At Sierra Army Depot, in the 4000-foot elevation high desert of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range, Army Medical units have assembled after being given five days’ notice that they were being evaluated in an Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise or EDRE. The 531st Hospital Center from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, was put on alert and instructed to pack personal deployment gear and head out the door. They were to rendezvous with subordinate units; to mobilize and establish a field hospital. The unit did not know their destination. All conditions were put in place for the event to simulate an actual deployment and allow the unit to exercise all the steps necessary to successfully provide critical medical support in a combat environment....
LANDSTUHL, Germany - The 7234th Medical Support Unit transferred authority of the Deployed Warrior Medical Management Center mission to the 7230th Medical Support Unit at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, on November 22, 2019.
