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LCD-80-71 1 (1980-06-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabayw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 ._OG{ITICS ANO COMMUNICATION DIVISION B-198835 JUNE 10, 1980 The Honorable Harold Brown The Secretary of Defense 113191 Dear Mr. Secretary: Subject: ransportation Vehicles Available in Europe for Medical Evacuations7(LCD-80-71) This report summarizes the results of our review of Army and Air Force medical transportation vehicles available in Europe to meet wartime medical evacuation needs. Our review was directed primarily at evaluating the physical condition of those air and ground vehicles with a dedicated wartime mission of evacuating casualties from the battle area to and among treatment locations intheater. We also included in our review selected activities in the continental United States (CONUS) with medical transportation vehicles that may be used to augment intheater vehicles during contingencies. Although the Army and Air Force have numerous other air and ground vehicles which could be used for medical evacua- tion purposes, most of these vehicles have other primary wartime missions; thus, they may not be available for casualty evacuation when needed. Therefore, it is essential that vehicles with a dedicated evacuation mission be maintained at a high state of readiness. Although Army and Air Force units are able to perform their peacetime missions, we found that: --Many of the medical units were experiencing difficulty in maintaining the onhand vehicles. This problem is attributed primarily to the age of the vehicles and problems of obtaining needed repair parts. --The medical units were apprehensive about their capa- bility to perform wartime missions because of the above problems and because of operational difficulties of the vehicles which limit their use in a tactical environment. 0 // t / (943462)

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