BOOMERS BRIEFS 4 JAN 91

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Subject = BOOMERS BRIEFS 4 JAN 91                                         

Parent Organization = COMUSCINCCEN

Unit = COMUSMARCENT

Folder Title = COMUSMARCENT - BOOMER BRIEFS   4 JAN 91                                                         

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Box ID = BX600129



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   COL SORIANO: Appreciate all the support so far, and hope we will
   be able to resolve some issues for you.

   GEN BOOMER: Great. Thanks.

   LTCOL SILCOX: Just one quick thing, sir. I just want to plug
   Col Soriano a minute. The last 48 hours, Gen Luck has been
   trying to steal him for XVIII Airborne Corps, so you got the pick
   of the litter.

   COL SORIANO: I don't write his AOR.

   CAPT CRIM: Sir, nobody is getting shot here, but I have
   information. We got a phone call from CENTCOM yesterday telling
   me that a Korean MASH unit staff, about 150 medical people are
   coming over and they were going to occupy and use the Saudi
   hospital about loo clicks from here, and they were magnanimously
   given my phone number for them to call. They are not going to
   bring any gear, would only come to us in an emergency. That will
   probably be the first discussion we have. I don't know where
   they are going, General, or where there's a hospital up there 100
   clicks. They might be the last shot.

           I want to clear up any questions there may be on nerve
   agent antidotes. Every troop is supposed to have three of these,
   two of these. These may be put together into what's called a
   "Unit-ill here, with three Atropine and two Pralidoxime Chloride
   injectors.

           There's a new item onhand that some of you may not have
   heard about - certainly not seen - this is a pretreatment tablet
   troops may take, and although it's advertised as only something
   that enhances the effect of those auto-injectors, I personally
   think it gives some protection itself. Animals that have been
   given this and gassed do not tend to die, they don't stop
   breathing - they do have hellacious convulsions; so we have
   another new item come out called Pyridostigmine tablets, and
   Diazepan, for convulsive antidote nerve agent. This is otherwise
   known as Valium, it's a controled drug, we have to use controled
   drug procedures. As a matter of fact, as far as controled drugs
   go, the British are all issued a Morphine auto-injector, which we
   don't have.

           Anyway, these are in short supply. We don't have enough,
   but we have enough to issue to troops further north. The
   Commanding General has given approval to issue these to the
   troops. A lot of units have these at the unit in medical hands.
   The units that don't have them can pick them up at MEDLOG,
   hopefully one per troop because we only have enough for one each.
   We are going to get more in, so we will have a second in reserve.

           There will be training required of the troops before
   these are issued. Troops will have to sign for these. Someone
   will be coming around the staff today to train the MEF staff and
   issue these things. If in fact a person needs one of these, he
   can't give it to himself. This is to say, if you could give this



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