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TST Planning
■ Receive WARNORD of pending TST mission
É Confirm target location grid
É Confirm preliminary HLZ information (or infiltration locations/methods)
É Confirm status of task force organic medical personnel and evacuation capabilities
É Determine any medical augmentation requirements and initiate appropriate requests
■ Assess distances and response times based on target location and/or HLZs (based on appropriate routes
through terrain obstacles such as mountains or around enemy areas)
É Confirm travel distance and time to the target
É Confirm distance from target to primary, alternate, and tertiary receiving facilities
É Confirm distance to target, response time, distance to destination and time to destination for
É primary, secondary and tertiary forms of evacuation. Ensure response time includes notification and spin-
up time for launch of the asset.
É Determine if specific receiving medical facilities need to be designated for specific injuries (head injuries or
burns)
■ Confirm readiness of receiving facilities and external evacuation assets
É Contact primary and secondary medical receiving facilities to confirm their bed status and readiness to accept
casualties.
É Contact primary and secondary evacuation assets to confirm their readiness status.
É Contact CSAR coverage asset and confirm readiness status and response times.
■ Finalize tactical medical support plan based off of commander’s tactical CONOP
É Conduct casualty estimate on target to determine where casualties are likely to occur
É Confirm/Assess best locations for primary and alternate CCPs on target
É Confirm/Assess best locations for primary and alternate evacuation HLZs/CEPs
É Confirm/Determine personnel tasked to be aid & litter teams on target
É Confirm JOC/TOC battle captain/NCO knows appropriate evacuation JOC/TOC drill for requesting external
evacuation and notification of receiving facility (to include 9-line MEDEVAC request transmission procedures)
É Develop casualty response CONOP using the one-slide with changes as required.
■ Perform pre-combat inspections
É Check individual Rangers for bleeder control kits, squad casualty response kits, and identified aid & litter team
equipment
É Check individual medic aid bag and kit
É Check CASEVAC assets equipment and re-supply packages
■ Post-mission activities
É Restock and refit any expended medical supplies and equipment in RFR kits, Medic aid bag or CASEVAC
platforms.
SECTION 7 É Follow-up on casualties with receiving facilities and provide an update to the commander
Conduct AAR of mission to gather lessons learned and/or modifications to future CONOPS
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Perform maintenance on Medic equipment to include weapons, NVGs, radios, and medical equipment
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Conduct screening of mission personnel for any injuries sustained and not previously reported to include post-
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blast assessments

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