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 CATEGORY: Planning

 ISSUE ITEM #:

 SUBJECT: Medical Qualification and Mobilization

 BACKGROUND: There were several reports of personnel being
 deployed to the AOR who had pre-deployment-existing medical
 conditions significant enough to require return to CONUS.
 The problem was partially caused by deploying non-mobility
 personnel as well as deployments occurring so swiftly that
 insufficient time was spent on thoroughly screening medical
 records. Several called-up guard and reserve personnel were
 found to be not world-wide qualified (primarily due to
 pregnancy) and were not eligible to be activated nor moved
 from their local area.

 DISCUSSION: Unnecessary gaps in critical AFSCs at both AOR
 and stateside facilities were created when medically
 unqualified personnel were sent or tasked for deployment of
 backfill. The resulting personnel gaps in services at our
 facilities also resulted in contracting for services with O&M
 funds, and restricting services such as OR to emergency
 procedures only.

 ACTION RECOMMENDED: Closer attention to all active duty,
 reserve, and guard members' medical qualification for world-
 wide dut-y and more stringent adherence to physical profiling
 procedures are needed. Medical evaluation board processing
 should be expedited in borderline cases to insure appropriate
 world-wide qualification or disqualification.

 SUGGESTED OPR: ACTIVE DUTY: HQ SAC/SGPAE
        GUARD/RESERVE: HQ NGB, HQ AFRES

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