FORT BRAGG, N.C. – Drones buzzed overhead, special operators stalked through the shoot houses, and medics monitored vital signs of patients in the field. This wasn’t some disconnected tech demo or surgical exercise; this was integrated, visceral, and real. At the U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s capabilities exercise (CAPEX 2025), March 31-April 6, 2025, the convergence of cutting-edge technology, tactics, and battlefield medicine took center stage, showcasing how the Army is redefining irregular warfare and how, strangely, Navy Medicine is a part of that plan.
