ASEAN defense ministers host disaster relief, military medicine exercise

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations [ASEAN] defense ministers’ annual meeting took a major step forward this year, launching its first Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief [HADR] program and Military Medicine [MM] Joint Exercise [HADR/MM].

The ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting Plus [ADMM-Plus] includes defense ministers from the 10 member states of the ASEAN as well as China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, India, the United States and Russia. The meeting is the highest-level official multilateral security mechanism on defense affairs in the Asia-Pacific region.

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia -- Service members from the Republic of Indonesia, alongside 56 members of the U.S. military kicked-off the second iteration of Operation Pacific Angel 2013 here, April 22.
Operation Pacific Angel 13-2, scheduled through April 27, is a joint-combined humanitarian assistance operation to support U.S. Pacific Command's and Pacific Air Forces' capacity-building efforts with Asia-Pacific countries.

History of Military Medicine

Over the last 150 years, new surgical techniques, powerful painkillers, antibiotic drugs, and speedy triage and evacuation procedures have revolutionized military medicine. In this quiz, archival photos capture soldiers and doctors on and off the battlefield as well as the tools they used to practice combat medicine.

FAREWELL

Dear colleagues

By the end of my tenure for retirement, on behalf of TNI, I personally and family would like to thank for  a wonderful cooperation, dedicated and supported that had given during my time as a  Head of TNI Surgeon General.

I would like to take this opportunity to bid farewell to all of you and express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to my colleagues. It has been a great pleasure working with you all.

Best wishes to you all.

Yours Sincerely

Mariono Reksoprodjo, MD

AVM Marshall

1st National Course Loac in Indonesia

 

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