Comments on: Importance of Marking PTs in Mass-casualty http://www.tacmedsolutions.com/blog/?p=44 Great ideas for the Modern Warrior Sat, 06 Oct 2012 21:28:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: starlight_cdn http://www.tacmedsolutions.com/blog/?p=44&cpage=1#comment-580 starlight_cdn Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:10:15 +0000 http://www.tacmedsolutions.com/blog/?p=44#comment-580 Use the US Nine Liner casualty system when assigning priorities....for the sake of simplicity. CSMs that control the evac are not medical and need simplicity. The reality is that it will be done with IR glowsticks. Taliban tends to shoot at glowy things. He is funny that way. IR glowsticks are quite visible under NVDs. And it is really simple... 1 IR glowstick is urgent/urgent surgical like in a Nine Liner. 2 IR glowstick is priority like in a Nine Liner. 3 IR glowsticks is routine like in a Niner Liner. No glowstick means no care required... usually not in your CCP anyway. CCP is marked with and IR MS 2000 or Vehicle Strobe and/or panel marker. For daylight MasCal, which can be as many as two cas depending on your ptl size, use veh flags to mark pos'n for drop off....however, the triage commander should be there to direct incoming cas. AS you probably know, the NATO urban marking system is oretty standard throughout our allies. Yellow is the colour for CAS. I would not reccommend throwing around any glowsticks or flags of any other colour at your CCP. Red, green and blue mean totally different things in MOUT/Urban Ops. A urgent/urgent surgery Cas loses his red glowstick in the wrong spot during the CoE and a whole other mess would happen by follow on forces!!! As for carrying glowstick in your IFAK....No! Not enough space. Carry more Kerlix and Gun Tape. Starlight_Cdn Use the US Nine Liner casualty system when assigning priorities….for the sake of simplicity. CSMs that control the evac are not medical and need simplicity. The reality is that it will be done with IR glowsticks. Taliban tends to shoot at glowy things. He is funny that way. IR glowsticks are quite visible under NVDs. And it is really simple…

1 IR glowstick is urgent/urgent surgical like in a Nine Liner.

2 IR glowstick is priority like in a Nine Liner.

3 IR glowsticks is routine like in a Niner Liner.

No glowstick means no care required… usually not in your CCP anyway.

CCP is marked with and IR MS 2000 or Vehicle Strobe and/or panel marker. For daylight MasCal, which can be as many as two cas depending on your ptl size, use veh flags to mark pos’n for drop off….however, the triage commander should be there to direct incoming cas.

AS you probably know, the NATO urban marking system is oretty standard throughout our allies. Yellow is the colour for CAS. I would not reccommend throwing around any glowsticks or flags of any other colour at your CCP. Red, green and blue mean totally different things in MOUT/Urban Ops. A urgent/urgent surgery Cas loses his red glowstick in the wrong spot during the CoE and a whole other mess would happen by follow on forces!!!

As for carrying glowstick in your IFAK….No! Not enough space. Carry more Kerlix and Gun Tape.

Starlight_Cdn

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