MEDICAL LESSONS LEARNED

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MEDICAL LESSONS LEARNED
DESERT SHIELD/STORM

CATEGORY: Planning

ISSUE/ITEM:

SUBJECT: Joint Theater Planning - Host Base Reception

BACKGROUND: Movement of CONUS personnel into theater can be traced by TPFDD data
or by specially generated report. Advance knowledge of arrival date/time and
personnel data is essential in order to provide for billeting, messing,
transportation, inprocessing and other functions at the host base.

DISCUSSION: Lack of timely arrival data caused significant problems at host
units. HQ USAFE/SGX requested telephone reports to their offices to inform them
of required personnel movement data. This was not workable. Congested DSN lines
made it impossible to contact USAFE, and the length of reports to be provided
would have been unmanageable via telecon.

The same required data is transmitted via DP/LG channels as
"Departure Reports" from the losing base to the host unit and all affected
MAJCOMs- These reports are submitted via immediate precedence.

ACTION RECOMMENDED: Amend guidance in AFR 35-20 and 28-4 to include functional
managers as addressees to Departure Reports. This would give the functional
managers the data required to assist with base reception efforts and other
planning functions.

SUGGESTED OPRs/OCRs: HQ USAF/SGHR/DPX

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