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Table 4, Mobile Aeromedical Staging Facilities

		Location				MASF			Personnel
		A1 Khanjar			1			20**
		A1 Kibrit				1			33**
		A1 Mishab				1			34**
		A1 Qaisumah			1			33
		Jubail IAP			1			35**
		King Fahd IAP			1			26
		King Khalid IAP		1			23
		King Khalid Mil City	2			56**
		Log Base Charlie		1			24
		Log Base Echo			1			23
		Muharraq IAP			0*			21
		Rafha				1			21
		
		Total 				12			349

			* - Personnel Only
			** - Augmented with Partial Personnel Package

each of the five C-130 locations to provide a more rapid response.
As the build-up continued, the number of crews gradually increased
to eight per beddown site. The crews staged at the C-130 beddowns
were tasked to fly the daily channel missions (Samaritans) within
the AOR (see attachment 5). Each location averaged three channel
missions per week, with an occasional urgent mission tasking. The
Samaritan missions continued throughout the period of hostilities,
moving both DNBI patients and battle casualties. Additional
retrograde AE missions to evacuate battle casualties from forward
areas were supported by tactical crews based at the strategic hubs
or the forward MASFs. At the onset of the ground war, there were
99 tactical crews (497 AECMs) in the AOR (see Table 5).

	(2) Beddown Site Management. As the number of AECMs
increased at the beddown sites, so did management requirements.
To provide adequate control over those operations, a senior
ranking nurse (0-5) was eventually placed at each location. This
nurse supervised the assigned AECMs and managed the daily AE
operation of the site. He/she also served as the aeromedical
evacuation representative to the host commander at each location.

(3) Strategic (C-141) AECMs. Strategic AECMs (94% ARC
assets, were used within the AOR throughout Operation DESERT
SHIELD/STORM. The initial tasking placed 12 crews at each of the
first two AE hubs, Riyadh and Dhahran. This requirement expanded
during the pre-hostility phase to a total of 50 crews divided
among the five AE strategic hubs. As stated earlier, additional

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