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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                     Members of the fleet hospitals' advance party and main body re-
                ceived two weeks of predeployment training in Ft. Dix in early January.
                This included training on individual mission-oriented protective-posture
                (KOPP) gear, medical management of chemical casualties, burn life sup-
                port, trauma cars, fleet hospital construction, and operation lessons
                learned. Hospital corpsman received a review of shock, triage, and burn
                and wound management. The training was originally planned to last five
                days, but delays in arranging transportation to theater extended the
                training period.


                GONCLtisioNs

                     During the build-up of forces in the Persian Gulf in Operation
                Desert Shield/Storm, the role of the Navy's medical SELRES gradually
                expanded from providing essentially peacetime care at COMUS MTFs and
                DTFs to preparing for casualties and deploying to meet operational
                medical requirements. This operation clearly demonstrates the Navy's
                dependence on medical SEIXLES personnel to meet its expanded responsi-
                bilities during a crisis. The operation also offered some important
                lessons for future recalls.

                     During Desert Shield, the medical department had to determine
                requirements and identify reserve resources to meet those requirements
                as the operation progressed. Full mobilization planning, which identi-
                fies required reserve units in advance, did not apply to this operation.
                In the absence of a specific plan to guide a limited recall, the Navy
                needs ready access to accurate information about its reserve forces to
                respond quickly to the requirements of the particular operation. In
ds to develop a system for activating its SELPES
                personnel that notifies gaining commands of the status of recalled
                individuals in terms of expected reporting dates and changes caused by
                exemptions and authorized delays. This information is needed by the
                MTFs and by COMNAVSURFRESFOR to update requirements.

                     Operation Desert Shield/Storm also offers some lessons on the
                appropriate structure of Program-32 units. Experience from this opera-
                tion suggests the need for a complementary SELRES force that closely
                matches the active forces assigned to CONUS NTFs and DTFS in terms of
                structure and training. The Navy should examine the pos  sible need to
                include nonmedical personnel in Program-32 units to replace deployed
                storekeepers and other support ratings. In addition, the Navy should
                consider identifying SELRES units or billets to support the hospital
                ships, and providing required operational training to personnel in those
                billets.










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