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AES, working for the Commander Airlift Forces (COMALF), was designated the 
Commander Tactical Aeromedical Evacuation System (TAES), and AECC Director. ARC 
volunteers served initially as tactical and strategic aircrews, and later, also, 
served as staffing for all AE operations. By the end of the operation AE 
personnel would come from 25 ARC units. On 15 August there were one AECC, two 
AELTs, and two MASFs operational. By 15 September 500 patients had been air 
evacuated, and one thousand patients were moved by 3 October. On 3 November ARC 
AE personnel were involuntarily activated by UTC. The 1611th AES (P) was 
activated on 8 November. The TAES initiated intratheater AE channel missions on 
14 November. By 15 January 5,000 patients had been air evacuated. On 19 January, 
two days after the Air Campaign was executed the number of 1611th personnel 
exceeded 1,000. On 22 January the first EPW mission was flown and on 4 February 
the first battle casualty was evacuated. The first combined Saudi and U.S. AE 
mission was flown on 17 February, one week prior to G-Day. Coalition Forces POWs 
were air evacuated from Amman Jordan on 4 March. By 6 March 10,000 patients had 
been evacuated by the TAES. In all 19 AELTs, 12 MASFs, 99 tactical AE crews, 46 
strategic AE crews, and 22 AE flight surgeons were utilized. The following is a 
summary of Operations Desert Shield and Storm AE workload from 12 August 1990 to 
31 March 1991: [6] 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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