Medical team conducts live surgical field exercise

By Sgt. Mark CloutierMay 16, 2012

Medical team conducts live surgical field exercise
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Medical team conducts live surgical field exercise
2 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Lt. Col. Tommy Brown, surgeon and chief of General Surgery at Madigan Healthcare System, discusses procedure in preparation for a live field surgical exercise of the 758th Forward Surgical Team. Also shown are Maj. Charles Densevich, commanding offic... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - All military units take their training seriously, but when the 758th Forward Surgical Team sets up a local training exercise, they conduct real surgical procedures, which means that for the patient, it