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Interview: US Army Lt. Col. Matthew Koopmann shares a real-world MEDREX Angola case
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Matthew Koopmann, general and vascular surgeon with the 915th Forward Resuscitative Surgical Detachment, 313th Hospital Center, 2nd Medical Brigade, discusses a real-world emergency room case where U.S. Army Reserve medical professionals and Angolan Armed Forces worked together to
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U.S. Army Lt. Col. Matthew Koopmann, general and vascular surgeon with the 915th Forward Resuscitative Surgical Detachment, 313th Hospital Center, 2nd Medical Brigade, discusses a real-world emergency room case where U.S. Army Reserve medical professionals and Angolan Armed Forces worked together to stabilize a critically burned patient during the Angola Medical Readiness Exercise at Hospital Militar Principal, Luanda, Angola, Sept. 8, 2026. U.S. and Angolan medical professionals applied shared medical practices during the real-world emergency, strengthening readiness and interoperability at the Angola MEDREX. U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF) planned and executed the MEDREX, which brought 10 U.S. Army Reserve medical professionals together with Angolan counterparts for clinical collaboration and subject-matter expert exchanges. (U.S. Army video by Staff Sgt. Raquel Birk)
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