Comment0ShareAdd Us On GoogleAdd as a preferred source on GoogleFORT HOOD, Texas (KWTX) - Army medics on Fort Hood are training alongside allied forces in the Joint Emergency Medicine Exercise, which brings together military medical professionals from around the world for critical hands-on training in the field.

There is a big difference between treating people in a hospital and trying to save lives on the battlefield."Austere, expeditionary, combat medicine, all require a mental shift from the care that you're delivering in a hospital where you have all the resources to the care you're delivering on the battlefield, where you have limited resources, competing requirements, and constant threat," said Maj. Jason Muise, officer in charge for Joint Emergency Medicine Exercise 2026 and chief nurse of the emergency department at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center.

Born out of a passion project, the Joint Emergency Medicine Exercise has grown from a small tent in a parking lot to an international training event."We have 144 students this year from 5 different countries. Including the Army, Navy, and Air Force from the United States, the Army of the United Arab Emirates, the Army of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands Army, and one soldier from the Republic of Korea who's here to evaluate future participation in the exercise," Muise said.