CASUALTY EVACUATION EXERCISE II

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Subject: CASUALTY EVACUATION EXERCISE II                                 

Unit: XVIII CORPS 

Parent Organization: ARCENT      

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Folder Title: DUTY LOG G3 REAR  20 FEB 91                                                                     

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       MEMORANDUM FOR Exercise Director


       SUBJECT: Casualty Evacuation Exercise II

       1.   General.   The second medical exercise proved to be another
       beneficial rehearsal as we prepare for the ground war.            The
       exercise can really be broken down into three phases - even though
       it was not supposed to have been divided.       The first phase was
       taking patients into 7th Corps evacuation hospitals. The second
       phase should have been the care, regulating and evacuation of these
       injured personnel during night operations. The last phase was the
       processing of evacuated individuals at Med-Base America.          This
       operation was broken down into three phases, because of the failure
       to meet the objectives of the exercise. The night evacuation of
       this exercise was not completed.

       2. Discussion.

           a. Again I would like to reiterate previous comments. Once
       the patients were in the medical facility the conduct and
       professionalism of everyone concerned was exemplary. The issue of
       evacuation of patients still needs work. The issue of regulation
       is fairly good.    I do not understand how we can have such good
       procedures for regulating and such poor procedures for evacuation.

           b. As I went from place to place, I found someone willing     and
       able to talk to me about regulating patients. However, when I     had
       the opportunity to see first hand the evacuation of 18 of         our
       actually injured soldiers, I was extremely disappointed.          The
       following is a review of the evacuation.            Note, this    was
       accomplished when we have not even been over taxed in             our
       evacuation system. What will happen when the ground war starts?

                (1)  At 0838 two vehicles pulled up to MASF to unload
       actual patients (4 ambulatory, 2 litter).       Af ter 8 minutes and
of patients and equipment, it was
       decided that these patients were to go to the ASF.

                     - The vehicle showed up at MASF and no one knew it was
       coming.

                     - The driver was told to drop patients of f at "the
       same place they did before by the primary/secondary tents".

                     - The instructions clearly indicated that the MAS:F was
       the place for drop-off.
                     - Yet the 602's stated- that the individuals were to be
       evacuated to Landsthul, FRG. Which meant they were to go to the
       ASF.

                     - @en I checked the ASF, to see if they knew the
       patients were coming, they showed me how they were regulated      but

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Subject = CASUALTY EVACUATION EXERCISE II
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