The US military is conducting training on the establishment of temporary mass burial sites on battlefields, in the first large-scale maneuver of its kind in decades, to test its ability to deal with large numbers of casualties among its forces if massive human casualties occur during future military operations. The training was held at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, with the participation of engineers, preventive medicine teams, military chaplains and experts in the treatment of remains, with the aim of evaluating the speed of preparing temporary burial sites and mechanisms for treating the dead in war conditions. According to the US military, the maneuver showed the possibility of temporarily burying about 2,400 remains within 24 hours using 8 bulldozers and 4 military excavators, provided the remains are later moved to identify their owners and return them to the United States. The exercise revives procedures the US military has not implemented on this scale since the Korean War in the 1950s, amid questions about the military scenarios it is preparing for and the scale of human casualties it is taking into account.