CENTER FOR NAVAL ANALYSES RESEARCH MEMORANDUM

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Subject: CENTER FOR NAVAL ANALYSES RESEARCH MEMORANDUM                   

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               Table 6. Medical staffing requirements to achieve 1,000-bed hospital
               ship capability, November 1990

                                                          On board        Additional
                                                         21 November    requirements

                                           1,000-bed    USNS    USNS    USNS    USNS
                                          requirement MercZ comfort    HercX Comfort

               Officers:
                  Medical Corps               55         37      47       18      8
                  Dental Corps                  6          4       4      2'      2
                  Medical Service Corps       21         21      26       0       0
                  Nurse Corps                           m       126       45     46

                                             254        189     203       65     56

               Enlisted:
                  Hospital corpsman          575        392     385     193     190
                  Dental technicians          16         12      19       4       0
                  Airmen/Seamen"             104         48      26       56     78

                                             695        452     430     243     268

               Total medical                 949        641     633     308     324


               SOURCE: Onboard personnel as reported   to COMUSNAVLOGSUPFOR for
               21 November. The 1,000-bed requirement was determined by OP-932
               prior to the 11 January manning requirements review.

               a. These were converted to hospital corpsman requirements.



                    SELRES units from Program 32 were recalled to complete the staffing
               of the two hospital ships. Table 6 shows the additional medical manning
               requirements for the hospital ships as of mid November to be 308 for
               USNS Hercy and 324 for USNS Comfort. Most of the requirements were for
ed hospital corpsman. Efforts to determine the additional require-
               ments were complicated because of disparity between the staffing needed
               for 1,000-bed capability, as perceived by the hospital ships, and the
               hospital ship-manning document. A review of the manning requirements
               was completed on 11 January 1991, and resulted in an increase of 99
               hospital corpsman and a reduction of approximately 100 nonmedical
               enlisted personnel (seamen and airmen).








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