Facing What A Mass Causality Would Be Like

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Channel: Stars and Stripes · 2013 · News & Politics

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Stretcher bearers carried patients from a helicopter on the flight deck of the USS Ponce. Inside the ship Lt. j.g. Mark Abadilla, an intensive care nurse, and other medical personnel stood ready to provide lifesaving medical care.

It was only a drill as part of a broader international mine countermeasures exercise in the Persian Gulf last month. But with actors daubed in blood and moaning, a bystander might have mistaken them for real casualties.

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