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In May 2001, the DiLorenzo clinic's tri-service staff participated in a simulation exercise for the possibility crash of a Boeing 757 airliner into the U.S. military's headquarters. Among the first medical personnel at the scene, they were involved in life-saving rescues and treatment. With support from teams from nearby military treatment facilities and civilian emergency workers, they quickly established triage and casualty treatment centers and ensured the availability of appropriate equipment and supplies. Navy Rear Adm. John Mateczun of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told U.S. Medicine, "I stand in awe of the work that went on, particularly by the men and women of the DiLorenzo clinic." Source: http://www.tricare.osd.mil/hero/hero0111.htm
(See TerrorExercises) In fact the first medical personnel at the pentagon scene on September 11th, came mostly from the Army's TriCare clinic on the ground level of the Pentagon's North. Air Force Surgeon General, Lt. Gen. Paul K. Carlton, who had been in the Pentagon for an Air Force Chief of Staff's conference...told U.S. MEDICINE that his team had run an exercise in May with a scenario in which a 757 crashes into the Pentagon. "We had worked out what would happen [and] what was needed," he said." Source: http://www.usmedicine.com/article.cfm?articleID=270&issueID=31