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By Mass Communications Specialist Petty Officer 1st Class Marie Montez
SAN DIEGO, Calif. - Sailors from Fleet Surgical Team (FST) 9 took part in shipboard surgical trauma training for a mass casualty exercise shipboard surgical training on March 5 at strategic operations in San Diego.
Strategic operations staged a real world shipboard trauma unit to include an operating room and the medevac helicopter environment.
Cmdr. Tuan Hoang, director of medical readiness division in San Diego, organized the mass casualty drill to incorporate FST-9 and FST-1 corpsmen with specialized individual skills to work together cohesively in safe and secure environment.
Huang said it is important to train the team to set out and do real world traumas care as realistic as possible. We have to train how we fight and replicate the battlefield before they go into battle.
“I think the staff provided us with a very realistic environment for them to train, which I see the maturation of the team from a very well individual to a well- trained team with all the nuts and bolts running on the same frequency,” said Hoang.
This training will be used for predeployment readiness.
Kit Lavell, the executive vice president of strategic operations, said this is the first of six evolutions of this curriculum that will be held within a 24-month period here on this facility.
“This particular training is different because we are doing a lot of science in this one. We are doing a lot of things to determine objective measurements and metrics to determine the efficacy of the training,” said Lavell.
Larenzo Lott lead surgical technologist Hospital Corpsman Petty Officer First Class of Riverside, California, said, “We are doing some good high speed training on surgery involve our fleet sets and actually put them to use, getting to use the equipment that we use shipboard. The training is pretty demanding but we are getting through it. It is very fast paced detailed. Energy is high and excited to be here."
| Date Taken: | 03.05.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 03.08.2016 01:04 |
| Story ID: | 191491 |
| Location: | CALIFORNIA, US |
| Hometown: | RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, US |
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