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        TOPIC AREA: LACK OF PERSCO TEAM AND/OR MEDICAL SQUADRON SECTION
                                 FOR AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION  

         SUBMITTED BY: HQ AFRES/SGXO
       
        ISSUE: Aeromedical Evacuation Control Elements (AECEs) are not
        staffed to handle the myriad of personnel related problems
        associated with large numbers of aircrew members.
       
        DISCUSSION: Problems were encountered concerning everything from
        pay to emergency leaves at each deployment location having large
        numbers of ARC personnel. Billeting, messing, and transportation
        were also personnel irritants that could have been properly
        handled with better/proper staffing. An eleven-person AECE,
        working around the clock mission-specific routines, is not
        capable of also spending the necessary time and manpower to look
        into all of the "people problems". This same situation was found
        to be true at mobile aeromedical staging facility (MASF) sites
        and aeromedical evacuation control centers (AECC). Many of the
        affected personnel felt their problems were being ignored, or
        that the the management just didn't care.
       
        IMPACT: Degradation of moral and mission accomplishment.
       
       RECOMMENDATION: Serious consideration must be given to either:
       
        1. Deploy a PERSCO team to each ARC deployment location.
                 
        2. Develop a Medical Squadron UTC which can be modified to
        accommodate the number of ARC personnel deployed at each
        location.
       
       
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