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Subject: DIA INSUM                                                       

Unit: VAR. BUMED  

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Box ID: BX303819

Folder Title: desert storm immunizations and innoculations cna 57-60889                                       

Document Number:         19

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          FOR PEACE, BEFORE THE FIRING STARTS." REPORTEDLY, THE STATE DEPT
          PAGE 06 RUENAAA4661 UNCLAS
          COMPLAINED THAT HOLDING THE MEETING CLOSE TO THE U.N. DEADLINE COULD
          y
          ALLOW IRAQ TO STRING OUT THE DISCUSSIONS AND FRUSTRATE POTE.       U.S.
          Mll.I'I'ARY ACTION AFTER 15JAN. IRAQ @ REPFATF.DI.Y STATED NO MEETING
          WILL -FAKE PLACE BEFORE 12JAN.
          7.PERSONNEL. 7JANNAVYTIMESINCLUDEDACOMPRFHENSfVEARTICLEBY
          JOHN BURI-AGE ON -I-I IE FUTURE OF TI IE NAVY, GIVEN OPERATION DESERT
          SI IIEI.D AND BUDGET CUTS. BURLAGE WROTE THE POST-DESERT SHIEI.D NAVY
          WEIGHS ON THE MINDS OF NAVY LEADERSHIP, EVEN AS TI = COPE WITH THE
          BIGGEST DEPLOYNAN'T OF U.S. FORCES SINCE VRETNAM. THE     CONCERN OF
          NAVY LEADERS WILL BE THE'-VVELL BEING OF NAVY PEOPLE CAUGI IT UP IN THE
          DEMANDS OF DESERT SHIELD AND THE DRAVVDOWN OF THE MILITARY THAT I.IKFI.Y
          WILL FOLLOW IT," WROTE BURLAGE. "A DECADE OF REBUILDING HAS GFVEN
          THE COUNTRY A STRONGER, MORE CAPABI.E NAVY," SAID ADM KELSO, ACCORDING
          TOTIIET.@S. KELSO"APPIAUDEDTHESKIII.OFNAVYPEOPLE"WIIOMOVED
          HI-@.CH SHIPS AND EQUIPMENT TO THE GULF, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME
          DFAT ING WITH THE SPECIAL NEEDS OF OLDER WEAPONS PLATFORMS LIKE
          BAT=SL IIPS, TI FE TIMES WROTE. SECNAV GARRETT AGREED, SAYING, "THE
          @VEL OF DEDICATION AND ENERGY OF NAVY AND MARINE CORPS FORCES HAS
          BEENABSOI,UTTI.YAWF-INSPIRING." GARRETTCITEDASPROOFTHEVOLU.NTARY
          EXTENSIONS BY HUNDREDS OF PERSONNEL WHO WANTED TO BE WITH THEIR SI IIPS
          PAGE 07 RUENAAA4661 LTNCLAS
          OR UNITS IN'IHE CRISIS. GARRETT WAS ALSO IMPRESSED WITH THE NAVYS
          MUCH-IMPROVED ABILITY TO DEPLOY WITH FULL, WELL-TRAINED CREWS,
          ACCORDING TO BURLACE. VADM BOORDA, CHNAVPERS, POINTED OUT -I-0 THE
          rimes, EVEN -I-HOUGH -1-HE DESERT SHIELD UNITS WERE WELLCREWED, "THE
SN'T ENDED. IN FACT
          WE'RE GOING TO GET S.     R." ACCORDING TO BURLAGE, ADM KFISO AGREED,
          SAYING TIIE 1991 PE.N7AGON BUDGET IS A CLEAR INDICATION OF CONTINUED
          PRESSURE TO REDUCE RESOURCES. "NOT ONLY DOES THAT.M@N FEWER PEOPLE,
          IT MEANS A REDUCI'ION IN THE FORCE SFRUCFURF NIKI'SUPPORTS THOSE
          PEOPLE," KE@O WAS QUOTED AS SAYING. ACCORDING TO THE -I-INES, VADM
          BOORDA SUMMED UP TI IE "REQUIREMENT VS BUDGET" DICI IOTO.MY BY SAYING, "IT
          COUI.D MAKF. YOU SCHIZOPI IRENIC IF YOU LET IT. WE HAVEN'T LET IT."
          INSTEAD, THE NAVY IS CALLING UP RESERVES, RE-ENUSTI@NG PRIOR SERVICE
          MEMBERS IN CRITICAL SPECIALTIES, MOVRNG I.JMITFD SHORF DUTY PERSONNEL
          TO THE GULF, AND USING STOP-LOSS AUTHORITY SELECTIVELY TO KEEP PEOPLE
          WITH LrMrIED SKILLS IN UNIFORM FOR THE DURATION OF'IIIE CRISIS, WROTE
          BURLAGE. THERE WILL BE NO BIGJUMP IN RECRUITING NUMBERS, AND
          OFFICIALS HOPE NO NEED FOR THE WI IOLESALE STOP-I.OSS DEMANDS.MADE BY
          THE ARMY AND TI IE    NE CORPS, ACCORDING TO TI IE TIMES. BOORDA
          EMPHASIZED TI rE IDEA IS TO COPE WITH DESERT SI ILELD REQUIREM-F \-FS IN
          BT

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Document 4 f:/Week-39/BX303819/desert storm immunizations and innoculations cna 57-60889/dia insum:1025961319052
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File Room = sep96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-39
Box ID = BX303819
Unit = VAR. BUMED
Parent Organization = BUMED
Folder Title = desert storm immunizations and innoculations cna 57-60889
Folder Seq # = 1
Subject = DIA INSUM
Document Seq # = 19
Document Date =
Scan Date =
Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 25-OCT-1996