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File: aacad_11.txtthe beginning with no computer or admin tent to work in. Within two months the 702 was sent home and not replaced. Laundry Exchange operated relatively smoothly but the Army did lose several items a week and we still had to clean all other clothes by hand. Lesson's Learned - Mark your name on everything - Most missing items were incorrectly marked when sent to the plant, things of value loved to walk in our environment. H. The Tactical Field Exchange was controlled by Major Larsen so I didn't really get involved other than to shop. However, we requested a TFE kit as well as Prime FARE personnel to run it and our storeroom function early in the game . The personnel showed in January, 6 weeks after us, so it had been a significant amount of time before smokes or candy were available to us. A large morale controller. Lesson Learned - Set up your own Imprest Fund/IFE- we could have bad a TFE alot sooner if we had gone to Daharan and set up an imprest fund rather than wait for Centaf to approve our site and send items. Direct contact with AAFES would have been the ticket, lesson learned. I think we counted on Centaf way too much to provide the things we needed, the best way to obtain things was to get it yourself, which I did more than once a week. - Keep the Army out- There were several Army personnel in our tent city but eventually the Army in the TFE outnumbered the Air Force. They weren't to be in our camp at all but it was hard to tell who belonged and who didn't. Eventually long lines and item shortages resulted, as well as sneaking into dining hall and eating. We finally got it under control but the best thing was to keep them out, they had their own. It sounds cold but we were barely taking care of the Air Force people. I. Post War tear down was a long drawn out process. Once the fighter planes left and accompanying maintenance folks, about 40 % of the tents were available for teardown and thats what happened. We had ot consolidate personnel and then wait for the word for us to depart. The flying mission went away but soon thereafter KKMC became the Army point of debarkation thus we kept the runway open and food moving. Eventually 12 MAC Aircrews rotated in and out to support the Army. They were the worst complainers of the tent city population and demanded quite a bit of attention, their prima donna attitudes didn't get them very far in our bare base arena. Services some how was stuck with the pick up of cots, blankets, pillows , sheets and tent parts throughout the deployment. I attribute this to the fact, that we hochoed the tent build ups and everyone came to us looking for additional parts, also Supply was 6 weeks late in getting to this location. The teardown was slow, we had all the time we needed. CES had a tent tear down crew that attacked after we cleared the occupants. The WING commander held many aircraft from leaving until the tents were cleaned by the occupants.
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