Talisman Sabre – mass-casualty exercise

Australian Army medics with 17th Combat Service Support Brigade evaluate a patient with a simulated gunshot wound during a mass-casualty exercise at Williamson Air Field, Shoalwater Bay Training Area on 8 July 2017 during Talisman Sabre 17.

Soldiers with 17th CSS Brigade conducted a mass-casualty exercise at Williamson Air Field hospital to practice Role 2 advanced trauma care and procedures that are used in a deployed environment.

Exercises like Talisman Sabre provide effective and intense training to ensure our military forces are capable, combat ready and deployable on short notice, and are interoperable with our allies.

 

 

 

Exercise Talisman Sabre 2017 (TS17) is a biennial combined Australian and United States training activity, designed to train respective military forces in planning and conducting combined task-force operations to improve the combat readiness and interoperability between the respective forces.

This exercise is a major undertaking that reflects the closeness of the two alliance and the strength of the ongoing military-to-military relationship.

The exercise involves more than 30,000 soldier, sailors, airmen and marines.

Now in its seventh iteration, the Talisman Sabre series of exercises is the principal Australian and US military training activity focused on the planning and conduct of mid-intensity high-end warfighting in the air, land and maritime domains.

TS17 incorporates force preparation activities, special-forces activities, amphibious landings, parachuting, land-force manoeuvre, urban operations, air operations, maritime operations and a number of live-fire components.

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