion is slated to deploy to Afghanistan for the first time this fall.
| Date Taken: | 04.14.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 04.18.2011 18:37 |
| Story ID: | 68943 |
| Location: | CAMP PENDLETON, CALIFORNIA, US |
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