4410 OPERATIONAL SUPPORT WING (P) CONTINGENCY HISTORICAL

File: aabhf_03.txt
Page: 03
Total Pages: 14
    





    The MAC ALCC commander walked out with me, and it all worked
    out just fine.
    
    We set up our site, still the first element out here; then
    the ASF came, which is the Aeromedical Staging Facility.
    They walked off their area. Then the AECE came, which is
    the Air Evac Control Element. I think the Army medical
    clearing platoon probably came before the AECE; I don't
    remember right now. Of course, then real estate became very
    valuable and precious. All of those things that happen when
    people all try to live together converged, and it all
    happened.
    
    We started running our missions right away here in the tac
    part of all this. The medical clearing platoon probably
    took 2 weeks to get set up, so that the classic function of
    this thing, the operational function, was not really working
    probably until the beginning of February. So our mission
    started right away. We were on what they call samaritan
    channel mission runs, so we had missions every day except
    Sunday. Some days we had two missions. Often we had two,
    and one day we had three missions in one day.
    
    When the Army got set up, then the new doctrine was that any
    patient that came to KKMC through the air head, and that is
    fixed or rotary wing, would first be seen through the
    medical clearing platoon. They were actually composed of
    two platoons from two different corps. What I mean by that
    the 18th Airborne Corps and the 803rd Med Group, which
    supports echelon above corps beds, were the two platoons
    that married up, so they were really two-thirds of one
    company.
    
    One group was a Reserve; one group was active duty. The
    active duty platoon person was the commander. They would