Director Lee Guk-jong Leads ‘Forward Surgical Team’ Training in North West Islands Defense Exercise

While the North West Island Defense Command conducted island defense training in the first half of the year around the North West Islands from the 8th to the 10th, Director Lee Guk-jong at the Daejeon Armed Forces Hospital participated in it the ‘Surgical Team Practice Forward’ training for the first time. The concept is that when a military casualty occurs, medical personnel are dispatched to perform surgery and evacuate the patient on site.

The North West Island Defense Command announced on the 10th that they conducted island defense training in the first half of the year, training to prepare for enemy provocation, with support from the Army, Navy, and Air Force participating. in the North West Island area for three days starting on the 8th. The photo shows Director Lee Guk-jong from Daejeon Hospital of the Armed Forces conducting first aid training for the people who are seriously injured during the island defense training in the first half of the year. /Marine Corps Command

According to the Marine Corps, Director Lee established a new ‘Forward Surgical Team (FST)’ after taking office last December. FST aims to set up an on-site operation room within 1 hour and 30 minutes by deploying military doctors, nursing officers and medical officers to the operating area.

The military expects FST to play a key role in the northwestern islands, which lack medical facilities. When the North Korean military launches a local provocation, such as a landing on the North West Islands, it is expected that there will be casualties among our troops, and it is difficult to provide quick treatment in the Islands North West, which has no medical infrastructure. Yeonpyeong Island does not have a single private hospital or pharmacy. A military official said, “FST was a concept that did not exist in our military, but I understand that it was an experimental look at the US military concept as part of the various efforts by the director of the Lee Guk-jong hospital to develop them. military medical system.”

Director Lee is said to have participated in actual training during the training period and directed the process of conducting field surgery and transporting emergency patients. Director Lee said, “The main purpose of this training is to master the process of organically bringing together medical forces on the ground and in the air to form the ultimate base to the spear-point forces that defend the territory of the Republic of Korea. waters.” The Marine Corps reported that he said that.

Lee Guk-jong, the new director of the Armed Forces Daejeon Hospital, answers questions from reporters during a visit to the Ministry of National Defense press room in Yongsan-gu, Seoul last December. / great news

Director Lee has been interested in military medical issues in the North West Islands since the past. In 2013, when he was the director of the trauma center in South Gyeonggi province, he established a medical aid cooperation system with the Marine Corps, saying that it was not possible to evacuate any emergency patients during the bombing of the island. Yeonpyeong. In 2019, in a situation where passenger ships were unable to operate due to a strong wind and wind advisory being issued, a ‘doctor helicopter’ was launched to carry out joint training assumed that the Marine Corps had a very serious patient situation, and said, “If our Marines are injured by enemy incitement in the northwestern islands, everything to good.”

The North West Island Defense Command announced on the 10th that they have been organizing island defense training in the first half of the year with the participation of support personnel from the Army, Navy and Air Force. the North West Island area from the 8th. Tank fire during island defense training. /Marine Corps Command

At the same time, in this training, the Marine Corps accepted contingencies that could occur in the islands and waters of the northwest, starting with the increasing level of the troops , operations to prevent enemy landing operations (targeted operations ashore), naval gunnery training, casualty handling training. , sea and air reinforcement training and evacuation and evacuation training were conducted.