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thirty days of supplies, and during this operation 12 resupply packages (3 - 4 
pallets each) were shipped to the theater within the first eight weeks.

Our ATHs can routinely provide care for 3000 - 5000 personnel at a deployed 
location. And just who do our ATHs serve? They serve the deployed wing -- the 
security police, cargo handlers, firemen, electricians, plumbers, generator 
operators, cooks, heavy equipment operators, aircrew members, air traffic 
controllers, weapons loaders, postal clerks, MWR folks, in short anyone requiring 
outpatient and inpatient care in an austere environment. Having this care close 
at hand assures the wing commander and families at home that deployed personnel 
will receive the best possible medical care during a contingency. This assurance 
is absolutely essential in the desert!

Patient Decontamination Teams

Additionally, because of the BW/CW threat we required Patient Decontamination 
Teams for each ATH. The Patient Decon Teams deployed with each ATH during Phase 
I. Some were later redeployed in theater to higher threat locations. This was the 
first contingency in which patient decon teams, a total of 14, [4] were employed. 
Also, for high threat SME-only beddowns, we provided training and equipment to 
non-medical augmentees who manned the teams. HQ TAC had previously designed a 
decon table of allowance. This pioneering package was hastily built for each ATH 
during the deployment phase. Colonel Don Butts and Master Sergeant

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