HONOLULU (May 26, 2016) --- Regional Health Command-Pacific (RHC-P) led a plenary panel discussion and medical forum during the May 24-26, Association of the United States Army (AUSA)'s Institute of Land Warfare LANPAC Symposium and Exposition in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The platforms provided an opportunity to bring key leaders on a variety of medical topics together on issues impacting the Indo-Asia Pacific area of operation.
RHC-P's role as a contributor to regional stability and security through humanitarian competencies played a central theme throughout the commentary, with examples of medical forums enhancing partnerships between the Department of Defense, interagency and international participants woven throughout.
The LANPAC high-level talks were designed to increase visibility and knowledge of medical, engineering and civil affairs contributions in achieving national security strategy objectives.
RHC-P Commanding General, Maj. Gen. Patrick Sargent, provided comments during both discussions, with the first focused on infectious disease, humanitarian assistance and disaster response, as well as medical support to peace keeping operations, and with the second focused on usage of land forces humanitarian competencies.
"Participating in operations, actions and activities through the range of military operations provides a mechanism for land forces to respond from low end crises through high intensity operations," said Sargent. "Humanitarian competencies allows us and our regional partners to get to the left of crisis, improve regional readiness, stability and security which translates to winning in a complex world."
Sargent concluded, saying that he hoped the discussions conveyed the criticality of the humanitarian competencies of land forces and how they contribute to winning in a complex world.
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