DESERT SHIELD STORM AFTER ACTION REPORT PHASE 1

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Subject: DESERT SHIELD STORM AFTER ACTION REPORT PHASE 1                 

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Parent Organization: VII  CORPS  

Box  ID: BX001045

Folder Title: AFTER ACTION REPORTS PHASE I MOBILIZATION AND DEPLOYMENT                                        

Document Number:       2002

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                                                                            07/18/91
                                         JULLS LONG REPORR

                1. (U) JULLS NUMBER: 41738-6921)f (00419), submitted by RILEY
                AFZN-PTM-C. Mr. Walter. 856-222,. (913)239-2225.

                2. (U) Operation DESERT SHIELD conducted by USCENTCOM on 02/11/91.

                3. (U) KEYWORDS: EXEC SUM.

                4. (U) TITLE: SUMMARY - Phase I - Post Chemical Officer ref
                Reserve Component Units

                S. (U) NBC Eyectitive Summary regarding Reserve Component Units.

                    a. PLANNING. Unlike the deployment of Active Component
                (AC) Units, no Fort Riley plan e:,isted to mobilize Reserve
                Component (RC) Units at less than -Full mobilization. The
                existing Fort Riley Mobilization Plan also contained very little
                detail on NBC.

                        (1) There was neither time nor precedent for preparing
                an NBC operations annex that addressed how to assist mobilized
                RC Units in preparing ;or war in a chemical environment.
                Planning was real-time and driven by FORSCOM directives which
                specified Minimums for training and logistics.

                        (2) Under the Fort Riley Mob Plan, Readiness Group Fort
                Riley (RGFR) was to become a Mobilization Assistance Team (MAT)
                with training and validation functions under -Full mobilization.
                RGFR assumed this role under the the Desert Shield 200K call-up,
                but it was unable to support the NBC training and validation
                mission. Consequently, this responsibility first +ell to the
                lst ID NBC Division in Aug 90, and later shifted to the Fort
                Riley DPTM/Post Chemical Office (NBC School) in Nov 90.

Chemical assisted RC Units at the Mob Station
                with the following tasks: conducting comprehensive NBC
                ec7uioment inventories. placing requisitions: conducting
                individual training, sizing masks', and chemical protective
                garments: validatiria individual NBC proficiency. conducting CS
                Chamber exercises; executing bull: draws of CDE and Class VIII
                NBC SLLPPlieSt and receiving Threat Briefings.

                    b. PREPARATION FOR DEPLOYMENT.

                        (1) Preparation by many RC Units for mobilization and
                deployment in an NBC environment was minim.?I.

                            (a) Most units did not have serviceable and/or
                Sufficient quantities of individual protective equipment, unit
                detection equipment, or a second chemical suit ensemble. No
                units had the helmet cover or NBC bag.

                            tb) No units arrived at the Mob Station (MS) with


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Subject = DESERT SHIELD STORM AFTER ACTION REPORT PHASE 1
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