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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







       operating room and one in the EMT for less serious surgery. The
       EMT is filled with crying and screaming children, sobbing mothers,
       and the occasional worried father. one woman sits by the
       operating room isohut as her nephew is operated on: her four
       children are already dead, and she cries as she sits in the
       open, wrapped in a woolen blanket which is being soaked by a
       pouring rain.


            Shrapnel, debridements, partial and complete amputations, the
       list seems endless, and when the dust finally settles we've
       performed 36 operations in 24 hours. U.S. GI's also continue to
       arrive during all of this, and they receive care as well. The
       injured arrive with their families, and suddenly we are inundated
       with over 100 Iraqi's who need to be fed and housed. With just
       one interpreter, the valiant Sergeant Nayef of the Kuwaiti Army,
       we run into one language barrier after another. U.S. GI's who
       have minor illnesses volunteer to help take care of patients,
       many giving up their own beds to these poor unfortunates.


            Even after the mass casualty, Iraqi's continue to arrive
       and it seems that for every one we evacuate, three others show up.
       Cluster bombs are everywhere on the battlefield, and they are
       slowly taking their toll. It seems as though each day
       between 1600 and 1700 another "huey" descends with 3 or 4 rag
       wrapped little bodies, almost always children, carrying the

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