Sailors recognized for assembling the first En-Route Care Systems

ByBobbieCamp

Naval Medical Forces Atlantic

WILLIAMSBURG, Va Biomedical technicians, logistics and retail service specialists from across the Navy Medicine enterprisehavebeenattheforefrontforthe assembly of the U.S. Navy’s first En-Route Care System (ERCS) and Expeditionary Resuscitative Surgical System (ERSS) designs at Naval Medical Readiness Logistics Command (NMRLC) Williamsburg on board Naval Weapons Station Yorktown-Cheatham Annex, March 3.

Sailors from Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Bethesda, Bremerton, Pensacola, Portsmouth,SanDiego,CampLejeuneandExpeditionaryMedicalFacility(EMF)Julietwere on temporary additional duty to perform critical functions including disposition of obsolete material inventory maintenance andreassignmentofmedicalequipment

“Yourjobhereissoimportant,”saidRear Adm. Matthew Case commander Naval Medical Forces Atlantic (NMFL) and director, Tidewater Market. “We have the equipment ready, on the books and on the shelves in the warehouse to support our operational mission.”

The team’s efforts provided an accelerated production timeline that will play an important role in providing prepositioned medical assets to combatant commanders andtheatrecommandersaroundtheworld in support of service members and allies, and to also provide humanitarian efforts and disaster relief

“Weneedtobepreparedtomovepatients with smaller, portable units,” explained NMFL Deputy Commander Capt. Carolyn Rice “And in having these kits ready, getting them to the places that they need to go is going to be crucial.”

The team completed maintenance actions and certified for use 233 lifesav- ing pieces of equipment dispositioned 30,185items with2,480itemshavingbeen redistributed to other platform builds and 40,209 items have been spot-inventoried.

NFMLleadershipparticipatedinaquestion-and-answersession,metwithpersonnel during a warehouse tour, took group photos and presented coins to recognize top performing Sailors “What you all have done here is exciting to see,” concluded Case “I just wanted to come out and say thank you.

NMRLC, headquartered in Williamsburg,managesthewarehouseandproduction facilities that procures, produces, manages, prepositions, and deploys expeditionary medical systems and EMFs in support of operational plans, exercise support, and real-world operations These deployable systems provide combatant commanders’ desired capabilities regardingstandardized,modular scalablecombat service support and medical/dental capa- bilities to an advanced-base environment across the entire range of joint military operations NMFL, headquartered in Portsmouth, Virginia, delivers operationally focused medical expertise and capabilities to meet Fleet,MarineandJointForcerequirements by providing equipment, sustainment and maintenance of medical forces during combatoperationsandpublichealthcrisis NMFLprovidesoversightfor21NMRTCs logistics and public health and dental services throughout the U.S. East Coast, U.S.GulfCoast,Cuba,Hawaii,Europe,and the Middle East.

Navy Medicine represented by more than 44,000 highly-trained military and civilian health care professionals provides enduring expeditionary medical support to the warfighter on, below, and above the sea, and ashore.