Real-World Relevance: Ridge Healer leverages long-standing relationships with current DoD and civilian medical professionals operating worldwide to continuously update and address the challenges faced by military and non-military participants when performing advanced medical activities within resource constrained, contested environments. 

Rapid Evolution: Operating in the far-forward field of Irregular Warfare Medicine in large-scale combat operations, RH incorporates innovative technology for non-standard, medically-focused resupply, mobile surgical operations, and safehouse medicine through partnerships with DEVCOM, ARL, and other industry innovators.

Validation & Readiness: This exercise is a low-cost, high-value platform for validating deploying USSOF medical elements supporting mission essential tasks. Commanders gain critical insights into their units’ medical capabilities.

Point of Injury to Evacuation: RH conducts prolonged casualty care in contested or denied environments, often beyond the standard 72 hours.

Dedicated Training Cycle: The exercise combines two days of focused academic instruction delivered by subject-matter experts in the morning with rehearsals in the afternoon, followed by isolated mission planning and, finally, four to five days of embedded Irregular Warfare medical operations in permissive, contested, or denied operational environments.