4410 OPERATIONAL SUPPORT WING (P) CONTINGENCY HISTORICAL

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          REPORT, 3-9 MAR 91, SUP DOC #22




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    Oral Interview with
    Maj Kathleen M. Murray
    Commander, Mobile Aeromedical
    Staging Facility
    King Khalid Military City
    By: TSgt Barry L. Spink,
    9 March 1991
    Trans & Edited by: Faye Davis

    S: Major Murray, when did you come over to King Khalid Military
    City [KKMC], and what was the mission you were expecting to
    do over here in Saudi Arabia?
    M: I came to KKMC on the 6th of January this year. I came into
    country on 14 October of last year, so there was a lag time.
    My expectations from the time I came into the country until
    the time I came to KKMC changed quite a bit. When I came
    into country, I suspected that it would be a classic massive
    setup; and that is to say, it harkens back to Vietnam. Of
    course this is a completely different theater, but one
    thinks of a short runway, probably dirt or hardened, where a
    -130 can come in, stay for a short amount of time, load the
    patients on, and out they go.
    
    What happened;at KKMC was a totally different kind of
    picture. I think a lot of the doctrine will be rewritten as
    a result of this. The classic massive picture, for one
    thing, does not marry up with an Army group. It is
    autonomous. Here at KKMC we definitely married up with an
    Army group, and I think that was a very good thing. I hope
    that we will do that from now on. I think it is necessary.
    
    At KKMC a new model was designed, a "strat tac hub." That
    is to say that not only -130s would be coming in to evac
    patients out but also -141s. That involves a completely
    different mission. The idea was to combine everything at