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The battalion aid station belongs to, and is an organic component of, the unit it supports. It may be split into two functional units for up to 24 hours, the main aid station consists of a medical doctor and three 68W combat medics or Hospital Corpsmen and a forward aid station consisting of a physician assistant and three more 68Ws or corpsmen ...
In U.S. service it appears that M577s were only used as emergency evacuation vehicles very early in their operation careers, i.e. in the early years of the Vietnam War. This role was soon provided solely by M113 "armored ambulances", and the M577 was then only used as emergency treatment vehicles (e.g. battalion aid stations). [11] [12]
With increasing standardisation upon the M113 and M113A1 armored ambulance, the litters fitted to M577s which were being used as ambulances were removed and the vehicles were designated as the M577/A1 battalion aid station (BAS) and tasked solely in the role of emergency medical treatment.
It was designed to get experienced personnel closer to the front, so that the wounded could be treated sooner and with greater success. Casualties were first treated at the point of injury through buddy aid, then routed through Battalion Aid Stations for emergency stabilizing surgery, and finally routed to the MASH for the most extensive treatment.
On 19 October, Major General Paul R. Hawley, ETOUSA surgeon, toured Battalion Aid stations and Field Hospitals in VII Corps with Colonel Kintz. At the regular evening conference, General Hawley commended the work of the Field Hospitals and remarked upon the value and scope of the information discussed at the conference.
The 75-year-old Vietnam veteran was grinning ear to ear. "That's the sound we heard 365 days a year, 24 hours a day," he said. It was a sound Walsh came to love when he served for a year as a crew ...
Battalion aid stations, the medical companies of Brigade Support Battalions and Forward Surgical Teams are usually the first point of contact medical care for wounded soldiers. The CSH receives most patients via helicopter air ambulance , and stabilizes these patients for further treatment at fixed facility hospitals.
1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division; 1st Aviation Brigade; 1st Signal Brigade; 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division; 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment; 11th Infantry Brigade