Field Sanitation
ISS
IM P R
O V E D A P P L IC A T IO N
No. 04-11
Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027-1350
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
TI
ON INATI EM
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CO LL
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ON
HANDBOOK
Jun 04
For Official Use Only
1
Foreword
In every armed conflict more soldiers become mission incapable by disease and non-battle injury (DNBI) than by combat-inflicted wounds. Many of this DNBI are totally preventable or can be mitigated if standards are enforced and implemented. This handbook is a one-stop shop for doctrinal references; tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP); and lessons learned relating to preventive medicine, field hygiene, and field sanitation for individuals, supervisors, and leaders in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF) and other recent operations. This handbook is a quick reference guide for Soldiers in the field and, though it borrows heavily from FM 4-25.12, Unit Field Sanitation Team and FM 21-10, Field Hygiene and Sanitation, is not meant as a substitute for these or any other field manuals (FMs), technical manuals (TMs), or Army regulations (ARs). This handbook is also not a replacement for advice from medical personnel, preventive medicine personnel, and unit field sanitation personnel deployed in theater. These personnel are available at every level of command and should be viewed as a combat multiplier. This handbook focuses on many of the key field sanitation and preventive medicine issues facing our troops currently deployed in the Central Command (CENTCOM) area of operation (AO) including OIF and Operation ENDURING FREEDOM (OEF). The purpose of this handbook is to support those Soldiers currently deployed and those due to deploy in the future. Force protection is everyone’s business. A healthy force is a protected force. The information contained in these pages is useful to all service members, regardless of rank.
LAWRENCE H. SAUL COL, FA Director, Center for Army Lessons
IM P R
O V E D A P P L IC A T IO N
No. 04-11
Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027-1350
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
TI
ON INATI EM
D
CO LL
EC
ON
HANDBOOK
Jun 04
For Official Use Only
1
Foreword
In every armed conflict more soldiers become mission incapable by disease and non-battle injury (DNBI) than by combat-inflicted wounds. Many of this DNBI are totally preventable or can be mitigated if standards are enforced and implemented. This handbook is a one-stop shop for doctrinal references; tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP); and lessons learned relating to preventive medicine, field hygiene, and field sanitation for individuals, supervisors, and leaders in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF) and other recent operations. This handbook is a quick reference guide for Soldiers in the field and, though it borrows heavily from FM 4-25.12, Unit Field Sanitation Team and FM 21-10, Field Hygiene and Sanitation, is not meant as a substitute for these or any other field manuals (FMs), technical manuals (TMs), or Army regulations (ARs). This handbook is also not a replacement for advice from medical personnel, preventive medicine personnel, and unit field sanitation personnel deployed in theater. These personnel are available at every level of command and should be viewed as a combat multiplier. This handbook focuses on many of the key field sanitation and preventive medicine issues facing our troops currently deployed in the Central Command (CENTCOM) area of operation (AO) including OIF and Operation ENDURING FREEDOM (OEF). The purpose of this handbook is to support those Soldiers currently deployed and those due to deploy in the future. Force protection is everyone’s business. A healthy force is a protected force. The information contained in these pages is useful to all service members, regardless of rank.
LAWRENCE H. SAUL COL, FA Director, Center for Army Lessons