OFFICE OF THE SURGGEON GENERAL AFTER ACTION REPORT ODS

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Subject: OFFICE OF THE SURGGEON GENERAL AFTER ACTION REPORT ODS          

Unit: OTSG        

Parent Organization: HSC         

Box  ID: BX003205

Folder Title: OTSG OBSERVATIONS AND LESSONS LEARNED                                                           

Document Number:          2

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             1. (U) Lesson learned submitted by DASG-DC, John E. King,
             AVN 923-3657, (301)677-3657, 05/10/91.

             2. (U) TITLE: Surveillance of oral health support for deploying
             units

             3. (U) OBSERVATION: Soon after the initiation of deployment of
             active duty units and the mobilization of reserve units for
             Operation Desert Shield it became clear that data on the dental
             elements of the soldier readiness processing was not readily
             available to major medical commands and office of the surgeon
             General (OTSG) staff elements. Major medical command and OTSG
             dental staff quickly responded by improvising a reporting system.


             4. (U) DISCUSSION: Data on dental operations supporting the
             deployment and mobilization processing, (as well as
             demobilization processing) is required for operational
             adjustments to processing centers and establishing theater
             support requirements. Mobilization of RC dental assets and
             shifting of dental resources from one location to anther required
             data on the dental classification profile of units and on dental
             panocjraphic x-ray requirements.

             S. (U) LESSON LEARNED: Standardized dental activity reports are
             needed to provide surveillance data for management decisions
             concerning dental support to mobilization and deployments sites.

             6. (U) RECOMMENDED ACTION: RSC should document the dental
             reporting system on deployment and mobilization it implemented on
             Operation Desert Shield.   This Document could be evaluated for
             completeness and usefulness at each level of technical support
             and revised for writing into doctrine.

             7. (U) COMMENTS: The requirement for automation and
port should be included in the assessment.








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File Room = sep96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-36
Box ID = BX003205
Unit = OTSG
Parent Organization = HSC
Folder Title = OTSG OBSERVATIONS AND LESSONS LEARNED
Folder Seq # = 9
Subject = OFFICE OF THE SURGGEON GENERAL AFTER ACTION REPO
Document Seq # = 2
Document Date =
Scan Date =
Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 24-DEC-1996