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phase, to support the VII Corps and an echelon above corps,

involved active duty units from Europe and Reserve and National

Guard units from the United States.   This deployment began in

November 1990.   Approximately 55 percent of the Army medical

forces deployed to the Persian Gulf were Army Reserve and

National Guard units, while the remaining 45 percent were active

duty units.  According to an Army report, during the 6 months of

the buildup the Army deployed a larger medical force than the

peak medical deployment to Vietnam.


SUMMARY OF RESULTS


The Army had to overcome numerous and significant problems to

make med~cal unita operational in the Persian Gulf before the

start of the ground war.   The personnel information systems used

to identify docto~ and nurses for assignment to active units

contained incomplete and outdated information.   Many of the

doctors and nurses who were scheduled to deploy could not do so

for a variety of reasons.   The units' peacetime status reports

did not adequately reflect this condition.


Many doctors and nurses in active, Reserve, and National Guard

units had not trained during peacetime to perform their wartime

mission.   Field training was lacking and as a result doctors and

nurses were not familiar with their unit's mission or equipment.


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