While the Northwest Island Defense Command conducted joint island defense training in the first half of the year around the Northwest Islands from the 8th to the 10th, Lee Guk-jong, director of the Daejeon Armed Forces Hospital, participated in the “forward deployment surgical team” training for the first time. The concept is that when a military casualty occurs, medical personnel are dispatched to perform surgery and evacuate the patient on site.
The Northwest Island Defense Command announced on the 10th that it conducted joint island defense training in the first half of the year, to prepare for enemy provocations, with support operators from the Army, Navy and Air Force who participated in the Northwest Island area for three days starting on the 8th. The photo shows Director Lee Guk-jong of the Daejeon Armed Forces Hospital conducting first aid training for the seriously injured during the island’s joint defense training in the first half of the year. /Marine Corps Command
According to the Marine Corps, Director Lee established a new “Forward Surgical Team (FST)” after taking office in December of last year. The FST aims to establish an operating theater on site within 1 hour and 30 minutes by sending military doctors, nurses and medical officers to the operational area.
The Army expects the FST to play a key role in the northwestern islands, which lack medical facilities. When the North Korean military launches a local provocation, such as landing in the northwestern islands, there are bound to be casualties among our troops, and it is difficult to provide timely treatment in the northwestern islands, which lack medical infrastructure. Yeonpyeong Island does not have a single private hospital or pharmacy. A military officer said: “The FST was a concept that did not exist in our military, but I understand that it was an experimental reflection of the US military concept as part of various efforts made by hospital director Lee Guk-jong to develop the military medical system concept”.
Director Lee is said to have participated in the actual training during the training period and led the process of conducting field surgery and transporting emergency patients. Director Lee said: “The main purpose of this training is to master the process of organically combining medical forces on the ground and in the air so that it can be the last bastion for the flagship forces protecting the land and the territory of the Republic of Korea”. waters.” The Marine Corps reported him saying so.
Lee Guk-jong, the new director of Daejeon Armed Forces Hospital, answers reporters’ questions while visiting the press room of the Ministry of National Defense in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, in December last year. /what a news
Director Lee has been interested in military medical issues in the Northwest Islands since the past. In 2013, when he was director of the trauma center in the southern Gyeonggi region, he established a medical support cooperation system with the Marine Corps, saying that no emergency evacuation of patients was possible during the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island. In 2019, in a situation where passenger ships were unable to operate due to strong winds and a wind warning issued, a “medical helicopter” was launched to conduct joint training assuming a situation where the Marine Corps had a patient with severe trauma and said: “If our Marines are injured by enemy provocation in the northwestern islands, everything will be fine. He also emphasized: “I will evaluate everything and escape immediately.
The Northwest Island Defense Command announced on the 10th that it is conducting joint island defense training in the first half of the year with the participation of Army, Navy and Air Force support operators in the area of the ‘northwestern island since 8. Shooting tanks during island defense training. /Marine Corps Command
Meanwhile, in this formation, the Marine Corps assumed emergency situations that could occur on the islands and waters of the Northwest, starting from the phase of troop augmentation, operations to block enemy landing operations (landing operations targets), maritime marksmanship training, mass casualty treatment training, maritime and air reinforcement courses, and resident evacuation and movement courses were conducted.
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