MCTP 3-40G - SERVICES IN AN EXPEDITIONARY ENVIRONMENT; CHAPTER 4

Question 1

What is the recovery of remains and personal effects, identification of remains, and evacuation of remains to a temporary cemetery within the theater for burial or to a mortuary facility?

Answer 1

Mortuary Affairs

Question 2

What consists of three different programs: current death program, concurrent return program, and graves registration program?

Answer 2

Mortuary Affairs

Question 3

What program is in effect during peacetime and during hostilities of short duration when few casualties are expected; where remains are moved from a unit’s area of operation to a collection point, then to a mortuary either within CONUS or OCONUS, and finally to the person authorized to direct disposition of remains?

Answer 3

Current Death Program

Question 4

What program is in effect during wartime; where remains move from the unit area of operation to a collection point, then to a Theater Mortuary Evacuation Point (TMEP), next to a mortuary located in CONUS, and finally to the person authorized to direct disposition of remains?

Answer 4

Concurrent Return Program

Question 5

What program is used only as a last resort and only upon order of the geographic combatant commander; only enacted when an overwhelming number of remains prevents normal mortuary affairs operations from occurring or when contaminated remains cannot be decontaminated?

Answer 5

Graves Registration Program

Question 6

What military branch is the executive agent of mortuary affairs for all Services?

Answer 6

The US Army

Question 7

In the _____ _____, mortuary affairs responsibilities reside in the Reserves, whose primary focus is graves registration. The reserve unit is the Graves Registration Platoon, H&S Company, H&S Battalion, 4th FSSG.

Answer 7

Marine Corps

Question 8

The Graves Registration Platoon’s T/O consists of?

Answer 8

Marine Officer - 1
Marine Enlisted - 42
Enlisted Navy Embalmers - 3

Question 9

What is the designated site where specially-trained personnel provide technical assistance for the acceptance and disposition of remains and is an intermediate or transit point for remains?

Answer 9

Mortuary Affairs Collection Point (MACP)

Question 10

What should be close to a main supply route, have easy access to a landing strip or fixed airport, and be located on terrain that accommodates a temporary interment site?

Answer 10

Mortuary Affairs Collection Point (MACP)

Question 11

Who is responsible for selecting the site of the Mortuary Affairs Collection Point (MACP)?

Answer 11

MAGTF Commander

Question 12

What is established when the threat of nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) warfare exists?

Answer 12

Mortuary Affairs Decontamination Collection Point (MADCP)

Question 13

The handling of contaminated remains is a three-phase process that consists of recovery, movement to the theater quality control station, and final verification of remains. T or F?

Answer 13

True

Question 14

What is the systemic process of searching for remains and personal effects, plotting and recording their location, and evacuating remains to a mortuary affairs facility?

Answer 14

Remains processing

Question 15

At all levels, who are responsible for the initial search, recovery, tentative identification, and evacuation of all deceased unit personnel within their area of operation?

Answer 15

Unit Commanders

Question 16

The following forms will be filled out and delivered to who?

DD Form 1380, Certificate of Death
DD Form 2064, Certificate of Death Overseas
DD Form 894, Record of ID Processing (Finger Print)
DD Form 890, Record of ID Processing (Effects/Personal Data)
DD Form 1076, Military Operations: Records of Personal Effects of Deceased

Answer 16

Joint Mortuary Affairs Office (JMAO)

Question 17

Certificate of Death

Answer 17

DD Form 1380

Question 18

Certificate of Death Overseas

Answer 18

DD Form 2064

Question 19

Record of ID Processing (Finger Print)

Answer 19

DD Form 894

Question 20

Record of ID Processing (Effects/Personal Data)

Answer 20

DD Form 890

Question 21

Military Operations: Records of Personal Effects of Deceased

Answer 21

DD Form 1076

Question 22

The success of a search and recovery mission depends on a well-organized search _____ that is tailored to the situation.

Answer 22

Pattern

Question 23

What operation must take the following into consideration?

• Precautions to preserve all items that might be helpful in establishing a tentative identification of remains.
• Safety and Sanitation
• Remains must be free of the risk of spreading harmful contamination, and they must have all unexploded ordnance and other hazardous items removed.

Answer 23

Recovery Operation

Question 24

During recovery, units must ensure that identification tags and cards, if present, are not removed from the remains, protected, and secured to the remains. T or F?

Answer 24

True

Question 25

Remains, portions, and personal effects are evacuated from the recovery site to a mortuary affairs facility using the most expedient manner of transport to prevent losing identification media due to ________ of remains.

Answer 25

Decomposition

Question 26

Operational requirements may dictate the use of any available transportation, but the use of what type of vehicle is not encouraged?

Answer 26

Medical and Food bearing vehicles

Question 27

Remains are carried feet first; loaded feet first on vehicles and rotary-wing aircraft; head first on fixed-wing aircraft; and are placed in a manner to prevent stacking and secured to prevent shifting during movement. T or F?

Answer 27

True

Question 28

If the tactical situation requires a unit to move out of an area in an expedient manner without evacuating remains, who may approved requests to conduct isolated interments?

Answer 28

Geographic Combatant Commander

Question 29

What are shallow graves constructed to prevent unattended remains in open areas, where all personal effects and other identification media are interred with the remains, and the site is marked in an easily distinguishable manner for future recovery teams?

Answer 29

Isolated interments

Question 30

The unit prepares and submits an incident report on the isolated interment of remains to the ______ via higher headquarters as soon as possible.

Answer 30

Joint Mortuary Affairs Office (JMAO)

Question 31

At a minimum, what must include a 10-digit coordinate, the number of isolated graves, tentative identification of each remains, and markings of isolated graves?

Answer 31

Incident report

Question 32

If tactical and logistical situations make it possible to use preferred evacuation or emergency burial methods, ____ or ______ burials may be used to reduce the time between recovery and burial remains.

Answer 32

Mass or Trench burials

Question 33

Who may approves mass or trench burials of casualties.

Answer 33

Joint Mortuary Affairs Office (JMAO) within theater with the approval from the geographic combatant commander

Question 34

If there are no mortuary affairs units in the area and contact with higher headquarters is lost, who in the area decides whether the remains should be buried in a mass grave or evacuated to the rear?

Answer 34

The Senior Officer

Question 35

What are the measurements of the mass burial sites? How many can it hold?

Answer 35

70 feet long, 3.5 feet deep, and as wide as the earthmoving equipment blade (min. of 2.5 feet).

Holds 10 remains, head to foot

Question 36

The beginning and ending of each row is marked with a metal stake, and metal tag is securely affixed to each stake indicating the row number. If available, a global positioning system device is used to determine and record the location of each row. T or F?

Answer 36

True

Question 37

Remains may be committed at sea when a death occurs aboard a ship at sea and prevailing operational constraints do not permit evacuation. T or F?

Answer 37

True

Question 38

With authorization from the appropriate Service components commander is granted to perform committal as at sea, who appoints an officer in charge of the committal?

Answer 38

Ship’s Commanding Officer

Question 39

The officer in charge conducts the committal in accordance with what regulation?

Answer 39

Army Regulation (AR) 638-2, Care and Disposition of Human Remains and Disposition of Personal Effects

Question 40

Prior to committal, who ensures the remains are positively identified?

Answer 40

Ship’s Commanding Officer

Question 41

Who is responsible for accurately recording all facts concerning the committal in the ship’s log and for ensuring appropriate respect/honors are paid to the deceased?

Answer 41

Officer in Charge

Question 42

What consists of a statement of recognition from two individuals and a certificate of death signed by a medical officer?

Answer 42

Identification case file

Question 43

After the committal at sea, who does the Officer in Charge send the identification case and a report detailing the committal, to include distribution of personal effects?

Answer 43

Joint Mortuary Affairs Office (JMAO)

Question 44

Who is responsible for ensuring that all temporary interments are disinterred and the remains are returned to the CONUS for final disposition?

Answer 44

Geographic Combatant Commanders

Question 45

Who monitors, coordinates, and provides special guidance during disinterred operations?

Answer 45

Joint Mortuary Affairs Office (JMAO)

Question 46

Who coordinates and supervises disinterment operations within the operational area; provides specialized equipment, personnel, and other support as necessary to accomplish the mission?

Answer 46

Designated component commanders

Question 47

The component commander’s ________ ________ office coordinated with the Joint Mortuary Affairs Office (JMAO)and obtains records and reports of burials required during disinterment. Remains are processed and sent to a collection point for further evacuation to a TMEP.

Answer 47

Mortuary Affairs