Hospital pharmacy technicians function in Desert Storm enemy prisoner of war camps

The 300th United States Army Reserve Field Hospital from Ashley, Pennsylvania was activated in November 1990 and deployed to Saudi Arabia in January 1991 in support of Operation Desert Shield/Storm. The mission of the hospital was to treat enemy prisoners of war (EPWs) located at the 401st and 403rd Prisoner of War Camps. This article describes the role of the hospital pharmacy technicians performing their duties in the prison camp medical tent. Pharmacy technicians were added to the prison camp medical staff, which consisted of medics, physicians, and nurses to assume the challenging task of both ordering and prepackaging the large quantities of pharmaceuticals required to treat the enormous numbers of EPWs.