AAR COMMENTS ODS AND DS 14TH PREVENTION MEDICINE UNIT 9 APR 91

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Subject = AAR COMMENTS ODS AND DS 14TH PREVENTION MEDICINE UNIT 9 APR 91

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

Unit = VII CORPS

Parent Org = ARCENT

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
HQ, 14TH PREVENTIVE MEDICINE UNIT
332D MEDICAL BRIGADE
APO NEW YORK 09698

9 April 1991

MEMORANDUM FOR: Commander, U.S. Army Readiness Group, Fort Leonard Wood,
Missouri 65473-6700 (ATTN: COL Lawrence) )>

SUBJECT: AAR Comments/Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. 14th
Preventive Medicine Unit -if;

1. These comments cover the period of 29 Nov 90, when the 14th Medical
Detachment was activated, to date. The comments are divided into various
categories !@ome of which are mission-related and some of which are not. A
separate s;rles of comments will be developed at a later date for the period
of deactivation of the unit at FLW.

2. Mission and Organization.

a. The mission of the unit and its subordinate teams was to provide
.oreventive medicine (PM) and veterinary service (VS) support to VII Corps in
Southwest Asia (SWA) during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in Saudi
Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait.

The 14th was a direct reporting unit of the 332nd Medical Brigade from
iville, Tennessee. In addition to the 14th, consisting of a Headquarters
T@@m (AM) and three Environmental Sanitation Teams (LB), the command of the
-14th included three Active Component LB Teams
(the 48th from Ft Riley, the
71st from Germany and the 223rd from Ft Carson) and two Reserve Component
Veterinary Teams (JA), the 358th from Opelika, Alabama and the 449th from
Ames, Iowa.

S. Task Assignments

a. Task assignments were made to provide PM and VS support on an area basis
during operations in SWA. For example, during the ground battle, the 71st LB
Team was given PM support responsibility for the northern VII Corps sector in
Iraq and Kuwait served also by MASH hospitals in the 341st Medical Group. The
223rd LB Team, the 48th LB Team and one of the 14th LB Teams were given PM
support responsibility in the central VII Corps sector in Iraq and Saudi
Arabia served also by CSH hospitals in the 127th Medical Group. The other LB
Teams and the JA Teams provided PM and VS support, respectively, in the rear
VII Corps sector in Saudi Arabia served also by EVAC hospitals under Task
Force Evac.

b. The AM Team provided administrative, maintenance and logistics support, as
well as command and control, of all teams from its location at the 332d
Medical Brigade base camp. A 14th HQ Jump TOC was organized to deploy to the
VII Coros north-central sector- (at Log Base Nelligan) for geographically
ceU alized command and control during the ground battle. However, the ground
t @e ended prior to its movement date.

C. Following the ground battle and prior to re-deployment via rear assembly
areas (RAAs), the VII Corps assumed the mission of area security along the

DECLASSIFIED
ON: 13 -MAR 98
BY: SEC ARMY (DAMH) UNDER SEC 3.4 EO 12958