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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







       begin our mission in earnest: stabilizing and transporting to more
       advanced facilities. It looks as though we are going to be here
       for awhile, and the Iraqi's know it. We have seen 95 patients
       since we've set up, and judging from the news on the BBC, we're
       going to be seeing a lot more. Civil unrest in southern Iraq is
       provoking a veritable flood of refugees across the trackless
       Kuwaiti border. They are looking for help, and we are it.o


       17 March 1991


             We are adding even more wards to our tiny hospital,
       expanding us to our near maximum of 60 beds. We've also set up
       GP medium and GP large holding tents for our "overflow" of family
       and friends who accompany the sick and injured. MRE's remain
       popular with the Iraqi's, especially the fruit. Just have to be
       careful that we don't give them anything with pork and ham, as
       these are predominantly Shiite Muslims, with strict dietary laws.
       our census shows that we've treated 158 people here during the
       past 4 days. It is quite a demanding pace.


       19 March 1991


             The first civilian cluster bomb victim dies today, and
       unfortunately it is a child. These insidious things are sprinkled
       all over the desert, and,despite numerous warnings to the

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