Emergency Listening - How to listen when doing something the first time - Natasha Orslene

Military Academy is the United States oldest continuously occupied military post since 1778.

Today it's home to over 5,000 personnel and has the responsibility for training the next generation of military leaders in the United States. Natasha Orslene served in the United States Army for 11 years and worked in their leadership development program for most of her career, culminating in serving in the United States Military Academy at West Point.

There she was able to observe some of the best leaders in the academy and notice how they listened. Not just to how they listened when lives were on the line, also how they listened in moments of groups meetings where a wide variety of opinions needed to be sought.

Together we explore the evolution of military training from volunteerism all the way through to modern professional soldiers, and what the impact is for leaders and their listening.

We look at the role of modern cyber warfare because it amplifies the importance of listening as the soldier themselves become the weapon system, the software between their ears is what will challenge the adversary. Natasha explores with me the role of listening in moments of cyber interaction as well as how you need to listen across your teams and your adversary simultaneously to ensure that you can maximize the impact of that software or what's in between your ears while you're sitting behind a computer.

Appendix J

9-LINE MEDEVAC REQUEST Request Medical Evacuation

Conditions: Given a casualty requiring medical evacuation and a patient pickup site, request medical evacuation. Necessary equipment and materials: Operational communications equipment, medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) request format, a standard scale military map, a grid coordinate scale, and unit signal operation instructions (SOI).

Standards: Transmit a MEDEVAC request and provide all necessary MEDEVAC request information within 25 seconds.

1. Determine the grid coordinates for the pickup site. 2. Obtain radio frequency, call sign, and suffix. 3. Obtain the number of patients and precedence. 4. Determine the type of special equipment required. 5. Determine the number and type of patients. 6. Determine the security of the pickup site. 7. Determine how the pickup site will be marked. 8. Determine patient nationality and status. 9. Obtain pickup site NBC contamination information normally obtained from the senior person or medic.  

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