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HAZARDOUS TRAINING MEDICAL COVERAGE PLANNING
Maps & Route Recons
■ Request/purchase/acquire appropriate maps of training areas, adjacent military installations, and cities
■ Conduct map and ground recon of training areas (specifically key entrance & exit points).
■ Identify hospitals/fire/EMS locations
Identify Special Coverage Considerations
■ Weather
■ Animals
■ Plants
■ Terrain hazards (high angle or high altitude)
Identify Hospitals
■ Primary and alternate evacuation hospital (one should be a Level 1 trauma center)
■ Conduct hospital site survey and face-to-face
■ Determine hospital communications: o ER phone line
➢ ER ambulance line
➢ Patient admin phone line
➢ Security line phone line
■ Determine routes and directions to hospitals
■ Where are special injuries evacuated?
➢ Neurosurgical
➢ Burns
➢ Trauma centers
• Level 1 (neurosurgeon on staff 24 hours)
• Level 2 (neurosurgeon on call, but not on site 24/7)
Vehicle Requirements
■ Driver: A dedicated driver – NOT the medic covering the event. Must be familiar with training area and evacua-
tion routes.
■ Ambulance: A dedicated, climate controlled, covered vehicle capable of carrying at least 1 litter. The vehicle
must provide environmental control and adequate space for medical equipment. Mark vehicle as appropriate
(ambulance symbols or lights).
➢ Optimal vehicles:
• Van (15PAX only)
• Large SUV (Expedition, Tahoe, etc…)
• FLA (M996/M997)
➢ Suboptimal vehicles
• Open HMMWV / GMV
• MEDSOV (tactical operations only – not for admin coverage)
• Small SUV (Explorer, Durango, Cherokee, etc…) or small van (7PAX)
Communication Requirements
SECTION 8 ■ Equipment
FM radios or installation “brick” radios
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Cellphone
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■ Radio nets & frequencies
➢ Administrative coverage (DZSO Net)
➢ Exercise/target control or observer/controller nets
➢ Tactical nets
■ En route evacuation communications
• Cellphone to notify receiving facilities
• Borrowed local radios
■ Establish speed dials / specific channels
➢ Receiving medical facilities and evacuation assets

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