News, Sitreps, and Lessons Learned
 
Medical Lessons Learned
At the Breach: Employment of Combat Health Support Assets by P.L. Hockings - News from the Front, July-August, 1996
Casualty Evacuation (Field Artillery) by C.R. Schrankel and E.L. Britt - CALL Newsletter 95-10
Combat Casualty Care in Stability and Support Operations by T.G. O'Haver - News from the Front, March-April 1998
Combat Health Support in the Brigade Combat Team: An Observer/Controller’s Viewpoint by John Garrity - U.S. Army Medical Department Journal, November - December, 1996 
Combat Health Service Support Planning in the Brigade Task Force by S.D. Sobczak - News from the Front, January-February, 1997
Combat Health Service Support Estimate for the Defense - by Stephen D. Sobczak and John F. Grittman - JRTC Article
Company Casualty Evacution: Planning for Success by Robert Burkes - CALL Newsletter 97-14
Level One Combat Health Support for the Light Infantry Deliberate Attack by S.D. Sobczak and J. Freshour - CTC Bulletin 97-15
Logistics Preparation of the Battlefield - CALL Newsletter 92-5
Logistics: Supporting the Offense (Medical Operations) - CALL Newsletter 94-2
Malaria: A Threat to U.S. Troops by P.L. Andrews - News from the Front, May-June 1997
Medical Company Deployment in the Brigade Support Area (BSA) - CTC/NTC Bulletin 97-9
Non-Mechanized Forces: Casualty Treatment and Evacuation - CALL Newletter 89-1
Operations Desert Shield and Storm, Battlefield Logistics: Medical Company - CALL Newsletter 91-5
Operation Just Cause: Medical - CTC Bulletin 90-9
Operations Other than War (OOTW): Humanitarian Assistance - CALL Newsletter 92-6
OOTW: Disaster Assistance: Health Care - CALL Newsletter 93-6
Planning Guidance for the Medical Platoon Leader by P.L. Hockings - News from the Front, July-August, 1996
Stability Operations Training at the Combat Manuever Training Center - CTC/CMTC Bulletin 4th Qtr FY95-1st Qtr FY96
Tenets of Combat Health Service Support: A JRTC Perspective by J.Wood and A. Smith - CTC Bulletin 96-7
The SISU Ambulance by W. Carter - CALL Training Techniques
U.S. Troops in Botswana, 1992: Preventive Medicine Lesson by S. Calow - News from the Front, March-April 97
Winning in the Jungle: Casualty Evacuation and Other Medical Consiterations - CALL Newsletter 95-5
Winning in the Winter: Techniques and Procedures CALL Newletter 97-5
Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) Catalog Server - You can use the CALL Catalog Server to not only search CALL for medical lessons learned but also the following sites: AMEDD, AMSC, Army, Army War College, ATSC, ATIMP,  Battlelabs, CACFS,  CGSC, CSSIT, FMSO, ForceXXI, FORSCOM, Joint Venture, LAM, POM, Soldier's Magazine, USACE, USAMPS, USASMA, USAREUR-ODCSOPS,  USAREUR-ODCSPER, USECOM, and Forts Benning, Bliss, Knox, Leavenworth, Leonard Wood, Rucker, and Sill.
CALL Restricted Access Database - You must be in the U.S. military or a DOD civilian to use this database.  You can request access through the website.
Air Combat Command Center (ACC) for Lessons Learned  - The site has a search engine that can be used to identify Air Force (and, in fact, all Services') medical lessons learned, but you can not review the files using unsecure internet access. To view the files you must access the website through a SIPRNET (Secure Internet Protocol Router Network, a classified internet) terminal at http://157.214.212.52
Marine Corps Lessons Learned System (MCLLS) - The MCLLS is available either through the Marine Corps Data Network or via CD-ROM. Access information is available from the Marine Corps Research Center's Marine Corps University. 
Naval Doctrine Command Lessons Learned - It appears that naval lessons learned are only available via CD-ROM.  Point of contact information is available at this site.
Lessons from Canadian Peacekeeping  - Summary only.  For more information or to obtain copies of the report, contact Dr. Michael Drillings of the Research and Advanced Concepts Office at DSN 767-8641, (703) 617-8641, or FAX (703) 617-5162.
Medical lessons learned files - Army Medical Department Center and School  - This site contains a large collection of medical lessons learned.
U.N. Peacekeeping Lessons Learned Unit  - Not too much is available on-line at present, but the site includes a catalog of books, journal articles, documents, videotapes, etc. that are available in its resource center.  E-mail, phone, and postal contact information is at the site.
 
Sitreps and Archives
Disaster Information Network - Good set of links to websites with current and historical information on all types of natural disasters
The Early Bird - Provides DoD with current news.  Access is limited; information is available at the site.
Emerging Infectious Diseases - A peer reviewed journal published by the National Center for Infectious Disease at CDC
Emergency Net News Service - Disaster, military, terrorism, fire, police, and EMS news articles and archives
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) News Desk - Up-to-date FEMA news releases about on-going operations and a disaster news release archive
Morbity and Mortality Weekly Report - A series of reports and summaries prepared by CDC
ReliefWeb - Up-to-date status on UN humanitarian relief operations
ResponseNet - World-wide status reports on non-governmental humanitarian relief operations
Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA) - Up-to-date sitreps on intenational disasters and humanitarian assistance efforts
 
News Releases and Reports
Air Force News
AMSUS Newsletter
Army Link News
Armed Forces Press Releases
DoD News Releases
Marine Corps News
Military Health System Hot Issues
Weekly TeleMed
 
Newsgroups
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General Military 
clari.usa.military  News about the U.S. military
clari.world.military News of militaries from around the world
sci.military.moderated Discussions about military technology
sci.military.naval Discussions about navies of the world
On-going Wars and Conflicts 
clari.news.conflict News about wars, conflicts, peace talks
clari.news.conflict.misc More news about war and conflict
clari.news.conflict.peacekeeping News of U.N. & other peacekeeping operations
Terrorism 
clari.usa.terrorism News about terrorism within the U.S.
clari.world.terrorism Terrorism related news (non-U.S.)
Disasters 
alt.disasters.misc General discussion of disaster issues
alt.disasters.planning Planning for disaster response
clari.news.trouble.disaster News about major disasters
 
Mailing Lists
Army Medical Center and School (AMEDDC&S) Medical Lessons Learned Listserv - Instructions on how to subscribe are at this page.
Disaster Medicine Automated E-mail List Autosubscriber - Sponsored by California Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 7 Medical Team site
Liszt: the Mailing List Directory - Search a database of over 70,000 mailing lists for those that might be of use to you.
 
If you know of other newsgroups, listservs, sitreps, news archives, or lessons-learned collections of interest to medical planners, please let me know. sanftleben@iname.com
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