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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







       time is occupied by visiting other troops in the area, digging
       bunkers and foxholes, walking for exercise, writing letters, and
       picking up rocks.


             There were a great many rocks in this area, and they were of
       all colors, shapes, and sizes. At the top of a sandy, rocky pile
       north of our encampment there is a Chapparal missile battery. The
       Chapparal is designed as an anti-aircraft missile, but the young
       men of the crew seem confident that it will also stop a SCUD,
       should the Patriots miss or malfunction.


       22 February 1991


       This is our last day to send mail home, and mail
       continues to be a morale problem. It seems to take forever to get
       here, and is nearly always late. It arrives sporadically, and we
       never know if today will be a mail call day or not. From our
       telephone conversations, we know that our loved ones are trying to
       get it to us, but somewhere along the way this vital,
       morale-boosting link has broken down. our isolation increases
       even more. Two new surgeons join our staff, and we are now fully
       inanned for our mission.


       24 February 1991

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