MCTP 3-40A

Question 1

MCTP 3-40A

Answer 1

HEALTH SERVICE SUPPORT OPERATIONS

Question 2

Which level of war are the Marine Corps Forces most concerned with?

Answer 2

Operational

Question 3

Which level of war is the Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) most concerned with?

Answer 3

Tactical

Question 4

Who develops Marine Logistics Group (MLG) Health Service Support (HSS) plans and coordinates HSS for Ground Combat Element (GCE) and Aviation Combat Element (ACE) units requiring medical and dental support that exceeds their organic capabilities?

Answer 4

Health Service Support Officer (HSSO)

Question 5

How many surgical companies does the medical battalion within a Marine Logistics Group (MLG) have?

Answer 5

3

Question 6

What is the medical supply depot directly responsible to the supply battalion commanding officer supporting the medical battalion?

Answer 6

Medical Logistics Company (MEDLOGCO)

Question 7

What has the primary mission of performing those emergency medical and surgical procedures that, if not performed, could lead to loss of life, limb, or eyesight?

Answer 7

Medical Battalion

Question 8

The headquarters company section includes a surgical company with how many surgical platoons?

Answer 8

2

Question 9

A surgical platoon consists of 1 FRSS, 1 STP, 1 X-ray, 1 lab, 1 ward, 1 ERCS, and 1 ambulance section for 24-hour operations. How many teams does the combat stress platoon have?

Answer 9

3

Question 10

What is the most mobile medical support platoon of the medical battalion?

Answer 10

Shock Trauma Platoon (STP)

Question 11

What supports regimental-sized operations and receives casualties from units or individuals providing first response Role I medical treatment?

Answer 11

Surgical Company (SC)

Question 12

Surgical companies consist of a headquarters section and how many surgical platoons?

Answer 12

4

Question 13

What is one of the smallest possible units for provision of surgical care to combat casualties?

Answer 13

Forward Resuscitative Surgical System (FRSS)

Question 14

The patient holding capability of the Forward Resuscitative Surgical System (FRSS) is no more than how many hours?

Answer 14

4

Question 15

When a stabilized patient needs evacuation, the Forward Resuscitative Surgical System (FRSS) requires en route care teams to support movement to a higher taxonomy of care. Without resupply, the core package can perform approximately 18 salvage surgical procedures or how many trauma resuscitations over a period of 48 hours before requiring resupply and relief of personnel?

Answer 15

20

Question 16

The Forward Resuscitative Surgical System (FRSS) consists of 2 surgeons, 1 anesthesiologist, 1 critical care nurse, 1 independent duty corpsman (surgery/emergency room), 1 field medical technician, and how many operating room technicians?

Answer 16

2

Question 17

The Marine Corps’s En Route Care System (ERCS) is an essential follow-on for the Forward Resuscitative Surgical System (FRSS), composed of one critical care nurse and one corpsman (8404), with how many teams per Surgical Company (SC)?

Answer 17

3

Question 18

The En Route Care System (ERCS) is capable of providing medical care for two critically injured/ill, but stabilized, patients for how many hours during flight?

Answer 18

2

Question 19

En route care systems provide a capability to support expeditionary maneuver warfare by meeting an operational requirement to evacuate patients up to how many nautical miles using opportune lift medium lift aircraft?

Answer 19

240

Question 20

During which phase of amphibious operations does the Commander, Amphibious Task Force (CATF) and his principal medical advisor, the CATF surgeon, have overall responsibility for Health Service Support (HSS) services to embarked personnel?

Answer 20

Movement

Question 21

During which phase of amphibious operations is Health Service Support (HSS) ashore limited to the capabilities of medical sections organic to combat units?

Answer 21

Assault

Question 22

How many sections are Battalion Aid Stations (BASs) normally divided into?

Answer 22

2

Question 23

What have the primary role of evacuating assault force casualties to designated Casualty Receiving and Treatment Ships (CRTSs)?

Answer 23

Battalion Aid Stations (BASs)

Question 24

Which type of ships have the largest medical capability of any amphibious ship in the Amphibious Task Force (ATF)?

Answer 24

Casualty Receiving and Treatment Ships (CRTSs)

Question 25

A Casualty Receiving and Treatment Ship (CRTS) medical space includes 4 to 6 operating rooms, a 15-bed intensive care unit, a quiet room, 45 ward beds, and how many isolation and overflow beds?

Answer 25

6

Question 26

Casualty Receiving and Treatment Ships (CRTSs) require augmentation by how many Navy medical department personnel to achieve full casualty treatment capability?

Answer 26

84

Question 27

Which type of medical facilities are medically and surgically intensive and deployable in a variety of operational scenarios?

Answer 27

Expeditionary Medical Facilities (EMFs)

Question 28

Which type of ships are floating surgical hospitals with the primary mission of providing acute medical care in support of combat operations at sea and ashore?

Answer 28

Hospital ships (T-AHs)

Question 29

Fleet surgical teams (FSTs) are HSS augmentation teams assigned to the CCDR. Combined, the Pacific and Atlantic Fleets have how many teams that are considered the CCDR’s assets in both peace and wartime?

Answer 29

9

Question 30

Which program is the means by which medical support personnel are brought to operational units from Navy MTFs?

Answer 30

Health Services Augmentation Program (HSAP)

Question 31

Which element of Health Service Support (HSS) encompasses the procurement, initial issue, management, resupply, and disposition of material required to support medical and dental elements organic to the MARFOR?

Answer 31

Logistics

Question 32

Which instruction contains guidance for planning and procuring Class VIII (blood products)?

Answer 32

DOD Instruction 6480.4

Question 33

The total table of equipment and AMALs/ADALs are designed to support a MEF (organic) in an estimated worst case scenario: MEF 60 days, Marine expeditionary brigade 30 days, maritime prepositioning force 30 days, and MEU with how many days of supply?

Answer 33

15

Question 34

Health service support detachments deploy with their initial issue and the days of supply prescribed by the MAGTF commander. For the first how many days of operations, Class VIII material beyond this level for the MEF is maintained by the LCE supply detachment and provided to supported units as required?

Answer 34

60

Question 35

Which organization, in joint operations, is authorized by the CCDR to provide central logistical support to all participating Services in the CCDR’s area of responsibility?

Answer 35

Single Integrated Medical Logistics Manager (SIMLM)

Question 36

What has been formally tasked by the DOD to perform the peacetime theater lead agent for medical materiel (TLAMM)/single integrated medical logistics manager (SIMLM) mission in the European, Pacific, Korean, and Middle Eastern theaters?

Answer 36

US Army

Question 37

Which items are medical equipment and supplies required to support the patient during evacuation (e.g., ventilators, oxygen, vital sign monitors, blankets)?

Answer 37

Patient Movement Items (PMIs)

Question 38

When the tactical situation permits during combat operations, the safest method of field disposal of Class VIII material is burning, followed by deep burial (how many or more feet)?

Answer 38

6

Question 39

The Law of War along with what else prohibit the destruction of medical material and supplies that must be abandoned in a retrograde movement occasioned by enemy action or other tactical considerations?

Answer 39

Geneva Conventions