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BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – Current operations in Afghanistan are a joint effort by service members of the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force as well as coalition forces from various countries, operating together to ensure Afghanistan is a safe and sovereign country.
Medical operations throughout the country are no different and senior military medical officials from the U.S. and the United Kingdom visited medical units throughout Afghanistan to assess the advances and challenges being faced in the medical community while in a deployed environment, and to have a chance to talk with service members from their respective services.
“I think it is very important for us as we’re moving further and further toward a joint medical community that the surgeons general come out here and see, number one, where the advances are, but also number two, where the roadblocks are so that they can apply their pressure and their input to try and fix some of these system challenges that have been facing everybody for a long time,” said U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Brian Lein, U.S. Forces Command, command surgeon.
The surgeons general team consisted of: Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Matthew Nathan, Surgeon General of the U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Charles Green, United Kingdom Surgeon General Vice Adm. Philip Raffaelli and U.S. Army Deputy Surgeon General Maj. Gen. Richard Stone as well as their respective senior enlisted advisers.
The whirlwind tour visited medical facilities in Regional Commands East, South and South-west over several days, and the generals and their senior leaders made it a point to engage with the servicemembers during their tours of the different medical facilities.
| Date Taken: | 04.25.2012 |
| Date Posted: | 04.25.2012 01:06 |
| Story ID: | 87276 |
| Location: | BAGRAM AIR FIELD, AF |
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