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                                           MEDICAL LESSONS LEARNED
                                                DESERT SHIELD/STORM
      CATEGORY: Manpower and Personnel
      
       ISSUE/ITEM:
      
       SUBJECT: Personnel Tracking - Requirements
      
       BACKGROUND: Identification of personnel requirements was a MAJCOM functional
       manager responsibility. Inputs were received from individual medical treatment
       facilities, as opposed to MET/CBPO functions. Likewise, trackinq of personnel
       and requirements was tasked to functional managers.
      
       DISCUSSION: Identification and reporting of requirements was very difficult in
       this operation. A number of factors played into this difficulty:
      
                 (1) Confusion between mobility/Palace Blitz and Palace Trip
       taskings.
      
                 (2) AFSC substitution and shortfalls.
      
                 (3) Redeployments.
      
                 (4) Cancellation of taskings.
      
                 (5) Human error.
      
       In addition, tasking of facility SGX/SGAX units to perform what is essentially
       a manpower or personnel function was, in retrospect, not wise. SGX/SGAX
       personnel quickly were overtasked in executing their own programs. In addition,
       they are untrained to deal with personnel utilization issues and personnel
       admistration programs.
      
       ACTION RECOMMENDED:
      
                                   (1) Task base MET offices to validate manpower losses and generate
      database of those requirements for transmission to MAJCOM and USAF. Base level
      coordination between the losing unit, base CBPO, and MET prior to release of data
      should ensure consistency in reported requirements. Similar revalidation of
      requirements at MAJCOM level would ensure proper oversight.
      
       SUGGESTED OPRs/OCRs: HQ USAF/SGHR/XPM/DPX
       SUBMITTER: Terry W. Clarke/Capt/HQ ATC/SGAX
                                 [(b)(2)]
      

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