1611 AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION SQUADRON (PROVISIONAL)

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and pre-coordination efforts. If this is not possible, then experienced MASF 
personnel should be included on the advon team. 
 
c. Manpower/personnel. 
 
	(1) AECC Manning. 
 
		Observation. The current manning structure for an AECC (UTC (FFQCU) 
does not include the full complement Air Force specialty codes (AFSCs) 
required to adequately support large-scale AE operations. The assigned AFSCs 
for the AECC: 9016, 9025, 9766, 902X0, 906X0, 915X0, 304X0, 454X0 and 492X1, 
were not adequate in number or skill level to manage AE operations effectively 
in the scope employed. 
 
		Discussion. Initially, the AECC established operations with the 
authorized manning of 15 personnel, however, as the size and complexity of the 
AE system expanded, so did the requirements levied upon the AECC staff. 
Several sections in the AECC were established to meet these needs, including 
contingency planning, training and standardization, and logistics. Personnel 
were tasked from various sources, either from within the AOR or through TPFDD 
augmentation to work in these areas, however, many did not hold the 
appropriate AFSC or possess the required skills. MSCs were required to manage 
communications operations, flight nurses were assigned to medical logistics, 
aeromedical technicians performed administrative and transportation duties, 
and aerospace ground personnel performed many civil engineering functions. 
Although these personnel performed remarkably well, this solution 
should not be relied upon in future contingencies. The current 
AECC UTC (FFQCU) should provide authorized manning for a logistics 
officer, a communications officer, and transportation and power 
production personnel. These specialties are essential to ensuring 
appropriate usage of medical equipment, communications systems, 
vehicles and personnel in a sustained high intensity conflict. In 
a short-duration, low intensity conflict, the current UTC is 
adequate; however, for a sustained operation, the AECC UTC must 
contain the appropriate AFSCs and number of personnel to 
adequately handle the myriad of demands that an expanded AE system 
presents. 
 
		Recommendation. Develop a separate, expanded AECC UTC to include 
logistics, communications, transportation, and power production personnel, to 
support large-scale operations. An alternative would be to develop a UTC for 
an augmentation package to support the standard AECC FFQCU. 
 
	.	Observation. Current UTC manning does not include 
an orderly room function for the AE system. 
 
		Discussion. Over fourteen hundred personnel from 25 different ARC 
units were deployed and assigned to the 1611 AES(P) during Operation DESERT 
SHIELD/STORM. Given the size of the squadron and the peculiar differences 
between EAD, ANG and AFRes 
 
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