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New Horizons medical personnel provide emergency

assistance in mass casualty

Capt. David Murphy

1st Combat Camera Squadron

TRUJILLO, Honduras -- U.S. Air Force medical personnel treated mass U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. David J. Murphy
causality incident victims at the Dr. Salvador Parades Hospital in Trujillo,
Honduras, Aug. 10. U.S. Air Force medical personnel work hand in hand with Honduran doctors to perform an emergency
surgical procedure on a Honduran Army soldier with the 15th Battalion at the Dr. Salvador Paredes
The incident involved 14 Honduran army soldiers from the 15th Battalion Hospital, August 10. The Honduran solider was one of 13 involved in an explosion at his base. The
who were injured in an explosion at their base said a Honduran army official. medical personnel are in Honduras as part of the New Horizons Honduras 2015 training exercise. New
Horizons was launched in the 1980s and is an annual joint humanitarian assistance exercise that U.S.
The medical personnel, who were in country to provide support for the Southern Command conducts with a partner nation in Central America, South America or the Carib-
New Horizons Honduras 2015 training exercise, performed surgery on bean. The exercise improves joint training readiness of U.S. and partner nation civil engineers, medical
one injured soldiers and treated 10 others. One of the soldiers died on the professionals and support personnel through humanitarian assistance activities.
scene while two others, who had injuries that couldn’t be treated locally,
were flown to a hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. See NEW HORIZONS, Page 29

The U.S. Air Force Airmen who responded to the incident were Maj.
Ryan Jones, 56th Medical Operations Squadron general surgeon out of
Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Maj. Frederick Grois, 779th Medical Opera-
tions Squadron anesthesiologist out of Joint Base Andrews, Md., and Maj.
Chol Kim, 88th Aerospace Medical Squadron physician assistant out
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

“The patient who appeared to be the most severe was triaged and taken
to the operating room and received an exploratory laparotomy and as well
as an exploration of the femoral vessel,” said Jones.

The medical team, which had recently ended regular work at the hospital
and were waiting to head back to the U.S., performed more than 100 sur-
geries, both routine and emergency, on local Hondurans throughout the

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