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        that bear on any rapid deployment question. The net result of the quick
        deployment of the active dub engineers was a serious disruption of on-going
        engineering projects} some of which directly impacting on Desert Shield
        support. 

        IMA engineers, on the other baud, could easily perform the unique, one of a
        kind engineering required to support ABDR in the AOR. Each battle damage
        repair is a new problem and relatively unconnected to previous engineering
        efforts. Deployment of IMA engineers would not have affected the timeliness
        or quality of engineering support in the AOR, but it would have prevented
        serious disruption of SPM engineering effort.

       (3) Action Taken: On our own initiative, two IMP engineers were
       called to active duty to backfill the deployed active duty engineers. they
       Nerved admirably, but considerable time was spent trigging them up to speed,
       as would have been the case if the projects bad been reassigned to any other
       engineer. They also licked up other projects which will now have to be
       transferred back to the returning active duty engineers, involving more
       learning curve. The civilian/military manpower mix of the typical SPM does
       not permit segregation of the military engineers workload that would be
       necessary to prevent disruption by mobilization.

       (4) Action Required: Policy change is needed to more fully employ
       the Reserve component by activating and deploying Reserve IMA engineers to
       support AOR ABDR teams for limited contingencies, saving the active duty
       engineers for acceleration efforts associated with deployment and for all
       scale mobilization if that becomes necessary.
  
      b. Use of In-theater CUSS ABDR Engineers for Depot Assistance Requests.

 	(1) Background: Early in the Desert Shield deployment, the P-15
       SPM received several urgent requests from the AOR for depot engineering
       assistance via (be T.O. 00-25-107 process. Although this is the established
       procedure, SPM engineers at the depot found it very difficult to work these
       problems due to normal communications difficulties, etc., involved with AOR
       operations

       However, at about the same time, two engineers from the P-15 SPM deployed to
       the AJAX as part of the CLSS ABDR teams, and were on site, prepared to
       perform their assigned duties of battle damage Repair. Even though ABDR was
       their primary purpose, these individuals were representatives of the F-15
       SPM engineering authority, and fully capable of providing depot level
       engineering assistance with their capability. There seemed to be a
       reluctance on the part of deployed units to take full advantage of this
       resource, perhaps due to their customary reliance on the established -107
       procedure with the depot.

       (2) Action Taken: Initially, deployed units frequents used the 
       CUSS engineers as relay points of contact for -107 type problems. The P-15
       SPM finally sent a message to the AOR, informing them tat the CLSS
       engineers who were deployed from respective SPM engineering organizations

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