Deser Shield/Desert Storm Aerospace Medicine Consolidted After-Action Report

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Subject: Deser Shield/Desert Storm Aerospace Medicine Consolidted After-Action Report

                       Desert Shield/Desert Storm
                          Aerospace Medicine
                    Consolidated After-Action Report


                               Findings:

                              Deployment

-The SME concept was validated

-`a many caseB, airlift priority decisions predwied ATC package from arriving
concurre~~ with the SME Or forced last minute downsi~g (ffpallets   at 10 of.
14 locations, tho ATO equipment package arrived more than 4 days after the
     or a complete package never anived at all

-Ia many casee, squadrons departed home base without knowing their beddown
location or the tni'tial ioca~n was changed in route

-Many ftdse ~tarts occurred i~ the deployment phase resuIi~g In additional
emotional turmoil and crew rest problems

- a5% Otflgh~ter pzIots used `Go" ~iUs on the deployment flight

-Only a ~w flight surgeons were part of the deployment planning Crisis Action
Te~ or "Paring and Taj~~rfng~t Gomniittees such as that used succesall~y by
AI?SOC

-Medical intelligence was adequate and accessible when the destiiiation was
known

~C and Aeromedica~ Evacuation flight surgeons were deployed as in~ividua1s
and were disadvantaged in having. to leariL the. inissions and to estab~ rapport
and integrate with new ~ts froni scratch

~here was a tendency among fighter pilots to carry too little wat~er for the long
deployment le~

-There wore problems with infli'gh~ urinary collection systenis Buch as
dlsconnecflons or insu~cient storage capacity

-fleploying ~ght surgeons packed niedical supplies on li~ suppoi't and other
pallets Of opportunityic or in cockpits as weil as hand carried a ~~rti'~n of the 250
ibs of optL"onal ATC gear. In nia~y cases these were ~ie on~y medical supphes
   the first several days