2/25 races for life

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News - 2008.03

2/25 races for life Story by Capt. Paul L. Greenberg, Marine Forces Reserve	Marines from Company G, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, transfer one of their comrades from a collapsible litter to a poleless litter to begin the second leg of a litter carry relay race at Camp Upshur March 11. (Official USMC photo by Capt. Paul L. Greenberg) Marines from Company G, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, hoist a simulated casualty during a litter carry relay competition at Camp Upshur March 11. (Official USMC photo by Capt. Paul L. Greenberg)
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. – (March 12, 2008) -- Amidst the shouts of U.S. Navy corpsmen, Marines from Company G, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, hauled simulated casualties across a field at Camp Upshur in a litter carry relay race held here March 11. This training is extremely effective in preparing the Marines for an upcoming deployment to Iraq, according to Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan P. Hancock, battalion leading petty officer who helped facilitate the exercise. Hancock is a Navy Reservist from Piscataway, N.J., and has worked as an intensive care unit nurse at the Muhlenberg Hospital in New Jersey for the past three years. “We’re having them use all these different stretchers and wearing them out physically ... It also promotes small unit leadership,” said Hancock. Throughout the evolution, squad leaders shouted directions to their troops over the din of the hollering corpsmen, encouraging their Marines as they ran and directing them to transfer the casualties from traditional collapsible stretchers to the new, poleless litters. “It gets you used to performing under stress,” said Sgt. Thomas Grosmick, a squad leader from Audobon, N.J. “And we need to learn to use these new stretchers. The competition adds more stress, which is good.” In addition to being a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Grosmick is a seasoned corrections officer at the Camden County Jail in New Jersey. “We need to make this training realistic so the Marines can carry out these activities under real combat stress” said Cmdr. Dennis P. McKenna, the battalion surgeon. This relay competition was the culmination of several days of first aid classes which the battalion’s Marines participated in during their two-week annual training.