January 24, 2007

Surgical Unit Brings Expertise to Front Lines


Stories and photo by Lance Cpl. Geoffrey P. Ingersoll
1st Marine Logistics Group

CAMP TAQADDUM — They mobilize in minutes. Within the hour, they are in striking distance of the enemy.

But it's not so much the enemy they're worried about.

Taqaddum Surgical's Forward Resuscitative Surgical System, or FRSS, "provides close support of coalition forces involved in combat," said Cmdr. Scott R. Reichard, a 43-year-old TQ Surgical medical directorate from Longbranch, Wa.

This modern-day M.A.S.H.'s (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) mission is to "allow front-line troops to have immediate access to a surgical capability that they never had in any previous war or conflict," said Reichard.
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(Photo:Seaman Amanda C. Couch, a 23-year-old surgical technician from Traverse City, Mich. and Seaman Andrew J. Hunter, a 20-year-old surgical technician from Birmingham, Ala., listen to instructions from Cmdr. Tracy R. Bilski, 38-year-old doctor from Bellmawr, N.J. TQ Surgical’s Forward Resuscitative Surgical System mobilizes in minutes. Within the hour, they are in striking distance of the enemy. But it’s not so much the enemy they’re worried about. The unit brings general surgeons, anesthesiologists, operating room technicians, nurses and corpsmen to the fight, and is equipped with the latest life-saving technology. And they follow assaulting units every step of the way.)

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