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Phil Gunby

JAMA. 1999;281:2079.

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Kernel Blitz, called the largest peacetime medical exercise in US Navy history, has come to a close in and around California. The seagoing phase involved a US Marine Corps landing at Camp Pendleton, with 618 simulated casualties treated on the hospital ship Mercy or other US Navy ships and in a field hospital ashore. Some 1470 medical personnel took part. In an earlier phase, US Navy medical teams supported marines undergoing urban warfare training in the Monterey, Calif, area.

The trauma hospital ship USNS Mercy steams off the coast of southern California during Exercise Kernel Blitz ‘99. Her mission is to provide acute medical and surgical care in support of US armed forces deployed to hostile areas anywhere in the world. (US Navy photo)

At the same time, cost constraints resulting from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) aerial campaign against Yugoslavia caused cancellation of this month's US . . . [Full Text of this Article]