Sailors with 1st Medical Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, receive top-of-the-line training in combat trauma care during Exercise Desert Scimitar 2014 aboard Marine Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., May 13, 2014. Marines role-played as wounded troops and wore realistic cut-suits with simulated blood and organs. Desert Scimitar is an annual Marine Expeditionary Force level exercise conducted by 1st Marine Division, 3rd Marine Air Wing and 1st Marine Logistics Group. The realistic live-fire training allows 1st Marine Logistics Group to meet current and future real-world ope


Sailors with 1st Medical Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, receive top-of-the-line training in combat trauma care during Exercise Desert Scimitar 2014 aboard Marine Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., May 13, 2014. Marines role-played as wounded troops and wore realistic cut-suits with simulated blood and organs. Desert Scimitar is an annual Marine Expeditionary Force level exercise conducted by 1st Marine Division, 3rd Marine Air Wing and 1st Marine Logistics Group. The realistic live-fire training allows 1st Marine Logistics Group to meet current and future real-world operational demands of providing tactical-level logistics support above the capabilities of other elements of the MEF. 1st Med. Bn. executes mass casualty drill during DS 14 140513-M-MM729-035


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