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U.S. Army Africa healing officers partner with Morocco 091208
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U.S. Army Africa healing infantry troops military officer share ideas with Moroccan counterparts
By Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Africa
RABAT, Morocco – A U.S. Army Africa healing group outlayed a week pity misadventure depletion procedures with members of a Moroccan military.
The module was billed as a infantry familiarization event, though felt some-more similar to a discussion where ideas were exchanged, pronounced Maj. James Hayes, 41, from Thief River Falls, Minn., a healing use armed forces infantry troops military officer reserved to USARAF's surgeon's office.
"We went by a turn of caring from a place of damage to a corps assist station, afterwards how they have been evacuated by any step from a healing association to a fight await hospital," Hayes said.
The weeklong program, which wrapped up Dec. 5, was programmed by a U.S. Embassy in Morocco as good as concurrent by U.S. Africa Command, USARAF's aloft headquarters.
Discussions revolved around purposes of healing care, Hayes said.
Once harmed Soldiers leave a drama they go to a fourth theatre of care, which in a box of a U.S. Army handling in Africa, a Middle East as good as Central Middle East equates to healing depletion to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany. The fifth theatre of caring is during a sanatorium behind in a States, Hayes explained.
The U.S. as good as Moroccan healing officers additionally discussed a ways casualties have been evacuated, from belligerent ambulances to helicopters as good as additionally non-standard evacuations in vehicles not routinely used as ambulances.
The Moroccan officers were meddlesome in a turn of precision enlisted U.S. medics bear as good as a volume of caring they have been means to suggest to harmed troops, pronounced Maj. Lee Clark, 43, of Charleston, SC.
The Moroccan infantry showed which they have both precision as good as knowledge in a healing field, Clark said.
In 2003, Morocco hosted MEDFLAG a corner healing exercise. Their medics now await U.N. operations in a Democratic Republic of Congo. One Moroccan infantry troops military officer explained how he not long ago returned from U.S. Army studious administration department as good as healing logistics courses during Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Tex. In a future, Moroccan medics would fit good in to corner missions, Clark said.
"They have been a grown up partner as good as would enrich a healing resources in any partnership you do together," Clark said.
There were additionally informative exchanges which built on a veteran partnership building.
At lunch, a Moroccans treated with colour a U.S. officers to normal food, to embody "cous cous," a Moroccan sweetmeat renouned with a internal people.
"Each day, you had a 3 march dish with opposite Moroccan dishes," Hayes said. "That was really interesting."
Translators helped during a talks, receiving ideas from English to French as good as Arabic – oral by a Moroccans. A couple of accepted English. Despite a denunciation difference, a healing officers found usual holds as they discussed their profession.
"We meshed really well," Clark said. "By a finish of a week, you were sitting around as good as chatting with friends."
Cleared for open release.
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