NERVE AGENT ANTIDOTES ISSUED IN SUPPORT OF DESERT SHIELD

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AGENT ANTIDOTE.  1.  REF MSG HAS BEEN RETRANSMITTED AS CENTAF AND NGB POLICY.  2.  QUESTIONS HAVE ARISEN REGARDING APPLICATION OF THIS 
POLICY TO INDIVIDUALS TRANSITING THE DESERT SHIELD THEATER SUCH AS MAC AIRCREWS AND SOME NGB PERSONNEL.  3.  REF MSG IS CONSIDERED POLICY FOR


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THOSE INDIVIDUALS DEPLOYED FOR AT LEAST 90 DAYS.  4.  FOR INDIVIDUALS DEPLOYING LESS THAN 90 DAYS, NERVE AGENT ANTIDOTES (ATROPINE, PRALIDOXIME AUTOINJECTORS AND PYRIDOSTIGMINE TABLETS) MAY BE RETURNED TO THE HOME UNIT AT THE DISCRETION OF THE  MAJCOM.  IT IS THEN THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE MAJCOM TO ASSURE THAT ANY ANTIDOTES WHICH ARE REISSUED DO NOT EXCEED THEIR EXPECTED SHELF LIFE.  5.  POC AT HQ TACOPS/SGPA IS MAJ GIOVANETTI, DSN 574-5857 FOR COL RANDOLPH, CENTAF/SG."UNQUOTE.
2.  PARA 3 OF REF B PROVIDED HQ MAC POLICY REGARDING RETURN OF NERVE AGENT ANTIDOTES.  THIS GUIDANCE IS STILL IN EFFECT.  WE'RE SORRY THAT SEEMINGLY CONFLICTING GUIDANCE GETS ISSUED, BUT IT IS VERY DIFFICULT, 
AND USUALLY IMPOSSIBLE, TO ISSUE ONE SET OF INSTRUCTIONS THAT APPLY ACROSS THE SPECTRUM OF SITUATIONS CURRENTLY BEING ENCOUNTERED BY EACH SEPARATE MAJCOM.
3.  POC FOR THIS MSG IS LTC DUNKLE OR CHIEF HAMPT AT DSN 576-2235.//
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