MEDICAL OPERATIONS DURING OPERATION DESERT STORM 9 NOV 91

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Subject: MEDICAL OPERATIONS DURING OPERATION DESERT STORM 9 NOV 91       

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                 specialized simulation equipment and experienced instructors not available after
                 deployment. A secondary mission of SELRES units designated to backfir CONUS
                 MTFs is to provide personnel for rotation and replacement of deployed active-duty
                 personnel. These units should receive training to improve readiness for this opera-
                 tional mission.


                 OTBER MEDICAL PLATFORMS


                     The Navy provided medical personnel augmentation for three host-nation
                 facilities with a total of 350 beds. In addition, NAVCENT supported 150 host-nation
                 beds that were staffed by Army personnel. In early August, surgical team 1 from
                 Naval Hospital, San Diego, and surgical team 2 from Naval Hospital, Portsmouth,
                 deployed to staff host-nation facilities. In January, additional MMARTs were sent
                 to the host-nation support hospitals.

                     Each of the amphibious task groups contained LHAs and LPHs that were
                 assigned secondary missions as CRTSS.           Table 10 lists these platforms.
                 USS Nassau, USS Iwo Jiyna, and USS Guam deployed in August with the 4th NMB
                 as part of Amphibious Group (PHMGRU) II. USS New Orleans, USS Tarawa, and
                 USS Tripoli deployed in December with the 5th MEB as part of PHIBGRU III. In
                 January, USS Tripoli was detached from the amphibious task force for other mis-
                 sions. USS Okinawa deployed with Amphibious Squadron 5.

                     During an amphibious assault, the CRTSs may provide echelon II medical care
                 to the landing force until shore-based medical facilities are established, Their
                 capability depends on the number and specialty mix of the medical augmentees
                 embarked. During a contingency, medical personnel from CONUS augment the
   normal peacetime complement of medical and dental personnel aboard CRTSS. In
                 addition, naval medical personnel are assigned to give Marine Corps units an
                 organic medical capability. These medical personnel, however, disembark during
                 the amphibious assault to establish echelon II facilities ashore and to evacuate the
                 wounded to the CRTSS.


                     CRTS staffing doctrine calls for the ships to leave CONUS at M+l staffing.
                 Both PIUBGRU II and PHIBGRU III deployed without the full M+l complem@ixt of
                 medical augmentation personnel. Each PHIBGRU had less than its doctrinal
                 complement of amphibious shipping, which resulted in limited berthing space. In
                 November, PHIBGRU II sent home 57 medical personnel, citing berthing
                 constraints. At NAVCENTs request, augmentees required to bring statang levels to
                 M+l were placed on 72-hour alert in CONUS.




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