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File: aabhf_03.txtThe MAC ALCC commander walked out with me, and it all worked out just fine. We set up our site, still the first element out here; then the ASF came, which is the Aeromedical Staging Facility. They walked off their area. Then the AECE came, which is the Air Evac Control Element. I think the Army medical clearing platoon probably came before the AECE; I don't remember right now. Of course, then real estate became very valuable and precious. All of those things that happen when people all try to live together converged, and it all happened. We started running our missions right away here in the tac part of all this. The medical clearing platoon probably took 2 weeks to get set up, so that the classic function of this thing, the operational function, was not really working probably until the beginning of February. So our mission started right away. We were on what they call samaritan channel mission runs, so we had missions every day except Sunday. Some days we had two missions. Often we had two, and one day we had three missions in one day. When the Army got set up, then the new doctrine was that any patient that came to KKMC through the air head, and that is fixed or rotary wing, would first be seen through the medical clearing platoon. They were actually composed of two platoons from two different corps. What I mean by that the 18th Airborne Corps and the 803rd Med Group, which supports echelon above corps beds, were the two platoons that married up, so they were really two-thirds of one company. One group was a Reserve; one group was active duty. The active duty platoon person was the commander. They would
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