CENTER FOR NAVAL ANALYSES RESEARCH MEMORANDUM

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Folder Title: VARIOUS NAVAL MESSAGES FOLDER 11                                                                

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               Table B-1. Chronology of the Navy medical deployment and reserve recall
               for Desert Shield, August 1989 through January 1991

               Date                              Event


               2 Aug   Iraqi invasion of Kuwait

               7 Aug   The President orders U.S. forces to Saudi Arabia

               9 Aug   Marine Corps identifies requirements for medical personnel to
                       augment FMF units

               14 Aug  USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy deploy using active-duty personnel
                       drawn from CONUS MTFs/DTFs, primarily National Naval Medical
                       Center, Bethesda, and Naval Hospital, Oakland

               17 Aug  SECDEF asks military services and Joint Chiefs of Staff to
                       prepare plan for SELRES call-up

               22 Aug  The President authorizes call-up of SELRES personnel under
                       title 10 U.S.C 673B and notifies Congress

               23 Aug  SECDEF authorizes recall of 6,300 Navy and 3,000 Marine Corps
                       SEIRES personnel

               23 Aug  BUMED submits Reserve Medical/Dental Call-Up Plans for
                       Operation Desert Shield to Director, Mobilization Joint Plans
                       Division (OP-601)

               23 Aug  First increment of active-duty personnel from Naval Hospital,
                       Portsmouth, and other MTFs depart from Norfolk to staff FH-5

               2 Sep   Last increment of active-duty personnel from Naval Hospital,
                       Portsmouth, complete staffing of FH-5

               20 Sep  SECDEF presents plan to Congress to recall 30,000 additional
                       reservists

               25 Sep  BUMED requests 350 additional reserve Medical Department
                       personnel, including 275 for Naval Hospital, Portsmouth

               29 Oct  Defense appropriations bill authorizes an extension of the
ve-duty combat reserves to 180 days with
                       one 180-day extension to support Desert Shield

               8 Nov   President orders 150,000-plus additional troops to Persian Gulf

               12 Nov  USCINCCENT requests COMUSNAVCENT to plan for full staffing of
                       hospital ships and for an addition 1,000 echelon-III beds by
                       15 Jan




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