Courtesy Photo | A Company B, 101st Brigade Troops Battalion, front line ambulance speeds off the Troop...... read more read more
Sgt. Rachel Brune
101st Sustainment Bde.
Q-WEST BASE COMPLEX, Iraq " Emergency responders from units and agencies across the base participated in a mass casualty exercise April 14 here.
The exercise was a requirement of Tetra Tech, Inc., a Pasadena, Ca."based Department of Defense contractor, currently on post to remove explosive ordnance.
Observer/controllers noted response times, standard operating procedures, adherence to safety regulations and other aspects of the participating units and agencies.
The scenario, a premature detonation of an unexploded ordnance, or UXO, tested the reactions of almost every unit on post, as well as the Q-West Base Complex Fire Department, Kellogg, Brown & Root Security, and others.
After the radio network broadcasted the initial call for aid, the QBCFD sped to the scene, followed closely by medics and doctors from Company B, 101st Brigade Troops Battalion's treatment platoon.
At the scene of the "detonation," Tetra Tech medic, William Cronan, initially treated the "casualties." The firefighters joined Cronan shortly afterward to treat the patients with their first responder expertise, until the Co. B medics arrived in front line ambulances to transport the "injured" to the Troop Medical Clinic.
Due to the fact that the exercise involved crossing an active flightline, an Air Force airfield management team from the 332nd Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron controlled traffic across the airstrip.
Following the exercise, all participants gathered at the Mayor's Cell for a thorough after-action review.
A representative from each participant group gave a brief description of the reaction to the drill, as well as three positive actions and three aspects that unit will work to improve.
Tetra Tech employees are on Q-West working for the Army Corps of Engineers, said Ken "Monty" Montgomery, of Seattle, Wa. In Montgomery's opinion, all participants accomplished the mission of completing the drill.
"The right things had been done," said Maj. David Cobb, Co. B, treatment platoon leader. Cobb referred to the first responder care given to the "casualties" before his medics arrived.
Cobb, who is also the Q-West TMC officer in charge, said the first responders took the appropriate actions in the field.
"I was impressed with what I saw," said Cobb.
| Date Taken: | 05.01.2006 |
| Date Posted: | 05.01.2006 14:58 |
| Story ID: | 6197 |
| Location: | QAYYARAH, IQ |
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