CENTER FOR NAVAL ANALYSES RESEARCH MEMORANDUM

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Subject: CENTER FOR NAVAL ANALYSES RESEARCH MEMORANDUM                   

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Folder Title: VARIOUS NAVAL MESSAGES FOLDER 11                                                                

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              SELRES Personnel for Hospital Ships

                   COMNAVRESFOR recalled 356 SELRES personnel to USNS Mercy, including
              95 officers and 261 enlisted, and 379 SELRES personnel to USNS Comfort,
              including 100 officers and 280 enlisted. The number of SEIRES personnel
              recalled exceeded the requirement in anticipation of the need to grant
              some exemptions. Not all SEIRES personnel recalled for duty aboard the
              hospital ships reported to the ships. Some were not qualified to fill
              their mobilization billets. Some applied or reapplied for exemptions or
              delays that were in process on the required departure date. Others were
              reassigned because additional active-duty augmentation to the hospital
              ships had reduced SEIRES requirements. On 8 January, 74 officers and
              221 enlisted SEIRES personnel reported to USNS Mercy. On 12 January,
              74 officers and 225 enlisted SEIRES personnel reported to USNS Comfort.

                   When the deployment order was issued, FH-6 was prepositioned in
              Japan and FH-15 was prepositioned in Norway. Both required movement to
              theater. Staffing for the additional fleet hospitals was provided pri-
              marily by SELRES units designated to support naval reserve fleet hos-
              pitals (NRFH-20) and NRFH-22.' The significant lead time allowed time to
              review NRFH manning and conduct refresher training. Members of other
              NRFH units and some active-duty augmentees were used to achieve full man-
              ning of these units. In addition, NRFH-23 was brought up to 100-percent
              manning and."fenced" from recall to meet other requirements in prepara-
              tion for any future requirements to deploy an additional fleet hospital.

                   The staffing plans identify the medical, engineering, and general-
ersonnel necessary to support the facility. Members of con-
              struction battalion units (CBUS) direct assembly and help maintain each
              fleet hospital. According to the plans, staffing occurs in three stages
              over a ten-day period, as described in [6]. On the first day, an air
              detachment of 36 personnel, responsible for site layout, initiates liai-
              son with local external support activities. Four days later, an advance
              party of 100 personnel assembles the primary support areas. During the
              last two days, the main body assembles the medical core, the intensive
              care units, and the wards. The field assembly plan assumes that forces
              provided by the Navy component commander have completed site selection,
              gross site preparation, and grading.

                   Arrival of the personnel in theater had to be coordinated with the
              arrival of the fleet hospital storage containers. The deployment area
              called for the fleet hospitals to arrive in theater by 15 January, with
              personnel arrival to be completed by 30 January. These dates imply the
              schedule shown in table 7 (under "planned'). Efforts to meet this
              schedule were complicated by delays in the sealift of the FHs from their


              1. Nominally, FH-6 and FH-15 are manned with active-duty personnel from
              NH, Camp Pendleton and NH, Pensacola. NRFH-20 and NRFH-22 staffs were
              used because these units had the highest state of readiness and could
              most easily be brought up to 100-percent manning.


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