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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                      Table A-1. (Continu@


                       Date                                               Event


                      13 Aug     USCINCCENT requested that USCINCEUR deploy 12 modevac helicopters to Saudi Arabia for
                                 shi@to-shore patient evacuation in support of USNS Comfort and USNS A49rcy

                      13 Aug     USCINCCENT established evacuation policy to be 7 days in theater and 60 days (before
                                 hostilhies)/l 5 days (after hostilhies commence) in EUCOM

                      14 Aug     USNS Comfort depaned Norfolk

                      14 Aug     USNS Ma@ departed Oakland

                      14 Aug     CINCLANTFLT requested partial MPUAS activation of personnel for USS Nassau (UIC 20725,1,
                                 USS Iwo Jima (UIC 07350) and USS Guam (UIC 07178)

                      14 Aug     COMUSNAVCENT requested medical personnel augmentation for USCINCCENT in support of
                                 JMRO and JBPO


                      15 Aug     USCINCCENT designated host-nation and service-wmponent hospital beds in Riyadh,
                                 Dhahran, and Bahrain as communi=ion-zone assets whh medical regulating by JMRO

                      15 Aug     COMUSNAVCENT requested medical personnel augmentation in support of surgical teams I
                                 and 2, CRTFME, and COMUSNAVCENT


                      16 Aug     USCINCCENT announced the establishment of JMRO at Riyadh

                      16 Aug     BUMED proposed a policy that chemical casua!,ios no, be routinely evacuated to hospital ships

                      17 Aug     MV Noble Star anchored in theater pending notification of destination part

                      20 Aug     FH-5 she selection changed from Dhahran to Al Jubayl

                      21 Aug     MV Noble Star arrived at Al Jubayl and began unloading FH-5 equipment

ent and advance party arrived in theater

                      24 Aug     MV Noble Starcompleted otfload of FH-5

                      25 Aug     Construction of FH-5 began

                      28 Aug     BUMED directed holding personnel required to fully man USNS ComforrUSNS A4ercy on
                                 24-hour alert


                       1 Sep     First increment of FH-5 main body arrived in AOR


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