390 ECS AFTER ACTION REPORT (MEDICAL EXCERPT)

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would impact on the preparation of the aircraft. 
	(b) The coordination between the Medical Treatment
Facilities (MTFs), ASFs and the AECEs to ensure timely coordination of
all patient requirements were met was not always accomplished in an
organized manner. 
	(c)  The interdependence of all elements from the 
attending physicians role and how that impacts on patients movements to 
the role of the AEOO and Ground  Support Team and their impact on 
patient movements was not completely understood or appreciated.  Each
area tended to remain in their respective "stovepipe" and this created
unnecessary delays and confusion. 
	(d) The importance of time frames and launch times and 
how to manipulate these times were not completely appreciated by all 
AECOs and others in the aeromedical evacuation system. 

	(c) Recommendations: 
	
	(1) A centralized, standardized training program for 
Aeromedical Evacuation Operation Officers.  906X0 personnel and all 
other personnel within the aeromedical evacuation system must be 
established.  This training program would also include Tactical
Hospitals,  Mobile Aeromedical Staging Facilities, Aeromedical Staging
Facilities and other medical elements involved in the treatment of 
patients from the battlefield to definitive care hospitals in CONUS.
The major elements covered by this program would include but not be
limited to: 

	(a) The establishment of Aeromedical Evacuation 
Operations in a field condition:  the establishment of and operations of 
Aeromedical Evacuation Liaison Teams, Mobile Aeromedical Staging
Facilities, Aeromedical Evacuation Control Elements and Aeromedical
Evacuation Control Centers.   Also, included in the training program
would be a detained explanation of the total Aeromedical Evacuation
System with emphasis placed on how the individual parts function and 
interface to form the whole.  Also explained would be how each 
subsystem operates in a given theater of operation and how that 
theater  subsystem interfaces with other theater subsystem and the 
CONUS system to form the World Wide Aeromedical Evacuation System.
	
	(b)  The Concept of Operations for tactical and Strategic
Aeromedical Evacuation, how they are alike, how they differ and how 
they interface specific features unique to each system and aircraft
would be outlined. 
	(c)  The operation of all radio equipment and the
paperwork requirement for mission planning  interface and coordination
necessary to move patients from the battlefield to CONUS medical 
treatment facilities. 

	(d)  The logistical problems and coordinated that can be