CLINI CONSULTNT FOR CHEM CASUALTY REPT TO SURGEON GENERAL

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Subject: CLINI CONSULTNT FOR CHEM CASUALTY REPT TO SURGEON GENERAL       

Unit: OTSG        

Parent Organization: HSC         

Box  ID: BX003204

Folder Title: CHEMICAL CASUALTY CARE ANNUAL REPORT OPERATION DESERT SHIELD STORM                              

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          SUBJECT: Clinical Consultant for Chemical Casualty Care's Annual Report to The
          Surgeon General for 1990

          soldiers, such as aid station collective protection shelters. in Spring 1990 the Director
          of Training and Doctrine of AHS presented an excellent IPR on chemical casualty care
          training and doctrine to the AMEDD leadership. Since that time, we have accumulated
          a wealth of field experience on what can be taught to doctors and medics and what
          doctrine can be executed easily in the field. Good examples of field developments are the
          forward patient decontamination concept adopted as XVIII Airborne Corps and VII Corps
          policy, shown at TAB F, and the chemical casualty care instruction for medics provided
          by the 504th PK 82nd Airborne Divisio@ shown at TAB G. I recommend that TSG task
          the Chemical Casualty Care Consultant and the DOTD, AHS to jointly convene a working
          expert panel to propose doctrine and training modifications in Aug 91, with an IPR to
          be jointly presented to the AMEDD leadership in Sep 91.

          5. The shape and scope of M2C3 course instruction in the future will require careful
          planning, as noted for Reserve Component medical personnel in Lesson Learned 2 at
          TAB E. Contract support for in-house M2C3 expansion is currently programmed to expire
          at the end of FY 91. There are significant problems and issues with exportable
          instruction provided by teams from the Joint Medical Readiness Training Center, which
          had been a key component of the planned exportable effort. We now have a wealth of
          experience on what works well and what problems can arise with exportable M2C3
          instruction. I believe that every AMEDD health care provider at risk for deployment to
          a chemical threat combat zone must be an M2C3 graduate. We were incredibly fortunate
fter the start of the crisis to make up a major educational deficit.
          Now that 30% of us are trained, we need sustairunent of those trained and the most cost-
          effective options for education of the rest.    I recommend that the Chief, Chemical
          Casualty Care Office, USAMRICD, prepare a fully coordinated decision briefing for TSG
          or DSG on the scope and resourcing of future M2C3 education to take place in June 91.


          6. The need for a network of medical unit Chemical Casualty Care Officers is set forth
          in Lesson Learned 3 at TAB E. Recommend that TSG or DSG provide a decision on the
          proposed network at the same June 91 decision briefing proposed above.

          7. A proposal for prior planning for expert scientific assistance teams that may be
          required by unified commands in future combat is given as Lesson Learned 4 at TAB E.
          The proposal is also under study by the USAMRDC staff. No decision or action by TSG
          is requested at present.



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Subject = CLINI CONSULTNT FOR CHEM CASUALTY REPT TO SURGEO
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