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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







       road was incredible. Cars, trucks, huinm-veets (the Army's new
       jeep), blazers, busses, seemingly everything with an internal
       combustion engine and wheels is on that road. it reminds all of
       us once again what a tremendous logistics effort is involved in
       this whole operation.


       24 January 1991


             Our arrival at the 332nd Medical Brigade headquarters is not
       an auspicious one, as we spend a night crowded in tents, cold and
       hungry. The sky in the desert night is the blackest black one can
       imagine, the darkness is almost a physi6al presence, overpowering.
       Dawn finds us striking our tents and preparing to move some 6
       miles to our first of many "homes". There is nothing to identify
       Tactical Assembly Area Thompson as such, except that the spot on
       which we stand matches the grid coordinates we have been given
       (N2810/E4612). The rest of the scenery has nothing to distinguish
       it from any other spot in this lifeless terrain. It has taken 2
       hours to move this 6 mile distance, and Churchill's analogy of the
       desert being like the sea is certainly not lost on any of us. Each
       tiny compound that springs up is like an island in an ocean of
       sand. In the distance is a large, white, tent ... the biggest tent
       most of us have ever seen. It begins to gain an importance all of
       its own when we discover that AT&T has set up phones there:
       100 of them, each a link back to civilization.

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