a. Transportation of the sick and wounded is the
responsibility of medical personnel who have been provided special
training and equipment. Therefore, unless a good reason for you to
transport a casualty arises, wait for some means of medical
evacuation to be provided. When the situation is urgent and you are
unable to obtain medical assistance or know that no medical
evacuation facilities are available, you will have to transport the
casualty. For this reason, you must know how to transport him without
increasing the seriousness of his condition.
b. Transporting a casualty by litter (FM 8-35) is safer
and more comfortable for him than by manual means; it is also easier
for you. Manual transportation, however, may be the only feasible
method because of the terrain or the combat situation; or it may be
necessary to save a life. In these situations, the casualty should be
transferred to a litter as soon as one can be made available or
improvised.
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