European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse In an emergency fast mention from left 111 if. Diane curse of. Fit. Cat Don letter end lit it. Virginia Griffen. By Judy Sarasohn medical writer d r. It. Col Dan locker looked around Al the aircraft hangar at Raf Lakenheath England and Nolad the Star differences from october 1983 when he blood in a Beirut Airport hangar alter the bombing of Hema Ine Headquarters. Locker and to other doctors from Iho air Force Hospital at Wiesbaden were Send to Beirut to help severely injured marines. Ii took 12 hours to get there numbering casualties is one of the team s War time tasks. Photos by Regis Bossu fast members simulate surgery in a makeshift operating room. And Tioy had Only what they could carry. Without the equipment to set up a temporary operating room in the i Bullet ii Don hangar they look a helicopter to a Navy Carrier offshore and worked in the operating room Intro. Bui last week Al an american hangar on a Brillh base locker had a 20-Montber medical learn Wilt All the equipment necessary to operate on victims of an e invented boiler Plant explosion at a Remote site the team was assembled and ready Lor Lake off from Ghelfi main a Germany within two hours of being alerted if tie had had the team in Beirut the 12-hour response time could have been Cut if half locker said last week s team included four doctors two surgeons a flight surgeon and an Anaesthesiologist nurses and medics. We have All the equipment ready now. We could have worked right there from the Beirut locker said. Even h we had saved one Guy. It would have been the flying ambulance surgical team fast from Wiesbaden and Throe Withers in Europe have been j established since the 1963 bombings of the Marine Headquarters and . Embassy in Berul and an explosion in niger that rest lied in she deaths of two state depart intent employees Belore doctors could reach them. The olmec earns Are located a i Raf Lakenheath Torrejon a Spain and inc Illk a Turkey. Locker chief of the general surgery service at the Wiesbaden Hospital is coordinator of the four learns. The air Force teams As Well As other rapid response j medical learns in the army and Navy were formed because of concerns Abou getting assistance to people injured in terrorist attacks. Serious acc deals or natural disasters in areas without sophisticated medical services or where facilities Are overburdened. Last wednesday was the first Lime the Wiesbaden fast team went on a practice run outside Germany. The military teams have been put on real alerts Over 1he past year. All Hough the exercise had been planned for its own benefits it also became a Media show. Television Crews from Abc. Abc lbs and pcs filmed the action. Also along were reporters Lor Newsweek Magazine and the stars and stripes. Part of our purpose today was to get the Story said or. Cot Robert w. Gilmore Chiei of professional services at Wiesbaden who was observing he exercise. A so watching the exercise was maj. Gen. William a Greendyke i he command surgeon of 1ha . Alf forces in Europe and part time european come surgeon. He soon will become the Lul Hime Neucom surgeon a position created by the join Chi Elsol staff in response to criticism about join medical planning and coordination among the services. A said he was very satisfied with the exercise. We have to keep these people fired up. We Hava 10 keep them honed to a line Greendyke said the learns Musl continue practising so the members Don t gel fusty. He said. The television Crew seemed disappointed that the exercise scenario was not a terrorist strike. Some said the scene did not seem chaotic enough. The patients appeared Laid out too neatly on inters in the hangar where air Force Crews were doing routine maintenance on four f-111f lighters in the background. Medical officials said they did not use a terrorist scenario because at British objections. But the kinds of Page 14 the stars and stripes monday j
