DESERT STORM SPECIAL STUDY COMMENTS CORRECTIONS

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Subject: DESERT STORM SPECIAL STUDY COMMENTS CORRECTIONS                 

Unit: ARCENT      

Parent Organization: CENTCOM     

Box ID: BX000426

Folder Title: OPER DESERT STORM SPEC STUDY PROJ REVIEW SEPT 5  1991                                           

Document Number:         51

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         As reads: CENTCOM initiated a Class I subsistence procurement
         program in theater very early in the operation.         When local
         procurement of Class I subsistence is planned, contracting agents
         must coordinate with the Command Surgeon to ensure procurement is
         from an approved source. Initially there were no Veterinary Corps-
         approved sources in Saudi Arabia for these procurement actions, and
         contracting agents ignored the requirement. The requirement exists
         to protect the health of soldiers and prevent food-borne enteric
         disease. There were isolated cases of disease from Shigella and
         Salmonella contaminated food.

         Should read:   ARCENT, the executive agent for veterinary support,
         initiated a Class I subsistence source inspection program very
         early in the operation for the entire CENTCOM Area of Operational
         Responsibility. Initial veterinary experts in this field arrived
         in the AOR on 2 Sep 1990. Although there were no Veterinary Corps
         approved food sources in Saudi Arabia at the beginning of the
         operation, over 300 sources were approved by the ARCENT program by
         end of October 1990. No cases of food-borne diseases in the AOR
         could be traced to lack of approved f ood sources due to the
         extremely high standards dictated by the Saudi Arabian Government.
         Isolated cases of disease from Shigella and Salmonella contaminated
         food were due to:

              a.   Failure of unit preventive medicine measures such as
ities in the vicinity of
         latrines and occasional troop use of third country national local
         "fast food" outlets; and:

              b.   In two cases, "corner-cutting" by previously approved
         contractors who surreptitiously obtained vegetables from non-
         approved sources outside Saudi Arabia.

         Discussion:    The "should read" paragraph is self-explanatory and
         provides the facts.   Note that Saudi Arabian food standards, as
         written, are equivalent to -- if not, on occasion, more stringent
         than -- those of the United States.


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