Photo By Bernhard Lashleyleidner | U.S. Navy Lt. Lani Kuhlow, trauma nurse, and Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Patrick...... read more read more
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U.S. 5TH FLEET AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY – About 35 Soldiers from 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, participated in joint medical training with U.S. Navy corpsmen from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard U.S. Marine Corps Osprey aircraft July 29.
The Osprey is a multi-mission tiltrotor aircraft with both vertical and traditional take-off and landing ability.
U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Samuel Schoolfield, commanding officer of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 263 (Reinforced), 22nd MEU, based out of New River, North Carolina, talked to the eager young Army medics about the aircraft’s ability to transform from carrying 24 combat-ready Marines to 12 litter bond patients and five ambulatory casualties during a casualty evacuation (CASEVAC).
Units working in a joint environment must understand the complexities of their sister services and how to provide assistance during emergency situations.
The MEU’s enhanced CASEVAC team showed the medics how to properly load and unload patients into the aircraft through hands-on demonstrations.
“We wanted to give the medics an opportunity to properly load patients into the aircraft and show them the importance of putting the most critical patients in the middle and the walking wounded or those with less serve injuries on the upper and lower sections of the aircraft,” U.S. Navy Lt. Lani Kuhlow, trauma nurse with VMM-263 (Reinforced), said. “This allows you an opportunity to stabilize the patient and administer care easily while transporting them to a Level II medical facility for follow-on care.”
Kuhlow a native of Garner, North Carolina, said a Level II medical clinic can support an injured patient for up to 72 hours and has limited X-ray, laboratory and dental facilities.
Kuhlow said it is imperative for each service to have a relationship and share capabilities and understanding when it comes to patient care.
“It was great to be able to work with Navy medics on this aircraft, because we don’t have anything like it in the Army,” said Spc. Banica Shears, a combat medic with Company C, 101st Brigade Support Battalion, 1st ABCT, 1st Infantry Divisioin, and Bronx, New York, native. “We are working in a deployed environment and do not know who will be assisting us when caring for patients, so we need to become accustomed to working together.”
The medics were a little disappointed that they weren’t able to practice their skills while flying in this one-of-a-kind aircraft.
“I was hoping we would do this training while flying, but I still feel very lucky to be able to work side-by-side with medics from the Navy,” Spc. Meghan Ilimaleota, a Manhattan, Kansas native and combat medic with Company C, 101st BSB, said. “I had an opportunity to do something many people in the Army will never do.”
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt.Maj. Joel Collins, 22nd MEU sergeant major, thanked the Soldiers for taking time out of their day to in order to familiarize themselves with an aircraft that could one day save the lives of the Soldiers trusted to their care.
“With U.S. Army Central Command becoming a joint operating environment it is very important that we in the medical field integrate into the environment and maximize our capabilities by training more with our sister services,” U.S. Army Maj. Tracie Dominguez, 1st ABCT surgeon and Ontario, California, native said. “This training allowed the Soldiers to see the skill set of the corpsmen, which is different from our medics, and the commonality that we share being medical professionals.”
| Date Taken: | 08.17.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 08.18.2014 03:09 |
| Story ID: | 139602 |
| Location: | KW |
| Hometown: | BRONX, NEW YORK, US |
| Hometown: | GARNER, NORTH CAROLINA, US |
| Hometown: | MANHATTAN, KANSAS, US |
| Hometown: | ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA, US |
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