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Hospitalman Anthony Rodriguez (right), surgical technologist assigned to Expeditionary Resuscitative Surgical System (ERSS) 5 from Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Guam, hands a surgical instrument to Lt. Cmdr. Cameron Paterson (left), general surgeon assigned to ERSS 5 from NMRTC Pearl Harbor, as Lt. Oluwakemi Mogaji, (center), assigned to ERSS 5 from NMRTC Guam, assists in a simulated field surgery during an Expeditionary Resuscitative Surgical System (ERSS) course conducted at the Naval Expeditionary Medicine Warfighter Development Center (NEMWDC), June 16, 2026. The evolution prepares the ERSS team to perform life-saving damage control surgery in austere, operational environments. The skill of the hospital corpsman as a surgical assistant is critical to the team’s success, enabling advanced medical intervention and increasing survivability on the battlefield. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Trevin Perry)
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