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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 malnutrition disease seen in young children in the Third
       World. This little girl is typical of the syndrome: tiny,
       listless, and bloated belly. She looks pitiful, and many
       members of the unit, medical and non-medical alike, are touched
       by her helplessness.


             At 2130 we are told to prepare to receive 20 to 30
       casualties in less than 2 hours. The staff gathers in the
       emergency room, and we set up a triage area and 10 treatment beds,
       each with its own physician and nurse. Rain pours down, and oil
       well smoke obscures the sky. Our helicopters are grounded until
       daybreak, and the staff returns to their tents to attempt to sleep
       during this brief respite.


       23 March 1991


             This-morning we have our first true mass casualty. We are
       fortunate that we were warned last night that these people
       were coming. While the Republican Guard doesn't do very well
       against American soldiers, they seem to have no compunctions
       about gunning down innocent women and children, which they do
       with relish. They descend on us in 5 to 8 "huey" helicopters, but
       we are prepared. The first child off the bird is severely wounded
       with shrapnel and gunshots, she dies in the operating room within
       the first two hours. We open three beds for surgery; two in the

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