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Subject = OPNS DESERT SHIELD STORM DIARY   807TH MASH                     

Parent Organization = ARCENT      

Unit = VII CORPS   

Folder Title = SUBORDINATE COMMAND HISTORICAL REPORTS-2D COSCOM-332D MED-341ST MED-912TH MED                   

Document Number =          3

Box ID = BX000308







       banners, and people wanting to show their support. Young and old,
       men and women, all want us to know they cared about every one of
       us. With a send off such as this, how can we not return
       successful?


             Our unit arrives at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, home of the
       loist Airborne (Air Assault) Division that morning, but the
       "Screaming Eagles" were already in the gulf, silent testimony to
       the seriousness of our mission. The 3397th United States Army
       Garrison, our host unit during our stay at Ft. Campbell, has
       already met with our advance party, and quarters had already been
       assigned. We stay in the barracks belonging to a deployed
       engineer unit of the loist; little did we know these would be the
       most luxurious accommodations we would live in for the entire
       mobilization! The 3397th USAG is responsible to get us
       in-processed, and to provide necessary remedial training to
       prepare us for the desert. First, though, the unit has to be
       brought up to full strength.


             In order to do this, other Army reservists are assigned to
       the 807th by the 125th Army command, our higher headquarters in
       Nashville, Tennessee. These new members come from the 306th Field
       Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee), the 330th General Hospital (also in
       Memphis), the 5010th General Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, the
       934th General Hospital from Miami,Florida, and the 820th General

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