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litter and 28 ambulatory patients. Additional channel missions 
were to be requested by the AOR AECC through the CENTCOM JMCC as 
required. Requirements that could not be supported by JMCC 
allocated missions were to be supported using retrograde C-141 
missions requested by the AOR AECC through the ALCC. By agreement 
reached at the 4 January meeting, the AOR AECC was to request the 
retrograde missions be flown to the AE hub where the patients had 
been regulated. If that was not possible, they were to be flown 
to either Ramstein AB or Rhein Main AB, and the patients were to 
be redistributed as necessary. Retrograde missions were to be 
configured to 48 litters by AECE and aircraft maintenance 
personnel at the AE hub. Additional litter capability was to be 
configured as mission requirements dictated. Sufficient 780 
equipment to configure the retrograde aircraft to 48 litters was 
prepositioned in the AOR. 
The overwhelming success of the air campaign resulted in a shorter 
ground campaign than was generally expected, with a significantly 
reduced number of casualties. As a result, the AE system did not 
have to be utilized to the degree anticipated. During Operation 
DESERT STORM, 7,231 patients were moved on 272 missions. Of the 
patients moved, 355 were battle casualties (see Table 10). 
 
 
Table 10, Operation DESERT STORM AB Workload 
(17 January 1991 - 31 March 1991)
 
			Litter 		Amb 		Total 	Missions 
 
Intratheater 	1,265 		1,110 	2,375		173 
Intertheater 	2,089 		2,767 	4,856		99 
Total		3,354 		3,877 	7,231 		272 
 
12. Post-hostilities Evacuation System (d March - TBD). After the tentative 
cease fire, AECC staff and representatives of component services met to 
establish AE requirements for the redeployment phase. A concept for AE drawdown 
and redeployment operations was approved and implemented. AE assets were drawn 
down in conjunction with the closure of medical facilities and the redeployment 
of ground forces they were supporting. Unneeded MASFs and AELTs were 
immediately redeployed. The King Fahd IAP and King Khalid Military City AECEs 
were collocated with major medical facilities which remained operational during 
the redeployment phase. Therefore, those AECEs also remained operational to 
support AE operations at their locations. Operations at Jubail IAP, King Khalid 
IAP and Muharraq IAP were terminated. Tactical airlift support was used to 
transport patients from hospitals throughout the theater to the strategic AE 
 
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