European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 Green leapfrog gives military medical units Chance to hone skills photo by Dan Wollam 5 Felipe Williams treats French Thierry Pouteau near an Aid by Dan Wollam Stuttgart Bureau chief Germany John cutting takes a philosophical View of the importance of Mili tary medical its a question of who More important the Guy doing the shooting or the Guy who patches him cutting and that a question theres no answer the Guy doing the shooting is important at but when Hes the Guy doing the Patching is the Vii corps directed Gruener Lau Frosch Green leapfrog a medical exercise involving military people from four Canadian and american medics sharpened their skills and found out what works and what Doest work in International life saving during the fou Day the Vii corps hosted Green leapfrog this the exercise is held every other and cutting knew there would be problems language equipment he also knew those involved would learn from the these people wish they could do this Type of exercise More Cut Ting usually medical people Are put with their units and its kind of Bor some of them get the impression their trucks Are just spar parts Here there not competing with any body 4 Beverly a dental technician from the 1st support in at Mont eith was working in a Battal Ion Aid station during Green she agreed with i never got a Chance to do any of this she she was recording patient information and helping dress the doctors Here dont have time to do everything with each and every so they teach she said exercises with her unit were a different 1 usually wind up doing the maintenance you keeping up the motor the medics were ready for some of the doctors were Given medi Cal phrase books with 200 medical phrases in three doctors were Able to where does it Hurt in German and but cutting didst know How equip ment such As the Large stretchers used by the might foul things he feared the stretchers  fit in american As it turned the new m1010 a modified general motors handled the German other than Vii the ii German 2nd French corps and 4 Canad an mechanized brigade group were in during the More than 600 mock casualties were injected and if a i knows Hes got medics Back ing then Hes willing to stick his head Over the lip of that Cut Ting and Hes very reluctant to do that if he Doest medics from 4 countries test system of handling casualties world today Germany four French soldiers and several americans lie wounded in the deep grass of a Clearing and swat away the pestering French Yves Soulier smokes with his Good his other Arm is useless blood and Gore ooze from a wound near the but he feels no because the wound is american medics Scurry among the French and Ameri can deciding who will ride to the battalion Aid station in the relative Comfort of a medical armoured personnel Carrier and who can the French from the 42nd inf regt in Offen were among the military people involved in exercise Gruener Lau Frosch Green leapfrog in Southern Canadian and american medics tested their skills on each other for four the Clearing in the Woods near Bussma Hausen is this american Aid stations second location in As Many the 50 people from the 1st 4th and the american Hospital in Aschaffenbur Are due to Roll again in the the enemy is advancing  move leapfrog behind an Aid station that behind them that s How the exercise earned its in the spec Jeffery Polk shouts toward the those two tracks Are for the people that can he motions toward a personnel but the not look at each other confused and sit eventually they catch but by then the carriers Are the French walk the 200 Yards from the Clearing to the Aid hidden in the the station consists of a few what one would expect for a medical outpost near the two personnel carriers parked Back to Back about 30 Yards apart support a that Adli bed Struc Ture is the medical soldiers carrying litters slosh in and out Over a tree stump in the Canvas the floor is mud and medics make Quick deciding whom they can help and who should move to the More sophisticated Clearing station farther from the its hectic and Tell pm to get you some More drips some in shouts staff Michael Burrell As he examines Soulieri a Tough hell move Back with some others to the Clearing if the Clearing station cant Patch him hell be moved farther Back to a the four countries medical units each used a similar configuration of Aid Clearing stations and Hospi the Aid stations Are Small and Mobile but do Little More than stabilize patients and ship them they give frontline medical Clearing stations can perform some depending on the severity of the a patient can be treated there or shipped Back to a French and German patients Are treated at the German Hospital in the Canadian and american wounded go to the inflatable medical facility of the 128th combat support temporarily set up in 4 Sidney Sessoms wont make it that far this time his massive head wounds have done him he lies on a litter outside the Aid station his head wrapped in Banda Here you says Polk to Polk hands Sessoms a milk i know youre supposed to be but How about some milk Sessoms smiles through his bandages and sucks on the hell return to the casualty injection Point to lie and perhaps die again another who charges Israel denies arabs adequate health care Geneva a a key committee of the world health organizations annual Assembly has voted for the 17th time to condemn Israel for Alleg edly denying adequate health care to the population of the occupied Arab the comprising delegates from All 166 who member voted 6924 to adopt a Reso Lution condemning Israel for hindering the Normal course and development of the Arab health ins Titu it is part of israels Overall plan of sponsored by 38 Arab and third world coun the document also accused Israel of continuing to prevent the establishment of three whose per Vised health centers in the 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