4410 OPERATIONAL SUPPORT WING (P) CONTINGENCY HISTORICAL

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    to gear our training that way in a clinical sense and in a
    management sense.
    
    I think we need to teach managers. I think we need to take
    our people and have them be involved in building table of
    allowances for MASFs. Let nurses and med techs, not supply
    people, list the kinds of medications, the kinds of
    equipment that the MASFs need, because we are doing the
    hands on and know these things. I think that when these
    meetings happen, medical people definitely need to be a part
    of them. All of the TAs [Table of Allowance] need to be
    looked at closely. We need to rebuild our equipment pallets
    and just look at the lessons we have learned here and act on
    them in the next 6 months to get these things changed.
    
    S: Is there anything else about this operation that you ran
    into that you think should be kept for the historical record
    that hasn't been covered by the questions and answers of
    this interview so far? Is there anything that you would
    like to end the interview on, collage of memories; anything
    about KKMC?
    
    M: I would like to say that we spent 2 1/2 months in Riyadh. I
    lived in a five-bedroom villa in a room by myself with a
    king-sized bed and a private phone, and it was pretty cushy;
    but coming up to KKMC was just such an enriching experience,
    namely because of,the support we got up here, the people we
    met, the things we were able to do, what we built. It was a
    very satisfying experience, and I think the people up here
    did the very best they could. It was unfortunate that the
    people in Riyadh kind of forgot the people up here and that
    certain things weren't provided for the troops here. Having
    lived in Riyadh, having traveled to Germany once, there just
    weren't the things [available] up here. It was as if people
    
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