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JCSE Executes in Mustang Challenge - Page 3 Vol. 47, No. 38 Thursday, September 19, 2019 News/Features: page 2 Doctor a lifesaver News/Features: page 3 JCSE Mustang Challenge News/Features: page 3 9/11 sacrifice remembered Week in photos: page 4 Images from the week JCSE executes in Mustang Challenge - page 3 Photo by Airman 1st Class Ryan C. Grossklag U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from the Joint Communications Support Element (JCSE) execute Tactical Combat Casualty Community: page 15 Care (TCCC) procedures during the 2019 JCSE Mustang Challenge at MacDill Air Force Base Sept. 6. TCCC prepares sol- Events, Chapel, more... diers to provide medical care under fire when in a hostile situation. MACDILL THUNDERBOLT u Thursday, September 19, 2019 u WWW.MACDILLTHUNDERBOLT.COM u 1 NEWS/FEATURES Airman saves life in Odessa, Texas, amidst mass shooting by Staff Sgt. Quay Drawdy ed immediately.While the officer and paramedic Air University Public Affairs were assisting the victim, Ott ran back into the ER, grabbed IV components, brought a nurse MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala.—An with him and began working to turn the cruiser Air Force Reserve member was working in a ci- into an impromptu ambulance. vilian capacity in Odessa, Texas, on August 31, “Ambulances have a lot of restrictions on what and helped provide life-saving first-aid to a wom- they can do if there’s an active shooter situation an suffering from three gunshot wounds. and the police don’t, so that allowed the patient Lt. Col. Nathaniel Ott, an instructor in Air to get to the hospital quickly,” said Ott. “We then University’s LeMay Center Joint Integration di- worked on transferring the patient. She was rectorate, was in Odessa, Texas, working as an pretty weak and could only sort of stand up with emergency room physician when he heard a “pop” us providing support. We got her into the back from outside. Ott walked toward the nurses’ sta- seat of the cruiser and the paramedic got into the tion, heard three more distinctive “pop” sounds other side, began working on getting an IV in and and stepped outside to see a vehicle with nearby the cruiser took off.” police attempting to assist the driver. Despite the shooter having left the area ini- “I ran out across the field to where the vehicle tially, the group wasn’t completely safe. was and, in the driver’s seat, was a young woman “While we working on getting the patient who had been shot from the passenger side; there transferred, the shooter drives by in front of us, were holes in the passenger side of her car,” said maybe thirty feet away,” said Ott. “Fortunately, Ott. “She was bleeding pretty profusely and her he wasn’t shooting at that time and there were arm had been broken.” quite a few police officers chasing him. It was A paramedic on the scene had put a tourni- chaotic - It’s one of those things you don’t really quet on her arm to help control the bleeding. Ott think about in that moment; you just sort of go assessed her condition and concluded the victim and focus on your task.” Courtesy photo needed to be transported to a trauma center. He After passing by, the shooter pulled into a Dr. Nathaniel Ott, an Air Force Reserve instruc- knew a blood transfusion was the only way to parking lot right next to the facility Ott was tor in Air University’s LeMay Center Joint In- save her life and the ER where he was working working in. tegration directorate, stands in his scrubs at is not equipped with blood products or trauma “We had patients in our ER and a police officer his civilian-capacity career as an ER physician surgeons said, ‘Hey, you can’t go back there,’ and we told in Odessa, Texas. Ott was on-scene during a One of the officers on the scene asked Ott if him, ‘Look, we have patients we have to take care mass-shooting incident in Odessa on Aug. 31, they should wait for an ambulance or get the vic- of,’” said Ott. “They let us take a circuitous route and provided life-saving first-aid to a victim who tim into her police cruiser.The pair decided the around the gunfire to get back.” had sustained three gunshot wounds while in victim couldn’t wait and needed to be transport- See SAVED Page 12 her vehicle. For information about base operations during emergencies or natural disasters, call the Straight Talk Line at 828-4163 COMMANDER’S ACTION LINE MacDill on the web Website: www.macdill.af.mil The Action Line provides two-way communication between the Facebook: www.facebook.com/ 6th Air Mobility Wing commander and the MacDill community. 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Contents of the MacDill Thunderbolt race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, ity, brevity, conformance with the “Associated Press Stylebook are not necessarily the official views of, or endorsed by the physical handicap, political affiliation or any other non-merit and Libel Manual” and Air Force Instruction 35-101. 2 u WWW.MACDILLTHUNDERBOLT.COM u Thursday, September 19, 2019 u MACDILL THUNDERBOLT NEWS/FEATURES ‘Airborne’ 2019 JCSE Mustang Challenge by Airman 1st Class Ryan C. Grossklag 6th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs Execution, readiness and teamwork were on full display as the Joint Communications Sup- port Element hosted its 2nd annual JCSE Mus- tang Challenge at MacDill Air Force Base Sept. 6-8. The long, humid Tampa days were no match for the U.S. Army and Army Reserve Soldiers who competed against each other over three days to prove their preparedness and expertise. “The purpose of the Mustang Challenge is to see how well our Soldiers have trained over the past year,” explained U.S. Army 1st Lt. Jarrod Pitts, a JCSE executive officer. “We can evaluate what aspects we may be strong or weak in so we can work on our shortcomings.” Broken into four teams of four, competitors participated in timed ruck marches,underwent rigorous weapon qualification, and were tested on their Tactical Combat Casualty Care knowl- edge and procedures. Their ability to assemble Photo by Airman 1st Class Ryan C. Grossklag a Joint Building Blocks communications system A U.S. Army Reserve Joint Communications Support Element (JCSE) soldier tests a Joint Building Blocks set-up was tested, and the competition conclud- satellite during the 2019 JCSE Mustang Challenge at MacDill Air Force Base Sept. 7. The primary job of ed with a physical training challenge. JCSE soldiers to is provide a secure communications network in austere environments, the Mustang See MUSTANG, Page 14 Challenge tested teams to work together in building the network efficiently. USSOCOM remembers lives lost on 9/11, since by U.S. Navy Lt. Phillip Chitty Hundreds of U.S. Special Operations Com- mand headquarters personnel gathered at the Special Operations Forces (SOF) Memorial at MacDill Air Force Base Sept. 11 to observe the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The observance paid tribute to the thousands of Americans and international citizens who lost their lives on Sept., 11, 2001, when terrorists high-jacked commercial airliners and crashed two of them into New York City’s World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. A fourth airliner crashed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers tried to take back control of the aircraft from the terrorists. The observance commemorated the 2,977 American men, women and children and 372 in- ternational lives lost during the attacks on the Photo by Michael Bottoms World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the plane Navy Vice Adm. Timothy G. Syzmanski, deputy commander USSOCOM, gives remarks during the crash in Pennsylvania. 9/11 remembrance ceremony held at the Special Operations Memorial on MacDill Air Force Base Sept. 11. Members of U.S. Special Operations Command attended the ceremony that marked the See 9/11, Page 14 18th anniversary of the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. MACDILL THUNDERBOLT u Thursday, September 19, 2019 u WWW.MACDILLTHUNDERBOLT.COM u 3 WEEK IN PHOTOS Photo by Tech.
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