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HONOLULU \u2014 As the U.S. Army prepares for a possible fight in the Indo-Pacific<\/a> theater, combat<\/a> medical teams are seeing vast differences in what treating wounded personnel in the region would entail compared to recent conflicts<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back at previous wars, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military in 2009 implemented a \u201cGolden Hour\u201d standard, which requires medical care and evacuation to a surgical facility to occur within 60 minutes of a traumatic combat injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Indo-Pacific<\/a>, that might not be feasible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Army Lt. Col. Lauren Hamlin, commander of Veterinary Readiness Activity, Hawaii<\/a>, told Military Times that the region\u2019s distance, contested air and sea lines of communication, weather and limited evacuation platforms could greatly impact timely patient movement and access to surgical care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to possible evacuation, these challenges necessitate prolonged field care, forward surgical stabilization and medical support for patients, Hamlin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTherefore, the priority in the Pacific is building resilient medical capabilities, both personnel and equipment, that can operate effectively in austere, distributed and contested environments,\u201d Hamlin added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a medical care demonstration with the 18th Theater Medical Command<\/a> at the 2026 Land Forces of the Pacific Symposium and Exposition in Hawaii this month, Hamlin detailed how the Army\u2019s health care system has become more modular for decision making compared to past conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLook at battles back in Vietnam, like the old, huge MASH,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s really not the model. They want to have lots of options.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Indo-Pacific, the problem set is different. Medical teams have various locations where they need to be able to set up shop, which requires different capabilities for different islands or spaces, Hamlin said. Commanders, meanwhile, need to have various options to make decisions based on the location\u2019s risk level, she added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamlin listed distance, island geography, limited infrastructure, contested logistics and delayed evacuation timelines as difficulties posed by the region, each of which will cause combat medics to find ways to mitigate challenges creatively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solutions include realistic prolonged care training, forward-positioned capability, interoperability with joint and partner forces and cross-training medical teams to \u201cdo more with limited manpower and equipment,\u201d Hamlin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan saw the survival rate of combat wounded climb significantly to around 92%, according to the Army<\/a>, making it the highest rate in the history of warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The <\/b>increased number of soldiers surviving injuries has been attributed to better training, the advancement of Army medicine and the \u201cGolden Hour\u201d policy<\/a>, despite dealing with unique injuries from new variations of weaponry such as landmines or improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the simulation, Hamlin noted that it would be more accurate to compare a fight in the Indo-Pacific theater to that of World War II, rather than counterinsurgency operations seen in Iraq and Afghanistan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not having isolated incidents. We\u2019re not having rockets shot at us from 20 miles away [where insurgents are], just kind of hoping to hit something,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is more like army on army, so I would argue it would be a very different injury rate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another complication, according to Hamlin, is air superiority. Unlike during the Global War on Terror, medical teams will likely be unable to move a patient to higher levels of care without immense threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamlin said the combat medical community needs to come up with creative solutions to withstand the patient backload before being able to move wounded to another facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of those explored solutions has come in the form of joining veterinary services<\/a> with human care, Hamlin said, as the community is \u201cworried that that\u2019s all that\u2019s going to be\u201d available in the expansive Indo-Pacific region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drone Warfare<\/b><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As unmanned systems become increasingly advanced and integrated within militaries across the globe, autonomy is shifting how the military retrieves and transports casualties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drones pose a risk to patient evacuations, Hamlin said, and in turn increase the need for autonomous patient evacuation capabilities in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamlin told Military Times that unmanned aircraft systems can improve situational awareness, deliver blood or medical supplies and support triage across dispersed casualty sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a mass casualty scenario, for instance, drones can assist combat medics with moving critical supplies faster than ground assets and reduce the risk to manned platforms in contested areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike in Europe \u2014 specifically Ukraine \u2014 the Pacific poses a unique challenge in that there is no scenario in which a medical unit would place patients on a train or drive them out for evacuation, Hamlin said during the demo. The ability for prolonged care is a necessity, considering the Pacific\u2019s reliance on air and boats for transport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Combat medics operate on a mock patient in a Forward Resuscitative Surgical Detachment tent during a demonstration at LANPAC on May 13, 2026. (Military Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At LANPAC, the 8th Forward Resuscitative and Surgical Detachment demonstrated a care simulation on a cut suit in what would serve as a surgical unit aboard a vessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe model this on a vessel because that would be the evac route,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cYou would have to use boats or ships to move patients because we\u2019re not sure if we\u2019re going to be able to fly them out in mass.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To carry patients, the team has been utilizing autonomous small multipurpose equipment transports, or SMETs, uncrewed, eight-wheeled robotic combat vehicles guided with a remote control, Staff Sgt. William Dean, detachment sergeant of the 8th FRSD, said during the demo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alongside the SMETs, medical personnel are experimenting using other products that allow them to input grid coordinates to move patients to specific locations, like Ukraine has been doing. This development, Dean said, would be a \u201chuge win.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine\u2019s military, which has increasingly used unmanned systems<\/a> in frontline<\/a> combat, has also been ramping up the use of unmanned ground vehicles in high-risk areas for casualty evacuations to remove the exposure of medical teams to hostile fire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team is also looking into telemedicine-enabled systems, autonomous resupply and medical decision tools supported by artificial intelligence, Hamlin told Military Times, with the goal of increasing reach, reducing personnel risk and sustaining care when movement is delayed or dangerous. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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