Manage Casualty Operations

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Manage Casualty Operations
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Terminal Learning Objective

• Action Manage the Casualty Operations Program
• Condition Given access to AR 25-50, AR 600-8-1,
  DA Form 1156, and FM 1-0 in a classroom
  environment.
• Standard The students will have met the
  standard of 70 accuracy, when they have
• 1. Defined the principles of casualty
  operations
• 2. Defined the use and purpose of forms used
  in casualty operations
• 3. Determined the principles of the casualty
  notification process
• 4. Identified the purpose and content of
  letters of sympathy and condolence
• 5. Identified the responsibilities of each
  echelon related to casualty operations

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References

• AR 25-50, Preparing and Managing Correspondence
• AR 600-8-1, Army Casualty Program
• FM 1-0, Human Resources Doctrine, (FINAL DRAFT)

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Outline

• Principles of casualty operations
• Casualty Feeder Card (DA Form 1156)
• Casualty notification process
• Letters of sympathy and condolence
• Responsibilities of each echelon

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Casualty Operations Mission

• Record, report, verify, and process casualty
  information from unit level to HQDA
• Notify appropriate individuals and provide
  casualty assistance to the NOK

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Casualty Program Functions

• Casualty reporting
• Casualty notification
• Casualty assistance
• Mortuary affairs
• Line of duty determination

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Casualty Operations Functions

• Casualty Reporting

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Casualty Defined

• Any person declared lost to his or her
  organization by having been declared

• Dead
• Diseased
• DUSTWUNDuty Status - Whereabouts Unknown
• RMC Returned to Military Control
• Missing
• Injured/ILLVery Seriously Wounded, Injured or
  Ill (VSI)Seriously Wounded, Injured or Ill
  (SI)Not Seriously Wounded, Injured or Ill (NSI)

• Missing, MIA, Interned, Captured, Beleaguered,
  Besieged, Detained

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Special Interest/Categories

• Unique or bizarre circumstances that may generate
  media interest
• Any casualty incident involving persons or
  special interest
• Active/retired general officers and designees
• Bn/Bde or higher level Cdrs in hostile fire areas
• Advisory field grade officers in hostile fire
  areas
• Former/present Sergeants Major of the Army
• Government official/public figure under Army
  sponsorship
• Returned prisoners of war
• Others identified by Director, CMAOC

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Wartime Casualties

• Anyone with knowledge reports via chain of
  command
• Unit CDR initiates casualty information flow
• Use DA Form 1156 (Casualty Feeder Report)
• Bottom line Report all casualties on the
  battlefield (American civilians, other services,
  Allied forces, and other units soldiers)

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Coordination

• Medical battalion aid station and medical
  company to monitor casualty status
• Logistical Mortuary affairs collection points,
  personal effects disposition with Battalion S4,
  movement of personnel
• Provost Marshal Straggler information
• Investigation Officer 15-6 investigations
• Division Safety Office Friendly fire incidents

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Initial Casualty Reporting Items

• 1 Casualty rpt type
• 2 Type of casualty
• 3 Casualty status
• 4 Report number
• 7 Personnel Type
• 8 SSN
• 9 Name

• 12 Rank/grade (Service members only)
• 13 Service
• 14 Unit of assignment
• 36 Incident date/time
• 37 Incident place
• 39 Circumstances
• 40 Inflicting force (only if hostile related)

Note There are 92 possible items of information
for a completed casualty report
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Types of Casualty Reports

• Initial (INIT)
• Status Change (STACH)
• Supplemental (SUPP)
• Prognosis or Progress (PROG)
• Health and Welfare

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Casualty Status

• Very Seriously Wounded, Injured, or ILL (VSI)
• Seriously Wounded, Injured, or ILL (SI)
• Not Seriously Injured or ILL (NSI)
• Special Interest (SPEINT)

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DCIPS Forward (DCIPS-FWD)

• Intuitively simpler
• Field deployable casualty reporting software
• Standardizes casualty reports
• Produces reports and queries for commanders
• Unclassified system data is FOUO

E-Mail
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Outline

• Principles of casualty operations
• Casualty Feeder Card (DA Form 1156)
• Casualty notification process
• Letters of sympathy and condolence
• Responsibilities of each echelon

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DA Form 1156 (Front)
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DA Form 1156 (Front) Mandatory Fields
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DA Form 1156 (Back) Mandatory Fields
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DA Form 1156 (Back) Authentication
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Outline

• Principles of casualty operations
• Casualty Feeder Card (DA Form 1156)
• Casualty notification process
• Letters of sympathy and condolence
• Responsibilities of each echelon

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DD Form 93 / SGLV

• DD Form 93 (Record of Emergency Data)
• Importance
• Review/Update
• SGLV 8286 (Servicemembers Group Life Insurance)

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Casualty Notification

• Line of Succession to Establish NOK
• Responsibility of Notification
• Manner of Notification
• Selecting Casualty Notifiers
• Notification Information
• Hours of Notification
• Dos and Donts for Notification

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Notification Rules

• Notification Timelines (within receipt of INIT)
• Deceased, DUSTWUN, Missing 4 hours
• Injured or Ill casualties 2 hours
• Frequent reasons for delays in notification
  - Complex and non-traditional families
• - Distance to PNOK/SNOK location
• - PNOK/SNOK at work/on vacation
• - DD Form 93 info incorrect/missing

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CONUS CACs
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OCONUS CACs
HAWAII (Schofield Brks)
ALASKA (Ft. Richardson)
PUERTO RICO (Ft. Buchanan)
EUROPE
(1st PERSCOM)
KOREA (8th PERSCOM)
KUWAIT (CENTCOM)
JAPAN (Camp Zama)
OKINAWA (10th ASG)
Contingency CACs established as needed.
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Casualty Notification Flow
If NOK is not in Reporting CAC or HSCAC region
If NOK is not in Reporting CAC region, but in
HSCAC region
If NOK is in Reporting CAC region
Assistance of NOK
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Theater Casualties
CasualtyOccurs
BN S1 (Verify)
BDE S1 (INIT Rpt)
Unit (DA FM 1156)
Contingency CAC
CMAOC
Notification And Assistance Procedures from
Previous Slide
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Casualty Assistance

• Assist NOK immediately following a casualty
• Assist in settling survivor benefit claims and
  survivor benefits
• Assist in other personnel-related affairs
• Serve as Army liaison to pass information between
  the Army and the family

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CAO Packets

• HQDA CAO guide
• Veterans Affairs and Social Security
  Administration location and numbers
• Telephone and email addresses of officials who
  can provide assistance
• Appendix A, AR 600-8-1 and all required forms
• List of service organizations, including Army
  Emergency Relief and Red Cross
• Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) CAO
  guide
• Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
• Guide for surviving family members

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Outline

• Principles of casualty operations
• Casualty Feeder Card (DA Form 1156)
• Casualty notification process
• Letters of sympathy and condolence
• Responsibilities of each echelon

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Letters of Sympathy Description

• Sent to PNOK of deceased
• Separate letters sent to separated/divorced
  parents who are PNOK
• Not sent when NOK is fully aware of casualty
  circumstances
• Initiator is supervisor or unit commander
• Contingency field grade commander
• NOK may desire letter from previous commander

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Letters of Sympathy Procedures
When CAC confirms notification of family
member, CAC/Deployed G1 forwards letters of
sympathy to the NOK.

• CONUS Casualty
• 24 hours after notification
• OCONUS Casualty
• 72 hours after incident or INIT report
• Contingency-7 days after incident or INIT report

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Letters of Sympathy Content(Do include)

• Content should include
• Sincere and simple language
• Answers to usual questions
• Comfort the NOK
• Did not suffer
• Memorial Service/last rites
• Other factual, important details

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Letters of Sympathy Content(Do not include)

• Content should NOT include
• Unfitting compliments and ghastly descriptions
• Photographs depicting casualties
• In missing cases, statements to lose hope
• Information that conflicts with previous data
• Statements about posthumous promotion, decoration
  or award
• Predominately military terms and abbreviations
• Any statements that can be basis for claim

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Letters of Condolence

• Primary situations
• Chain of command (other than immediate commander)
  wishes to express condolences to NOK
• Immediate commander of a DA civilian employee

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Outline

• Principles of casualty operations
• Casualty Feeder Card (DA Form 1156)
• Casualty notification process
• Letters of sympathy and condolence
• Responsibilities of each echelon

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Casualty Flow
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Casualty Liaison Teams (CLTs)

• HR personnel attached to medical facilities and
  theater mortuary affairs activities
• Mission is to obtain, verify, update and
  disseminate casualty information
• When deployed, CLTs work directly for the
  Casualty Operations Division of the HRSC
  operating the theater CAC and provide support to
  hospitals and G-1 sections, unless otherwise
  determined by OPORD.
• CLTs are resourced from organic personnel

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Agencies at Multiple Echelons

• Battalion S-1 (Para. E-3)
• Brigade/BCT S-1 (Para. E-4)
• Division/Corps G-1 (Para. E-5)
• Human Resources Sustainment Center (HRSC) (Para.
  E-6)
• Theater Army Casualty and Records Center (TACREC)
  (Para. E-7/E-8)
• Human Resources Command (HRC) Casualty and
  Memorial Affairs Operations Center (CMAOC) (Para.
  E-10)

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Practical Exercise

• The Light
• Case Study

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Terminal Learning Objective

• Action Manage the Casualty Operations Program
• Condition Given access to AR 25-50, AR 600-8-1,
  DA Form 1156, and FM 1-0 in a classroom
  environment.
• Standard The students will have met the
  standard of 70 accuracy, when they have
• 1. Defined the principles of casualty
  operations
• 2. Defined the use and purpose of forms used
  in casualty operations
• 3. Determined the principles of the casualty
  notification process
• 4. Identified the purpose and content of
  letters of sympathy and condolence
• 5. Identified the responsibilities of each
  echelon related to casualty operations

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