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AGANA HEIGHTS (Dec.17, 2025) – Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Brianna Blackston, a Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) instructor, evaluates Sailors while they practice doing a cricothyrotomy on a training manikin during a U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command TCCC training at U.S. Naval Hospital Guam. The scenario focused on keeping the airway open when other options were no longer possible, helping Sailors learn how to act quickly to keep a casualty breathing in a combat situation. (U.S Navy Photo Petty Officer 3rd Class Oluwatomiwo Sogaolu). Photo name: 251217-N- EM93 -2032
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