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Subject = AFTER ACTION RPT ODS  AND DESERT STORM  6 MARCH 91              

Box ID = BX000284

Folder Title = AAR COMMENTS OPERATION DESERT SHIELD STORM 14TH PREVENTIVE MEDICINE UNIT 9 APR 91               

Unit = VII CORPS   

Parent Org = ARCENT      




     DECLASSIFIED
     ON: 13 MAR 98
     BY: SEC ARMY (DAMH@dJAiEER SEGi3AtfiO 12958
                            14TH PREVENTIVE MEDICINE UNIT
                                 APO NEW YORK 09698

                                                                    6 March 1991

   MEMORANDUM TO: RECORD (CF: 332d Medical Brigade)

   SUBJECT: After Action Report, Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

   1.  This AAR covers the period during which the 14th Medical Detachment
       was "in country", beginning 7 January 1991, to date. A separate, final
       AAR will be prepared to cover the entire activation-deactivation period.

   2.  During its deployment is Saudi Arabia, the 14th Medical Detachment
       included an AM Team and three LB Teams, plus additional 91S personnel to
       form a fourth LB Team, and other personnel in specialty areas such as
       administration, supply and maintenance. Entomologists were also
       included in the event insect vectors became a problem. A total of 77
       personnel (la officers, 59 NCO and enl.) were deployed from the 14th
       Medical Detachment.
       Five other teams were attached to the 14th during deployment. Three were
       active component LB Teams: the 48th Medical Detachment from Ft. Riley; the
       71st Medical Detachment from Germany; and the 223rd Medical Detachment
       from Ft. Carson. Each of these teams had 11 members. The other two teams
       were Reserve Component JA Teams: the 358th Medical Detachment from
       Opelika, Alabama and the 449th Medical Detachment from Ames, Iowa. Each
       of these teams had 6 members.

   3.  The mission of the 14th Medical Detachment and it subordinate units was to
       provide preventive medicine and veterinary services (food inspection)
       support to VII Corps in its area of operations (AO) during operations
       Desert Shield, Desert Storm and until re-deployment. Division-level
       preventive medicine support was provided by preventive medicine assets at
       division level. The Commander, 14th Medical Detachment, also appraised
       the Commander, 332d Medical Brigade, regarding significant preventive
       medicine and veterinary issues via the Brigades AC of S, Professional
       Services, who in turn counselled with the Brigade Staff Preventive
       Medicine Officer and Veterinarian.

   4.  Task assignments were made to provide preventive medicine and veterinary
       support on an area basis during operations in SWA. For example, the 71st
       LB Team was given P.M. support responsibility for the northern VII Corps
       sector served by the MASH hospitals under the 341st Medical Group. The
       223rd LB Team, the 48th LB Team and the 14th Delta LB Team were given the
       PM support responsibility for the central VII Corps sector.. including the
       areas of the CSH hospitals under the 127th Medical Group. The other LB
       Teams and the JA Teams provided rear VII Corps sector PM and vet support,
       including the areas of the EVAC hospitals under TF Evac. The AM Team
       provided administrative, maintenance and logistic support from its
       location at the 332d Medical Brigade base camp and tasked an internal Jump
       TOC to deploy to the VII Corps central sector (Log Base Nelligan) for
       centralized command/control. The Jump TOC did not move to LBN, however,
       since the ground phase of the battle ended prior to its movement date.

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