{"id":159918,"date":"2025-06-24T10:36:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=159918"},"modified":"2025-06-30T09:18:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T13:18:39","slug":"wright-states-calamityville-hosts-its-largest-joint-medical-training-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/06\/24\/wright-states-calamityville-hosts-its-largest-joint-medical-training-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State&#8217;s Calamityville hosts its largest joint medical training operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The thunderous roar of Blackhawk helicopters and hundreds of controlled explosions echoed across Springfield, Fairborn and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/calamityville\">Wright State University\u2019s Calamityville<\/a> training facility on June 7 during Relentless Valor, a large-scale joint medical exercise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The comprehensive training operation brought together nearly 400participants from the 445th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, in coordination with the 944th Aeromedical Staging Squadron from Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. The multi-site exercise took place simultaneously at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport and Wright State&#8217;s Calamityville disaster training center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The large-scale simulation replicated complex medical operations both on the ground and in the air following a simulated invasion scenario, providing critical training in contested environments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFrankly, it\u2019s spectacular,\u201d said Col. Michael Policastro, 445th Airlift Wing commander and a 2001 Wright State alumnus. \u201cThere has been a total buy in of the joint force partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Participants trained in aeromedical and casualty evacuations and procedures within a joint training environment that included agile combat employment, contested air space scenarios and large-scale combat operations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is the largest exercise we\u2019ve had here a Calamityville to date,\u201d said Bill Harchick, Calamityville\u2019s director of operations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The training event was also international, attracting participants from 13 countries and 20 international partners who observed the exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State\u2019s Calamityville served as a key host site for Relentless Valor, where nearly 400 military personnel conducted joint medical and combat readiness training alongside international observers. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/06\/24\/wright-states-calamityville-hosts-its-largest-joint-medical-training-operation\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":160003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,2144,725,727,2039,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-national-center-for-medical-readiness","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-military-veterans","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159965,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159918\/revisions\/159965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}