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![- 179. In marking out a new site for a tented C.C.S. a good arrange- ment is for the advance party to be equipped with coloured tent pegs (separate colours for each department), mallet and tape measure. The exact site of departments can then be marked off and indicated before the arrival of the main body. The lorry carrying equipment of a particular department on arrival drives straight on to the new site and much labour and time is saved in quickly erecting tentage and installing equipment. The total area required for a tented C.C.S. is approximately 200 yards by 200 yards. But, wherever possible, a C.C.S. will be accommodated in a building. 180. Once a C.C.S. is clear of patients, the time taken to pack the unit up and load it varies from two to four hours, depending on whether it is set up in a building or in tents, and also on the amount of practice the personnel have received. It requires from four to six hours to open fully in its new location, the actual time being again dependent on the above factors. In calculating a time for opening, it is necessary to add the period taken on the journey, which will depend on the distance and the speed of the transport; this again will depend on local conditions, but it is well to allow one hour for ten miles. 181. For the necessary documentation see Chapter 9. 182. Casualties are evacuated from C.C.S. to army and/or L. of C. hospitals by motor ambulance companies, hospital train and by air. Field Surgical Team (F.S.T.) (Surgical Detachment) 183. Allotment.—Field surgical teams are army troops allotted on a scale of two for each armoured and infantry division, and six for each airborne division. D.D.M.S. army allots the teams to medical] units in corps or army, generally two teams to each C.C.S. Once allotted they come under the control of the administrative medical officer of the formation in which they are serving. 184. Organization.—A field surgical team consists of a surgeon, an anesthetist, six orderlies and two drivers. The team is mobile and self-contained with regard to transport and equipment, but it depends on the parent unit to which it is attached for maintenance and administration. 185. Role.—The role of the F.S.T. is to act as a mobile surgical team which can be attached to.a medical unit to provide or increase the surgical potential of that unit. 186. F.S.Ts. are usually attached to C.C.S., but they may be used to provide the surgical component of an advanced surgical centre (see para. 192) by attachment to a corps F.D.S.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32178141_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
