The 9 line uses the military alphabet for brevity. If you want to properly role play, feel free to use them, but most likely other people will have no idea what you are referencing with them so I suggest that you simply type out what the line is in full words.
Line 1
List the location of the pick-up site.
If you are evaccing via CASEVAC stretcher, state the location of the CASEVAC stretcher. If you are evaccing the casualty on the dropship, state the appropriate LZ. If you are pinned down and need an armed escort, state your current holding position. (you can state that you need armed escort to the pick-up site later in the 9 line report).
Example: Line one: Central Barrens, break.
Line 2
State your radio frequency, call sign and suffix.
This doesn't really apply to CM SS13, but you can still state your squad frequency and role. This allows the POs and any other respondents to know what squad radio to talk on for further details.
Example: Line Two: Bravo frequency, Bravo squad medic, break.
Line 3
State how many patients there are by sorting them into an appropriate category:
- A – Urgent. Evac ASAP. Subject's life, limbs or eyesight is at risk of deteriorating in their current state and requires prevention. This is the most serious case and can be used for patients with a plethora of injuries that puts them into critical state, such as necrotic flesh, organ damage, broken bones, brain damage, etc.
- B – Urgent surgical; stabilize casualty and evac ASAP. Surgical intervention is required to save patient's life. Patients with internal bleeding, pierced lungs, broken bones, etc.
- C – Priority; sick or wounded person requiring prompt medical care and who should be evacuated within a short window of time or the casualty's medical condition could deteriorate to such a degree that he could become an urgent precedence. This could be things like infected wounds at risk of infection, fractured bones, etc.
- D – Routine; Sick or wounded person requiring evacuation, but whose condition is not expected to deteriorate significantly.
- E – Convenience. Evacuation is a matter of medical convenience rather than necessity.
Example: Line three: 1-Bravo, 3-Charlie, break.
Using the military alphabet we refer to the categories. '1-Bravo' means that we have one patient that is assigned to B - Urgent Surgical, '3-Charlie' means that we have three patients assigned to C - Priority.
Line 4
State the special equipment required to evacuate the patient(s).
- A - None.
- B - Hoist. In SS13 CM we don't have helicopters that fly over with hoists to extract wounded, so this is unusable.
- C - Extraction Equipment. This can refer to equipment such as stretchers or cyro bags.
- D - Ventilator. If the patient can't breathe on their own you can include this to let the medical/respondents know to load on gas masks and oxygen tanks to stabilize the patient. Of course, peridaxon and dexalin is a thing so this category is basically defunct.
- Other. Feel free to list whatever else may be required here.
Example: Line 4: Charlie. Send two stretchers and two cyro bags, break.
Line 5
State how many patients are litters, and how many are ambulatory.
- L - Litter. A litter is a patient who is either unable to move under their own power (paincrit, unconsciousness) or has been immobilized to facilitate medical treatment (locked in a cyro bag / buckled to a stretcher).
- A - Ambulatory. Ambulatory means a patient is able to stand, sit and walk on their own.
Example: Line 5: 1-Lima, 3-Alpha, break.
One patient is litter (unable to walk), and three patients are ambulatory (able to walk).
Line 6
State the level of security at the pick-up site.
- A - No enemy troops in area.
- B - Possible enemy troops in area (approach pick-up site with caution.)
- C - Enemy troops in area. (Approach pick-up site with extreme caution, no armed escort required.)
- D - Enemy troops in area, armed escort required. (Approach pick-up site with extreme caution, an armed escort is required to secure casualties.)
Example: Line 6: Delta, break.
Line 7
Method of pick-up site marking. This line is essentially defunct for CM SS13 as signalling is unnecessary.
- A - Panel. This is defunct, CM SS13 has no signalling panels.
- B - Pyrotechnical signal. This is defunct, CM SS13 has no pyrotechnical signals.
- C - Smoke signal. This is mostly defunct, as CM SS13 has screening smoke grenades, not signal smoke grenades.
- D - None.
Example: Line 7: Delta, break.
Line 8
State the patient(s) nationality and status.
- A - USCM Military.
- B - UA Civilian. {Correct me if i'm wrong, but I believe colonists are part of the United Alliance, so survivors would be tagged as this.)
- C - Non-USCM military. Freelancers, PMCs, etc. would be tagged as this.
- D - Non-UA Civilian.
- E - Enemy Prisoner of War. This lets the respondents know that they will be needing to enforce EPW protocols, and to bring restraining equipment.
Example:Line 8: 3-Alpha, 1-Echo, break.
this means that three marines are being evacuated, and one enemy prisoner of war is as well.
Line 9
State if there is a Nuclear, Biological, or Chemical contamination. This line is especially useful for infection rounds. It lets you know that the patient(s) coming up have an infection, which will allow the respondents to put on proper equipment before retrieving the patients.
- N - Nuclear. There are no nuclear fallouts in CM SS13, so this is defunct.
- B - Biological. This is especially useful for infection rounds.
- C - Chemical.
- None.
Example: Line 9: None, over.
