U.S. Pacific Fleet
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PADANG, Indonesia (Aug. 29, 2016) Lt. Cmdr. Frank Margaron, from Naperville, Illinois, attached to USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), explains how to apply a tourniquet to local first responders during a Pacific Partnership 2016 search and rescue field training exercise. Participants received and treated patients at the Padang Cement Factory field hospital, assembled for the earthquake mass casualty scenario. The Pacific Partnership search and rescue field training exercise spanned across three locations in Padang and included a water rescue, a field hospital for patient triage and transport, and a mass casualty at a local soccer field. The day’s events were facilitated by Tentara Nasional Indonesia, local first responders and the Pacific Partnership humanitarian assistance and disaster relief team. This is the fifth time Pacific Partnership has visited Indonesia. Partner nations are working side-by-side with local organizations during disaster response training, civil engineering projects, Women, Peace, and Security seminars, medical subject matter expert exchanges and a live field training exercise aimed at improving the capacity of local government, civilian agencies and partner militaries to collectively respond in crisis. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Lindsey E. Skelton/Released)
160829-N-SX983-286
PADANG, Indonesia (Aug. 29, 2016) Lt. Cmdr. Frank Margaron, from Naperville, Illinois, attached to USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), explains how to apply a tourniquet to local first responders during a Pacific Partnership 2016 search and rescue field training exercise. Participants received and treated patients at the Padang Cement Factory field hospital, assembled for the earthquake mass casualty scenario. The Pacific Partnership search and rescue field training exercise spanned across three locations in Padang and included a water rescue, a field hospital for patient triage and transport, and a mass casualty at a local soccer field. The day’s events were facilitated by Tentara Nasional Indonesia, local first responders and the Pacific Partnership humanitarian assistance and disaster relief team. This is the fifth time Pacific Partnership has visited Indonesia. Partner nations are working side-by-side with local organizations during disaster response training, civil engineering projects, Women, Peace, and Security seminars, medical subject matter expert exchanges and a live field training exercise aimed at improving the capacity of local government, civilian agencies and partner militaries to collectively respond in crisis. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Lindsey E. Skelton/Released)