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       for dismantling and repacking the tents and related equipment.
       CENIAF/LG directed the personnel at the bases to pack like items in
       the shipping containers. The contractors at the preposltioninq
       alter would sort it out later. Base level personnel were often
       told they could go home as soon as they packed up their camp. The
       result was a concerted effort to dismantle and pack the Harvest
       Falcon assets as quickly as possible. They assumed that the tents
       and other items would be cleaned and repacked by contractors before
       being reused. Engineers were also responsible for the
       environmental aspect of the cleanup. Because they had been
       oncerned throughout the deployment, there was little that had to
       be done at that point. good products were often left for the host
       nation or the local population to use. Most of the paving projects
       remained in place as additions to the host base.
      The redeployment of people followed the basic guideline of
      "first in' first out." At many of the sites' the personnel who had
      arrived in August and September returned home in March and left the
      people who had arrived in the Phase II buildup during December and
      January to complete the cleanup. A problem arose when the original
      Prime BEEF team redeployed and took their team kit and tools with
      them. The augmenting teams did not always bring their team kit and
      were sometimes left in a bind. Additional personnel continued to
      arrive in March and April. Air Reserve and Air National Guard
      Paine BEEF teams deployed to Al Kbacj and King Fahd respectively to
      help close down the sites.
      RED HORSE personnel redeployed using opportune airlift in mid-
      Macch. A sixty-person port crew remained behind to prepare the
      equipment for shipment by sea back to the home bases. The
      equipment was convoyed from Eskan Village to the port of Ad Dammam
      in April. By ~ May' the equipment for both the 82Oth and 823d
      squadrons was loaded on a ship bound for Jacksonville' Florida"
      The ship applied on 10 June and the equipment was back at the
      respective units by the end of the month.~5
      The CENTAF Mortuary Assistance Team closed down operations at
      Dhahran in late March. One of Maior Howell#s final acts in theater
      was the acceptance of fourteen (eight British, six American)
      missing-in-action remains from Iraq. The International Red Cross
      had transported the remains from Baghdad to Dhahran on l] March.
      After processing at Dhahran' the Americans were then flown to
      Dove.
      
       Aftermath of the Mar"
      
      Air Force engineers were busy in the days before the formal
      cease fire was signed. Prime BEEF personnel moved into Kuwait to
      assist in the restoration of Kuwaltl facllitles. In early March'
      a team from Masirah AB spent a week helping a MAC Airlift Control
      Element improve their living and working conditions at Kuwalt Clty
      International Al~port. In addition to provldlng electclelty,
      ~bowers, and latclnes at the altport faculty' the team visited a
      local orphanage to pass out candy and American flags. In May' a
      

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