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8 | MHCE - News www.mhce.us MARCH 2024 EDITION WWW.MHCE.US Monthly Newsletter | 9 “NEMTI’s mission is to ensure readiness of our medical personnel to support the warfighter in austere environments through partnerships across Navy / Marine Corps medical platforms. These events are crucial in providing an opportunity to exercise those partnerships and “train like we fight” with complete integration of Navy and Marine Corps medical personnel simulating real world operations and the roles of care,” said Cmdr. Damian Storz, NEMTI’s officer in charge. “Our continued collaboration with NEMTI allowed us to utilize their pre-positioned EMF tents, equipment, and subject matter experts to maximize our Role 3 capability,” said Navy Capt. Adolfo Granados, executive officer of EMF 150 Alpha. “This was impactful because we were in the field dealing with conditions similar to real world situations, honing our skills as an expeditionary unit.”v The EMF team obtained great, realistic training and experience during the evolution that will pay dividends in the event they must deploy in support of contingency operations. “We were able to evaluate Mission Essential Tasks such as command and control, patient movement, patient tracking, and casualty receiving. We also field tested the use of Battlefield Assisted Trauma Distributed Observation Kits (BATDOKs) that allow medical personnel to monitor patient’s vitals wirelessly, from point of injury, autonomously document patient care and transmit data throughout the patient’s continuum of care,” added Smith. “These exercises continue to demonstrate interoperability and warfighting readiness across the Navy and Marine Corps team.” The EMF team was kept busy each training day with a steady throughput of simulated casualties to maintain the operational tempo of a combat environment. “Over the course of the MCCRE, EMF 150 Alpha received, treated, tracked, and medically evacuated 76 patients,” said Lt. Jg. Amber Campaign, EMF 150 Alpha’s acting operations officer. The exercise offered the opportunity to try out some state-of-the-art, emerging equipment on the simulated battlefield. “We employed medical battlefield technology new to the Navy in the form of the BATDOKs. This is a promising tool for battlefield medical documentation and communication throughout the care continuum,” added Granados. “We will provide feedback to Naval Medical Forces Pacific about their applicability and functionality.” Taking advantage of an opportunity to include a Role 3 capability during 1st Med. Battalion’s MCCRE was indicative of similar operationally focused mindsets in both commanding officers where combat readiness is paramount.
