Amphibious Fleet Medical Support

Abstract

This paper comments on the need for additional medical capability in the Amphibious Fleet and reviews the Medical Unit, Self Contained, Transportable (MUST) System. MUST is a completely self‐contained collapsible modular system which to transported on the amphibious ship in a stowed configuration. After “off‐load” of combat cargo the MUST System is expanded and deployed within the ship. This paper comments on the feasibility of this concept, presents possible arrangements of modular facilities on the LSD and LST type ships, and discusses improvement of existing “built‐in” faculties aboard the LKA type ship.