MEDICAL LESSONS LEARNED

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MEDICAL LESSONS LEARNED
DESERT SHIELD/STORM

CATEGORY: Manpower and Personnel

ISSUE/ITEM:

SUBJECT: Personnel Tracking - Requirements

BACKGROUND: Identification of personnel requirements was a MAJCOM functional
manager responsibility. Inputs were received from individual medical treatment
facilities, as opposed to MET/CBPO functions. Likewise, tracking of personnel
and requirements was tasked to functional managers.

DISCUSSION: Identification and reporting of requirements was very difficult in
this operation. A number of factors played into this difficulty:

(1) Confusion between mobility/Palace Blitz and Palace Trip
taskings.

(2) AFSC substitution and shortfalls.

(3) Redeployments.

(4) Cancellation of taskings.

(5) Human error.

In addition, tasking of facility SGX/SGAX units to perform what is essentially
a manpower or personnel function was, in retrospect, not wise. SGX/SGAX
personnel quickly were overtasked in executing their own programs. In addition,
they are untrained to deal with personnel utilization issues and personnel
administration programs.

ACTION RECOMMENDED:

(1) Task base MET offices to validate manpower losses and generate
database of those requirements for transmission to MAJCOM and USAF. Base level
coordination between the losing unit, base CBPO, and MET prior to release of data
should ensure consistency in reported requirements. Similar revalidation of
requirements at MAJCOM level would ensure proper oversight.

SUGGESTED OPRs/OCRs: HQ USAF/SGHR/XPM/DPX

SUBMITTER: [(b)(2)] HQ ATC/SGAX