European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 stars and stripes tuesday March 20 2007 saving life and limb no matter whose it is a boy in a car Accident or a Marine with a Bullet wound they both end up at the Tara drum trauma Center by Sandra Jontz stars and stripes Camp Tara drum Iraq the chaos in a Battlefield trauma Center boils Down to a Wellho re graphed dance for the medical personnel who scrambled Side by Side to save the lives of patients who enter their stage on one Gurney medical person Nel worked first to soothe a fright ened Young boy squirming and crying his Chest and neck had been crushed in a car crash his condition quickly deteriorated and doctors hastened to insert a breathing tube and rhythmically pump puffs of hair into his Small lungs on a Gurney some five feet to the Childs right Lay a Young us Marine shot through his right leg with a Bullet still lodged near his Groin three gurneys to the Young iraqi boys right sat his brother eyes wide As medics Cut off his clothing to examine injuries to his Chest and Back and two gurneys to the boys left his older sister was having her broken leg put in a cast her eyes darting from medic to medic in an apparent attempt to make sense of the confusion medics already had treated the childrens father Mother and an other boy who each had sustained superficial wounds when the car they were in rolled Over on a dirt Road near fal Lujah an Accident witnessed by us marines who then radioed for Heli copter transport to the surgical unit on Camp Tara drum Welcome to a snippet of what could be any hour any Day at to surgical a level ii trauma Hospi Tal specializing in saving life and limb of critical patients the Cen Ter is staffed by surgical company 2nd maintenance battalion 2nd Marine Logis tics group the Tempo at to surgical can run from fever pitch to monotonous of any Given Day said Navy corpsman Petty officer 3rd class Jimmy Young 24 for the staff a patient is a patient no matter whether they pledge allegiance to the us iraqi or any other Flag he said if you let something like whether there a Marine or Soldier or an iraqi affect the Way you do your Job till affect you later he said till mess with your conscience the unit made up of medics from Carnap Lejeune no and doctors who Hail from across the United states arrived roughly a month ago the Camp Pendle to based unit they replaced left a legacy a 95 percent Success rate of saving and stabilizing patients who entered the Tan Metal medical dome that is Home to the High tech emergency room and four operating rooms were Strong very Strong in or care its amazing the Assem Bly of Talent and experience we have Here said Navy capt Jef Ferey Jernigan the chief professional service doctor of the unit to surgical level ii designation Means it is equipped to save life arid limb provide critical immediate care to stabilize patients to be transported to a higher level facility if needed said Jernigan an Anaesthesiologist and naval reservist activated since August 2005 miracles happen in the units four operating rooms said Navy it Jose Bautist Arojas a Chap lain they dont just save lives they put them Back together he said we Pray they use gods instruments to bring Healing email Sandra Jontz at photos by Sandra and stripes on the left medical personnel from to surgical work to stabilize a us Marine who was shot in the leg on the right medics stabilize a Young iraqi boy who had been in a car Accident or Chris Carr a lieutenant commander checks a marines wounds to feel for any debris that might have been left inside or Jefferey Jernigan a Navy Captain listens to a Young iraqi boys lungs after medical personnel inserted a tube to help the child breathe photos by Adil right a us army medic shows a Medicine Container to a patient in the shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad on saturday the us Mili tary opened an Impromptu medical clinic in a school in Sadr City a part of a growing number of civil outreach projects american commanders Hope will win Good will from Ordinary iraqis above a us army medic checks the Eye of an elderly woman in Sadr City on saturday Baghdad clinic fills health care void the associated press Baghdad ailing iraqis waited behind concertina wire at an abandoned schoolhouse Satur Day in the capitals shiite Strong hold of Sadr City where us army medics had set up a sur prise medical clinic a child whose legs were stiff with disease hobbled toward us army medics another Man held his head where a Gash swelled with infection according to a television news footage the Adoc clinic was part of a growing military outreach under the Mont hold Baghdad Security plan in most cases such clinics close within hours to avoid at tacks in Sadr City medical services historically were provided by Shi Ite militias such As the anti Amer ican cleric Muntada Alsa drs powerful Mahdi army the Mili tary Hopes providing treatment themselves will turn support in us favor the Man seeking treatment for the infected Gash to his forehead said he came for american help because it had become too hard to get Quality treatment in Bagh dad since the War began medications had become almost impossible to find he said if we go to an iraqi Hospital we dont get the medicines we need he said we come Here so maybe we can get some help