Many of them completed an aggressive training program to earn honorary crew member status. Navy support elements included detachments from Assault Craft Units 1 and 5, Beach Master Unit 1, Tactical Air Control Squadron 11, Navy Special Warfare Command, Fleet Information Warfare Center Det, Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 11 and Mobile Medical Augmentation Readiness Team 5. The movement of U.S. service members into Bosnia-Herzegovina shows how fast Americans can move when needed. As soon as Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian leaders signed the peace accord, U.S. forces were ready to cross the Hungarian border and move on to their peace implementation mission. Yet, before peacekeepers crossed into Bosnia, unit commanders were ensuring their service members had their legal affairs set.
People never know when something like Bosnia is going to happen.
Our hope is that everyone has his or her legal affairs in order. Ever since Operation Desert Storm in 1991, defense officials have been pushing service members to review and maintain their legal affairs. A survey completed following the Persian Gulf War found many lacked those legal documents. Because of this, legal assistance teams spent hours preparing and enacting wills and powers of attorney for deploying service personnel. Defense officials said they can't legally force members to complete wills.