Civil affairs augmentation of Special Forces units greatly enhance MEDRETE impact.

Medical readiness education and training exercises (MEDRETEs) provide acute, primary, and preventative medicine services to populations in countries other than the United States. MEDRETEs provide training in deployment, redeployment, austere environment medicine, supply, security, and defense for our active duty and reserve component personnel. MEDRETEs also improve public relations, advance U.S. foreign policy, and build confidence in the partner nation services. This article documents the great increase in ability to see multiple patients provided when a Special Forces unit is augmented by assistance from Civil Affairs attachments.