Medical team will work from mobile staging facility in Haiti Published Feb. 10, 2010 By Airman 1st Class Amber Kelly-Herard 375th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- Team Scott is continuing to provide relief in Haiti after the Jan. 12 earthquake that left the country devastated. A 13-person team from the 375th Medical Group will depart here to support Operation Unified Response by forming a Mobile Aeromedical Staging Facility. The team consists of four registered nurses, seven emergency medical technicians and one officer and one enlisted to provide administrative support. A two-person aeromedical evacuation communications team will join them in Haiti. "We will be caring for patients who were surgically or medically treated and need to be kept stable before moving to a hospital in the U.S.," said Lt. Col. Joann Frye with the 375th MDG. "We expect to be treating victims of the natural disaster and servicemembers who may have been injured while helping." The MASF team was notified of their deployment last week, and will be combining with other aeromedical evacuation teams and a U.S. Transportation Command team. "This will be a bare-base location with logistical issues, so there will not be an AAFES to purchase forgotten items, so we are thinking out-of-the-box to prepare," said Colonel Frye. Colonel Frye explained that this is different from most deployments because most deployed bases have hardened facilities. "We will have to bring 'MacGyver tools' because we never know what we will encounter," said Colonel Frye. Some of the tools they discussed bringing are 5/50 cord and clothespins to hang clothes and trash bags to wash clothes. They also plan on bringing as many undergarments and shirts as they can pack. The MASF team from Scott will be replacing a team from MacDill Air Force Base, Fla. "Air Mobility Command will be rotating their teams in and out to gain experience with this fairly new mission to learn about patient movement that we are not used to seeing," she said. "We are excited to use our skills, and everyone is highly motivated."