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Redneck
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"HHGG: CFMF N.S.S.H. Units"
 
   N.S.S.H. Units (Naval Space Surgical Hospital)

Composition:
One modified corvette (Plymouth-I, -II, or -III class)
Command crew: 6
Surgeons (general): 3
Surgeons (specialized): 2
Nurses and Supporting Medics: 12
Other support staff: 8
Marines: 8

The initial plans for the CFMF's line of battle ran light on medical personnel. This lack was due in great part to the difficulty of recruiting trained doctors and surgeons to mercenary service, but it was also caused by the expectation that casualties in space would be decidedly fatal, with few cases where a medic could actually help. This presumption was rapidly debunked in the early engagements of the Freespacers in fleet actions. Safety technology had made space combat survivable, given quick medical response... and once the numbers of preventable deaths were made clear, plans were made to implement this response.

The original N.S.S.H. units were designed to be ground-based mobile hospitals, deployed from a small starship capable of surface landings. These starships would be armed to deter enemy attack (there being no reliable convention against attacking medical noncombatants) but would only carry a skeleton combat crew, leaving the maximum bunk space for trained medical personnel.

As armed ships, the five N. S. S. H. units active in 2388 were all present at the battle of Wilderness Station, their medical staff evacuated with the Marines and civilians. Their performance in that battle led the CFMF high command to decide against any future combat deployment of NSSH ships, and the replacement units were based on unarmed ships. Today every CFMF TacFleet task force has a NSSH unit assigned to it, and no NSSH unit is ever deployed without some military escort or protection.

Each NSSH has three general surgeons, one of whom is the commanding officer for the unit (rank of lieutenant commander). In addition to this number are two specialists, the specialities varying from unit to unit. (There are no species generalities, however; all NSSH surgeons are expected to have trained in medicine for the more common races in the CFMF at a minimum.) A couple of non-surgical specialists, such as the anaesthesiologists and dentists, are dropped in with the various nurses and orderlies. A small command and support staff, and a squad of Marines for ground security, round out the complement.

NSSH units originally deployed on secured planets or on orbital bases. With the advent of the expanded Plymouth-III hull, the need for exterior facilities was eliminated, although it is still preferable for handling large numbers of casualties. Facilities for recuperation and rehabilitation are Spartan at best; the NSSH's mission profile is to stabilize a patient, remove them from the threat of death, and prepare them for transfer to a better equipped hospital. Long-term postoperative care is only employed when there are no hospitals nearby (on interstellar terms).

NSSH units tend to have a high activity rate, even when there are no hot combat situations generating wounded for them to treat. The CFMF keeps the units in training by deploying them as volunteer relief forces for disaster aid efforts.

Each NSSH unit has its own motto- "Always Prepared," "Cutting Where Angels Fear to Tread," and the ever-popular "Best Care Anywhere", for example. The overall NSSH command motto says it best, however: "That No Man Shall Be Forsaken."

NSSH command is a sub-set of MASS Command for training and organizational purposes; all individual NSSH units are part of CFMF Tactical Fleet.

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  RE: HHGG: CFMF N.S.S.H. Units jadmire Mar-16-02 1
     RE: HHGG: CFMF N.S.S.H. Units Redneck Mar-16-02 2
     RE: HHGG: CFMF N.S.S.H. Units Gryphonadmin Mar-16-02 3
         RE: HHGG: CFMF N.S.S.H. Units Star Ranger4 Mar-16-02 4
             RE: HHGG: CFMF N.S.S.H. Units jadmire Mar-16-02 5
                 RE: HHGG: CFMF N.S.S.H. Units Gryphonadmin Mar-16-02 6

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jadmire
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1. "RE: HHGG: CFMF N.S.S.H. Units"
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   LAST EDITED ON Mar-16-02 AT 09:38 AM (EST)

What are the names of these ships? Does the CFMF have any larger "fleet hospital" type ships analogous to USNS Mercy and Comfort? Does the WDF have such ships (either fleet hospital ships or smaller units like the CFMF's N.S.S.H. ships)?

And on a related issue: does the CFMF have any dedicated CSAR (combat search and rescue) assets, or is that task simply assigned to a MASS at need?

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2. "RE: HHGG: CFMF N.S.S.H. Units"
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   LAST EDITED ON Mar-16-02 AT 11:54 AM (EST)

>LAST EDITED ON Mar-16-02 AT
>09:38 AM (EST)

>
>What are the names of these ships?

I don't have time to list every single NSSH unit right now. However, the NSH ships lost at Wilderness were CFF-20 Guardian, CFF-34 Respite, CFF-49 Phoebus, CFF-63 Gaia's Hand (a primarily Salusian outfit), and CFF-85 Kenden (primarily Corellian). The first two NSSH units formed after Wilderness were CFF-113 Merciful and CFF-119 Wishbringer.

> Does the CFMF have any larger
>"fleet hospital" type ships analogous to USNS Mercy and
>Comfort?

No. There are several dedicated Freespacer hospital ships, the largest being CFA Clara Barton, but they are not deployed to the front lines.

>And on a related issue: does the CFMF have any dedicated CSAR (combat
>search and rescue) assets, or is that task simply assigned to a MASS
>at need?

All available ships, including MASS fighters, participate in post-combat search. Retrieval is done by transporter where possible, or by dedicated shuttle squadrons if transport is contraindicated. The shuttle squadrons are based aboard the CFMF's big battle-wagons, the Plymouth-IV/Wilderness and Charlemagne classes.

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3. "RE: HHGG: CFMF N.S.S.H. Units"
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   >Does the WDF have such ships (either fleet hospital
>ships or smaller units like the CFMF's N.S.S.H. ships)?

Yes.

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4. "RE: HHGG: CFMF N.S.S.H. Units"
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   >>Does the WDF have such ships (either fleet hospital
>>ships or smaller units like the CFMF's N.S.S.H. ships)?
>
>Yes.

I think this translates to: Of course they do, but I haven't worried about it much otherwise because it was never important to any of the stories.

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5. "RE: HHGG: CFMF N.S.S.H. Units"
In response to message #4
 
   LAST EDITED ON Mar-16-02 AT 05:34 PM (EST)

>>>Does the WDF have such ships (either fleet hospital
>>>ships or smaller units like the CFMF's N.S.S.H. ships)?
>>
>>Yes.
>
>I think this translates to: Of course they do, but I haven't worried
>about it much otherwise because it was never important to any of the
>stories.
>
If Gryphon had ever been a board wargamer, he would probably have been in the camp that didn't care for games with lots of "chrome" (1). :) Oh well, they may not be important _now_, but who's to say what may happen down the pike? (Rhetorical question, of course...)

-Joe-

(1) "chrome" - in board wargaming terms, refers to all the little details, such as unit ID's, detailed terrain types, special rules for political and economic events, etc., that give a game period flavor but which some purists consider too much of to get in the way of gameplay itself.

Give me a little time....say, a couple of years....and I just might come up with an interesting signature.


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Gryphonadmin
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6. "RE: HHGG: CFMF N.S.S.H. Units"
In response to message #5
 
   >>I think this translates to: Of course they do, but I haven't worried
>>about it much otherwise because it was never important to any of the
>>stories.
>>
>If Gryphon had ever been a board wargamer, he would probably have been
>in the camp that didn't care for games with lots of "chrome" (1). :)

Yeah. I played Battletech.

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