INTERVIEW ABSTERACT 27 FEB 91

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Subject: INTERVIEW ABSTERACT 27 FEB 91                                   

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Folder Title: NAVCENT INTERVIEW ABSTRACT CAPT ROBERT ADAMS MSC 27 FEB 91                                      

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                                   INTERVIEW ABSTRACT
                                 CAPT ROBERT ADAMS, Msc
                                        27 FEB 91

            First order of business was moving people and medical assets to
           theater.

           - Largely accomplished with prepositioning.

           - Early problems with maritime transportation of assets.

           - Unexpected luxury of Desert Shield period to accomplish that
           mission.

           - Ma @ ing people and supplies was one problem complicated by
           natural initial confusion.

           - Saudis provided an unused hospital in Al Jubail which solved
           the initial problem of where to set up Marine medical care.
           Solved problem of having to exist in tents with concomitant
           concerns over sand, heat, and nonfunctioning equipment. The
           marine hospital, however, was recognized as only a temporary
           solution. With start of the air war, assets moved out and north
           closer to the front.

           - During early stages of Desert Shield, some physicians found it
           difficult to understand their role as front-line providers. Many
           used to garrison care. Future training will be used to correct
           this.

           - Rank inversion problem. In some cases, physicians found
           themselves under command of junior MSC officers and didn't like
           it.

           - overclualification problem.  Specialists sometimes assigned to
           frontline units where their specialties would not be practiced in
           combat situation. Why assign a neurosurgeon to a battalion aid
           station or clearing company?

           - MPUAS system worked well

           - Competition of medical needs versus war-fighting needs (bullets
           vs. medical supplies).

             High marks for preventive medicine effort. Lowest morbidity
in U.S. military history.

           - Overall task of getting medical assets in place early, i.e.
           beds in theater, ensured success of Navy Medicine.








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