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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








             A minor error has been made (not the first one, as we know
       all too well) and the people from the division are debating
       whether we are or are not in Kuwait. Apparently, the "are not's"
       win this debate, as we are told to pack up and prepare to move 5
       miles (yes, that's right, 5 miles) west towards Kuwait. Here, at
       grid coordinates N2952/E4710, we reopen the hospital to prepare to
       take more patients. This has turned out to be our tenth move, but
       the good news is that we are now within walking distance of the
       telephones. This turns out to be a day to remember, because as
       we are setting up the hospital darkness suddenly fills the sky.
       Expecting torrents of rain, we rush everything into the milvans,
       only to discover that the darkness is from the smoke
       belching from burning oil wells. The temperature plummets into
       the
       60's, and soon all the vehicles have their headlights on. It is
       dusk at 1300, a depressing pall hangs over our new home. We have
       the hospital set up by 1200, and are receiving patients almost
       immediately, admitting the first three by 1400.


            our orders are to set up "minimal" hospital facilities, a
       couple wards, the EMT, one operating room and one CMS section, as
       we are not to receive many patients, just the occasional emergency
       and the usual sick call.

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