Operation Capital Medic – Leading the way for medical readiness
Operation Capital Medic – Leading the way for medical readiness Operation Capital Medic, a medical readiness mission held at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital for over a year now, is increasing the readiness of service members in the Washington, DC area. It is estimated that about 5000 Reserve and National Guard Soldiers live in the Washington, DC area, and Army Reserve Medical Command’s 7250th Medical Support Unit has provided medical and dental services to nearly 1500 of them, helping them get off the red list one Soldier at a time.
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Seattle doctor joins America's Army Reserve at age 51
Newly commissioned Lt. Col. Stephen Bayles, M.D., F.A.C.S, is congratulated by Maj. Richard Smith, Seattle Medical Recruiting Station officer-in-charge. Bayles, will be with the 1888th Head and Neck Medical Detachment, 807th Medical Command (Deployment Support), Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. Bayles has been practicing medicine for more than two decades as an otolaryngologist (Ear, Nose and Throat doctor). He specializes in head and neck cancer and reconstructive surgery, which he was partly inspired to pursue following his mother’s battle with neck cancer. (U.S. Army photo by Lorelei Harris/U.S. Army Recruiting Command)
March 11, 2019 - Service involves sacrifice — a fact of which Lt. Col. Stephen Bayles, M.D., F.A.C.S., has been aware his entire life. “Everybody in my family did duty time,” Lt. Col. Bayles said. “My grandfather ultimately retired as a brigadier general after being a pilot in World War II and Korea. He was a prisoner of war and survived a 600-mile winter death march in WWII.”
Injured Army Reserve Soldier finds new hill to conquer
U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Eddie Cordero laughs after a fall while learning to snowboard at a Vermont ski resort in December 2018. (Photo courtesy U.S. Army Spc. Eddie Cordero)
Feb. 28, 2019 - U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Eddie Cordero soldiered on through the pain of injuring his back and neck during a deployment to Afghanistan in 2017. Once he returned to Fort Bliss, Texas after his deployment, he knew he needed to do something about it. Fortunately, he learned about the Army’s Warrior Transition Units and what they do for wounded, ill and injured Soldiers and ultimately decided it was a path he needed to take.
ARMEDCOM and Winn Army Community Hospital: Building readiness for the Total Force
Staff Sgt. Robert Gates, a practical nursing specialist assigned to support the 7226th Medical Support Unit, based out of Fort Jackson, South Carolina, works with Capt. Daniel Johnson, a health service administration officer assigned to Winn Army Community Hospital, in the vitals section on Dec. 12, as part of the medical Soldier Readiness Processing mission at Mower Processing Center on Fort Stewart, Georgia. Functionally aligned to U.S. Army Medical Command, ARMEDCOM is uniquely capable of simultaneously providing military hospital and clinic expansion, augmentation, blood donor services, dental and veterinary services while remaining postured to provide assistance to civil authorities during an emergency or disaster. Medical personnel from Winn Army Community Hospital were key to ensuring ARMEDCOM units were equipped and ready to execute their training mission at Fort Stewart, Georgia.
Dec. 28, 2018 - Army Reserve formations around the world are charged with building and maintaining individual and collective readiness. For Army Reserve Medical Command units, this means focusing on medical capabilities. Not just maintaining individual medical readiness and Military Occupational Specialties, but medical readiness for the Total Force.
ARMEDCOM answers the call for medical readiness
Army Reserve Medical Command Soldiers with the 7250th Medical Support Unit, from Alexandria, Virginia, provide medical care for Sgt. Maj. Susan Rivera and her fellow Soldiers as part of Operation Capital Medic. Operation Capital Medic, an initiative to maintain Soldier’s individual medical readiness, is hosted in partnership between Army Reserve Medical Command personnel and the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital. The initiative has assisted more than 1500 Soldiers to become medically deployable since August of 2017.
Nov. 26, 2018 - One of the challenges the Army Reserve faces as an essential force-provider is increasing both individual and unit readiness in order to be able to rapidly deploy when the Nation calls. Medical readiness is an essential piece to each Soldier's deployability, and remains a top priority within the Army Reserve.
7413th Troop Medical Clinic provides care for Fort Bliss Soldiers
Spc. Adam Garner, a preventive medicine specialist for the 7413th Troop Medical Clinic, El Paso, Texas, prepares a water sample for bacteriological analysis to determine if the water harbors contagions, Fort Bliss Oct. 24. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Christopher A. Hernandez/Mobilization and Deployment Brigade, DPTMS Fort Bliss)
Nov. 1, 2018 - The aid station of the McGregor Range Complex, Fort Bliss, Texas, manned by Army Reserve Soldiers of the 7413th Troop Medical Clinic, El Paso, Texas, manages and facilitates medical care and prevention for Soldiers training and rotating through here.
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