The army is preparing for emergency exercises in Hawaii

(TNS) – For the military, including Rim of the Pacific exercise participants, there are many emergency, disaster and trauma response practices massive this week.

300 volunteers will portray patients after an earthquake and tsunami that will be sorted into mobile hospital units on Ford Island and transported by helicopter, ambulance and ambulance bus to hospitals of six islands.

Twenty-seven Hawaiian hospitals are participating, officials said.

"For the first time, all active-care hospitals in the state are participating in RIMPAC (humanitarian aid and disaster relief practice)," said the Navy in a statement

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Hawaii Healthcare Emergency Management, a federally funded program of the Hawaii Health Care Association, coordinates the participation of 27 hospitals of six islands, the navy sai According to the Navy, the losses are part of a larger RIMPAC scenario involving the fictitious island nation of Griffon, which becomes the center of intervention of the partner nation against belligerent forces, according to the Navy

According to RIMPAC spokesman Lt. Kara Yingling, the natural disaster is being waged by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

Yingling said This exercise was the first humanitarian training and disaster relief event in the world.

Unrelated to RIMPAC, the National Guard of Hawaii is conducting an urban search and rescue exercise this week with 12 active Philippine service troops and an equal number of Indonesian forces

. about 10 members of the unit with the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear High Performance Improved High Explosive Hawaii Guard

Rescue at collapsed structure and high angle rescue (Recall) "C & # 39; the first time we do that at this point, "said the spokesman for the National Guard of Hawaii, Maj. Jeff Hickman, adding that the goal is to build a relationship "because if anything happens" "

Additionally, the US Army Garrison-Hawaii, on Wednesday and today, conducts an annual test of emergency response capabilities at Fort DeRussy, Fort Shafter Flats and Schofield Barracks, for natural or man-made needs. events. The scenario at Fort Shafter Flats includes a simulated bomb explosion, said the army.

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