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the commanding organization for all medical units,  Health

Services Command operates the S~Professional Officer Filler

System"  (PROFIS), which is the Army's automated system for

identifying active duty doctors and nurses for assignment to

units in the event of war.   Because the units, Forces Command,

and Health Services Command were not following these procedures,

the information in the system was incomplete and out of date.

The Army therefore, could not provide all the doctors and nurses

within 72 hours as required.


During the first phase of deployment in August 1990, this system

s~~ould have enabl~ the Army to identify and assign 100 percent

of the doctors and nurses for the 40 active medical units, but it

could identify only 46 percent of them.   This.failure in the

System occurred because (1) units had not updated their

requirements,  (2) Forces Command had not properly validated and

forwarded these requirements to Health Services Command, and (3)

H~lth Services Command had not ensured that the information in

PRCFIS was complete or kept up to date.   To compensate for these

failures, Health Services Command had to scramble to locate and

assIgn 54 percent of the doctors and nurses required by these

units.


In the second phase of deployment, when the Army began to deploy

medical units from the VII Corps in Europe, it experienced

similar problems.   While the U.S. Army, Europe, is required by


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