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Subject: OP DESERT SHIELD 483RD MED DET VS JB 6 AUG 90 16 JAN 91
Unit: ARCENT
Parent Organization: CENTCOM
Box ID: BX000481
Folder Title: COMMAND REPORTS 422SD MED DET VETERINARY SVCS COMMAND REPORT
Document Number: 17
Folder SEQ #: 17
severity of nerve agent convulsions and subsequent permanent
injury. Because of the shortage of CANA injectors they were
dispensed to forward based MST.Is with the Marines and in Kuwait.
D /D /AL KROBAR:
The onset of war found the 483rd with a rapidly reducing
mission except in the YARCENT AO. The majority of the rations were
being delivered directly from the port in sealed containers to
forward log bases, primarily A and B, in anticipation of the onset
of the ground war. Receipt inspection workload at the 295th DSU,
the 289th GSU and the Host Nation Warehouses was immediately
reduced to negligible levels. To track the movement of rations
from the Port of Dainmam to forward units a program was set up where
we picked up container movement request documents from the 321st
MMC and forwarded copies to Veterinary units responsible for the
receipt inspection of the rations at destination. The movement
'documents did not provide an accurate date of delivery but gave the
receiving unit a heads up that rations would be arriving at some
future point in time.
In fact during the initial buildup in preparation for the
ground war, rations were not a priority shipment and were replaced
instead by equipment and weapons. Numerous GSU's/DSU's such as the
364th at CWC, the 227th and the Class I point at KFIA all closed
and moved forward to support XVIIIth ABN Corps.
The 888th Med Det(JA), a USAR unit from Lexington Kentucky,
arrived on 20 Jan. 91 in the middle of a SCUD attack at Al Khobar
Towers. The 356th Med Det (JB), a USAR unit from the Bronx, New
York arrived on 26 Jan. 91. Both units arrived with no equipment
or vehicles. Initially the 888th was attached to the 356th but it
without equipment or vehicles
could provide little support. On 2 Feb 91 the 888th was attached
to the 483rd for operational control and support. Both units, as
'had been done earlier with the 422nd Med Det (JB), were trained in
operational ration inspection procedures and familiarized with all
sources of support, supply and duty sites. This was a significant
burden on the 483rd which was normally required to look to a
hospital or Medical Group for support.
As a result of the reduced mission in this area since the
start of the war and a gross overload of personnel with the arrival
of the 356th and the 888th, the 888th was moved to KKMC to support
the 422nd. In addition the 483rd was forced to give a good portion
of its mission to include the New and old Host Nation Warehouses,
295th DSU, 227th GSU to the 356th as we were tasked to prepare for
forward deployment of veterinary assets into Kuwait or Iraq. The
priority of forward movement of 483rd MST's was MST B first then
MST C as directed by the ARCENT Vet. MST B did deploy initially
into Kuwait until the mission in KTO could be determined.
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File Room = aug96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-32
Box ID = BX000481
Unit = ARCENT
Parent Organization = CENTCOM
Folder Title = COMMAND REPORTS 422SD MED DET VETERINARY SVCS COMMAND REPORT
Folder Seq # = 17
Subject = OP DESERT SHIELD 483RD MED DET VS JB 6 AUG 9
Document Seq # = 17
Document Date =
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Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 11-OCT-1996