FORT CAVAZOS, Texas – Tri-Service graduating emergency and family medicine residents and medical personnel from Army, Navy and Air Force medical teams including Active Duty, National Guard, and Reserves will join for the Joint Emergency Medicine Exercise hosted by Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center June 5-9.

The purpose of the exercise is to train emergency medicine medical personnel in realistic combat casualty care in order to increase unit and individual combat readiness and joint interoperability.

Over 2,000 services members from 71 units representing over 60 medical specialties and multi-national medical personnel will participate in JEMX this year.

Media representatives interested in covering this event should RSVP with Rodney Jackson at 254-553-6218 or by email at rodney.e.jackson1.civ@health.mil by 5 p.m. June 1.

Media attending should meet in the south side parking lot of the Fort Cavazos visitors center on T.J. Mills Blvd. no later than 8 a.m. on the morning of June 8.