CASUALTY EVACUATION EXERCISE II

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Subject: CASUALTY EVACUATION EXERCISE II                                 

Unit: XVIII CORPS 

Parent Organization: ARCENT      

Box  ID: BX000019

Folder Title: DUTY LOG G3 REAR  20 FEB 91                                                                     

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      exchanged by the driver. However the 86th EVAC did not play in the
      litter exchange.

                   - Also of note, the MASF knew that on the 16th they
      would receive patients. The personnel did not know what time the
      patients would arrive or what time they left the EVAC hospital.

              (4) I hope the above mentioned incidents develop as much
      concern in you as they did in me.      I can not believe that we
      evacuate our injured personnel in this way.    I just can imagine
      what it is going to be like when the ground war starts.

      3. Strengths.

          a.  Soldier Morale.    The soldiers that make up the medical
      community are a group of great American kids who want to do their
      job well.   The nurses and doctors within the hospitals are as
      professional and resourceful as they come.    This spirit must be
      sustained. Plans need to be thought out in detail to maintain this
      spirit and professionalism on a 24 hour basis.

          b.   Professionalism.     The professionalism and technical
      expertise of all individuals concerned should be commended.

          c. Regulating System. Has been established and it is a viable
      system. The medical community can regulate the hell out of people.
      low we need to concentrate on evacuation and communication,

      4. Areas of Concern.

          a. Issue. maximizing training opportunities.

              - Discussion. In a number of cases during the exercise,
      when we stopped and did things over, we became better at our job.
      Yet, we had the opportunity and the training objective of
      conducting night operations and we failed to maximize the training
      opportunity.

              - Recommendation.    Train to the standard.       Meet the
      objectives you established.

          b. Issue. Communications.

              - Discussion.   Again I would like to break this down;
      aircraft, evacuation communications and self-help.

craft Communication - A system was established to
      insure that facilities/MRO was properly alerted when casualties
      were in-bound. This system broke down. This system must be fixed!

              - Evacuation Communications - At each instance of
      evacuation that I witnessed at Med-Base America, at no time, real
      or dry, were the gaining units notified that they had inbound
      personnel.  As far as the real are concerned, the only thing the

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Subject = CASUALTY EVACUATION EXERCISE II
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