text: Army Aviation Operations
   Shore-to-ship.
   Stability tasks.
  * Strategic:
   Host nation.
   Defense support to civil authorities.
   Nongovernmental organizations.
   Department of Defense support to other government agencies.
   Foreign humanitarian assistance.
  3-146. Table 3-2 displays primary task and purpose of the AE function. For additional information on
  MEDEVAC and medical regulations, refer to JP 4-02, AR 40-3, and ATP 4-02. 2.
  Table 3-2. Primary task and purpose of AE functions
  Primary task Purpose
  Clear the battlefield of casualties to facilitate and
  Acquire, locate, treat, enhance the tactical commander’s freedom of
  stabilize, and evacuate movement. This task is performed by the aeromedical
  evacuation crew.
  Maintain the patient’s medical condition during transport
  and provide emergency medical intervention when
  required. This task is performed by the critical care flight
  En-route medical care
  paramedic. Additional en-route care is provided by en-
  route critical care nurses and additional advance
  providers on a case-by-case augmentation.
  Provide evacuation for units without organic medical
  evacuation assets. Provide for rapid medical evacuation
  Area support response to units operating throughout the supported
  area.
  Emergency movement of Provide a rapid response for the emergency movement
  medical personnel, supplies, of scarce medical resources throughout an operational
  and equipment environment when required by the operational situation.
  Transfer of patients between Provide a capability to cross-level patients within the
  medical treatment facilities theater hospitals and to transport patients being
  and en route patient staging evacuated out of the theater to staging facility prior to
  system flight departure. Provide intra-theater aeromedical
  evacuation.
  Provide a reciprocal procedure to exchange like medical
  Medical property transfer property when patients are evacuated with equipment
  accompanying them.
  Provide support to medical regulating activities to
  ensure vital linkup between operational evacuation
  Medical regulating support support and the scheduling of patients for evacuation
  out of theater by strategic aeromedical evacuation
  resources.
  3-147. Air ambulance companies are equipped with 15 HH-60 aircraft, capable of supporting 24-hour
  operations. These companies consist of a company headquarters, an area support MEDEVAC platoon
  equipped with three HH-60s, and four forward support MEDEVAC platoons with three aircraft each. The
  company can operate either from one location or up to five decentralized locations, depending on the
  supported population, the size of the AO, the locations of MTFs, and the capabilities of supporting
  elements. An aviation task force is typically task-organized with one forward support MEDEVAC platoon
  of 3 HH-60s and 21 personnel.