Building soldiering skills: How a veterinary detachment trains for large-scale combat
Staff Sgt. Matthew Milligan, a Veterinary Food Inspection Specialist (68R) with the 445th Medical Detachment (Veterinary Services), inspects eggs for quality and safety at the McGuire Commissary in July during WAREX 25 at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. While WAREX, a two-week field exercise, focuses on sharpening basic soldiering skills in austere conditions, the 445th MDVS also trained on their mission set of safeguarding food supplies, supporting military working dogs, and ensuring animal health and assisting at the base vet treatment facility. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Lt. Col. Ellen Ratcliff)