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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
the incomplete nature of operational records generated during and pre served after the Persian Gulf war (1990-91) has and will continue to challenge historians', medical researchers and veterans' understanding of the conflict. The war exposed the deterioration of the US Army's records management and the disestablishment of The Adjutant General's Office - TAGO in 1986. TAGO had overseen army records management, holding commanders accountable for their units records and using trained personnel to manage records within units. Focusing on operational records, this paper explores the breakdown of records management during the Gulf war, discussed the presidentially mandate Gulf war declassification project (1995-96) and briefly reviews current army operational records management.
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