WEBVTT 00:00.400 --> 00:02.511 I'm Lieutenant Colonel Monique Battle 00:02.511 --> 00:04.567 of the stem , a medical group . I am 00:04.567 --> 00:06.733 the team chief of the IP PD team which 00:06.733 --> 00:08.289 stands for in place patient 00:08.289 --> 00:10.511 decontamination team . Today , we had a 00:10.511 --> 00:12.622 large scale uh mass exercise where we 00:12.622 --> 00:15.260 simulated a um explosion which released 00:15.270 --> 00:17.159 some chemicals and gasses such as 00:17.159 --> 00:19.326 chlorine . The whole purpose of the IP 00:19.326 --> 00:21.299 PD team is we are essentially the 00:21.309 --> 00:23.531 gatekeeper from keeping the entire base 00:23.531 --> 00:26.190 from being um contaminated with um said 00:26.200 --> 00:28.422 exposure as well as the medical group . 00:28.422 --> 00:30.422 So the medical group has a big role 00:30.422 --> 00:32.589 with caring for the these patients and 00:32.589 --> 00:34.756 getting them transferred out to higher 00:34.756 --> 00:36.867 echelons of care . Our exercise today 00:36.867 --> 00:38.922 composed of several teams , manpower 00:38.922 --> 00:41.089 security . Uh We need gay control , um 00:41.089 --> 00:43.959 crowd control as well as uh triage . So 00:43.970 --> 00:46.026 it's very um you know , structured , 00:46.026 --> 00:48.248 every person has a role . Essentially , 00:48.270 --> 00:50.400 I am a part of the decontamination uh 00:50.409 --> 00:54.080 area depending on what type of gas or 00:54.090 --> 00:56.201 chemicals is in the air and infecting 00:56.201 --> 00:58.312 the patient . This can very well go a 00:58.312 --> 01:00.257 little bit more uh chaotic , we'll 01:00.257 --> 01:02.368 clean the patient , make sure they're 01:02.368 --> 01:04.534 not having no any toxins on the body . 01:04.534 --> 01:06.534 We'll , we'll wash them we'll rinse 01:06.534 --> 01:08.701 them off . And then once that's done , 01:08.701 --> 01:10.923 we'll go ahead and pass it to the uh to 01:10.923 --> 01:12.979 the clean side , which is manpower . 01:12.979 --> 01:15.090 And we also have to make sure that we 01:15.090 --> 01:17.257 wash ourselves . So when we're passing 01:17.257 --> 01:16.769 the patient along , we're not 01:16.779 --> 01:18.835 recontaminating them . After washing 01:18.835 --> 01:20.959 the equipment is a very big part of 01:20.970 --> 01:23.137 what we do because we don't want to be 01:23.137 --> 01:25.192 contaminated . The main component is 01:25.192 --> 01:27.248 basically the Papper suit along with 01:27.248 --> 01:29.359 the suit , we have the hood , we also 01:29.359 --> 01:31.303 have boots and then there's also a 01:31.303 --> 01:33.248 battery pack . So we practice just 01:33.248 --> 01:32.769 trying to make sure that everyone 01:32.779 --> 01:34.557 understood what to do . I think 01:34.557 --> 01:36.390 everyone as a whole got a better 01:36.390 --> 01:38.446 understanding of what their position 01:38.446 --> 01:40.668 actually is and how it will work in the 01:40.668 --> 01:40.309 real world . There wasn't a lot of 01:40.319 --> 01:42.430 people . So of course , that makes it 01:42.430 --> 01:44.597 more difficult if this was to kick off 01:44.597 --> 01:46.879 our real world a of people live maybe 01:46.889 --> 01:49.309 an hour away and may not can get here 01:49.319 --> 01:51.319 in time . And so we have to use the 01:51.319 --> 01:53.430 resources that we have . So team work 01:53.430 --> 01:55.152 was definitely um there , I do 01:55.152 --> 01:57.041 appreciate that everybody working 01:57.041 --> 01:59.152 together even though it was confusing 01:59.152 --> 02:01.375 in the beginning of not knowing who was 02:01.375 --> 02:03.486 kind of doing what because this is as 02:03.486 --> 02:05.541 similar , which could very well turn 02:05.541 --> 02:05.389 into a real world event . So I want 02:05.400 --> 02:07.456 them to kinda know their role , know 02:07.456 --> 02:09.567 their responsibilities and how we fit 02:09.567 --> 02:11.900 into the whole . This is a plan for the , 02:11.900 --> 02:11.580 the base .