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Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Astorga, a hospital corpsman, crawls through a mud pit during a tactical combat casualty care field exercise at Naval Medical Center San Diego on Feb. 3, 2011. The exercise is a pre-deployment requirement. Those who pass the course will be trained in managing the most common battlefield combat injuries.

Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Astorga crawls through a mud pit.

Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Astorga, a hospital corpsman, crawls through a mud pit during a tactical combat casualty care field exercise at Naval Medical Center San Diego on Feb. 3, 2011. The exercise is a pre-deployment requirement. Those who pass the course will be trained in managing the most common battlefield combat injuries.

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