W.Va. National Guard’s Ridge Healer trains U.K. special operations medical teams for irregular warfare, austere medicine
A surgeon from the 2nd Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), West Virginia National Guard, conducts surgery on a mock patient with assistance from members of the United Kingdom's 3 Ranger Special Operations Resuscitation Team during the West Virginia National Guard-led Ridge Healer exercise held in late April throughout West Virginia. Ridge Healer is a medical exercise that provides the special operations community with irregular warfare medical resiliency and resistance training in austere, complex, contested, and denied environments. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Lt. Col. Holli Nelson)
