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				Al Ain UAE
				Seeb Oman (Phase I, II)
				Masirah Oman
				Cairo West Egypt

Theater Blood Transshipment Centers (BTC)

	Initially, two blood transshipment centers (BTC) were estab
lished -- one at Riyadh with the 56th TAC Hospital and another at
Dhahran under the supervision of the 1st TAC Hospital. This
theater vital service had its growing pains with refrigeration
and communications problems. Staff supervising these assets did
a herculean job to establish this theater capability for the
CINC. Noteworthy was the superb job of Captain Sarah Futterman of
the 56 TAC Hospital. Her operational effectiveness in blood
transshipment was put to a real test when she was tasked later to
redeploy and set up a third BTC at King Khalid Military City (KKMC)
in support of army operations there.

Theater Aeromedical Evacuation System - Phases I - III [6]

	The aeromedical history of Operations Desert Shield and
Storm is filled with much success, though it enjoyed the complex
realities of coordinated intratheater and intertheater require
meets. Some historical highlights are the following: On execu
tion of Operation Desert Shield the 2nd AES sent initial aeromed
ical personnel to Riyadh on 8 August. The AECC of the 1st AES
deployed on 11 August. Colonel (Sel) Bob Brannon, Commander 1

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