STAFF Sergeant April Lewis, USAF, 31st Medical Group, takes the pulse of SENIOR AIRMAN Craig Smelter, USAF, 31st Security Forces Squadron, a victim of a simulated aircraft attack during the Local Salty Nation Exercise at Aviano Air Base, Italy. This is the first Phase II or Local Salty Nation exercise since the wing moved to Aviano seven years ago and is in preparation for a NATO Tactical Evaluation scheduled for October 2002. In addition to performing everyday operations in a chemical environment, other "survive-to-operate" processes are tested including self-aid and buddy care, post attack and Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) reconnaissance and setting up a contamination control area