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File: 970207_aadci_074.txtODS MEDICAL LESSONS LEARNED C3I and TRAINING CATEGORIES C3I ISSUE NO. 7 MEDRED-C Message Guidance Needs Revision (SGHR ITEMS NOs. 18, 30, 54) BACKGROUND: Personnel experienced difficulties in interpreting AFR 55-55 MEDRED-C instructions. DISCUSSION: MEDRED-C reporting required daily during ODS. Reports were not uniform. Bases without 7-day a week communications center support were excused from reporting on a case-by-case basis. MTFs not involved or only minimally involved in ODS support were resistant to reporting and the need for their reports was questionable. Efforts expended may not have been justified. Some units did not complete Alert Section initially when they received taskings, to deploy UTCs. Guidance is poor. Theaters need to know when UTCs are deploying and redeploying. RECOMMENDATIONS: Develop DOD format or medical reporting. Revise AFR 55-55 as appropriate. Require reports only from MTFs directly affected by contingency and only when changes to report content occur. Identify to SGHR needed changes to report content and format. ACTIONS REQUIRED: Develop a DOD format for medical reporting. Revise MEDRED-C report guidance. Evaluate reporting frequency for non-affected MTFs. Revise MEDRED-C guidance to provide gaining theater command medical staff information on medical deployments. - ACTIONS COMPLETED: Joint Staff/J-4 has been addressing required reporting for and determining new content requirements for Joint reports. SGHR has revised MEDRED-C instructions and new AFI has been published that addresses problem areas encountered during ODS. During ODS, MEDRED-C reporting requirements for CONUS MTFs were outlined by SGHR leaving it to the MAJCOMs discretion as to the frequency, criterion, etc., for units under them. For MTFs with minimal involvement, some MAJCOMs reduced reporting to once per week or when there was a change; other MAJCOMs did not. STATUS: Closed.
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