INADEQUATE MTOE VETERINARY DRUGS TO PERFORM WARTIME MISSION

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Subject = INADEQUATE MTOE VETERINARY DRUGS TO PERFORM WARTIME MISSION     

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Folder Title = LESSONS LEARNED                                                                                 

Unit = 22D SUPCOM  

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 1. (U) JULLS NUMBER: 41528-46300(00007), submitted by
 483 MED DET (VS), MAJ C. N. Gaiser,    -

 2. (U) DESERT STORM 91 conducted on 04118/91

 3. (U) KEYWORDS: None.
 4. (U) TITLE: Inadequate MTOE veterinary Drugs to Perform War Time mission

 S. (U) OBSERVATION: The XTOE for a JA or JB team has an
 inadequate variety of veterinary drugs to perform the war time
 mission. In addition what few veterinary drugs were in the
 federal stock system never arrived in theater after a months of
 being on order.
 6. (U) DISCUSSION: Though there was not a large animal mission
 in theater, in the few instances when animals needed to be
 treated we invariably did not have the drugs needed. The few
 drugs that were in the federal stock system never arrived
 because of delays in contracting at origin.

 7. (U) LESSON LEARNED: We obtained the needed drugs by
 establishing a local purchase account or by borrowing them from
 other units which deployed from CONUS with large stookages of
 locally procured drugs.
 8. (U) RECOMMENDED ACTION: (AHS) Establish a comprehensive list
 of federal stock veterinary drugs which are placed in the
 updated XTOE. Require all Veterinary units which use these
 drugs for local ADPAC's and deployment civic action programs to
 order them on a regular basis to establish a reoccuring demand.
 9. (U) COMMENT: Examples of required veterinary drugs which
 were not available include euthanasia solution, vaccines,
 anesthetics and tranquilizers (ROMPUM, Acepromazine etc.), broad
 spectrum anthelminthics, ear cleaning solutions, insecticides,
 dips and shampoos, Ivermectin, heartworm test kits and
 reagents, heartworm preventative and large animal injectable
 antibiotics (such as Liquamycint Gentocin, Tylosin etc.).


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    DECLASSIFIED
    ON: 1 1 MAR 98
    BY: SEC ARMY (DAMH) UNDER SEC 3.4 EO 12958