UPDATE ON OPERATION DESERT SHIELD 5 JAN 91

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Subject: UPDATE ON OPERATION DESERT SHIELD 5 JAN 91                      

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Folder Title: OPERATION DESERT STORM UPDATE                                                                   

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          corps, and cgec)araphv.    Some representative data is enclosed. We regard
          it as incomplete, but getting better. GI disease is down, respiratory
          is going up, and ortho-trauma remains high.

          4. Enclosed is a map which c3enerallv describes the current intelligence
          analysis, as viewed from the     infantry soldier's perspective. My
          favorite bulletin of the week, author anonymous, is "The beatings Will
          continue until morale improves."       Because the 105th Med Det and the
          714th Med Det have been switched to Echelon Above Corps (EAC), LTC R.
          Sanchez and I are doing OERs on their commanders. The senior of those
          two officers included the following on nis support form: "II. Abstained
          from alconol, pornography, sexual intercourse, tobacco use, evil
          thoughts, unauthorized fantasies, and hot dogs containing pork. kept my
          hair just as short as the Brigade Commander's (but not as short as the
          Preventive Medicine Consultant's)."


          5. With tne arrival of units for EAC and the other corps, it's getting
          harder to keep track a+ the PM assets and people arriving here,
          especially, since we in this corps have no direct chain of command
          relationship with them. The PM folks from the 74th have done a lot of
          orientation of the new PM arrivals. Most are from reserve units, such
          as the 12th and 14th Med Dets (both AM). Those units are interesting in
          tnat they arrived with about 60 peoole each (I am told), but are
          configuring themselves into functional teams mucn like the LA, LB. and
          LC teams. I'm still unclear on e:@actlv how the medical surveillance
          will be done in tnose other AOs, althougn 1 understand that COL E.
          Pearlman is asking for more 6OCs from the rear. I have met MAJ Little
          of the 12th, LTC Mazur of the ef)Z7rd Med Go, and LTC Doddy of 173rd Med
ded them with brief orientations.

          6. We apparently have had two cases of leishmaniasi5 among XVIII Corps
          soldiers. One, a PFC from the 82nd Airborne, reportedly had kala-azar
          The suspected area of his exposure is the same training area associated
          with the outbreak of febrile illness (tnought to be sandfly +ever, but
          serologically negative) among about 10 soldiers from the 82nd. Surveys
          of that areal by both the 714th and personnel from the Navy Lab found no
          sand+lies.    The seconc case, reportedly cutaneous -leishman@asis in a
          ILT from the 1 Cav Div, was reportedly treated with 1(') days of Pentostam
          aboard tne USS Comfort. Attending physician was a dermatologist.
          Diagnosis was, according to the patienz. made ov touch Dress. He is now
          o days past termination of his therapy and he claims that his lesions
          are flaring up again. There are I an his cheek and 4 on his arms. I'm
          trying to get MAJ C. Smith, ID doc of 41st CSH. to see him and make
          recommendations.     Patient says serologies were drawn, but is unaware of
          results.    I favor further diagnostic wor@cup.

          7. We are told that, if and when hostilities oreak out, there will be a
          cessation to the delivery of Parcel mail. Letters only. Mail delivery
          is a little faster than it was during December. Many People here,
          including me, are boxing up excess belongings that we accumulated and
          mailing them back home. I have also been sending souvenirs to some
          school cnildren back home, including water Dottie labels, the local M&M
          candy labels (our compound, coincidentally, is called the M!,M comoound),
          and empty soda cans of Coke, Pepsi, and 7-Up with their Engiish on one
          side and Arabic an the other. I also have been sending home copies of
          the local. English language newspapers, the Arab News and the Saudi
which feature much news of the turmoil in Asian countries, as
          well as timely coverage of the Sul+ crisis. Not only do they have news
          of American sports, but they also carry news about cricket, field
          hockey, and soccer. News from them as well as the AFRTS, BBC, and VOA
          keep us up to date about world and US news, including the political and
          diplomatic wrangling associated with this Operation.

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