HEALTH SERVICE SUPPORT ELEMENT

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Subject: HEALTH SERVICE SUPPORT ELEMENT                                  

Box  ID: BX600011

Document Number:          7

Folder Title: COMMAND CHRONOLOGY 1ST FORCE SERVICE SUPPORT GROUP OCT 1990                                     

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Unit: 1ST FSSG    

Parent Organzation: 1 MEF       







                                        section 3

                             Chronology of Significant Events

             I October 1990     Tactical communications established with
                                ARCENT for coordinating air shipments of blood
                                in AO.

             e October 1990     SOP established for lst Marine Expeditionary
                                Force blood program.

             5 October 1990     Pre-hostility level of blood increased at UBMC
                                Hospital to support CSSD deployment in AO.

             9 October 1990     Additional refrigeration units and IOK
                                generators acquired at BSU (KAA). Whole blood
                                storage capacity increased to 1600 units.

            10 October 1990     CDR Jacobs attended a medical meeting in
                                Rhyiad, Saudi Arabia to discuss theater
                                Emergency Response System, Contingency Mass
                                Casualty Response, and Inter/Intra Theater
                                Casualty Evacuation.

            13 October 1990     (3emeral Support SroLip One, Ist FSS(31
                                reorganized, with Health Service Support
                                Element falling back under (3-3.

            16 October 1990     Liaison visit made to USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) by
                                CDR Jacobs and HMC Ashlee.

            18 October 1990     Foxtrot Company, Medical Detachment, Surgical
                                Support Company established forward with CSSD
                                141 at Manifa Bay with support operations
                                assistance through B-3 and (3SG-l. Medical
                                regulating section established.

            20 October 1990     Blood Bank storage refrigerators acquired by
                                CSSD 111 and CSSD 141. New, state-of-the-art
                             refrigerators are capable of storing
                                approximately 500 units of liquid blood at
                                each location.

                                CDR Jacobs coordinated a communications
                                exercise conducted to test the medical
                                regulating nets between CSSD III, 141, the
                                DASC, USMC Hospital, and Fleet Hospital 5.




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Box ID = BX600011
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Folder Title = COMMAND CHRONOLOGY 1ST FORCE SERVICE SUPPORT GROUP OCT 1990
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Subject = HEALTH SERVICE SUPPORT ELEMENT
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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 = 13-SEP-1996