Small airways disease in an Operation Desert Storm Deployer: Case report and review of the literature on respiratory health and inhalational exposures from Gulf War I

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (10) ◽  
pp. 793-801 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany A. Weiler ◽  
Thomas V. Colby ◽  
Timothy J. Floreth ◽  
Stella E. Hines
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Respiratory Health ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Small Airways ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Desert Storm ◽  
Operation Desert Storm

The effect of manpower and medical facility reduction on surgical practice during the Gulf Conflict 1991

1992 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-149
Author(s):  
G. E. D. Howell ◽  
R. F. Dale
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Training ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Medical Facility ◽  
Surgical Practice ◽  
Service Personnel ◽  
Desert Storm ◽  
Operation Desert Storm ◽  
Medical Manpower ◽  
Actual Conflict ◽  
Naval Hospital

AbstractThe General Surgical admissions to Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse from I April 1990—31 March 1991 were audited. This period included the Gulf War. There remained throughout the build-up to Operation Desert Storm, and during the actual conflict, a requirement to treat Service personnel as well as maintaining surgical training. This paper shows that both criteria were met despite reduced medical manpower and facilities.

scholarly journals Lack of serological evidence for Mycoplasma fermentans infection in army Gulf War veterans: a large scale case-control study

2000 ◽  
Vol 125 (3) ◽  
pp. 609-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.-C. LO ◽  
L. LEVIN ◽  
J. RIBAS ◽  
R. CHUNG ◽  
R. Y.-H. WANG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Control Study ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Serological Evidence ◽  
Gulf War Illness ◽  
War Veterans ◽  
Mycoplasma Fermentans ◽  
Desert Storm ◽  
Gulf War Veterans ◽  
Operation Desert Storm ◽  
Control Study

Mycoplasma fermentans is suspected in the development of ‘Gulf War illness’ in veterans of Operation Desert Storm. We conducted a matched case-control study for the prevalence of M. fermentans-specific antibodies before and after the operation, as well as seroconversion rates in veterans with and without complaints of ‘Gulf War illness’. Cases consisted of Gulf War veterans, who complained of various illnesses and were enrolled in the second phase of the health evaluation by the Army Comprehensive Clinical Examination Program (CCEP). Controls were selected from Gulf War veterans who did not participate in the registry and did not request a health evaluation by the CCEP. Before operation deployment, 34 out of 718 of the cases (4·8%) and 116 out of 2233 of the controls (5·2%) tested positive for M. fermentans-specific antibodies. There was no difference in rates of seroconversion between cases and controls (1·1 vs. 1·2%) to M. fermentans during Operation Desert Storm. Thus, there is no serological evidence that suggests infection by M. fermentans is associated with development of ‘Gulf War illness’.

The Gulf War

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
David P. Oakley
Keyword(s):  
Gulf War ◽  
Fusion Center ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Organizational Changes ◽  
Just Cause ◽  
Desert Storm ◽  
Operation Desert Storm ◽  
Intelligence Support

The attention given General Norman Schwarzkopf’s comments on intelligence shortfalls and the concepts developed to support military operations resulted in Operation Desert Storm being a catalyst for changes in the DoD/CIA relationship. Although similar critiques of intelligence were heard following Operations Urgent Fury and Just Cause, the Desert Storm critiques received more attention and resulted in significant policy and organizational changes. Desert Storm also introduced technologies and concepts that became prominent following 9/11. Concepts such as “fusion center” and “operationalization of intelligence” surfaced during Desert Storm. These concepts matured following 9/11, when the length and type of operations made them necessary and technology made them possible. Desert Storm–era professionals deserve credit for strengthening the intelligence and operations link while also weakening service and interagency parochialism. Intelligence support to military operations during Desert Storm was not error free, but intelligence professionals deserve credit for their effort, ingenuity, teamwork, and support.

The eight myths of operation ‘desert storm’ and gulf war syndrome

1997 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garth L. Nicolson ◽  
Nancy L. Nicolson
Keyword(s):  
Gulf War ◽  
Gulf War Syndrome ◽  
Desert Storm ◽  
Operation Desert Storm

“The Mother of All Battles” (“Desert Storm”), Phase Two

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pesach Malovany ◽  
Amatzia Baram ◽  
Kevin M. Woods ◽  
Ronna Englesberg
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Desert Storm ◽  
Operation Desert Storm ◽  
Southern Iraq

This chapter deals with the second phase of the Gulf war—operation “Desert Storm” called by the Iraqis “The Mother of all Battles– The ground and sea campaign (24-28 February, 1991). It describes the Coalition’s ground attack against the Iraqi forces in Kuwait and southern Iraq—opened on 24 February at dawn, and lasted four days. It included three sub-phases: a. breaching the Iraqi line of defence in Kuwait and on the border between Iraq and Saudi Arabia; b. the Iraqi retreat from Kuwait and the Coalition’s forces flanking action inside Iraq; c. the battles against the Republican Guard in southern Iraq. It also describes The Iraqi Navy’s role in the campaign, especially the fighting on the island of Faylaka.

Assessment of Noncombat, War-Related Posttraumatic Stress Symptomatology

Assessment ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Sloan ◽  
Linda Arsenault ◽  
Mark Hilsenroth ◽  
Leo Harvill
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Desert Storm ◽  
War Stress ◽  
Operation Desert Storm ◽  
Stress Interview ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
The Impact

This study investigated effectiveness of MMPI-2 PK and PS scales and the Impact of Event (IES) scales in detecting posttraumatic stress symptomatology in 66 Marine reservists exposed to 3 months of war-related stress but no direct fighting in the Persian Gulf. The IES, MMPI-2, and War Stress Interview-Operation Desert Storm (WSI-ODS), administered 90 days later, revealed that 71% of participants experienced one or more symptoms of acute posttraumatic stress for at least 1 month after the Gulf War. PK, PS and IES scores were significantly related to number of symptoms reported and were moderately effective in detecting subclinical levels of war-related stress.

“The Mother of All Battles” (“Desert Storm”), Phase One

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pesach Malovany ◽  
Amatzia Baram ◽  
Kevin M. Woods ◽  
Ronna Englesberg
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Desert Storm ◽  
Operation Desert Storm ◽  
Southern Iraq

This chapter deals with the first phase of the Gulf War—called by the Coalition forces Operation “Desert Storm”, and by the Iraqis “The Mother of all Battles”—The air campaign (16 January – 28 February, 1991) and the surface-to-surface missile campaign. It describes the wide and extensive coalition air attacks on the Iraqi forces deployed in Kuwait and southern Iraq and the aerial bombings of infrastructures and military targets in all parts of Iraq. It describes also the surface to surface missiles campaign the Iraqis launched in response to the Coalition air campaign, especially against Israel and Saudi Arabia, and the Coalition forces’ efforts to destroy the Iraqi missile launchers in western Iraq.

THE MOTHER OF ALL OIL SPILLS AND THE DAWHAT AD DAFI

1993 ◽  
Vol 1993 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. O'Brien ◽  
John J. Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Arabian Gulf ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Environmental Resources ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Desert Storm ◽  
Desalination Plant ◽  
Operation Desert Storm

ABSTRACT The Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) produced one of the largest oil spills of all time when Saddam Hussein released millions of barrels of oil from the Mina al Ahmadi terminal in Kuwait into the Arabian Gulf. The resulting massive spill descended on the Saudi Arabian coastline threatening its industrial and environmental resources, as well as the desalination plant intakes that provide fresh water for most of the eastern provinces of the country. A fortuitous combination of geographical features, natural phenomena, and defensive preparations by Saudi Arabia averted a catastrophe of substantial proportions as the “mother of all oil spills” impacted that country.

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