Appendix J – 9-LINE MEDEVAC REQUEST
Request Medical Evacuation
081-831-0101
Conditions: Given a casualty requiring medical evacuation and a patient pickup site, request
medical evacuation. Necessary equipment and materials: Operational communications
equipment, medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) request format, a standard scale military map, a grid
coordinate scale, and unit signal operation instructions (SOI).
Standards: Transmit a MEDEVAC request and provide all necessary MEDEVAC request
information within 25 seconds.
Training and Evaluation Guide
Performance Steps
1. Collect all applicable information needed for MEDEVAC request.
a. Determine the grid coordinates for the pickup site.
b. Obtain radio frequency, call sign, and suffix.
c. Obtain the number of patients and precedence.
d. Determine the type of special equipment required.
e. Determine the number and type (litter or ambulatory) of patients.
f. Determine the security of the pickup site.
g. Determine how the pickup site will be marked.
h. Determine patient nationality and status.
i. Obtain pickup site NBC contamination information normally obtained from the senior
person or medic.
NOTE: NBC line 9 information is only included when contamination exists.
2. Record the gathered MEDEVAC information using the authorized brevity codes.
NOTE: Unless the MEDEVAC information is transmitted over secure communication systems it
must be encrypted except as noted in step 3b 1.
a. Location of pickup site (line 1). (See task 071-329-1006, Navigate From One Point on
the Ground to Another While Dismounted.)
b. Radio frequency, call sign, and suffix (line 2). (See task 113-305-1001, Communicate
by a Tactical Radio.)
c. Number of patients by precedence (line 3).
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