BRITAIN’S senior sailor – First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope – watches medics deal with a casualty in the back of Chinook.Mercifully this is just an exercise, but within days the men and women of the Joint Force Medical Group will be doing this for real in support of Royal Marines – and Allied forces on the ground in Helmand.
More than 300 medical and logistical personnel from all three Services, drawn from 61 units – both regulars and reservists – converged on the Army Medical Services Training Centre at Strensall, near York, for a week-long final exercise before deploying.
That exercise saw three days of bespoke training followed by a three-day dynamic test in a similar working environment to that of Helmand –
