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provide quite limited. when we arrived we joined with Dr Pete 
Bauer from Lakenheath. Later Dr Tindall arrived from Lakenheath 
along with an ATC and several aeromedical technicians. Our ATC 
did not arrive for several days after we arrived. We combined our
resources with the personnel from Lakenheath to provide medical 
care for the deployment. Initially, we were the only source of 
medical care for all the 366th and 48th TFW Deployed personnel.
Over the course of the deployment we saw approximately 2,000 
patients. Of those, about 600 were seen in the first weeks prior
to the arrival of the 833rd Med Gp Air Transportable Hospital 
(ATH). Most of the supplies and medications that we had were what 
were on the ATC table of allowances (TA). In many respects this 
was inadequate to the tasking that we had, especial!, in the 
early days of the deployment. 
 
Laboratory, radiology, and specialty support has provided at 
first by the Saudi military hospital.  This initially was quite 
cumbersome due to bureaucratic and social restraints. Eventually, 
however, those problems were overcome with the help of their 
flight surgeon, Dr Ramos, who is a retired USAF flight surgeon.
Once the Air Transportable Hospital arrived many of those same 
services were provided by them.  The quality and availability of 
host nation medical support overall was quite good throughout the 
deployment. 
 
Although there were no war casualties treated here, the presence 
of the ATH was invaluable since we would not have been able to 
provide quality medical care to the 3000 plus personnel stationed 
here by ourselves. 
 
Prior to the outbreak of hostilities, we spent a significant 
amount of time in training.  This training covered a wide range of 
topics and exceeded the usual SME training requirements. In an 
effort to make good use of our time Dr Tindall chose to do peri-
odic flying physicals. There were a lot of problems associated 
with having proper, calibrated equipment, obtaining lab results 
in a timely fashion, as well as other problems. In this case the 
Air Force message which recommended that physicals not be accom-
plished in theater was proven to be a wise decision. We partici-
pated in the accomplishment of a number of physicals, although we 
elected not to perform physicals for aircrew from the 366 TFW 
because of the previously mentioned problems. 
 
Medical resupply was accomplished through the ATH and was for the
 most part quite good. There were some initial delays in obtaining 
medications but those seemed to be resolved later in the deploy-
ment. 


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