Warrior East 2016 is next week, here in Virginia Beach. One of the biggest draws this year will be Warrior East’s expanded Experience Your Mission Interactive Exhibit. There, you’ll get hand-on with items from some of the show’s over 325 vendors.

Displays include:
•Indoor Shoot House
•Dark Room Night Vision Lab
•DuPont Thermo-Man
•Experience Your Mission FOB
•Cool Down with ADS

Indoor Shoot House

Visit the Indoor Shoot House for hands-on, indoor target practice with Ultimate Training Munition’s (UTM) simunition man marker rounds. Whether you are active military, law enforcement, an armorer or a weapon safety officer, you’ll enjoy utilizing UTM’s conversion kits and bolt assembly groups on Sig Sauer and Daniel Defense weapon platforms. Experience full weapon function with regards to recoil and realistic / consistent cyclic rates in a safe, gun smoke-free environment. The UTM Simple Bolt Carrier Group exchange technology is engineered around safety and reliability, and eliminates the need for a gun range to conduct training and an armorer to conduct gunsmithing operations of a weapon.
UTM’s cutting-edge non-lethal training equipment and shoot house barrier systems allow for versatile and cost-effective training in any environment. Whether you require training for a company or a platoon-sized element, shooting lanes or a small shoot house, these barriers can be used anywhere to provide a conductive training environment.
Stop by the Shoot House to see the latest technology from exhibitors such as: Targabot, Daniel Defense, Hesco, Trijicon, Sig Sauer, L-3 EOTech and UTM.

Dark Room Night Vision Lab

The Night Vision Lab is a 20 x 20 ft. dark room intended where Exhibitors can demonstrate their products’ night vision and thermal energy capabilities one-on-one with attendees. Entry is permissible by appointment only – speak with participating exhibitors for more details.

DuPont Thermo-Man®

Wired with a hundred and twenty-two thermal sensors and capable of being blasted at temperatures higher than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, DuPont™ Thermo-Man® is the world’s most advanced life-size thermal burn injury evaluation system. It’s a critical tool in developing flame-resistant fabrics for the toughest military challenges.

Experience Your Mission FOB

They’ve created the ultimate forward operating base (FOB) simulated environment providing the unique opportunity to interact with medical, tactical, and security components, products and solutions all in one place. This FOB contains demos and exhibits ranging from medical shelters and medevac training, motor pool and maintenance hangers, entry point and parameter security – everything you need to ‘Experience Your Mission.’
Experience Your Mission Highlights:
• Visit the HDT Command Center for a realistic simulation of a forward operating base command station. On display will be a state-of-the-art LED at panel display, projection-based display systems, digital and analog video distribution systems and public address and audio distribution systems.
• Located outside of the HDT motor pool, check out the NOMAD Tactical Command Vehicle, where you can climb inside a mobile command center and see all the bells and whistles of a fully customizable on-the-move communication workstation. It also features live stream video cameras that can extend and rotate high above the vehicle, a fold out conference table, loud speaker, 17,000lb towing capacity and much more.
• Experience Your Mission FOB is surrounded by HESCO barriers that when earth-filled creates the ultimate live firing range. Whether the footprint requires Precision Rifle Range, Pistol Range, or a Tactical Training Facility, there is no limit to the length of structures that can be created when using HESCO earth-filled barriers. With decades of live ring and simulation training experience the HESCO Technical Support Team can assist with the design of the ultimate shooting range in a wide range of configurations from a 15 x 15 ft. room to a maze-like formation with elevated watch towers.
• Check out the HH-60 Casevac Training Simulator. It’s a mobile trailer that provides helicopter extrication training in a warfare theater replica environment that shakes, produces fake smoke and creates realistic helicopter noise.
• Located next to the HH-60 is a simulation Triage Area with a trauma mannequin patient that you can drag, drop, carry and treat through all phases of Tactical Combat Casualty Care. While you’re there walk through the Mobile Role II Hospital, a conceptual mobile surgical suite that that can be staged on a CH-47 or a C-130.
• Stop by the Special Missions section of Experience Your Mission to see a custom designed Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) dive & Combat Rubber Raiding Craft (CRRC) trailer from Float-On Trailer. This unit can hold your 4.7M Wing Inflatables CRRC, outboard engines on a forward rack, and features an enclosed section for storage of additional items such as a breathing air compressor, SCUBA gear, dry suits, and more.
• Improvised Electronics specializes in replicating Improvised Explosive Devices (IED’s) found on today’s battlefield. By fusing current threat replicas with state-of-the-art communications and control systems and then integrating them with world class battlefield effects, their products provide full-solution realistic training devices to support the continuum of operations across the spectrum of world conflicts. Visit their section in Special Missions to learn more about their training aids, blast and automatic weapons simulators.
• Progress Solar will be displaying their solar powered water purification system. This trailer based tool can provide fresh, potable water down range. The system itself can be used in disaster relief operations without putting a strain on the logistics supply chain for fuel.
• Last but not least, stop by Endeavor Robotics and operate an all-terrain man-transportable ground robot. Test your skills by manipulating the arm to grab an ADS prize!

Cool Down with ADS

Attend the ADS Customer Forum & receive a free ADS Nalgene*! Drink lots of water and stop by the ice cream and slushy stations to cool down!
•Ice Cream – Visit the DuPont outdoor exhibit where Ice cream will be provided as you watch the DuPont™ Thermo-Man® reach temperatures upwards of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit!
•Solar Powered Slushies- Stop in front of the Virginia Beach Convention Center and watch a solar power generator produce enough energy to run a slushy machine!
•Nalgene Bottle – Attend ADS Connects Customer Feedback Forum to be a part of the new ADS Connects Customer Portal. As we begin to build out this amazing new platform, nothing is more valuable to us than your input and suggestions. Receive a FREE 32 oz. Nalgene water bottle in exchange for your feedback.

*While supplies last.

For additional information and to register, visit adsinc.com/warrior-expo.

Warrior East is just two weeks away. There’s going to be lots to see and do, but I thought we’d point out an area we don’t cover enough here in SSD and that’s medical. In particular, I’d like to focus on medical care during mass shootings since it’s a topic many are discussing in light of the recent Orlando attack.

Using a building block approach, Warrior East host ADS has been working with vendors to offer a comprehensive line of medical kits, tailored for different, yet complementary applications.  For example, the Medical Incident Response Kit, otherwise known as MIRK is set up for simplicity.

Module 1
Everything dealing with emergency bleeding control which includes the windless TMT (Tactical Mechanical Tourniquet), QuikClot, and a pressure bandage.

Module 2
Consists of airway management, NPA (Nasal Pharyngeal Airway) and a chest seal.

Module 3
Includes an anti-hypothermia foil blanket, patient documentation form with pen, and a quick guidance on security force compliance.

Currently, ADS is developing a two patient, four patients, six patients and ten patient kit. The concept is simple; One Patient. One Package. Multiple Lives.

Brad Stewart, Product Development Manager at ADS Inc has some great experience. He was a trauma medic in the Navy for 23 years as a Diver Medical Technician stationed with various NSW EOD and fleet diving commands and has continued his medical experience in the civilian world, building setting up and training multiple mobile hospitals, around the world, imcluding the fight against Ebola in Liberia. He explains their methodology in creating MIRK:

“We’re the cutting edge in trauma medical response. Every federal building has an AED kit in the event a person is having a heart attack and a fire extinguisher in the event there’s a fire. However, if a person is injured nobody knows where the medical kit is. Our plan is to place a high quality low cost MIRK kit wherever there’s an AED and/or a fire extinguisher. The MIRK kit will provide lifesaving products currently not available to the general public. The MIRK kit and the bystander in a response situation are the lifesaver when EMS is delayed by more than 30-40 minutes.

What we’re doing is providing the lifesaving products that will be used by the untrained bystander who is typically the first responder to an active shooter mass casualty event. EMS isn’t allowed into the site until it is secure and safe. By the time the medical professionals are able to provide the next level of life saving care it could be too late. Additionally, whenever an EMS guy comes in, his bag is built to treat two to three major injuries at a time. Once those two to three injuries are treated his bag is essentially done with the lifesaving products. The bystander or medical professional, then utilizes that kit to provide airway and bleeding management.

Once the bleeding is stopped and the airway is secure the third part of the kit includes an anti-hypothermia blanket to wrap the patient for comfort. The bystander can then document the care given and read guidelines on how to react and communicate to security personnel coming through securing the site.

Be sure to stop by the interactive display area to check these kits out and discuss your unit or agency’s requirements. ADS offers medical solutions that will outfit everything from the individual to full-blown trauma support.

For additional information and to register, visit adsinc.com/warrior-expo.