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February 4, 2010 at 9:56am

200 Members of the 47th Combat Support Hospital return from Iraq Friday

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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - Members of the 47th Combat Support

Hospital will be reunited with their families at a ceremony currently

scheduled for 11 p.m. Friday at Soldiers Field House.

The 47th Combat Support Hospital deployed to Iraq in February 2009. Upon

arrival, the unit assumed control of the 1st Forward Surgical Medical

Detachment, operating three Level III hospitals near the cities of

Tikrit, Mosul, and Al Asad- providing surgical, nursing, and ancillary

care to military personnel throughout the northern and western portions

of the Iraqi theater of operations.

While deployed, 47th CSH personnel conducted 57,000 patient evaluations

or procedures, hosted the first-ever web-based tele-medicine consult

between its Mosul-based hospital and Brooke Army Medical Center in San

Antonio, Texas, and conducted clinical training with Iraqi military

forces, and at the Tikrit Teaching Hospital.

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Tabitha said on Feb. 04, 2010 at 1:04pm

OPSEC! Troop movement details should not be published anywhere! Why is the exact date and time of homecoming on this website? Come on, people!

Signed, Wife of an MI Officer

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RangerKen said on Feb. 05, 2010 at 10:30am

Yes, thanks for the concern. We NEVER print troop movements until they are officially released by Joint Base Lewis-McChord or the DoD (DA), etc... A release like this one is standard and only comes out one day before they touch down in the NW because they are long out of the war zone.

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