text: Medical Evacuation
  11-9. Within Army support to other Services, Army resources may provide ship-to-shore MEDEVAC on an
  area support basis. Medical evacuation from shore-to-ship for deployed USN and United States Marine
  Corps, as well as direct and general support to United States Marine Corps forces (when tactically operating
  on land as a maneuver force) forces could also be available within the Army’s support capabilities.
  ORGANIZATIONS
  11-10. There are two types of United States Army MEDEVAC platforms- air (rotary-wing) and ground.
  These platforms are dedicated and designed, equipped, and staffed to perform the MEDEVAC mission.
  MANEUVER BATTALION MEDICAL PLATOON
  11-11. The organic medical platoon ground ambulances provide MEDEVAC support from the POI,
  company aid post, or casualty collection point to the battalion aid station. A casualty collection point is a
  location that may or may not be staffed, where casualties are assembled for evacuation to a medical treatment
  facility. (ATP 4-02.2). It is usually predesignated. In armored BCTs depending upon the mission, enemy,
  terrain and weather, troops and support available, time available, and civil considerations factors and the
  MEDEVAC plan, the tracked ambulances may evacuate the patient to an ambulance exchange point and
  transfer the patient to a wheeled ambulance for further movement to an MTF. This enables the tracked
  ambulance to keep pace with the maneuvering force.
  GROUND AMBULANCES
  11-12. Ground ambulances are organic to BCT maneuver battalion medical platoons and to both the medical
  company (brigade support) and the medical company (area support). In the maneuver battalion medical
  platoons, the actual vehicle platform (wheeled or tracked) varies with the type of parent unit. Both the brigade
  support medical company and the medical company (area support) have wheeled vehicles.
  Brigade Support and/or Area Support Medical Company Evacuation Platoon
  11-13. The medical company (brigade support) evacuation platoon provides MEDEVAC support on an area
  basis to units within its assigned AO. Additionally, it provides direct support to evacuate patients from the
  supported battalion aid stations to the medical company Role 2 MTF.
  11-14. The medical company (area support) provides supported EAB units with MEDEVAC support on an
  area basis for those units that do not have organic MEDEVAC resources.
  Medical Company (Ground Ambulance)
  11-15. The mission of the medical company (ground ambulance) is to provide ground evacuation within
  the theater. This unit provides direct support to BCTs and is employed in the EAB to provide area support.
  It is tactically located where it can best control its assets and execute its patient evacuation mission. This
  unit has a single-lift capability for evacuation of 96 litter patients or 192 ambulatory patients.
  AIR AMBULANCES
  11-16. The medical company (air ambulance) provides MEDEVAC for all categories of patients with
  evacuation precedence and other considerations within the AO on an area and direct support basis. The single
  lift evacuation capacity varies among the three different air ambulance companies. See ATP 4-02.2 Medical
  Evacuation, for more information.