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TOPIC AREA: LACK OF PERSCO TEAM AND/OR MEDICAL SQUADRON SECTION 
FOR AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION
 
SUBMITTED BY: HQ AFRES/SGXO 
 
ISSUE: Aeromedical Evacuation Control Elements (AECEs) are not staffed to handle 
the myriad of personnel related problems associated with large numbers of aircrew 
members. 
 
DISCUSSION: Problems were encountered concerning everything from pay to 
emergency leaves at each deployment location having large numbers of ARC 
personnel. Billeting, messing, and transportation were also personnel irritants 
that could have been properly handled with better/proper staffing. An 
eleven-person AECE, working around the clock mission-specific routines, is not 
capable of also spending the necessary time and manpower to look into all of the 
"people problems". This same situation was found to be true at mobile aeromedical 
staging facility (MASF) sites and aeromedical evacuation control centers (AECC). 
Many of the affected personnel felt their problems were being ignored, or that 
the management just didn't care. 
 
IMPACT: Degradation of moral and mission accomplishment. 
 
RECOMMENDATION: Serious consideration must be given to either: 
 
1. Deploy a PERSCO team to each ARC deployment location. 
 
2. Develop a Medical Squadron UTC which can be modified to accommodate the number 
of ARC personnel deployed at each location. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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