{"id":135816,"date":"2025-08-11T02:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135816\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T02:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:13:10","slug":"dvids-news-7457th-medical-operational-readiness-unit-facilitates-augments-eastern-phoenix-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135816\/","title":{"rendered":"DVIDS – News – 7457th Medical Operational Readiness Unit facilitates, augments Eastern Phoenix 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n FORT GORDON, Ga. \u2013 Thirty-nine Army Reserve Soldiers of the Richmond, Virginia-based 7457th Medical Operational Readiness Unit collaborated alongside their Active Component counterparts during the Eastern Phoenix 2025 training exercise held in between the Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Fort Gordon, Georgia, and Bush Field at the Augusta Regional Airport in Augusta, Georgia, from July 29, 2025, through August 9, 2025.<\/p>\n

The annual training exercise is led by Medical Readiness Command, East in tandem with the 7457th MORU, and its brigade-level echelon, the Staten Island, Fort Wadsworth, New York-based Northeast Medical Area Readiness Support Group to prepare and train Soldiers in large-scale patient reception influxes, triage, medical care and hospital bed expansion in a simulated large-scale combat operations environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cEastern Phoenix is a global training mission which we partner with the active-duty component to come and backfill the medical treatment facility here to augment the staff in the event of a LSCO mission in which we have an influx, then need to do a bed capacity expansion at Eisenhower and other MTFs,\u201d said Army Reserve Lt. Col. Jason Williams, an emergency room nurse and deputy commander of nursing for the 7457th MORU. \u201cWe\u2019re here to augment the staff to assist with the bed expansion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams said Eastern Phoenix 2025 is advantageous to readiness and interoperability due to the progressive shift in operating tempo. Moreover, he said it is imperative to train in alignment with the U.S. Army Medical Department\u2019s third, fourth and fifth roles in the battlefield \u2013 respectively, combat support hospitals, general hospitals and Contiguous United States-based hospitals.<\/p>\n

\u201cTraining at Eisenhower with the Eastern Phoenix mission is very important because with the optempo change in the war as well as large-scale contingency operations, we need to be able to fight here on the ground and different levels: Level Three, Level Four and this Level Five,\u201d Williams said. \u201cWe are actually CONUS in the fixed facility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Army Reserve Capt. Tina Figueroa, a critical care nurse for the 7457th MORU, said the Reserve Component integration provides better staffing and support to cover the AMEDD first role of point-of-injury care and the second role of battalion aid stations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re taking the MORU and putting us into a Role Three, freeing up the assets to then deploy to a Role One and Role Two situation \u2013 treating patients and treating Soldiers,\u201d Figueroa said. \u201cAnd if they need more care, then they will be headed over to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the facilitation and augmentation process in Eastern Phoenix 2025, a handful of Soldiers of the 7457th MORU took the initiative in improving certain processes of the Eisenhower MTF.<\/p>\n

Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Andrew Lutz, an operating room specialist with the 7457th MORU, said he and his Soldiers established a precedent in operational flow while giving his team a clear sense of direction and purpose.<\/p>\n

\u201cI helped streamline the process here at the sterile processing department by giving some direction and insight through my experience,\u201d said Lutz. \u201cA lot of the Soldiers here didn\u2019t have a full process of going from Point A to Point B to Point C, and I worked at a couple of different facilities and kind of bringing the insight of \u2018Hey, you should have a point here\u2019 where someone can take on these specific roles, direction, the wealth of information and being able to direct it a little bit better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat our juniors should take away from this is that when you go back to your unit and your regular civilian job, that we have a better understanding of how to facilitate larger casualty events,\u201d Lutz said. \u201cMost civilian medical centers don\u2019t practice this or don\u2019t have an understanding of it; it\u2019s a unique experience to us in the military.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo bring that knowledge back to our civilian medical counterparts, we become a pretty big asset to them in those events because they never really experienced this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Army Capt. Christopher Johns, the clinical nurse officer in charge of the intensive care unit for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center said the incorporation of Reserve Component Soldiers are drawn from lessons learned from prior Eastern Phoenix iterations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith this exercise, it\u2019s been a lot smoother, especially in the setup. They were also an integral part in setting up and getting ready in receiving the patients.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johns said the 7457th MORU not only contributed to the overall exercise, but they were instrumental in the amplification of processes in routine hospital operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cAside from helping to get ready to receiving a large number of patients for the exercise, they\u2019ve actually been really helpful in our day-to-day patient care,” said Johns. “They jumped in, helped out with taking care of our current patients, so we\u2019re really appreciative to have them help out with that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eastern Phoenix 2025 is supplemented this year with the Eastern Phoenix Emergency Operations Center, or EOC, exercise in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, supported and staffed by Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, NE-MARSG, from July 29, 2025, through August 10, 2025. <\/p>\n


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