Operation Desert Storm: Problems With Air Force (AF) Medical Readiness

ISBN-10: 0788141295
ISBN-13: 9780788141294
Series: Operation Desert Storm
Pages: 23
Language: English
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Author: DIANE Publishing Company

Description

A review of the capabilities of the Air Force (AF) medical units that supported Operations Desert Shield and Storm (ODS/DS). Determines whether: AF medical and evacuation units were prepared to perform their assigned missions; and whether the AF's system for staffing medical and evacuation units was effective. Also examines efforts to change medical operations in response to the AF's lessons learned. The AF medical mission during ODS/DS was to provide in-theater combat medical trauma care and aeromedical intra-& inter-theater evacuation. Charts and tables.