Multinational medical exercise readies forces to save time, lives
Participants of Shared Resilience 2012 stand in formation during the exercise opening ceremony here May 28, 2012. More than 500 military members from nine nations are participating in the annual U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff sponsored exercise May 28 - June 8. The goals of the exercise are to strengthen interoperability, facilitate training in crisis response and disaster management, and validate the readiness of deployable military medical and humanitarian assistance teams. The exercise, in the spirit of partnership for peace, directly supports U.S. European Command's theater cooperation efforts and strategy for active security with European countries.
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CAPLJINA, Bosnia and Herzegovina - A two-week joint medical exercise began during a kickoff ceremony here May 28.
Shared Resilience 2012 is an annual U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff sponsored exercise with a goal to strengthen interoperability, facilitate training in disaster management and crisis response, and validate the readiness of deployable multinational medical and humanitarian assistance teams.
Participating nations include Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Norway, Slovenia, Serbia and the United States.
"Training is very important," said U.S. Air Force Col. Robert Marks, SR12 co-director. "Shared Resilience 2012 allows the United States and our partner nations to train together in order to be a more effective medical community later. We're exchanging ideas and techniques at the multinational level to speed coordination and ultimately save lives."
Exercise participants will train using disaster scenarios possible in this country, which include wildfires, floods or earthquakes. The mountainous region can make medical evacuation difficult if not impossible.
Evaluators will also observe the medical readiness and capabilities of the host and participating nations. Exchanging information and techniques allows regional and international medical teams to garner a bigger picture of how to aid the wounded in this part of the world.
Hosting the exercise represents a great honor for Bosnia-Herzegovina, said Marina Pendes, Bosnian-Herzegovinian deputy minister of defense. It symbolizes the trust, security and stability of the entire region since many neighboring countries are involved.
Partnership events like these offer an excellent opportunity to test and improve medical capabilities, she continued. Having those increased capabilities furthers one of the roles of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian armed forces, which is to support civilian authorities during natural and other catastrophes.
"Our focus in the first week here is to train with a single mission to become interoperable, supporting each other in the event of a contingency such as a natural disaster," Marks said. "During the second week, we will test that training with an exercise and demonstration to representatives from multiple nations."
An attendee suffered a medical emergency during the kickoff ceremony, which required immediate action from the joint real-world medical response team at the site. The ceremony continued after the team got the patient in an ambulance.
U.S. Air Forces in Europe is the lead U.S. organizer of the exercise, and SR12 is one of several military engagement programs conducted by U.S. European Command.
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