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File: 102496_aug96_decls9_0011.txt
Subject: OP DESERT SHIELD 483RD MED DET VS JB 6 AUG 90 16 JAN 91
Unit: ARCENT
Parent Organization: CENTCOM
Box ID: BX000481
Folder Title: COMMAND REPORTS 422SD MED DET VETERINARY SVCS COMMAND REPORT
Document Number: 17
Folder SEQ #: 17
vehicles.
The f ield medical assistant is essential to the unit by taking
some of the administrative burden of operating and supporting a
unit of f of the commander. During the initial phases of the
operation the commander, who was not authorized a f ield medical
assistant during peace time and was used to perf orming most of
these administrative responsibilities on his own, did not fully
utilize this position. However, an aggressive 67B, who would
inform the commander of how he could help and who would have taken
initiative to look f or ways in which he could help, would have
greatly helped in educating the commander and in improving the
overall efficiency of the unit.
The unit supply sergeant was essential to the operation of the
unit. Keeping the unit supplied with equipment, clothing, cleaning
supplies, medical supplies, food was a critical task in the
operational readiness of the unit. He also maintained the unit
property book and acted as unit armorer. A SGT or SSG is needed in
this position.
X. BAHRAIN (MST DELTA):
The requirement for an inspector in Bahrain was identified
early in the theater while we were still living at Cement city and
a request for veterinary support was received from the Marines
located at Sheik Isa AB. SGT Boltz was selected to be the sole
inspector in Bahrain for a number of reasons; females were not as
restricted in their movements in Bahrain as they were in Saudi
Arabia and she was used to performing her duties at isolated
locations as she had come from Veterinary Detachment Europe. She
resided at the 47th Field Hospital on Sheik Isa AB and performed
inspections of marine operational rations and A rations received at
.
A significant difference in Bahrain was that the A rations
were purchased on the economy by the US Government and not provided
free by a host nation feeding system as in Saudi Arabia. In this
respect subsistence procurement in Bahrain was similar to CONUS or
Europe. Vendors were anxious to receive contracts and thus could
be more easily controlled. Initially the vendors were unaware of
what type and quality of subsistence the military required.
original deliveries of meat were made in non-temperature controlled
flat bed trucks covered with canvas. Meat cuts were not standard
and arrived thrown in any available unlined box, in varying degrees
of refrigeration and covered with flies. SGT Boltz recognized that
the primary problem was that the local vendors had no idea what was
required by the US military. She independently developed and
published a complete set of simple specifications to include
sanitation requirements, how to cut meat, FF&V quality standards,
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File Room = aug96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-32
Box ID = BX000481
Unit = ARCENT
Parent Organization = CENTCOM
Folder Title = COMMAND REPORTS 422SD MED DET VETERINARY SVCS COMMAND REPORT
Folder Seq # = 17
Subject = OP DESERT SHIELD 483RD MED DET VS JB 6 AUG 9
Document Seq # = 17
Document Date =
Scan Date =
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 = 11-OCT-1996