Combat Medicine: Expensive Humanitarian Effort, or Combat Multiplier?
Abstract
Combat medicine should augment units' combat power by minimizing avoidable losses to injury and illness, by rapidly treating and then returning to duty all soldiers capable of continued fighting, and by expeditiously but humanely clearing the battlefield of those too sick or too injured to rapidly rejoin the battle. To properly employ medical combat service support requires that tactical commanders, their medical staff officers, and their subordinate medical unit commanders be able to communicate effectively and efficiently. To facilitate such communication, this paper defines in terms simultaneously meaningful to all involved seven principles governing the employment of combat medical support.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA157646
Entities
People
- B. W. Wolcott
Organizations
- United States Army War College