DESERT STORM AFTER ACTION REPORT

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Subject: DESERT STORM AFTER ACTION REPORT                                

Unit: 22D SUPCOM  

Parent Organization: ARCENT      

Box ID: BX005554

Folder Title: ARMY EOD IN DESERT STORM VOL 3 542 EOD CONTROL TEAM                                             

Document Number:          4

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        safe method left.
               The refugee        and the town of Safwan were nwntally draining. We had to
        act as crowd control persomel (there were just no NP's available except in the
        direst of need) and timing @ts between the movmmts of aircraft, tanks, refugees
        and whatever else decided to mve through the area 3ust wore th2n. Plus the
        starving children and people you could do nothing about who were everywhere, to
        3nclude in and on our trucks it an EOD Tech was not nearby!


            i. Enaineer interface.

               We worked with 5th SFG Engineers in tkie clearing of        in tkie Southem Oil
        Tank Farrrs. They were used to a      t our teams, and were d3.rected to work for the
        EOD Temn Leader. That was the only tin-o we worked with any Engineers.

                     's cmclusim:

            our own EODOC, the 548th, since it was not deploying, was left out of the
        infomation loop on niuch of the military         catim traffic concerning our
        deployamt. They knew we were gouv, but that was all. Neither the 542d nor 54.3d
        BODCTs had us included in their lists of assi@     subordinate uralts once in
        theater. Thus, many tintes we had to call          BOD direct to get informatim our
        Control didn't have; i.e. latest pieces of e7d@t to take (or @t), local
        purchases to make, and reporting unit status.

            Luckily we were able to gain extremely useful informtion fran our EDC at Ft.
        Lewis. Many times we passed it on to both our Control and FORSOC14 BOD since it was
        =re up-to-&te than anything anyone else told us.

            Upm arrival in theater we were assigned to the 542d EODCR. Unfortunately for
        us and a few other de        ts, the 542d was forced to transfer equipmt from ours
        and other's property books to other mdts in the same Control. This was because
        som units left       of their TOE equiwmt at ham before deploying overseas.
   Item left behind included tentage, generators, BOD tools,           equiomt, and EOD
        60 series publication. This created a n-dnor strain m our ability to c=4uct EDD
        operations. With a little creative supply requisitioning and the barter system, we
        were able to make up scam shortages created by the lateral transfers.

            one       EOD can never do enough of is the tra3.n3.ng of EOR Agents to as nmy
        AraW units as possible. EOD deta       t's are willing to give classes as per AR
        75-15, but @ ArnW units are unaware of tkie requirwmt. Because of niission or
        pers@l comtraints, they oftentines camot camtit persomel for an extensive
        training period. The lack of a ccmrehensive BOR prograrn prior to deploymmt to the
        KTO and prior to the start of the war was evident. Both during and after the war,
        MM casualties resulted fran soldiers mving ordnance or picking up s            tions
        for war souvenirs.






                                                CPT, OD

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File Room = sep96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-42
Box ID = BX005554
Unit = 22D SUPCOM
Parent Organization = ARCENT
Folder Title = ARMY EOD IN DESERT STORM VOL 3 542 EOD CONTROL TEAM
Folder Seq # = 3
Subject = DESERT STORM AFTER ACTION REPORT
Document Seq # = 4
Document Date =
Scan Date =
Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 22-NOV-1996