CONCEPT OF MEDICAL OPS

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Subject: CENTER FOR NAVAL ANALYSES INFORMATION MEMO 158  10 JUL 91       

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              Table 2. Chronology of hospital ships

               Date                                 Event


               2 Aug   Iraq invaded Kuwait

               7 Aug   BUMED placed hospital ship MTF personnel on alert status

               7 Aug   USCINCCENT identified requirement for USNS Comfort on station
                       by 6 Sep and USNS Mercy on station by 7 Sep, and for NV Noble
                       Star (with FH-5 equipment aboard) to get under way for port of
                       Ras Tannura


               9 Aug   COMSC ordered full operating status for USNS Mercy

               9 Aug   BUMED issued MPUAS alert for hospital ship MTF personnel

              10 Aug   CNO issued deployment orders for hospital ships

              10 Aug   COMSC ordered full operating status for USNS Comfort

              10 Aug   BUMED issued MPUAS activation orders for hospital ships

              11 Aug   USNS Comfort set sail from Baltimore to Norfolk

              12 Aug   USNS Comfort arrived in Norfolk to continue provisioning

              12 Aug   USCINCCENT concurred with hospital ship staffing for 250 acute-
                       care beds (500 total beds) with capacity to expand to 1,000
                       beds within 24 hours

              13 Aug   BUMED directed 500-bed capacity for hospital ships, including
                       250 acute-care beds

              13 Aug   USNS Mercy set sail from Oakland; experienced a steering
                       casualty and returned to port

              13 Aug   USCINCCENT requested that USCINCEUR deploy 12 medevac helicop-
                       ters to Saudi Arabia for ship-to-shore patient evacuation in
                       support of USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy

              14 Aug   USNS Comfort departed Norfolk

              14 Aug   USNS Mercy departed Oakland

              15 Aug   USCINCCENT designated host nation and service component hospi-
 communication zone
                       assets with medical regulating by JMRO

              16 Aug   BUMED proposed a policy that chemical casualties not be
                       routinely evacuated to hospital ships


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