COMMAND REPORT OPERATION DESERT STORM

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Subject: COMMAND REPORT OPERATION DESERT STORM                           

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Folder Title: COMMAND REPORTS  803D MEDICAL GROUP COMMAND REPORT                                              

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             reported open and operational at 803d Medical Group with the
             2SIst Evacuation Hospital reporting 300 beds.
             (i) 17 January 1991 - At 0300C hrs, the Persian Gulf War
             begins with the bombing of Baghdad.
             (j) IS - 19 January 1991 - Med Base America was established
             with an interface between the Army 947th Clearing Platoon,
             Mobile Aeromedical staging Facility (MASF) and the Aeromedical
             Staging Facility (ASF). That interface was designed to
             facilitate the influx of aeromedical evacuation from the Corps
             areas as well as evacuation from BAC hospitals to theater rear
             areas and strategic evacuation to Europe.
             (k) 19 January 1991 - 343d Medical Detachment (RA) assumed EAC
             area Medical support for Medevac missions.
             (1) 21 January 1991 - Established initial contact with the
             800th Military Police Brigade to coordinate medical support to
             EPW Camp Brooklyn.
             (m) 23 January 1991 - Admitted first patient (U.S.) into the
             803d Medical Group's EAC hospital complex (see Figure A).
             (n) 2S January 1991 - Conducted basic decontamination team
             training for 30 soldiers of the Group.
             (o) 26 January 1991 - Deployed medical support to EPW Camp West
             (Brooklyn) consisting of a Dental Team from 123d Medical
             Detachment (AI), a Clearing Platoon from the 947th MC, the 75th
             Med Det (OA) for sick call to MP's, and four to six Ground
             Ambulances from the 477th MC. As prisoner population expanded,
             assets from 114th, 350th and 365th Evaes were added as well as
             the 424th Medical Lab. Iraqi EPW medical personnel were
             also utilized to augment U.S. medical personnel.
             (p) 30 January 1991 - Decontamination exercise was conducted
 A total of 20
             patients were decontaminated.
             (q) 2 February 1991 - Briefed MEDCOM Commander on the Group's
             evacuation plan in support of the XVIII and VII Corps rear
             Hospitals.
             (r) 3 February 1991 - The Group conducted a COMEX to test its
             Hospitals, Med Base America, MRO and its Evacuation
             assets.
             (a) 3 February 1991 - Briefed Brigadier General Frix, ARCENT
             Deputy Commander on the medical evacuation plan of the 803d
             Medical Group.
               * Evacuation Plan identified Shortfalls in personnel for the
               24-hour operation of:
                  33 U.S. Ambulances
                  22 German Ambulances
                  14 Ambulance Buses
                  MEDCOM and PERSCOM responded by providing  101 personnel
               to support the vehicle augmentation.
             (t)  8 February 1991 - All 1200 potential beds  of the three
             803d Medical Group Evacuation Hospitals became  operational.
             (u) 8-9 and 15-16 February 1991 - 803d Medical  Group conducted
             two Medical Exercises (MEDEXIS) with XVIII and  VII Corps
             hospitals testing the total evacuation system,  medical
             regulatory system and internal hospital procedures.
             (v) 12 February 1991 - 803d named Base Defense operations

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