MEDCEUR10 Live exercise

United States Air Force Maj. Shawn Nichols (right), a surgeon from the 48th Aerospace Medical Squadron at RAF Lakenheath, England, unwraps gauze from an object made to look as if it was impaled in a stomach, as Azerbaijani Capt. Rashad Mammadov holds an oxygen mask over the face of the person acting as the victim of a mock traffic accident at Danilovgrad Army Base, Montenegro, Sept. 15. This exercise is part of MEDCEUR 10, a medical training exercise in central and eastern Europe, in which military medical servicemembers from ten nations train together to save as many lives as possible and to be better prepared for real-world events. For more information, visit www.usafe.af.mil/medceur.asp and www.odbrana.gov.me. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Tiffany Deuel)

MEDCEUR10 Live exercise

(left to right) United States Air Force Capt. Charles Purvis, an emergency room nurse, and Staff Sgt. Kamesha Lewis, a pediatric medical technician from the 48th Medical Operations Squadron from RAF Lakenheath, England, discuss the simulated medical condition of a participant of MEDCEUR 10, a medical training exercise in central and eastern Europe, at Danilovgrad Army Base, Montenegro, Sept. 15. Medical personnel from the armed forces of ten nations worked together to work through procedures that would save the lives of victims injured in a simulated gas station explosion that near a department store. For more information, visit www.usafe.af.mil/medceur.asp and www.odbrana.gov.me. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Tiffany Deuel)

MEDCEUR10 classroom training

(left to right) Lt. Col. William Hurtle, flight commander of bioenvironmental engineering for the 48th Aerospace Medical Squadron, and Staff Sgt. Kerim Kodal, a radiology technologist for the 48th Medical Surgical Squadron, both from RAF Lakenheath, England, attend a class on chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive weapons during MEDCEUR10, a medical training exercise in central and eastern Europe, at Danilovgrad Army Base, Montenegro Sept. 14. Servicemembers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Ukraine and the United States attended the class. For more information go to www.usafe.af.mil/medceur.asp and www.odbrana.gov.me. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Tiffany Deuel)

MEDCEUR10 classroom training

(left to right) U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles Purvis, a critical care nurse from the 48th Medical Operations Squadron at RAF Lakenheath England; Marko Saric, a physician’s assistant from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Warrant Officer Goran Gavrilovic of the Serbian Army, discuss treatment for a collapsed lung during a class at MEDCEUR10 Sept. 14 at Danilovgrad Army Base, Montenegro. MEDCEUR10 is a medical training exercise including servicemembers from 10 nations. For more information, go to www.usafe.af.mil/medceur.asp and www.odbrana.gov.me. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman David Dobrydney)

MEDCEUR chess

DANILOVGRAD, Montenegro –Servicemembers from 10 different countries play Montenegrin chess great Bozidar Ivanovic aboard the Danilovgrad Training Base in central Montenegro. The men played their game during the sports day of Medical Training Exercise in Central and Eastern Europe 2010. The exercise brings together approximately 250 servicemembers from the armed forces of the U.S. and nine central and eastern European countries for mass casualty scenario response training. For more information, visit www.usafe.af.mil/medceur.asp and www.odbrana.gov.me. (U.S. Marine photo/Lance Cpl. Jad Sleiman)

The Marine and the Master

DANILOVGRAD, Montenegro – Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Chris Mitchell, a personnel retrieval and processing specialist with Detachment PRP Smyrna, Ga., contemplates his next move while playing Montenegrin chess great, Bozidar Ivanovic, aboard the Danilovgrad Training Base in central Montenegro. The men played their game during the sports day of Medical Training Exercise in Central and Eastern Europe 2010. The exercise brings together approximately 250 servicemembers from the armed forces of the U.S. and nine central and eastern European countries for mass casualty scenario response training. For more information, visit www.usafe.af.mil/medceur.asp and www.odbrana.gov.me. (U.S. Marine photo/Lance Cpl. Jad Sleiman)