2010 Paulatim Magazine - RAAMC Association

Ex Predators Gallop
3 HSB provided medical support to 1 CSSB in their preparation for
Ex PREDATORS RUN at the Mt Bundy Training Area, which is east of
Darwin near the Kakadu National Park. We were helped by a Team
from Care Flight which included a Doc, a Medic and two Pilots. 1 CSSB
also provided us a LT Nursing Officer and an Evac driver.
Its hard to condense our three weeks into a few words as so much
happened over the short period. We arrived at Scale A of the Mt Bundy
Training Area, also known as Camp Krusty (with all the local wild life of
snakes and jumping spiders that co-ordinate into section attacks), which
is east of Darwin and never stopped running until we left. We watched
the Abram Tanks roll in and did not quite understand what came with
them. Swine Flu! Yep they brought a few cases with them from Ex
TALISMAN SABRE 09. The cases filled the Hospital at Robertson Barracks
and we were looking to the Royal Darwin Hospital next. Our Evac driver
and ambulance’s were getting such a work out, that they broke down
and we swapped vehicles about four times. I even had to drive a guy
with a broken finger into the Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH) in a land
rover and I may have got a little lost on the way back which added an
extra hour to the trip.
Somewhere during the first week a Recon Course turned up, and that
gave us a steady supply of patients. Our driver, Lamby got tagged out,
and a new driver, Hunter, got tagged in. The nice LT NO had her
appendix out. The Care flight doc got traded from a female to a Male,
and we even sent SGT Brian “Harry” Callahan back to Robbo for a rest
up with swine flu. We received an extra Medic from 1 CSSB for a few
days as we needed to set up an LDU isolation ward. Through it all the 3
HSB medics stuck it out, PTE Lauren Cocker, PTE Angela Stanfield, LCPL
Sonya Brookes, and myself, with CAPT Dan Schmidt.
The exercise was another learning curve for everyone. In return we got
to have a good look over all the hardware, including rides in the
Abrams, the Care flight chopper, and eat great food from the cooks at
the on site mess.
I can definitely recommend any one, of any rank, to attend the next
one.
By: LCPL C. Frank (3 HSB)
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