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opportunity to share their experiences and provide each other 
with mutual psychological support Mental Health services from 
the ATH made themselves very accessible throughout the war, but 
their services were never really required. 

Go and No Go pills, Dexedrine and Restoril, were used in the 
initial deployment and in the first few days of the air war. No 
Go pills were used primarily in the time immediately prior to the 
initiation of hostilities, since most of the launches occurred in 
the very early hours of the morning. Go pills were occasionally 
used on long missions (6-8 hrs) throughout the course of the war. 
Go pills were readily available through the ATH pharmacy. Resto-
ril, however, was initially difficult to obtain in the first one 
to two weeks of the war, which was the time they were most need-
ed. There were no significant problems noted with the use of 
these medications and, in fact, their judicious use was quite 
beneficial to the accomplishment of the mission. 
 
Twenty nine man days out of over 3100 total were lost during the 
war to medical problems. This included one person who passed a 
kidney stone during the early days of the war and spent a 
significant amount of time on DNIF status after that. Over all 
the rate of illness was quite low in the squadron during the war. 
Most of the man days lost were due to upper respiratory 
infections just as in peace time. During the whole deployment 
there were a total of 114 man days lost, again mostly due to 
upper respiratory illness. 
 
There was one aircraft accident that occurred in early February 
involving two fatalities from the 390th. A 366 TFW flight 
surgeon went to the accident site and was responsible for the 
recovery and transport of the remains. He also served on the 
interim mishap board until the permanent board was established. 
The findings of the board were briefed to HQ/USAFE. 
 
2. LESSONS LEARNED: 
 
	a. Since we only had the medicines and supplies that we 
brought with us, initially the amount of care that we could 
provide was limited. After the ATC did arrive, there were a 
number of very common medications which were not on the TA which 
would have been good to have. These included such common things 
as Pepto-Bismol, throat lozenges, etc.  Another problem was that 
certain things were not readily resupplied even after the ATH was 
established. For example, there was a need for a lot more 
Restoril with the beginning of the war than we had originally 
brought with us. We did eventually get the supplies we needed 
after the time they were most needed was over. 
 
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