MILITARY MEDICINE, 165,
Suppl.
1, 2000
Tactical Management of Urban Warfare Casualties in
Special Operations
Guarantor:
CAFT
Frank K. Butler, Jr., MC USN*
Contributors:
CAPT
Frank K. Butler, Jr., MC USN*, LTC John H.
Hagmann,
MC
USA?,
David T. Richards,
PhD+
Panelists
Lt
Co1
Robert Allen
Lt
Co1
Allen is an emergency physician currently serving as the
Senior Medical Officer for the 24th Special Tactics Squadron at
the Air Force Special Operations Command. He is a Flight Sur-
geon and one of only two Diving Medical Officers in the Air Force.
He is the head medical officer for Special Operations Pararescue
and has extensive field experience in this area.
CAPT Frank K. Butler
CAPT
Butler is a Navy ophthalmologist and diving medical
officer. For the past 10 years, he has been the Director of Bio-
medical Research for the Naval Special Warfare Command.
CAFT
Butler has served previously as a platoon commander in
the Navy Underwater Demolition and SEAL (Sea/Air/Land com-
mando) teams. He also spent 5 years as a Diving Medical Re-
search officer at the Navy Experimental Diving Unit. CAPT But-
ler was the Chief of Ophthalmology at the Naval Hospital
Pensacola before assuming his current duties at the Naval Spe-
cial Warfare Command. He also serves as an ophthalmic con-
sultant to the Divers Alert Network.
Dr. Howard R. Champion
Dr. Howard Champion is the Director of the Research Pro-
gram in Trauma at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. He
is also Professor of Surgery, Senior Advisor in Trauma, and
Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Mary-
land. Dr. Champion is an internationally recognized trauma
surgeon, critical care specialist, educator, and author. Dr.
Champion has written over 200 reviewed articles and book
chapters and serves on the editorial board and as a consultant
reviewer for numerous medical publications. Dr. Champion was
one of the first Trauma Fellows at the Maryland Institute for
Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS) in 1972 and
subsequently became the Assistant Clinical Director of
MIEMSS. He directed and developed the Surgical Critical Care
*Director of Biomedical Research, Naval Special Warfare Command, Detachment
Pensacola, Naval Hospital, Pensacola, FL 32512.
tMedical
Director, Casualty Care Research Center, Uniformed Services University
of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814.
$Casualty
Care Research Center, Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814.
Conducted at the 1998 Meeting of the Special Operations Medical Association,
Tampa, FL, 7 December 1998.
sis
workshop was supported by a grant from the U.S. Special Operations Com-
mand Medical Technolom Develoument program [Biomedical R&D Task 1 l-97.)
The opinions and
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both
iheparticipants
in this workshop and the
editors of the workshop proceedings are theirs alone and do not necessarily reflect the
views of their respective services or the Department of Defense.
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Surgeons of U.S., 2000.
and Trauma Services at the Washington Hospital Center, the
MEDSTAR Trauma Unit, the MEDSTAR Helicopter Program, as
well as the Trauma Surgical Training Program for military res-
idents and fellows. Dr. Champion is a Fellow of the Royal College
of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the American College of Surgeons,
and the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. He has
served on the Board of Managers of the American Association for
Surgery and the Executive Committee of the American College of
Surgeons Committee on Trauma.
LTC Cliff Cloonan
LTC Cloonan is a former Special Forces 18 Delta medic. He is
also a registered nurse and an emergency medicine physician.
LTC Cloonan is currently the Dean of the Joint Special Opera-
tions Medical Training Center
LTC John
Hagmann
LTC Hagmann is an emergency physician who is currently the
Medical Director of the Casualty Care Research Center at the
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Be-
thesda, Maryland. He has extensive experience in providing
medical support and training to various Special Operations and
federal law enforcement organizations.
LTC John Holcomb
LTC John Holcomb is an Army general surgeon with a special
interest in trauma. He has deployed numerous times with Spe-
cial Operations forces as a trauma surgeon. He was formerly the
Chief of Military Trauma Research at the Army Institute for
Surgical Research in San Antonio and is now the Military Direc-
tor of the Tri-Service Trauma Training Program at Ben Taub in
Houston. LTC Holcomb was one of two trauma surgeons in
Mogadishu during the time of the Battle of the Black Sea and
performed life-saving surgical procedures for 36 consecutive
hours after the engagement.
COL Craig H. Llewellyn
COL Llewellyn is a preventive medicine specialist with vast
experience in Special Operations medicine, He is the immediate
Past President of the Special Operations Medical Association.
During his 24 years of active duty in the Army he served as the
Group Surgeon with the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam.
COL Llewellyn was also the Manager of the Combat Casualty
Care Research Program for the Army Surgeon General, the Com-
mander of the U.S. Army Biomedical Laboratory at the Aberdeen
Proving Ground, and the Commandant of Students at the Uni-
formed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is cur-
rently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Military
and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University
of the Health Sciences.
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