Med Group exercises disaster response skills

A group of 779th Medical Wing members secure an end cap on to the frame of a 25-bed field hospital during a disaster response exercise held here June 6.

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Maj. Benjamin Feliciano, 779th Medical Support Squadron disease manager, and Capt. Vinh Phung, 779 MDSS pharmacist, transport a tent door which serves as the end cap support of a 25-bed field hospital being constructed during a disaster response exercise conducted here June 6.
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Senior Airman Aimee Lessard, 779th Medical Support Squadron logistics technician; Capt. Vinh Phung, 779 MDSS pharmacist; and Tech. Sgt. Laveena Pugh, 779 MDSS NCO in charge contract services, unload metal tent support sections for the construction of a 25-bed field hospital during a disaster response exercise conducted here June 6. The members were part of two Expeditionary Medical Support Teams who honed their skills constructing and dismantling the deployable field hospitals which are designed to deliver limb and lifesaving capabilities to a contingency within 24-hours.
Photos/Bobby Jones
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A group of more than 50 779th Medical Group members work in unison to construct the frame of a 25-bed field hospital during a disaster response exercise conducted here June 6. The members were part of two Expeditionary Medical Support Teams who honed their skills constructing and dismantling deployable field hospitals. The hospitals are designed to deliver limb and lifesaving capabilities to a contingency within 24-hours.
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779th Medical Wing members pull on lines to drape a tent cover over a 25-bed field hospital during a disaster response exercise conducted here June 6. The members were part of two Expeditionary Medical Support Teams who honed their skills constructing and dismantling the deployable field hospitals. The hospitals are designed to deliver limb and lifesaving capabilities to a contingency within 24-hours.
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A group of 779th Medical Wing members construct the frame of a 25-bed field hospital during a disaster response exercise held here June 6. The members were part of two Expeditionary Medical Support Teams who honed their skills constructing and dismantling deployable field hospitals. The EMEDS team, which provides full-scale medical support for ground and aeromedical evacuation, consisted of medical, logistical and administrative staff members. The hospitals are designed to deliver limb and lifesaving capabilities to a contingency within 24-hours.

A group of 779th Medical Wing members secure an end cap on to the frame of a 25-bed field hospital during a disaster response exercise held here June 6.

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The 779th Medical Group conducted an exercise to hone their disaster-response skills June 6 and 8 near Chapel 1 here.

Two Expeditionary Medical Support Teams, made up of more than 50 members each, constructed and took down a 25-bed field hospital.

"The EMEDS team provides full scale medical support for ground and aeromedical evacuation," said Colonel Rudolph Cachuela, 779th Medical Group commander. "It is rapidly deployable and designed to deliver limb and lifesaving capabilities to a contingency within 24 hours."

An Expeditionary Medical Support Team is made up of medical, logistical, administrative and other staff responsible for quickly deploying and setting up a field hospital.

In a real-world catastrophe, military forces may provide assistance to federal, state and local emergency responders to save lives, prevent injury and provide temporary critical support.

"We have to make sure our folks are ready for anything--they need to be prepared to not only be medical professionals; they need to be prepared to build their own field hospital" said Lt. Colonel Shawn P. Zarr, 779th Surgical Operations Squadron commander.