DESERT STORM HISTORICAL COLLECTION AND BATTLE ASSESSMENT 13 MAR

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Subject = DESERT STORM HISTORICAL COLLECTION AND BATTLE  ASSESSMENT 13 MAR

Folder Title = DSG-2 FIELD MSGS  FEB 91  WDID  SWA  082  MCCDC  PART 4 OF 8                                    

Parent Organization = CMC         

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               (2) Communications - Necessary amounts of equipment
       wore in short supply. The distances involved within the
       area of operations coupled with the desert environment made
       communicating between units difficult at best. Lack of sufficient
       assets meant absolutely no redundancy for required displacement of
       'A" and "B" command groups and the inability to establish relay/re-
       trans sites.


               (3) Army ammunition - The requirement to transport Army
       ammunition severely taxed an already burdened ground transportation
       system and impacted on the timely displacement of DSG-2.

               (4) Task organization - Frequent changes by 2d Marine
       Division without consideration for the Combat Service Support
       Element to conduct estimates of supportability resulted in hasty
       changes to necessary requirements.

               (5) Class IX block,
                    (a) Rapid requests - Rapid request +lowed from using
       units via CSSD to DSG-2 for action. If DSG-2 or DSC had the
       requested item, there was a timely response to the request. There
       were limited Class IX parts on hand initially at the DSG-2 and DSC
       which resulted in a low fill rate. Response time to parts requests
       submitted to SUP BN SOC by DSC averaged approximately 72 hours. The
       rapid request system never provided the timely response and high
       fill rate it was originally designed to do.

                    (b) Prescribed loads - Many of the supported units
       carried very little Class IX with the exception of PEB. Due to the
       relatively low SMU fill rate (as compared to conus) units had -Fairly
       long lead times an some critical parts. It is recommended that
       during -Future combat operations, using units carry limited critical
       Class IX repair parts in their supply section/dets.

                    (c) DSG-2 Class IX block - The original DSG-2 Class IX
       block was to carry 1500 NSN's. The 1500 NSN's loaded to the LUBF
       were based on usage for the previous -Four months. Of the 1500 NSN's
       loaded to the DSG-2 LUBF, only 440 were initially on hand at the
       SMU. The period from identifying NSN's to be stocked to.building
       and deploying the block was only six days. In building future
       blocks, stockage criteria should still include critical NSN's as
       identified by using units. Identification and requisition action
       should be accomplished as early as possible to allow adequate lead
       time to order the parts. Some parts are shipped from CONUS lead
       time should be at least three weeks.










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Subject = DESERT STORM HISTORICAL COLLECTION AND BATTLE ASSESSMENT 13 MAR
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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 = 24-MAR-1997