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File: aabhf_01.txtSUBJECT: 4410 OPERATIONAL SUPPORT WING (P) CONTINGENCY HISTORICAL REPORT, 3-9 MAR 91, SUP DOC #22 DESERT SHIELD/STORM SUPPORT DOCUMENT TO #00881390 Oral Interview with Maj Kathleen M. Murray Commander, Mobile Aeromedical Staging Facility King Khalid Military City By: TSgt Barry L. Spink, 9 March 1991 Trans & Edited by: Faye Davis S: Major Murray, when did you come over to King Khalid Military City [KKMC], and what was the mission you were expecting to do over here in Saudi Arabia? M: I came to KKMC on the 6th of January this year. I came into country on 14 October of last year, so there was a lag time. My expectations from the time I came into the country until the time I came to KKMC changed quite a bit. When I came into country, I suspected that it would be a classic massive setup; and that is to say, it harkens back to Vietnam. Of course this is a completely different theater, but one thinks of a short runway, probably dirt or hardened, where a -130 can come in, stay for a short amount of time, load the patients on, and out they go. What happened;at KKMC was a totally different kind of picture. I think a lot of the doctrine will be rewritten as a result of this. The classic massive picture, for one thing, does not marry up with an Army group. It is autonomous. Here at KKMC we definitely married up with an Army group, and I think that was a very good thing. I hope that we will do that from now on. I think it is necessary. At KKMC a new model was designed, a "strat tac hub." That is to say that not only -130s would be coming in to evac patients out but also -141s. That involves a completely different mission. The idea was to combine everything at
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