Kilo sailors hone expeditionary medical skills in 3-day Camp Lejeune exercise
Tue, July 7, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Photo By Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin Woods | Lieutenant Commander Michael Feroli, left, assigned to Expeditionary Medical Facility Kilo, performs an abdominal ultrasound on a simulated casualty during a training at the NMCCL <a href="https://healthylife7.com/saber-healthcare-acquires-27-skilled-nursing-facilities-across-3-states-from-ciena/” title=”Saber Healthcare Acquires 27 Skilled Nursing Facilities Across 3 States from Ciena “>Healthcare Simulation and Bioskills Center, on June 23, 2026. EMF-Kilo is the expeditionary readiness platform attached to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Lejeune and is comprised of approximately hundreds of personnel ready to deploy field hospital capabilities during humanitarian or combat mission. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class Justin Woods)
Sailors assigned to Expeditionary Medical Facility Kilo strengthened their expeditionary medical capabilities during a three-day training exercise at Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune, according to the medical center
The training took place June 22-24 at NMCCL’s Healthcare Simulation and Bioskills Center. It combined classroom instruction with hands-on medical scenarios and ended with an integrated casualty receiving exercise involving Medical Battalion’s En Route Care and Patient Evacuation Team
This evolution combined knowledge, skills and abilities with patient scenarios to hone the communication and teamwork our personnel will need to have in any austere environment,” said Lt. Cmdr. Claire-Marie Vidrine, command training officer for EMF-Kilo.
Officials said the realistic scenarios were designed to strengthen communication, coordination and teamwork needed for expeditionary patient care
Lt. Cmdr. Justin Frisenda, an osteopathic surgeon with NMCCL, said the training allowed corpsmen, nurses and physicians across multiple specialties to practice receiving casualties, providing resuscitative care, stabilizing patients and preparing them for transport to the next level of care
The training also focused on documentation and administrative processes used in expeditionary medicine, where electronic medical records may not be available
Hospitalman Apprentice Michaiah Walker , assigned to Expeditionary Medical Facility Kilo, draws blood from a simulated casualty during a training at the NMCCL Healthcare Simulation and Bioskills Center, on June 23, 2026. EMF-Kilo is the expeditionary readiness platform attached to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Lejeune and is comprised of approximately hundreds of personnel ready to deploy field hospital capabilities during humanitarian or combat mission. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class Justin Woods)
Frisenda said the exercise introduced many junior sailors to specialized procedures and equipment they may encounter during deployments, including cricothyroidotomy and Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta
EMF-Kilo officials said they hope to conduct similar simulation training quarterly to keep medical teams ready to provide care wherever the mission requires
EMF-Kilo is the expeditionary readiness platform attached to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Lejeune and includes hundreds of personnel prepared to deploy field hospital capabilities during humanitarian or combat missions
