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Marines Test Mobile Tool During Exercise Steel Knight

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MCWL Experiments with the BATDOK-J

U.S. Marines and Sailors from across I Marine Expeditionary Force experiment alongside the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL) with the Battlefield Assisted Trauma Distributed Observation Kit-Joint (BATDOK-J), a mobile medical documentation tool that enables real-time collection and sharing of patient vital signs and treatment data from the point of injury to enhance continuity of care across the joint force, during Exercise Steel Knight 25 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Dec. 11, 2025. Steel Knight is an annual exercise that strengthens the Navy-Marine Corps team's ability to respond forward, integrate across domains, and sustain Marine Air-Ground Task Force readiness. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Michael Bartman) The video contains music from a USMC enterprise licensed asset from Adobe Stock: Ambient Dreamy Atmosphere performed by FineTune Music/stock.adobe.com

Dec. 11, 2025

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