FOREIGN ALLOWANCES APPLICATION GRANT AND REPORT

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Subject = FOREIGN ALLOWANCES APPLICATION GRANT AND REPORT                 

Folder Title = GULF WAR TDY RECORDS BRANDT-WIERSMA                                                             

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                                  DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
                                MEDICAL GROUP (PROVISIONAL)
                                        AM *ILL-09616


         AFFL-HQ                                              9 JUL 91

         SUBJECT: DOCUMENTATION GUIDELINES FOR ANTHRAx IMMUNIZATION

         1. Soldiers in the Southwest Asia Theater of Operations during the time
         frame 1 January through 16 February 1991 were ordered to receive the
         anthrax immunization which was the only "secret* immunization given in
         theater. Some soldiers received one immunization; others received a
         second injection (Al, A2).      During this period of time, Operational
         security precluded annotating   this immunization in the individual's shot
         record and/or the medical      record.    This guidance has since been
         rescinded.    For individuals/ units who were immunized, the following
         guidelines should be followed for documenting tnis activity:
              a. Unit clerks or a unit representative selected by the Individual
         commander should prepare an alpha roster of personnel in the theater
         during the specified periods of time.

              b. Many of the immunization sites have since redeployed and their
         records and the roster of units they immunized are not available.        For
         that reason, it must be assumed that all service members in SWA during
         the specified time period received one or two anthrax injections. Due to
         the discomforts associated with the injections, soldiers will most likely
         remember whether they received a single or multiple vaccination.        The
         soldiers' word will be accepted, and one of the attached slips will be
         stapled to the medical record and/or the shot record upon redeployment to
         home station. (See attachments 1 and 2)

         2.  There were many units known to have received the anthrax vaccine.
         Unit clerks at the time of immunization provided alpha rosters which were
         validated and returned to the unit. Units are authorized to annotate the
         shot records of deployed soldiers with the appropriate immunization
         record.

         3. To emphasize: no theater records of the anthrax vaccine program are
         available.   Each unit deployed to SWA during the specified time frame
         should survey their soldiers and annotate the individual shot records
         with the appropriate form.



                                                        A. T. HADLEY, III
                                                        COL, MC
                                                        COMMANDING


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