AFTER ACTION REPORT: OPERATION DESERT STORM

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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE 
 HEADQUARTERS RAMSTEIN AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION CONTROL ELEMENT USAF
 RAMSTEIN AB, GERMANY
 REPLY TO
 ATTN OF: CC 							12 JULY 1991

 SUBJECT: AFTER ACTION REPORT: OPERATION DESERT STORM
 TO: SEE DISTRIBUTION LIST
 
 1. REFERENCE: HQ USAFE/SGA MSG DTG 231701Z JAN 91, SUBJ:
 USEUCOM AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION (A/E) SUPPORT FOR DESERT
 SHIELD/STORM.
 
 2. CONCEPT. DURING THE PERIOD 27 DECEMBER 1990 THROUGH
 20 MAY 1991 THE RAMSTEIN AB AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION CONTROL
 ELEMENT (RAECE) SUPPORTED OPERATION DESERT SHIELD/STORM .
 ACTIVITIES. THE RAECE WAS ACTIVATED TO SUPPORT THE 2ND AES
 TO LAUNCH AND RECOVER SOUTHWEST ASIA AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION
 MISSIONS AND TO LAUNCH CONUS AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION
 MISSIONS. THE RAECE MANAGEMENT STAFF WAS ESTABLISHED WITH
 COMPOSITE CONUS RESERVE UNITS BY CONSOLIDATING AN 11 PERSON
 AECE UTC AND A 17 PERSON AECE UTC, ONE 3 PERSON AELT AND 37
 PERSONNEL DEPLOYED WITH STRATEGIC MEDICAL CREWS AS MEDICAL
 CREW MANAGERS. THE AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION CONTROL ELEMENT
 (AECE) AT RAMSTEIN AB GERMANY AT PEAK STRENGTH CONSISTED OF
 NEARLY 800 PERSONNEL. THIS INCLUDED 68 OPERATIONS PERSONNEL
 AND 100 MEDICAL CREWS ASSIGNED TO THE RAECE. ALSO ATTACHED
 TO THE AECE WERE 43 TACTICAL MEDICAL CREWS AWAITING SHIPMENT
 TO SOUTHWEST ASIA. A TOTAL OF 132 MEDICAL CREWS WERE
 DEPLOYED FROM THE FOLLOWING UNITS: 31 AES (17), 40 AES
 (29), 60 AES (18), 65 AES (10), 69 AES (1), 70 AES (4), 72
 AES (15), 146 AES (1), 183 AEF (5). EACH OF THE FOLLOWING
 UNITS DEPLOYED ONE FLIGHT SURGEON TO THE RAECE FOR A TOTAL
 OF 12: 22 SHOS, 384 HOS, 410 MSS, 414 MSE, 7 MSS, 812 HOS,
 814 HOS, 840 MSS, 90 MSS, 92 HOS, 93 HOS, EBSHOS. ALSO,
 ADMINISTRATIVE AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT WAS PROVIDED BY
 PERSONNEL FROM THE FOLLOWING UNITS: 32 AEG, 33 AES, 34 AES,
 35 AES, AND 36 AES. FINALLY, 43-TACTICAL MEDICAL CREWS AT
 KAPOUN AB WERE AWAITING FURTHER DEPLOYMENT TO SOUTHWEST
 ASIA. THESE MEDICAL CREWS CONSISTED OF PERSONNEL FROM THE
 FOLLOWING UNITS: 47 AES (2), 64 AES (12), 74 AES (10), 118
 AES (6), 142 AES (6), 156 AES (6), AND 167 AES (6). THE
 RAECC WAS HOUSED IN TWO HANGERS ON THE RAMSTEIN AB FLIGHT
 LINE. THE RAECE WAS COLLOCATED NEXT TO THE AEROMEDICAL
 STAGING FACILITY, A SUB-JOINT MEDICAL REGULATING OFFICE, AND
 A U. S. ARMY EVACUATION CONTROL CENTER (ECC) WHICH WAS
 RESPONSIBLE FOR PATIENT TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM THE
 MEDICAL TREATMENT FACILITIES. THE RAECC DIRECTLY SUPPORTED
 THE 2ND GENERAL HOSPITAL (LANDSTUHL ARMY REGIONAL MEDICAL
 CENTER), LANDSTUHL, GERMANY AND ZWEIBRUCKEN USAF CONTINGENCY
 HOSPITAL, ZWEIBRUCKEN, GERMANY. THE MAJORITY OF AEROMEDICAL
 EVACUATION FLIGHT AND MEDICAL KITS WERE BROUGHT BY DEPLOYED
 STRATEGIC MEDICAL CREWS. ALL MEDICAL SUPPLIES WERE TO BE