MEDICAL OPERATIONS DURING OPERATION DESERT STORM 9 NOV 91

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                         assigned to various platfo= and units. In addition, 668 nonmedical personnel
                         deployed from CONUS MTFs and other activities to provide essential services in
                         support of FH-5 and the hospital ships.



                         Table 7. L4PUAS augmentations for Desert Shield for 1 August through 7 November 1 990


                                                                                  Personnel


                            Platform              Mc       msc          NC        DC         HM           DT         Other           Total


                         FMF                      141       27          41        1 0       1,194         1 7             0         1,430

                         USNS Comfort             38        is        131            4       417          12          259            879
                         USNS Mercy               38        16        131            4       417          13          259            878

                         FH-5                     69        25        153            6       452          14          149            868d

                         CRTSB                    20          4         25           1          75           1            0          126

                         Othe@.                     9       21            7          0         49            0            1             87
                            Total                315        ill       488         25        2,604         57          668           4,268

                         a. Table irdudes only those personnel provided by MPUAS, not those ordered by NMPC or provided on a TAD basis by
                            CINCS.
                         b. CRTS includes USS Guam, USS Iwo Jima, USS Nassau.
                         c. Other i@udes CJTFME, JMRO, NAVCENT, ASBPO.
ot come under
                            MPUAS.




                              A second wave of medical personnel augmentation occur-red in December and
                         J.qnilary as more forces deployed to bring FMF units to levels established 'm
                         Marine Corps tables of organization. Table 8 summarizes the distribution of the
                         1,928 active-duty personnel who deployed during the second wave of augmentation.
                         CINCCENT tasked the Navy with providing an additional 1,000 echelon III beds in
                         theater and with bringing the hospital ships and CRTSs to full staffing in January.
                         As noted, SELRES personnel were deployed to meet most of the stalfmg require-
                         ments of FH-6 and FH-15 and to complete staffing of the hospital ships. - (See
                         table 9.)









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