MED-TAC Loadout Card · MTC-LC-001
Patrol Supervisor — Active Threat and Rescue Task Force
What the first-arriving supervisor carries, decides, and broadcasts. One page. The equipment cache is the easy half; the five decisions are the half that actually determines whether anybody bleeding gets reached.
Download the card. One page, print it, put it in a binder. No form, no email address, no follow-up.
Download the loadout card (PDF)Scope. This is a command and integration card, not a treatment card. It assumes every officer already meets the individual bleeding control standard. It defines what the supervisor carries, decides, and broadcasts. It does not define medical authorization — that is your agency medical director and state law.
Framework. Civilian active-threat response is governed by TECC. TCCC is the military framework. They are separate and they do not mirror each other. The Hartford Consensus THREAT sequence — threat suppression, hemorrhage control, rapid extrication, assessment, transport — is the integration model most joint SOGs are written against. Name the framework your policy actually cites, and cite only that one.
Supervisor unit loadout — beyond the individual officer standard
| MARCH | Capability | Min. qty | Purpose / carriage |
|---|---|---|---|
| M | Windlass limb tourniquets, CoTCCC-recommended — cache | 10 | Resupply for the contact team and the CCP |
| Hemostatic or plain packing gauze | 10 | Supervisor unit, individual pull packs | |
| Pressure / trauma dressings | 10 | Supervisor unit, individual pull packs | |
| R | Vented chest seals | 20 | Two per anticipated casualty |
| H | Casualty wraps or hypothermia blankets | 4 | Supervisor unit |
| + | Soft litter or drag device | 2 | Casualty movement out of the warm zone |
| + | Triage ribbon or tags | 25 | Ribbon is faster than tags with gloves on |
| + | Zone marking tape and chem-lights | 1 set | Mark the CCP, linkup point, and cleared corridor |
| + | Casualty count board or wet-erase card | 1 | Accountability. Memory fails at scale |
| + | Cross-band radio or spare fire / EMS portable | 1 | The most common integration failure, solved for $400 |
The first five decisions — they are decided by you or they are not decided
| # | Decision | Timing | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do not join the contact team. Establish command. | 0–2 min | First-arriving supervisor |
| 2 | Declare the warm zone and name its boundary on the radio. | On containment | Incident commander |
| 3 | Designate the casualty collection point and broadcast it. | With zone | IC, with fire / EMS input |
| 4 | Assign the force protection element to the RTF. | Pre-entry | IC or tactical group supervisor |
| 5 | Set the linkup point and the ambulance exchange point. | Pre-entry | IC with the EMS branch |
Warm zone is a decision, not a place
- The warm zone is a risk judgment made by a named person and broadcast on the radio. If nobody said it out loud, it does not exist — and fire will not move.
- It moves. Re-declare it. A boundary set at minute four and never revisited is why rescue elements sit in a stairwell for twenty minutes.
- No supervisor on scene to declare it is the same as no warm zone. Delegate that authority in written policy before the incident.
- Hesitation here is the single largest source of preventable delay in the after-action reports we read.
Casualty collection point
- Pick it for the route out, not for the room. A CCP with one exit is a bottleneck and a trap.
- Broadcast it once, clearly, then mark it physically — tape, chem-light, or a posted officer.
- One CCP until it saturates. Two CCPs nobody agreed on is two half-run operations.
- The CCP sits inside the warm zone and needs a security posture of its own.
Force protection for the Rescue Task Force
- Composition is fixed in your joint SOG, not decided at the curb and not borrowed from a class somebody took. Two officers per element is commonly cited — verify against your written policy.
- The protection element secures. It does not carry litters, treat, or clear. The moment it does, the element is unprotected.
- Officers assigned to the RTF get the linkup brief before entry: route in, CCP, route out, abort criteria. Ninety seconds. Not optional.
- Fire and EMS will not enter without a named officer accountable to them. Name one, out loud, on the radio.
Radio and accountability
- Fire and law enforcement on separate channels with no patch is the failure we find most often. Solve it at the console before the incident, not on scene.
- Count casualties out loud and write them down. Transport destination accountability is a supervisor function and it is always the first thing lost.
- Log three timestamps: warm zone declared, CCP designated, RTF entry. Every after-action review turns on those three.
The five failures we find on audit
- First-arriving supervisor joins the contact team and command sits unfilled for nine minutes.
- Warm zone never declared out loud, so fire stages and casualties wait.
- No radio interoperability with fire — separate channels, no patch, no plan.
- CCP chosen for the room instead of for the egress route.
- No signed MOU or joint SOG, so the RTF concept exists only in a slide deck.
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Download the one-page PDF · Tactical team version · Rescue task force (fire) version · EMS version