You might see military vehicles and soldiers around Columbus Regional Hospital today.

The CRH Emergency Department is participating in a training exercise with the military called Guardian Response. It is a simulated disaster drill being operated by the Army’s Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Jennings County. The goal is to help the Army practice and evaluate its ability to treat, triage, and transport patients from a simulated disaster area to a civilian medical center.

The hospital staff will also be learning about how to transport and triage patients into emergency care from military vehicles in this simulated mass casualty event.

During the exercise, military personnel will be transporting actors portraying patients as well as mannequins. These exercises are only simulations and will not affect actual patient care.

The exercise is going on from 9 to noon today.

Photo courtesy of https://www.army.mil