a, Operation CTG 7.3 No, 1453 ce. Medidal, (1) Facilities (a) Medical facilities afloat are those organic to assigned ships. Ships shall be prepared to provide treatment and hospitalization for other elerents of Task Forces | (b) Medical facilities ashore are provided at ENIWETOK by CTG 7.2, and at KWAJAIEIN by C. 0., NavSta, KwaJ, (c) In case medical emergencies occur where proper nedical facilities are not available, such eases should be transferred to the nearest adequate medjcal facility by the most expeditious means possible. (2) of (a) Although medical facilities afloat and at ENIWETOK and KWAJALEIN are sufficient to take care of the normal necds of CTG 7.3, in case of a mjor catastrophe, serious epidemic, or other occasion where evacuation is indicated, air evacuation will be coordinated by CJTF SEVEN fron ENIWETOK to KWAJALEIN and onward to QiHU for hospitalizetion at Tripler Army Hospital. The facilities of fleet aircraft and MATS will be mde available for air evacuation lift. (b) Personnel, who in the opinion of appropriate medical authorities cannot be returned to duty within fifteen (15) days, normlly shall be transferred to the Army Hospital, ENIWETOK, where they will be held and treated until air evacuation has bgen arranged by CTG 7.2. Military and civil service personnel will be evacuated to the Tripler Army Hospital, OAHU, T. He All others will be evacuated to civilian hospitals on QAHU, T. H, (3) Preventive (a) All units assigned to TG 7.3 shall institute a continuing program to control cutbreak of disease, to inprove sanitation, and to control insects and rodents in accordance with Chapter 22, BuMed Mamal, (4) Burials DNA (a) BuMed Manual, Chapter 17, contains current directives relative to burials and the treneportation of remmins where death occurs outside the Continental United States. Qa C-4 CHANGE #4 / oF