Counter-LRA mission in central Africa, from January 2012 through December 2016. Such training was typical of the SORT contribution to Operation OBSERVANT COMPASS (OOC), the U.S. The UPDF medical personnel had performed well. During the exercise, the SORT personnel were ‘observer-controllers.’ When it was all over, the SORT team leader, Army Captain (CPT) Lucas T. It was the culminating exercise for UPDF medical personnel, who had trained with the SORT every Saturday for nearly three months.

The SORT was not treating the wounds because it had ‘inflicted’ them, through the expert use of moulage. Upon closer examination, the casualties that the UPDF medics were sorting and treating were not victims of an LRA ambush, after all. The triage was efficient and by-the-book, and yet something was different: the SORT was not helping the UPDF triage the casualties. Three of the casualties were assessed as “immediate” the remaining were either delayed or minimal. 1 Fortunately, in this situation, none of the casualties fit the “expectant” category, which meant that all nine casualties could be saved, with the proper medical care. The UPDF medics unloaded the casualties and triaged them into four categories: expectant, immediate, delayed, or minimal, in descending order of severity. Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) and their Ugandan partners. It had all the makings of a very bad day for both U.S. The casualties arrived by Toyota pickup truck in waves of three, until the total number had reached nine. The SORT’s Flight Surgeon, its remaining two SOCMs, and its Medical Laboratory Specialist awaited the casualties at the dirt airstrip that lay just southeast of the town of Nzara. One of the SORT’s three Special Operations Combat Medics (SOCMs) accompanied the casualties during evacuation. The five-man medical team sprang into action.

This was exactly the type of ‘mass casualty’ (MASCAL) event that the 528th Sustainment Brigade’s Special Operations Resuscitation Teams (SORTs) were especially trained and equipped to handle. and UPDF soldiers had been wounded, some of them critically, and were in need of immediate medical attention. The complex ambush was initiated by an improvised explosive device, followed by withering small arms fire. Army Special Forces and Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) soldiers had been attacked by elements of Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Word came into the Tactical Operations Center (TOC) at Forward Operating Site (FOS) Nzara, Republic of South Sudan, that a combined patrol of U.S.

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