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File: aaamf_01.txtSUBJECT: TENT TOWN TALKER "Let it be your pride...to show Do You Know The second former general to all men everywhere not only what serve as president of the United good soldiers you are, but what States (George Washington was good men you are." the first)? Woodrow Wilson US president answer on page 2 TENT TOWN TALKER Deployment Day No. 44 Sept. 22. 1990 Public Affairs CAMP NOTES Colonel Smith said that once typhoid enters the camp it can be passed in food. * The base sirens will be tested Tuesday water and from person to person,. about 1 p.m. All camp people should be able He said that the typhoid is a bacteria to hear a one-minute steady tone, Disaster which infects the gastro intestinal tract Preparedness asks everybody to report their much like the AGI distress cases that were ability to hear the siren to their first going on recently. Along with scouring sergeant, supervisor or commander. diarrhea, a high fever sets in and the * MWR and Public Affairs have disease spreads to the liver, gall bladder televisions and VCRs for people to watch and the spleen. amateur home Videos they receive from "It is treatable with antibiotics, but family and friends. This equipment will be the quickness of this disease can claim used in the PA or MWR tents, not for sign- fatalities," he said. out. The colonel said that a mandatory shot * The new CSG first sergeant is MSgt. record check would start Sept. 26 through 28 William Griffin. and people must report to the Tent Town * Tent City Clinic is open 7:30 a.m. to Clinic (green tent) between 7 to 11 am. and 5:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, 7:30 a.m., to 1:30 1 to 4 p.m. Shots will be given during those p.m. Saturday, and closed Sunday. The main times as well. times as well hospital is open 24 hours. TECHS, MASTERS MAY REQUEST HYT WAIVERS TYPHOID OUTBREAK SPURS RECORD CHECKS Technical and master sergeants whose An outbreak of typhoid in the northern adjusted high year of tenure rendered them edge of the Arabian Peninsula has military ineligible for the next promotion cycle may medical personnel scrambling to inventory request HYT waivers for one additional vaccination stocks and set up shot-record promotion cycle, according to PERSCO chief checks. SMSgt. J.P, Morgan, The chief of hospital services, Lt. Col, Don Smith, says that the spread of typhoid is Technical sergeants with a January to usually one of the by-products associated June, 1991, HYT may request an extension to with crowded and filthy conditions of refugee July. Master sergeants with a January to camps, which have formed along Saudis February HYT may request April. Arabia's border. Check with PERSCO for more information. "Typhoid spreads incredibly fast and makes people incredibly sick." Lt. Col, CHAPEL SCHEDULE Smith said. Protestant He said that even though we are pretty Sun, 9 am. , Worship Service in MWR Warehouse far from the outbreak, there are many people Sun, 6:30 p.m. , Evening Worship Service in this camp who rotate around the theater Mon - Sat, 9 am, , Prayer and Share and the possibility exists that an Mon - Sat. 6:30 p.m., Bible Study individual whose immunity level to typhoid Bible Study, Daily, 9 p.m., except Tuesday has not been recharged with a vaccination, and Saturday could return here with the disease and spread Holy Communion is the first Sunday morning it to others, service and the third Sunday evening services "A typhoid shot is required every three of each month. years and as people deployed for this Latter Day Saints, Sunday. 9 operation their shot record was checked," am, In Chapel Office Tent the colonel said. Church of Christ, Sunday, 11 a.m., "But some records showed the typhoid vaccination still current for a few months Catholic and those people were not given shots," he Sat, 8 p.m., Anticipated Sunday added. Mass He said that the hospital here was well Sun, 9 a.m., Catholic Mass stocked with vaccinations and urged everyone Mon - Fri, B a.m., Morning Prayer to pull out their mobility folder and look at Mon - Fri, 8 p.m., Daily Mass their shot record, Mon, Wed, Fri, I p.m. , Rosary `This is a pretty severe disease and it's Reconciliation (Confession), Before Mass and much worse than anything we've seen," he upon request said. Faith inquiry, Tuesday after Mass
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