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Claire Park delivers a riveting talk, bringing military trauma lessons from MERT (Medical Emergency Response Team) back home. Claire tells two stories from her tours in Afghanistan. The first begins in the early hours of the morning when the MERT team is tasked on a job. They receive word of five casualties including two above knee amputations and one unconscious without a radial pulse. On arrival to the scene the paramedics leave the helicopter to triage and bring the casualties aboard to Claire and her team. They begin to take enemy fire. The second experience was delivering care to an Afghan national soldier with a gunshot wound to the neck. He was alert when he came onboard the helicopter but quickly deteriorated. Claire decided he need to be intubated. However, there was an expanding haematoma across his cricoid area with a deviated trachea. An extremely difficult airway in an extremely difficult environment. The lessons from her experiences as a part of the MERT? Do the basics well. This means prioritis