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Medics make do on front lines

Dec-23-2005 » Filed Under: 172nd SBCT

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By MARGARET FRIEDENAUER, News-Miner

MOSUL, Iraq--Maj. Julie Tullberg is a pediatrician who usually can be found on Fort Wainwright Army Post keeping office hours at Bassett Army Community Hospital. Normally, she sees patients under the age of 16 with complaints like the sniffles and broken bones.

These days, however, her office is in a modest aid station in Iraq and her patients are adults with maladies such as gunshot and shrapnel wounds.

"The weird thing for me is I'm treating all the dads of my patients," she said.

Tullberg is one of three medical personnel from Fairbanks stationed at Camp Freedom Aid Station on Forward Operating Base Courage in Mosul. She is deployed with the 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Ky., but attached to the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat team. Capt. Bob Hillman, a physician assistant, and lab technician Spc. Jason Tonn are also deployed here with the brigade along with six other medical staffers.

There are two aid stations on Courage. One is specifically for the soldiers of the 1st Battalion and 2nd Infantry Regiment. But the Freedom Aid Station treats all battle wounds and traumas along with other soldiers and civilian and Iraqi employees on base. Hillman said only the Combat Army Surgical Hospital in south Mosul sees more trauma cases in the northern region of Iraq. [...]


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