AO160 AHS Support To Defense

Question 1

Defensive task

Answer 1

A task conducted to defeat an enemy attack, gain time, economize forces, and develop conditions favorable for offensive or stability tasks

Examples of defensive tasks: mobile defense, area defense, and retrograde

Question 2

Medical considerations for mobile defense

Answer 2

• fluid lines of communication and MEDEVAC
• casualties concentrated at decisive points in time/space
• high likelihood and wounded enemy prisoners of war or other detainees
• use of air ambulance to overcome obstacles and movement of urgent and urgent surgical patients to the appropriate MTF

Question 3

What is the purpose of area defense?

Answer 3

Retain terrain with the bulk of the force in mutually supporting prepared positions

Question 4

What is retrograde?

Answer 4

A type of defensive task that involves organized movement away from the enemy.

*medical evacuation requirements are especially demanding during retrograde

Question 5

Planning considerations for MEDEVAC/CASEVAC during defensive operations:

Answer 5

• depth and dispersion of the defense
• effective integration of air evac assets
• projected patient workload
• time and means available to remove patients from battlefield
• MEDEVAC routes competing with troop/material movement
• disruption of mission command and comm. systems
• when patient load exceeds means to move them