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File: aacad_03.txtLesson's Learned: - Take Medical Records - the first day we had an individual throwing up blood and no medical history of the individual for the medics to look at, I still find it hard to believe Bergstrom not only overlooked this but would not send them to us after several requests this could have been life threatening in several incidents, 95% of the other units at our location had their medical records along. - Prime RIBS team kit is grossly inadequate - Luckily we were smart enough to take admin supplies for several months, aprons, gloves, pillows, blankets, detergent. cooking utensils, thermometers, and LAND MOBILE RADIOS. We only took 2 and needed at least 4 to coordinate events between tent building to search and recovery. Services was very low on the priority list for LMRs but they were sorely needed and the two I took were used constantly. Deploying to the field without a lap top or PC was almost a handicap itself. It was virtually impossible with our manning and population increases to keep an accurate manual locator system going as well as admin work such as policy letters, LORs, and files. We begged Comm to give us one and they did, but the delay was aggravating and costly to time and efficiency. Also I took a squadron Search and Recovery bag and used every item in the bag on two accidents. There were no mortuary supplies or morgue kit at our site initially, recommend at least one Search and Recovery bag be added to the kit. - Take Extra Cutlery- Arriving at the site with two MKTs,, and serving a 850 population, kitchen tools wore fast and disappeared. A complete knives set, serving spoons, tongs, thermometers, scrubbing pads, rags, and can openers need to be in each kit at a minimum. Sanitation was pitiful and pot and pan area was outside in the open. - Services personnel arrived at scene too late - We had major problems with our late arrival at this bare base site. We arrived to a population of approximately 500 personnel already in bunk spaces with no hot food, having been there up to 7 days already. The temporary Lt Col expected miracles (he was most senior member). The largest group there was the 728th TCS squadron from Hurlburt, the most impossible group of people I ve ever dealt with. They had approx 5 623x0, they owned and controlled and this created major conflicts about who supervised them and who they belonged to, since their commander was the highest ranking, he won the battles and we had to cater to his people. Anyway, as groups came in and unpacked and covered cots next to them to make it look like the space was occupied, it was virtually impossible to establish a base population count or determine which spaces were not occupied and at our site, as the population increased and tents didn't arrive on time we had people sleeping on the ground, in work tents, morgue ect... the task was impossible to go in after the occupants and count...it took weeks to straighten things out and finally receive an 0-6 at the site to support us. Services MUST be the first group in, in the future. CES was not present either, so once Red Horse left after tent erection, there was very littlesupport . They arrived 3 days after us and that was a significant amount of time at the location. A hot meal was also expected immediately , luckily there were several pallets of B-rations on the ground...something positive.
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