The 633rd Medical Group at JB Langley-Eustis, Va., tested their rapid support capabilities Oct. 17-21 by setting up a 25-bed field hospital on base and caring for simulated and real patients. The global response force training mission focused on what can be encountered during humanitarian missions, including basic medical needs, according to a 633d Air Base Wing release. The field hospital, which becomes operational within 60 hours of touching down, can provide care for up to 6,500 people. “A lot of times, this is the first sort of definitive care these people are seeing,” said Col. Susan Pietrykowski, 633rd Medical Group commander, according to the release. “What we see as basic needs is a higher level of care for them.” The real-life care of Active Duty service members allowed the team to catch hiccups that could have disrupted actual humanitarian missions, said Maj. Aleacha Philson, 633rd Medical Operations Squadron pediatrics flight commander, according to the release.
Today, the Air Force Association’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies will host a Nuclear Deterrence Forum featuring Brad Roberts, director of the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Event video will tentatively be posted to the think tank’s website and YouTube page afterward.