BN SURG HQS BN 2ND MARDIV AFTER ACTION REPORT 23 MAR 91

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Subject: BN SURG HQS BN 2ND MARDIV  AFTER ACTION REPORT  23 MAR 91       

Unit: 2ND MARDIV  

Parent Organization: 2 MEF       

Box ID: BX600014

Folder Title: COMMAND CHRONOLOGY HEADQUARTERS BATTALION MAR - JUN 1991 1 OF 3                                 

Document Number:         18

Folder SEQ  #:         22



 Major'B-ob Coates
                                       UNCLASSIFIED
       -I.-' Mobilization.
           A. Discussion. Headquarters battalion with it's battalion aid
       station was deployed to Southwest Asia in three waves, an advance
       element, a main body and a follow on element. A major focus of ef-
       fect prior to deployment was medical readiness. Pre-deployment
       medical readiness issues included, administration of routine and
       special immunizations, requisitioning eyewear, medical and dental re-
       cord mount-out, training for medical and non-medical personnel,
       prescribing a six month supply of medication for those members with
       conditions requiring chronic medication, i.e. hypertension, thyroid
       disease, asthma, ect. and identification of medically non-deployable
       and potential non-deployable personnel. Additional issues were
       supply and embarkation, and personnel administrative matters. One
       635 and two 636 AMALs with limited narcotics were receipted and
       mounted-out.


           B. Pre-deployment. At the onset of Operation Desert Storm
       reassignment of medical personnel took place within 2d Marine
       Division to meet staffing requirements for deploying battalions. We
       also incurred staffing reductions to support this need.
       Subsequential losses include administrative discharges, expiration of
       active obligated service, and permanent change of station orders.
       Personnel requirements for this operation significantly increased,
       resulting in a large influx of reservists called to active duty.
       This impacted significantly on the aid station's workload which
       already was being severely taxed by personnel reductions, deployment
       preparations already in process and commitments to support training
       evolutions within the battalion coupled with being tasked to provide
       on-going support for the various training phrases being provided to
nnel reporting to 2d Marine Division. This
       lead the SMDR to request from the office of the Division Surgeon that
       any available corpsmen, regardless of time left on station be
       temporarily assigned to work within the aid station to assist with
       processing of newly reporting personnel and to assist with meeting
       daily operational requirements. Assistance was provided as available
       pending assignment of permanent medical personnel. At one point
       corpsmen slated as replacements for the 4th MEB were made available
       to the aid station on a daily basis until their flight schedule was
       finalized. Subsequently permanent assigned personnel filtered in
       bringing the aid station up to T/O prior to departure.

               1. Medical readiness of reserves attached to Headquarters
       Battalion. Hundreds of reservists reported to the battalion with
       inadequate immunizations. A few reported in with fractures,
       hernias and psychiatric problems. We were able to bring these
       reservists to a medical ready state. However this caused a
       tremendous strain on available medical resources at Camp Lejeune.

               2.   Difficulty in ensuring mobilization of individual
       medical and dental records were experienced. The basis of the
       problem'was associated with inaccurate alpha rosters.




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File Room = sep96_declassified
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Box ID = BX600014
Unit = 2ND MARDIV
Parent Organization = 2 MEF
Folder Title = COMMAND CHRONOLOGY HEADQUARTERS BATTALION MAR - JUN 1991 1 OF 3
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Subject = BN SURG HQS BN 2ND MARDIV AFTER ACTION REPORT
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