He heads the baur row of medicine for the navy. I lacked at his bay oh in the program, educated in georgia and hes had a great career in the Navy Commanding several hospitals, winning several awards and his most recent command was as the commander of walter reed, and i was so glad that he was here to hear the panel that we had with our medical peer to peer exercise. And hes going to talk to us now about navy medicine. With that, please help me welcome vice admiral matthew nathan. applause . Thank you, general, very much. Well, its a pleasure here and im honored to be able to speak in front of such a distinguished audience. Secretary schultz, mrs. Schultz, pleasure it see you and you lend tremendous gaffe tas to this program. General spees, distinguished flag officers, general officers and mostly everybody here who is in the readiness business, i am honored to be speaking to a group of people and that would include i think everybody in this hanger deck who is part of that cadre of indiv
That was not able to stand. The team from the hospital that i was with and the other hospitals really looked at what were their hands on capabilities and some of the things that stood out the most is a portable oxygen generator that sits in the corner of the shock trauma platoon unit and doesnt have to be hooked up to our large liquid oxygen tanks and all that piping that might get disrupted during a major seismic event. Having something just that simple could make a huge difference. Maybe we were thinking small but just really direct hablds on patient care, there was a portable iv pump and fluid warmer that literally would fit in your hand and is Battery Powered. Anything thats portable and is Battery Powered will make a huge difference in the type of disasters were facing. We can leave it with the patient, move it with the patient, i know they have a whole list of other things they want and we have to take a lack at that and see what we can actually do. I do have one question and it
I found absolutely fascinating as a way to bring a real Life Experience to that individual. For me that was a fantastic tool that you have and i thought that was wonderful. Were going to be little advertisement were going to be demonstrating that capability at our display at the marina green so if youd like to come see that, thats available. Any final questions . Id like to thank our panelists very much. As rob mentioned earlier, the exercise series we have put on and started 3 years ago has really become, for the department of Emergency Management and we hope for the military, this foundational piece of the fleet week humanitarian exchange. Its been a wonderful way for us to Work Together on some of these common issues and figure out how our agencies are all going to integrate. I think the time and effort that has been expended by both the military planners and also the civilian planners is definitely going to be bearing fruit in years to come when something happens. I know we are qui
Load patients to other counties, to other states, to other areas in the country . Do your roads work . Do you have a transportation infrastructure, do you have a Communications Net up . No . We can bring that. We come as we are. We constantly prepare for the next major conflict. In the navy our motto is this is big navys motto a global force for good. We believe that we operate on a continuum of bringing heat and light. You are sitting on one of those platforms right now. You are sitting on this amazing lhd, the uss macon island, it can bring the heat or it can bring the light. Do you want to get a little twitchy around the world and you want to sort of rattle the cage a little bit and test our will and show bravado . You dont want an Amphibious Group showing up off your shore. That can be a bad day for you. On the other hand, wed like to bring the light. Wed like to bring the medical prowess, its ability to generate electricity for you, wed like to bring its cadre of people to rebuild
Something happens. I know we are quite a bit ahead of time, you are going to have a 20minute break from now and then our next speaker will come up at that point. Thank you again. He heads the baur row of medicine for the navy. I lacked at his bay oh in the program, educated in georgia and hes had a great career in the Navy Commanding several hospitals, winning several awards and his most recent command was as the commander of walter reed, and i was so glad that he was here to hear the panel that we had with our medical peer to peer exercise. And hes going to talk to us now about navy medicine. With that, please help me welcome vice admiral matthew nathan. applause . Thank you, general, very much. Well, its a pleasure here and im honored to be able to speak in front of such a distinguished audience. Secretary schultz, mrs. Schultz, pleasure it see you and you lend tremendous gaffe tas to this program. General spees, distinguished flag officers, general officers and mostly everybody here