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		U N C L A S S I F I E D 
 
RECOMMENDATIONS: 
 
	(1) SME Flight Surgeons should work closely with their 
squadrons to ensure that adequate amounts of medical supplies are 
transported to the deployed location to allow for acceptable 
medical care to be delivered in the few days that might elapse 
before the ATC arrives. 
 
	(2) Flight Surgeons should take seriously, the need to 
review the ATC TA's and add those items not on the TA (as part of 
the additional allowance) that he feels may be needed. 
 
	(3) Flight Surgeons should make every attempt to bring 
adequate amounts of those supplies that are considered most 
essential to the accomplishment of the mission since the 
availability and quantity of resupply is not always guaranteed. 
 
	(4) Ongoing reviews of the relevancy and usefulness of 
the items on the TA by higher headquarters should be continued, A 
list of the most useful medications for this deployment has been 
attached. It is understood that this list may not be the most 
appropriate in every circumstance (See recommendation # 2). 
 
b. 	A significant amount of time elapsed between deployment 
and initiation of hostilities; This created the need for 
training, briefings, and some "peacetime" operations. For the 
most part this was good since it allowed plenty of time for extra 
training and readiness, In some cases, however, the desire to 
perform peacetime operations led to inappropriate actions, such 
as performing flying physicals in a deployed environment. 
 
RECOMMENDATIONS: 
 
	(1) SME's should come prepared to conduct as much or 
more training than is accomplished at the home base. Some 
forethought should be given to the type of reference materials 
that should be included with the ATC in order to ensure that 
quality training occurs. 
 
	(2) Peacetime operations which require special 
equipment and are carefully delineated in the regulations, such 
as physicals, should not be performed in an austere deployed 
environment. Higher headquarters directives on this subject 
represent years of experience in more than one conflict and 
should be followed. 
 
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