OPERATION DESERT SHIELD MEDICAL AND CHEMICAL THREAT

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Subject: OPERATION DESERT SHIELD MEDICAL AND CHEMICAL THREAT             

Box ID: BX000041

Unit: XVIII CORPS 

Parent  Organization: ARCENT      

Folder Title: AFTER ACTION REPORTS                                                                            

Folder Seq #:         35

Document Number:          7

Document Date: 

Scan Date: 14-MAY-1996






                                 DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
                           HEADQUARTERS, XVIII AIRBORNE CORPS AND FORT BRAGG
                                 FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA 28307-5000


                 flEPLY TO
                 ATTENTION OF.


         ARZA-MD



         MEMORANDUM FOR   SEt DISTRIBUTION


         SUBJEC'R:  OPERATION DESERT' S141ELD MEDICAL AND CI-IEMIC[.)L THREAI-



         I- You are beina provided the following pieces of eq"inment-
         Most are intended to prevent you from dying or from becoming
         severely, perhaps permanently ill from diseases prevalent where
         you are going. While these may not look as important to you as
         your weapon, proper, consistent use will truly, for real, help
         you  return home well. They work-


              2  tubes of new DEET creme -- for skin
              2  bottles Sunscreen - for skin
              I  can Permethrin aerosol - for mosquito nl-tting-and bl-ddina
              2  NAOP blister packs - for use only when commargd directed
              3  3 Mark-I - Nerve Agent Antidote kits
              2  M-258 - Decontamination Kits


         2- Water and Food Thveat:


              Water, ice and food available from the economy is almost
         uniformly contaminated with bacteria, viruses, and parasites to
         which you have no immunity.      Typhoid fever and intestinal
         parasites are common. DO NOT USE LOCAL WATER OR FOOD! TJSE ONLY
         U-S. MILITARY WATER SOURCEP@ AND MAKE SURE IT IS HIGHLY
         CIILURINATED (5-10 PARTS PER MILI-ION) DO NOT add Satorade -like
         or l(oolaid-lik@ flavoring packets as the idditives contained
         will inactivate the usually protective levels of chl       orine.    1-fie
         residual chlorine MUST be kept high.

         3-   Insect, Spider, Scorpion, @nd SnAko Th@etts-

              a.  The most  important danger in this category you       will
ly
         through unprotected mosquito netting. The Sand Fly carries maiiv
         diseases that are truly awful but the ones most common in this
         @n"t-ation carry primarily Leishmaniasis and Sand Fly Fevet--
         Sand Fly Fevet- will make you e)ctremely ill and combat
         in@effective-   1-hese flies are attracted by unsanitary litrines,
         Mt-ine or fecal waste around vouv encampment, and food - as wel'I
         as your body.

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File Room = apr96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-18
Box ID = BX000041
Unit = XVIII CORPS
Parent Organization = ARCENT
Folder Title = AFTER ACTION REPORTS
Folder Seq # = 35
Subject = OPERATION DESERT SHIELD MEDICAL AND CHEMICAL THREAT
Document Seq # = 7
Document Date = 01-JAN-1980
Scan Date = 14-MAY-1996
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 = 07-JUN-1996