Training for tomorrow's war: How Army doctors are preparing to save lives on frontline
British Army medics have been practising battlefield care closer to the frontline while on exercise in Germany.
3 Medical Regiment integrated with 7 Brigade while on Exercise Rhino Storm.
The doctors are learning lessons from Ukraine where attack drones make evacuations harder and wounded soldiers are treated near the frontline for longer.
During the exercise, the pre-hospital treatment team set up a makeshift care centre 20 miles from the front in a farmer's barn.
"We are serving as a halfway house for casualties," said Captain Tim Torrance, General Duties Medical Officer, 3 Medical Regiment.
"From the point of wounding, they'll be patched up by their company medics, taken to the unit aid post where they'll then be rearward evac to us here.
"We will do lifesaving care and then focus on rearward evac from us to more definitive medical assets," he said.
Ultimately, it is about buying a casualty time, getting them away from the frontline by about 10 to 20 kilometres, and giving them lifesaving treatment before they can be evacuated to a proper hospital in a safe area.
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