INFO ON PREVENTIVE MEDICINE 4 OCT 90

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Subject: INFO ON PREVENTIVE MEDICINE  4 OCT 90                           

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Folder Title: PREVENTTIVE MEDICINE ACTIVITIES                                                                 

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         Date:    Thu, 4 Oct 90 9:57:55 MDT



                                        DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
                                   HEADQUARTERS, 7TH MEDICAL COMMAND
                                        APO NEW YORK 09102-3304



                Please pass the following information to all Preventive Medicine
             Activities, the Corps Surgeon or Health Services office.**



              In connection with future PVNTMED related matters, as in the attached two
             page document supplied by the Preventive Medicine Activity, Landstuhl Army
             Regional Medical Center (LARMC), we will act as the approval and
             distribution office for all such future messages to the field. We solicit
             all such timely and valuable information for everyone's benefit, i.e., for
             the PVNTMED staff and the soldiers we care for.

             **LARMC PVNTMED : Very valuable information! Thanks. HQ. 7TH MEDCOM

                                           **Start of Message
             The following information was obtained by SSG Oates, LARMC Preventive
             Medicine Activity from soldiers who had been MEDEVAC'ed from Saudi Arabia.

             The personnel interviewed stated that the living/field conditions were
             different depending on location and rapidly changing. The soldiers
             interviewed were some of the first troops deployed. The most common thing
             the soldiers mention was that the heat was like nothing you could ever
             experience anywhere else.

             Field Conditions:


                      a. Water:


                              - there are very few water trailers (400 gal) being used.

                              - individuals are not required to use iodine or other
             methods to disinfect their individual water

ued to the soldiers
             on a daily basis. The water is either delivered by truck or air dropped.
             Most soldiers were issued 4 small bottles and two large ones (exact sizes
             were unknown).


                              - the soldiers best advice to deploying troops about water
             was to learn to drink a lot of hot (90 F) water prior to deployment.
             There are no facilities for soldiers to cool water in theater.

                     b. Heat Injuries:


                                - some heat injuries are occurring, but Commanders are
             enforcing water consumption.

                                work/res@ cycles are being utilized when the situation

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