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News from MHCE MARCH 2024 EDITION Pentagon Inspector General Launches Probe Into Navy Suicides See page 14 Monthly Newsletter WWW.MHCE.US Naval Expeditionary Medical Training Institute to exercise the continuum of care across the battlefield, receiving patients from 1st Medical Battalion’s Role 2 Surgical Platoons and Forward Resuscitative Surgical Systems during their Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation,” said Navy Capt. Elizabeth Smith, commanding officer of EMF 150 Alpha. The exercise provided valuable training and practical application for both commands, but even more valuable was the opportunity to train together. EMF 150 Alpha Provides Role 3 Medical Capability During 1st Med Bn MCCRE Sailors from Expeditionary Medical Facility 150 Alpha provided the Role 3 medical capability during the 1st Medical Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation from Feb. 26 through March 1, 2024, aboard Naval Expeditionary Medical Training Institute. Per Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Instruction 3501.176D, Required Operational Capabilities and Projected Operational Environment for the Role 3 Navy Expeditionary Medical Facility, the EMF is “capable of providing Role 3 in a flow-through mode for patients in any operational area, scalable care in terms of beds, providing scalable care by surgical and medical specialists, and providing patient movement.” The MCCRE provided EMF 150 Alpha a great opportunity to train the way they will fight by setting up the Role 3 capability in a separate location from 1st Med. Bn. to receive, process, and treat patients. “Expeditionary Medical Facility 150 Alpha personnel integrated with 1st Medical Battalion and “The garrison training relationship between 1st Medical Battalion and EMF 150 Alpha will directly affect survivability on the future battlefield,” said Navy Capt. Sean Hussey, commanding officer of 1st Medical Battalion. “Marines and Sailors need the Role 2 and Role 3 teams to spend as much time working together now so that the future wartime hospital system (echelons of care) is primed well before the first casualty is received.” To facilitate an austere environment, the EMF set up their Role 3 capability aboard the NEMTI training facility in the northern part of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. Continued on page 9
