Members of Army Public Health Command Europe strengthened their partnership with sister-services in a U.S. Air Force led Public Health Emergency Management training exercise held at Ramstein Air Base, Nov. 24 to 28.
The five-day training event consisted of 40 active duty and civilian participants from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army and U.S. Navy from across the European theater.
“This is the first time that the training was held overseas,” said U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Mark Lehman, U.S. Air Force Command Public Health Officer and Health Promotion Consultant at the office of the Command Surgeon of the United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa. “It’s a Department of Defense requirement and we had some folks that weren’t trained up due to the pandemic and travel restrictions that we were able to have the instructors come out and train here.”
According to Lehman the course is usually for public health emergency and medical emergency officers only but they were able to open it up to more people due to it being local.
“We have participants from all over Europe in this course, it is a great chance for them to meet for the first time,” said Lehman. “Here in the Kaiserslautern Military Community we have services in multiple locations. Getting everyone together in this course is a stepping stone to build partnerships and leverage each other’s capabilities and strengths.”