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File: 100896_aug96_decls6_0031.txt
Subject: COMMAND CHRONOLOGY FOR THE MONTH OF FEB 1991 26 FEB 91
Unit: GSG-1
Parent Organization: 1ST FSSG
Box ID: BX600011
Folder Title: COMMAND CHRONOLOGY GENERAL SUPPORT GROUP 1 FEB 1991
Document Number: 21
Folder SEQ #: 54
through the gas chamber. The Personnel Decontamination Site is
all foreign to us, but we press on and do the beat job possible.
CAPT Kvaska and I are responsible for the forward deployed
dental personnel, nearly 100 in all. We, like all the rest, live
in a 10 foot deep hole where the CP tent that we share sits. Of
course the sturdy bunker which we designed and built is within ten
feet of our tents. We have spent some time in it already and a
few nights ago we spent one hour in MOPP 4 and ten hours in MOPP2.
As you know the air strikes continue and we hear the continuous
-flow of aircraft flying north over us. Now we hear the distant
thunderous sound of them bombing Kuwait. A number of our
personnel in another location about 3e miles from us took nightly
rounds of rocket fire. By now they should enjoy sleeping in their
bunkers.
There was a recent call up of dental technician personnel to
augment the medical personnel. These new medical augmentees that
are with the SSU's are now being worked into wards, CSR, Combat
Stress Centers and OR's, but they all take their turn as the trash
haulers, chow line servers, duty standers, human waste barrel
burners, and bus drivers to move casualties from forward medical
units to SSU's as do the Corpsmen.
Life in the middle of nowhere is good. Well, now its good.
We now have electricity in the tent, two hot meals a day
(breakfast and dinner) and a shower every other day. I would have
never believed it got this cold in Saudi Arabia, especially after
our arrival n August/September and the heat we had. Now we wear
long Johns, gloves and watch caps. Thank goodness I have a warm
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We got a lift back to our camp but we were dropped off by the COC.
It was dark by then and it took us an hour to find our tent as
they are spread out for obvious reasons. After cursing, swearing
and a prayer we finally found the tent. It was then that I swore
to be in the tent by darkness. I also warned everyone else about
our ordeal.
Almost all of the DT's are doing well and have good morale.
Morale is good because the majority of us who have been here since
the onset now see light at the end of the tunnel, we just don't
know how long the tunnel is, Believe it or not we're glad the war
started because we've been told *First In are the First Out"l We
just want to get it over with so we can go home. All of us. The
personnel who arrived last will be here for some time afterwards
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File Room = aug96_declassified
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Box ID = BX600011
Unit = GSG-1
Parent Organization = 1ST FSSG
Folder Title = COMMAND CHRONOLOGY GENERAL SUPPORT GROUP 1 FEB 1991
Folder Seq # = 54
Subject = COMMAND CHRONOLOGY FOR THE MONTH OF FEB 1991 2
Document Seq # = 21
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Declassified = 04-OCT-1996