RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Japanese civilian and US military interaction in the evacuation of casualties from Camp Fuji JF Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps JO J R Army Med Corps FD British Medical Journal Publishing Group SP jramc-2019-001247 DO 10.1136/jramc-2019-001247 A1 Youichi Yanagawa A1 Y Oode A1 Y Adegawa A1 K-i Muramatsu A1 Y Kushida A1 H Nagasawa A1 I Takeuchi A1 K Jitsuiki A1 H Ohsaka A1 K Omori YR 2019 UL http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/early/2019/06/29/jramc-2019-001247.abstract AB Historically, if US soldiers at Camp Fuji become severely ill or suffer trauma, they are transported by the ground ambulance, as the doctor-led air ambulance in eastern Shizuoka has never been permitted to land at Camp Fuji. However, it is widely recognised that severely ill or traumatised patients require time-dependent medical management. It was therefore agreed to undertake a joint exercise between the US medical assets of Camp Fuji and the doctor helicopters in eastern Shizuoka prefecture in evacuating a simulated severely ill or traumatised US soldier. The aim of this article is to describe the background and rationale between this collaboration between the civilian Japanese air ambulance and the US medical assets in Camp Fuji.