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Command surgeon hosts joint task force medical seminar

U.S. Joint Forces Command's command surgeon hosted the 13th annual Joint Task Force Senior Medical Leader Seminar at the Joint Forces Staff College last week focused on integration and team building in the joint medical environment. Robert Pursell has the story.

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Narrated by Robert Pursell, USJFCOM Public Affairs
Featuring: Rear Adm. Gregory Timberlake, USJFCOM's command surgeon

Pursell:  U.S. Joint Forces Command’s command surgeon hosted the 13th annual Joint Task Force Senior Medical Leader Seminar here last week focused on operational health care requirements of the joint task force.

The seminar, which took place at the Joint Forces Staff College, centered on developing and improving the knowledge and skills required of the JTF surgeon.  It stressed integration, teamwork and team building in the joint medical environment.

Rear Adm. Gregory Timberlake, USJFCOM's command surgeon, explained the reason behind the event.

Rear Adm. Gregory Timberlake: "We’ve had this increasing emphasis on preparing joint task force headquarters and the medical community grows up in our own service stovepipes.  And when we go to a joint task force we have to be sure that we can operate jointly."

Pursell:  Timberlake said there is currently no specific requirement for medical personnel to undergo the kind of joint training that other military communities go through.  This was an opportunity to provide senior enlisted officers who are coming from a service operational billet and going to a JTF headquarters with the training they will need.

For more information on this and other ways U.S. Joint Forces Command is supporting the warfighter, visit us on the web at www.jfcom.mil.

For U.S. Joint Forces Command, I’m Robert Pursell.