The PLA at Home and Abroad - Strategic Studies Institute - U.S. Army

2009
• Jan—Chinese missile-armed warships Haikou
and Wuhan began escort duty in the Gulf of
Aden. Including the accompanying supply
ship, the crew.
• May 6—Five commercial trucks loaded with
automobile repair parts left Jinan, Shangdong
Province, to deliver the support directly to Xinjiang
MD distribution centers for issue to local
military units. In the past, the repair parts were
placed in material warehouses and units were
required to drive to the central warehouse to
pick up the parts. Under this method, civilian
transportation distributes the repair parts at no
additional cost closer to the using units. 29
• May 15—Medical Support Exercise. First time
the PLAN logistics department conducted a
medical exercise with the new Peace Ark medical
ship. The 72-hour exercise was conducted
with full crew, and tested full capacity support
for 300 sick beds. The training served to comprehensively
test onboard medical equipment,
medical staff, medical services flow, and medicines
and medical material when operating at
full capacity. Experts at the Field Surgery Research
Institute of the PLA, the Second Medical
University, and the Third Medical University
helped design the content of the training. 30
• June 4—Xinjiang MR armored regiment signed
a “Highway Transportation Agreement for
Armored Equipment” and conducted the first
emergency call-out exercise using civilian platform
trucks to transport armored vehicles. 31
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