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     unit so it could deploy.  Although a second surgeon was to

     join the unit in theater, the unit never received a second

     surgeon.


--   Officers had not taken the required basic training.  This

     unanticipated training deficiency forced the Army to

     condense a legislatively required 12-week course for

     officers on basic soldiering skills to a 2-week course.

     Since the officers could not deploy without having taken the

     course, the Army conducted this condensed course to enable

     cri~icalIy r~-ded medical personnel to deploy.  An Army

     *`1.nsons le&rned" report stated that 1,600 medical officers

     had not taicfl the officers' basic course and, therefore,

     wera initiaI~y non-deployable.


     Their medical training was incomplete.  Some doctors

     reporting to their mobilization station could not deploy

     because they were still in residency programs.  For example,

     a National Guard unit arrived at its mobilization station

     with 13 of its required 15 doctors.  However, 10 of the

     doctors were still in residency programs.  Without transfers

     of doctors from other units, the unit would have been unable

     to perform its mission.


--   Their positions were in excess of unit requirements.

     Reserve and National Guard hospital units that mobilized for


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