compliance with established procedures, and a program was developed to assist units in eliminating excess medical equipment. To accomplish this, teams from the 32d Medical Depot were sent to the various hospitals to perform technical inspections of unit-identified excesses. The visits were prearranged on a scheduled basis so that all units could prepare and assemble excesses for inspection prior to the arrival of the teams. The teams began their visits in September and by the end of 1969 ten hospitals had been cleared of their excess, namely the 24th, 29th, 36th, 67th, 71st, 85th and 91st Evacuation Hospitals and the 8th and 17th Field Hospitals. As a result of this program, much excess was redistributed to satisfy equipment shortages in other units, and some excess equipment was retrograded out-of-country as surplus to the command. Three MUST hospitals were closed during 1969, the 3d, the 18th, and the 22d Surgical Hospitals, located at Dung Tam, Camp Evans, and Phu Bai, respectively. The 22d Surgical Hospital was zeroed out and applied against the Keystone Cardinal force-reduction increment; while the 3d and 18th Surgical Hospitals relocated into fixed facilities, the 3d to Can Tho and the 18th to Quang Tri. Close-down operations went smoothly despite the fact that there were both Army standard and MUST peculiar equipment to segregate, inspect, clean, and process. Some of the MUST equipment from these hospitals went into depot storage in-country and some of the equipment was retrograded to Okinawa. A program was initiated in August 1969 to upgrade the medical equipment of residual brigade hospitals, the term "residual" meaning those hospitals to remain in Vietnam under then-existing plans. Designed to obtain equipment suitable for use in fixed, semi-permanent facilities, capable of providing the type of diagnostic and therapeutic service required under a longer-term evacuation policy, the program was started by conducting a survey of professional personnel in selected brigade hospitals for the purpose of identifying general equipment requirements. The survey was completed in November 1969. Subsequently, the medical supply section, screening the survey data, developed a consolidated standard item requirements listing. The requirements totaled 262 separate line items, forty-seven of which were Acquisition Advice Code "L." "Non-standard" requirements were not developed by the end of 1969 even though the survey data were available. The reason for this was the lack of manufacturer's catalogs. Catalogs had been requested at the start of the project, but the number received