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Air Force Reserve Command

SFS participates in combatives and tactical combat casualty care training

Published Aug. 18, 2025
By Eric M. White

Members of Air Force Reserve Command Security Forces Squadrons practice combatives as part of the Integrated Defense Leadership Course, May 9, at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio.

Members of the 446th Security Forces Squadron at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, and the 927th Security Forces Squadron at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, carry a simulated victim to safety during tactical casualty combat care exercise as part of the Integrated Defense Leadership Course, May 9, at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio.

Staff Sgt. Kristen Wurtz, a member of the 446th Security Forces Squadron at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, applies a tourniquet to a simulated victim during a tactical casualty combat care exercise as part of the Integrated Defense Leadership Course, May 9, at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio.

Staff Sgt. Dylan Jess and Staff Sgt. Kristen Wurtz, both members of the 446th Security Forces Squadron at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, pull a simulated victim from a pond during tactical casualty combat care exercise as part of the Integrated Defense Leadership Course, May 9, at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio.

Tech. Sgt. Devin Britton, a member of the 446th Security Forces Squadron at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, packs a simulated wound during tactical casualty combat care training as part of the Integrated Defense Leadership Course, May 9, at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio.

Members of Air Force Reserve Command Security Forces Squadrons practice combatives and tactical casualty combat care as part of the Integrated Defense Leadership Course, May 9, at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio. The Integrated Defense Leadership Course is an intensely focused, two-week, hands-on training program for Air Force Security Forces Defenders to achieve and maintain combat readiness. It is based at Youngstown and uses training grounds at nearby Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center. (Eric M. White)