Navy's new high-speed, high-tech medical ships

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Very cool article !
It did lose me one time. Will the hospital ship have a dock like an LPD to roll-on/roll-off the smaller transport/ambulance craft ?
 
xtp308 said:
Very cool article !
It did lose me one time. Will the hospital ship have a dock like an LPD to roll-on/roll-off the smaller transport/ambulance craft ?
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As the hospital ships are built on fueler frames I don't think they have RO/RO capability.
 
I wonder what manning will be like on those ships. Obviously you have the medical staff for the two ORs, 10 ICU beds and 23 Ward beds. Then you'll need a good sized deck department to maintain it, along with a small OPS department for CIC and an engineering department to get you where you want to be. What about a flight deck crew? You can farm out some people, but if the plan is to fly in casualties wouldn't you need refueling capabilites for the aircraft? I'm thinking of situations in the Gulf Wars where people we medevaced. That can run some distance and then you're going to potentially turn that air craft around for a second run somewhere. I guess you could push that out to a LHD or something.

Thanks for sharing. It's an interesting concept.
 
I don't know much about boats - is 33 knots fast?
 
atimberwolf said:
I wonder what manning will be like on those ships. Obviously you have the medical staff for the two ORs, 10 ICU beds and 23 Ward beds. Then you'll need a good sized deck department to maintain it, along with a small OPS department for CIC and an engineering department to get you where you want to be. What about a flight deck crew? You can farm out some people, but if the plan is to fly in casualties wouldn't you need refueling capabilites for the aircraft? I'm thinking of situations in the Gulf Wars where people we medevaced. That can run some distance and then you're going to potentially turn that air craft around for a second run somewhere. I guess you could push that out to a LHD or something.

Thanks for sharing. It's an interesting concept.
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It is my understanding that it is to get casualties from shore or shallow draft water to at least the amphibs, if not a hospital ship.

I agree regarding air, and logistics of having to manage an air component. Also agree, interesting concept. If I was still in I would definitely be interested in doing something like this.
 
Chuckman said:
It is my understanding that it is to get casualties from shore or shallow draft water to at least the amphibs, if not a hospital ship.

I agree regarding air, and logistics of having to manage an air component. Also agree, interesting concept. If I was still in I would definitely be interested in doing something like this.
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I didn't work in an area where I could be assigned to one of these, but it would be something I'd have been interested in if it was.

I'm tracking the Ambulance service they're hoping to provide. I think all those areas will be required just to meet that goal, but I don't do manning for a living either so what do I know?
 
atimberwolf said:
I didn't work in an area where I could be assigned to one of these, but it would be something I'd have been interested in if it was.

I'm tracking the Ambulance service they're hoping to provide. I think all those areas will be required just to meet that goal, but I don't do manning for a living either so what do I know?
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I have been out a hot minute. I did a tour as a flag aid, one of the things we did was medical TO&E, manning, etc. Back then (early 20 teens) there were a lot of great ideas on the table because of GWOT, but as usual the problem was where do you steal from Peter to pay Paul? Everyone had secondary and even tertiary billets. We had so many great ideas but never could rarely get past proof of concept for most ideas. Like every community it was about doing the most with the least.

So yeah, the idea may be sound, but where you dredge the bodies and how do you backfill and how do you train, and, and and.....

Me, I was a medical person (Nurse Corps), but the heavy lifters in personnel management really really struggled.
 
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