Fort Drum EMS Day Trains Regional EMS Providers at State-of-the-Art Facility

Military & Civilian Medics learn & train together to strengthen emergency response

In conjunction with Fort Drum’s Bridgewater-Vaccaro Medical Simulation Training Center, the North Country EMS Program Agency hosted the 2025 Spring Fort Drum EMS Day on Saturday, May 17.

This joint education and training opportunity brought together military medics and civilian EMS providers to develop a working knowledge of the operations and capabilities available in both areas.

Throughout the day, EMS providers from across the State participated in high-fidelity training utilizing the incredible assets at the Training Center. Ten providers, of various levels of care, were divided into two groups where they navigated through a difficult emergency airway scenario and incident command training (ICS), before heading outside to the obstacle course where they had to navigate the obstacles to locate to a patient in the wilderness, assess and treat the patient, and extricate the critically ill patient, while continuing patient care. The groups then joined together for the final event of the day, a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI), where the EMS crews took what they learned in the ICS training and put it to use triaging patients. 

“Striving to build stronger and more efficient regional emergency medical services, the FDRHPO EMS Program Agency is proud to conduct Fort Drum EMS Day with our EMS personnel,” said Jonathan Cole, FDRHPO’s EMS Program Agency Director. “We are very excited to continue our partnership with Fort Drum and continue to grow this event.  It is always exciting to see our military and civilian EMS providers learning and training side-by-side, sharing their knowledge and experiences.”

Fort Drum’s Bridgewater-Vaccaro Medical Simulation Training Center (MSTC) provides realistic medical training to both medical and non-medical Soldiers. It offers hands-on instruction on the latest battlefield trauma and critical care techniques.

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