Common Tasks Study Guide.txt

  1. Evaluate A Casualty
    • 1. Care under fire
    • - a. Suppress enemy fire
    • - b. Encourage casualty
    • - c. Hemorage control
    • - d. Transport
    • 2. Tactical field care
    • - a. Responsiveness
    • - b. Position & Airway
    • - c. Breathing & Chest
    • - d. Bleeding
    • - e. Fractures
    • - f. Burns
    • - g. Pill pack
    • - h. Document
    • - i. Transport
    • 3. Monitor during evac
  2. React to Indirect Fire
    • 1. "INCOMING!"
    • 2. Look to leader
    • 3. Remain in position, don't move
    • 4. Take cover, stay low
  3. Move under Direct Fire
    • 1. Select a route (Cover, Concealment, Masking)
    • 2. Pick movement technique
    • 3. Communicate plan
    • 4. High/Low Crawl, Rush
    • 5. Cover buddy
  4. React to Unexploded Ordnance Hazards
    • 1. Recognize (Dropped, Projected, Thrown, Placed)
    • 2. React
    • 3. Mark
    • 4. Evacuate (Determine 600m/300m)
    • 5. Report
  5. Perform First Aid for a Bleeding and/or Severed Extremity
    • 1. Uncover wound (not clothing stuck/NBC)
    • 2. Apply dressing
    • 3. Apply manual pressure (5-10m, elevate)
    • 4. Apply pressure dressing (if needed)
    • 5. Apply tourniquette (if needed, 2" wide, 2" above)
    • 6. Tourniquette? Mark forehead 'T' & time
    • 7. Save body parts, out of sight of casualty
    • 8. Watch casualty
  6. React to Direct Fire While Mounted
    • 1. Direct return fire
    • 2. Direct driver to hull-down
    • 3. Analyze
    • 4. Give SITREP
    • 5. Take action based on orders
  7. Select Temporary Fighting Positions
    • 1. Cover & concealment
    • 2. Fire around obstacle
    • 3. Stay low
    • 4. No silhouette
    • 5. Follow leader's instructions
  8. Perform First Aid for an Open Abdominal Wound
    • 1. Position on back, knees flexed up
    • 2. Uncover wound (not clothing stuck/NBC)
    • 3. Pick up organs (leave foreign objects)
    • 4. Apply casualty's dressing (no pressure)
    • 5. Watch casualty
  9. Perform First Aid for an Open Chest Wound
    • 0. Check for entry & exit wounds
    • 1. Uncover (not clothing stuck/NBC)
    • 2. Apply airtight material
    • 3. Apply casualty's dressing
    • 4. Position on injured side or sitting
    • 5. Pneumothorax (if needed)
    • 6. Watch casualty
  10. Perform First Aid for an Open Head Wound
    • 1. Check consciousness
    • 2. Position casualty (Conscious=sitting, unconscious=as neck fracture, vomiting=non-wound side)
    • 3. Expose wound (remove helmet, NBC=promask on)
    • 4. Apply casualty's dressing (leave objects, no pressure, no food/drink)
    • 5. Watch casualty
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Common Tasks Study Guide.txt
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