Personnel recovery in the AFRICOM area of responsibility : cost-effective options for improvement / Christopher A. Mouton, [and 5 others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mouton, Christopher A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of Defense--Search and rescue operations--Africa--Evaluation.

United States.

United States. Department of Defense.

Medicine, Military--United States.

Medicine, Military.

Search and rescue operations.

Evaluation.

Africa.

Physical Description:

xxii, 53 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2019]

Summary:

The mission of rescuing injured personnel in Africa is uniquely challenging for a variety of reasons, including the limited scale yet widely distributed nature of U.S. Africa Command's (AFRICOM's) operations and the uncertain security conditions in much of the continent. This report identifies the most cost-effective options for improving rescue capabilities in AFRICOM's area of responsibility (AOR). The researchers built a rescue model that accounts for seven factors: the costs of new rescue capabilities, the current and projected locations of medical treatment facilities in AFRICOM's AOR, the current and projected locations of deployed aircraft in Africa, the existing locations of airfields in Africa, the locations and numbers of U.S. personnel in Africa, the survival rates of injured personnel as a function of time and of medical care received, and the trends in injury occurrences in combat theaters. In addition to charting the optimal rescue paths out of Africa, the model calculates the marginal cost-effectiveness (in terms of survival rates) of investing in four separate rescue assets at various basing locations while instituting shorter aircraft alert times. The findings suggest that there is a very strong synergy to be gained from combining mobile surgical teams with shorter aircraft alert times. Under all sets of conditions considered, additional surgical teams are always initially preferred to additional aircraft. The researchers recommend that AFRICOM request additional mobile surgical teams and decrease aircraft alert times as much as possible.

Contents:

CHAPTER ONE: Introduction

CHAPTER TWO: Cost Analysis of Rescue Asset Options

CHAPTER THREE: "Rescue Capability" Inputs

CHAPTER FOUR: "Personnel Injury" Inputs

CHAPTER FIVE: Rescue Model Outputs

CHAPTER SIX: Recommendations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781977401458

1977401457

OCLC:

1117460555