2010 Paulatim Magazine - RAAMC Association

Regimental Aid Post (RAP) 5RAR
RAP 5RAR started the year with the usual change of personnel following
the posting cycle shuffle. The RAP welcomed LT Erica Van Ash, SGT
Kerrie Lees, CPL Dave Cantwell, CPL Heath Schofield, PTE Nathan
Dovey, PTE Damien Gardiner, PTE Mitchell Gulliver and PTE Darcy
McInnes. The new crew joined the ranks of CAPT Gary Heathcote, WO2
Adrian Brooks, LCPL Don Rivadillo and the ever charismatic civilian
nurse Carol Perry.
To kick the year off, CPL Schofield and LCPL Rivadillo deployed to Rifle
Company Butterworth (RCB) in support of B-COY 5RAR. The two boys
hand their hands full supporting the rotation conducting jungle and
urban training with the usual injuries, illness and epic prickly heat.
While the boys were living it up at RCB the rest of the team had to
quickly find our feet and switch our focus to the upcoming deployment
to Afghanistan, Mentoring Task Force (MTF) -2, in the second half of the
year. As anyone who has been involved in preparing a battle group for
a deployment can testify, this can be a very demanding a task. You’d
think that since we’ve being constantly deploying for over a decade
now, that someone, somewhere would have found an easy and painless
way to prepare for a deployment. Well I’m afraid to say that we still
haven’t found the answer.
As part of our lead up training the RAP staff has been very fortunate to
have been involved in a never ending list of specialised medical and
trade courses. We have had some of the most experienced and
knowledgeable medical clinicians from around the country, military and
civilian, pumping us full of information making us to date arguably the
Army’s most prepared medical team to ever go on deployment. This
training has varied widely from mental health, paediatrics, burns
courses, mass cas training, and mission specific advance trauma
treatment to name a few. One of our courses, Primary Survey One,
attracted a bit of media attention and unfortunately cost the RAP staff
several cartons of beer.
To make up the numbers required for medical support of MTF-2,
we have had to poach medics, nurses and doctors from through out
1st BDE and around the country. For those joining us and everyone in
the Battle Group on behalf of RAP 5RAR we hope for everyone a
rewarding but safe trip home.
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