scope:

Scope and Applicability.

This notice applies to Navy Medicine (NAVMED) personnel billeted to Navy or Marine Corps commands. ORION is designed for utilization by all Navy and Marine Corps commands that experience a unit-level, non-combat trauma in which the trauma involves any loss of life or presumed or expected loss of life and occurs while in the performance of official duties. For traumatic incidents that do not meet ORION criteria, ORION can still be utilized for tracking and targeted outreach at a command's discretion.

Purpose.

To direct implementation of standard procedures for organizational incident operational nexus (ORION), a new comprehensive program designed to track active duty Sailors and Marines exposed to unit-level, non-combat trauma and provide targeted outreach to those at elevated risk for psychological injury.