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File: 970207_aadcl_005.txttheir home base and did not reflect they were deployed to the AOR. A even bigger problem was those medical personnel deployed later to man our contingency hospitals. Since they were not located in the AOR, there was not even any PERSCO team strength reporting done. Likewise, the IMA, and PIM members were gained to the active duty personnel files and could not be distinguished from the active duty personnel. DISCUSSION: We need to be able to retrieve data on numbers of deployed and track individuals deployed to the AOR or in support of one of our contingency hospitals. The Automated Personnel Data System (APDS) shows members deployed as present for duty at their home base. This does not provide a clear picture of the staffing levels in a specialty at our MTFs. This makes it difficult to determine which MAJCOM to utilize to provide support for deployed or CONUS backfills. Furthermore, once IMA, and PIM personnel are gained to active duty it is difficult to tell one from the other. This causes these members to reflect as normal active duty and interfere with normal enlisted command allocation cycles. These personnel also showed up on our APDS medical officer manning documents, therefore masking the true manning levels at the various MAJCOMs. RECOMMENDATION: All IMAs and PIM personnel should be gained to a different functional category than "A". A special functional category should be established for mobilized personnel. This would prevent them from interfering with the active duty manning picture. APDS should be modified or a another system developed to identify/distinguish IMAs, PIM, active duty members and those who have been deployed. 10. OBSERVATION: When the PIM personnel were mobilized they were waived from being put on the active duty list. DISCUSSION: Several of the physicians were called to active duty in the grade they separated. Many of them had since completed subspecialty training and under normal accession rules would have received constructive service credit (CSC). The CSC would have allowed them to enter on active duty at a higher grade and provided them with income more comparable to their civilian profession. There was one case where the IRR member was a fully qualified Plastic Surgeon, who are usually Majors or Lt Colonels, who was called to active duty as a Captain. RECOMMENDATION: Either PIM personnel should be given CSC upon their mobilization or grade updated while they are in the PIM program, if applicable. 11. OBSERVATION: The Push-Pull Mobilization System was required to react too quickly. IRR personnel were initially only given 3-4 days notice of their callup and told to report for processing at Lackland AFB TX. DISCUSSION: This short-notice reporting caused the IRR personnel great financial and personal hardship. Health Care Professionals need at least two weeks to allow time to arrange care for their patients and for the solo practice physician to close up shop. Many medical officers were single parents, had a spouse also
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