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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







      Hospital from Puerto Rico. Other critical personnel needs are
      filled by National Augmentation Detachment (NAD) personnel, drawn
      from as far away as Wyoming. Our unit is growing in numbers and
      diversity, as members begin to arrive from all over the United
      States. Members continue to be added to the unit during the next
      five weeks, finally bringing our numbers to 245 with 239
      authorized.


           The greatest challenge is now to begin: bring 245 strangers
      from all over the United States together and teach them to work as
      a life-saving team. Their individual skills were formidable and
      varied, the key would be in getting them to use those skills
      harmoniously together. Just like an orchestra conductor faced a
      complex symphony, so the command was faced with challenge of
      getting everyone to play the same life-saving music.


            We spend 23 days at Ft. Campbell, being readied for our
      deployment to Saudi Arabia. Extensive training is provided in the
      area of nuclear, biological and chemical warfare: how to recognize
      this type of warfare, and how to survive in this radically
      different environment. Self-protection, as well as the treatment
      of contaminated casualties becomes the order of the day, and our
      training is tested and retested. Chemical agent protection,

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