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Army regulations to use PROFIS, it did not do so, preferring

instead to use its own "personnel augmentee" system.    The

information in this system, however, was similarly out of date

and one third of the personnel designated by the system to fill

needed positions were no longer in theater.  As a result, the

U.S. Army, Europe, used medical specialty consultants to identify

236 active duty doctors and nurses for assignment to the units,

enabling them to deploy.


PERSONNEL WERE NON-DEPLOYABLE


Many doctors and nurses aasigned to medical units were non-

deployable for Operati@Ģi t*sert Shield/Desert Storm.   For

example, 329 of the 778 a~ive duty personnel identified by

PROFIS ~Sd not (k~loy wit~ their as~igned unit.   Similarly, when

~rmy R~~ve an~ ~tional Guard units reported to their

~bilizat1on s~~on, the Army found large numbers of non-

~ployable persQ~~~l.


Active duty, Re~tcve, and National Guard personnel were non-

deployable for a variety of reasons:


--    Their physical conditions were unacceptable.   In one case, a

      surgeon who had retired from private practice reported to

      his mobilization station unable to stand for more than 30

      minutes.  Another surgeon reported with Parkinson's disease.


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