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TENT TOWN TALKER
Deployment Day No. 44 Sept. 22. 1990 Public Affairs

CAMP NOTES
Colonel Smith said that once typhoid
enters the camp it can be passed in food.
* The base sirens will be tested Tuesday water and from person to person,.
about 1 p.m. All camp people should be able He said that the typhoid is a bacteria
to hear a one-minute steady tone, Disaster which infects the gastro intestinal tract
Preparedness asks everybody to report their much like the AGI distress cases that were
ability to hear the siren to their first going on recently. Along with scouring
sergeant, supervisor or commander. diarrhea, a high fever sets in and the
* MWR and Public Affairs have disease spreads to the liver, gall bladder
televisions and VCRs for people to watch and the spleen.
amateur home Videos they receive from "It is treatable with antibiotics, but
family and friends. This equipment will be the quickness of this disease can claim
used in the PA or MWR tents, not for sign- fatalities," he said.
out. The colonel said that a mandatory shot
* The new CSG first sergeant is MSgt. record check would start Sept. 26 through 28
William Griffin. and people must report to the Tent Town
* Tent City Clinic is open 7:30 a.m. to Clinic (green tent) between 7 to 11 am. and
5:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, 7:30 a.m., to 1:30 1 to 4 p.m. Shots will be given during those
p.m. Saturday, and closed Sunday. The main times as well.
times as well hospital is open 24 hours.

TECHS, MASTERS MAY REQUEST HYT WAIVERS
TYPHOID OUTBREAK SPURS RECORD CHECKS
Technical and master sergeants whose
An outbreak of typhoid in the northern adjusted high year of tenure rendered them
edge of the Arabian Peninsula has military ineligible for the next promotion cycle may
medical personnel scrambling to inventory request HYT waivers for one additional
vaccination stocks and set up shot-record promotion cycle, according to PERSCO chief
checks. SMSgt. J.P, Morgan,
The chief of hospital services, Lt. Col,
Don Smith, says that the spread of typhoid is Technical sergeants with a January to
usually one of the by-products associated June, 1991, HYT may request an extension to
with crowded and filthy conditions of refugee July. Master sergeants with a January to
camps, which have formed along Saudis February HYT may request April.
Arabia's border. Check with PERSCO for more information.
"Typhoid spreads incredibly fast and
makes people incredibly sick." Lt. Col, CHAPEL SCHEDULE
Smith said. Protestant
He said that even though we are pretty Sun, 9 am. , Worship Service in MWR Warehouse
far from the outbreak, there are many people Sun, 6:30 p.m. , Evening Worship Service
in this camp who rotate around the theater Mon - Sat, 9 am, , Prayer and Share
and the possibility exists that an Mon - Sat. 6:30 p.m., Bible Study
individual whose immunity level to typhoid Bible Study, Daily, 9 p.m., except Tuesday
has not been recharged with a vaccination, and Saturday
could return here with the disease and spread Holy Communion is the first Sunday morning
it to others, service and the third Sunday evening services
"A typhoid shot is required every three of each month.
years and as people deployed for this Latter Day Saints, Sunday. 9
operation their shot record was checked," am, In Chapel Office Tent
the colonel said. Church of Christ, Sunday, 11 a.m.,
"But some records showed the typhoid
vaccination still current for a few months Catholic
and those people were not given shots," he Sat, 8 p.m., Anticipated Sunday
added. Mass
He said that the hospital here was well Sun, 9 a.m., Catholic Mass
stocked with vaccinations and urged everyone Mon - Fri, B a.m., Morning Prayer
to pull out their mobility folder and look at Mon - Fri, 8 p.m., Daily Mass
their shot record, Mon, Wed, Fri, I p.m. , Rosary
`This is a pretty severe disease and it's Reconciliation (Confession), Before Mass and
much worse than anything we've seen," he upon request
said. Faith inquiry, Tuesday after Mass