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manned the 31st giving them 150 beds capability. 
 
	Planned offensive operations, the need to minimize staging 
time for aeromedical flights to Europe, and the need to move ASF 
assets further north, drove the decision to redeploy the 1st TAC 
ASF from Dhahran over 300 miles to KKMC. This unprecedented 
redeployment by the contingency proven Roslyn unit was executed 
under challenging conditions the first and second weeks or January 
1991. With increased ARC ASF manning from Roslyn and O'Hare IAP 
the 1st increased to 200 beds. They received support from the U.S. 
Army, and located at KKMC as a key component of "MEDBASE AMERICA," 
were part of the pioneering Tactical/Strategic AE HUB concept 
mentioned earlier. 
 
Words cannot capture the mammoth undertaking it was to build our tactical ASF capability. 
Several thousands of man hours went into the highly successful planning and execution of this 
capability by Surgeon's Office, 1711 AES, and AD/ARC ASF person 
nel. This project took leadership, determination, equipment, 
supplies, time, and sweat, among others, and it combined with the 
aeromedical evacuation and Hub concept were three of our Medical 
Service's top triumphs of the operation.
 
Preventive Medicine and Morbidity Data [9, 13] 
 
Our theater environmental health and bioenvironmental engineering programs were aggressively 
worked at each beddown and supervised by Colonel Butts and Lieutenant Colonel Potts. 
Southwest Asia operations require strong preventive medicine 
 
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