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File: 970207_aadcv_018.txtTOPIC AREA: LACK OF PERSCO TEAM AND/OR MEDICAL SQUADRON SECTION FOR AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION SUBMITTED BY: HQ AFRES/SGXO ISSUE: Aeromedical Evacuation Control Elements (AECEs) are not staffed to handle the myriad of personnel related problems associated with large numbers of aircrew members. DISCUSSION: Problems were encountered concerning everything from pay to emergency leaves at each deployment location having large numbers of ARC personnel. Billeting, messing, and transportation were also personnel irritants that could have been properly handled with better/proper staffing. An eleven-person AECE, working around the clock mission-specific routines, is not capable of also spending the necessary time and manpower to look into all of the "people problems". This same situation was found to be true at mobile aeromedical staging facility (MASF) sites and aeromedical evacuation control centers (AECC). Many of the affected personnel felt their problems were being ignored, or that the the management just didn't care. IMPACT: Degradation of moral and mission accomplishment. RECOMMENDATION: Serious consideration must be given to either: 1. Deploy a PERSCO team to each ARC deployment location. 2. Develop a Medical Squadron UTC which can be modified to accommodate the number of ARC personnel deployed at each location. 17
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