9 LINE MEDIVAC

Your squad has just been hit by Indirect fire and you take on 3 casualties in the

middle of know where.

How can I get these soldiers back to the rear and receive medical attention?

9 LINE MEDIVAC There are 9 lines to report in a 9 line medivac, and 4

lines are mandatory. But the more information that you can give the better

off the casualties will be and it will help the medivac respond better and faster.

Lines 1,2,3 and are the mandatory lines that you must report.

With all radio reports ensure that you have the information written up before you make the call to report it. Depending on what the current mission of the aircraft is or there location the birds could be inbound within minutes

Line #1 Location of the pick-up site, grid coordinat3e.

Line #2 Radio frequency, call sign with suffix. ( Bandaid 6 this is Falcon 6 over)

Line #3 Number of patients by precedence.

#1 Urgent with in 2 hours #2 Priority with in 4 hours #3 Routine with in 24 hours #4 Tactical Immediate ASAP If two or more categories must be reported

in the same request, insert the word “break” between each category

Line #4 Special equipment required

5- None 6- Hoist 7- Stokes litter 8- Forest/jungle penetrator

Line #5 Number of patients by type

Report only applicbale information and the appropriate amounts. If requesting MEDEVAC for both types, insert the proword ‘break” between the litter entry and ambulatory, #-litter break, # ambulatory (sitting)

Line #6 Security of pickup site

1- No enemy troops in area 2- Possible enemy troops in area

(approach with caution) 3- Enemy troops in area (approach with

caution) 4- Enemy troops in area (armed escort

required) 5- Peacetime

Line #7 Method of marking the pick-up site

5 panels 6 smoke 7 signal person 8 signal lamp

Line #8 Patient’s nationality and status

4 us military 5 US civilian 6 Non US military 7 Non US civilian 8 EPW

Line # 9 NBC Contamination

9 Nuclear 0 Biological 1 Chemical Peacetime