The Curtiss transported a number of devices to the FA and MSTS con-
tinued to provide regularly scheduled surface lift from the West Coast to
the PPG. As the operational period approached, MSTS increased the fre-
quency of sailings and provided a special ship to expedite the shipment of
large numbers of sctentific trailers, a necessary feature of the late build-up
phase of overseas tests.
Alteration os a number of naval and MSTS ships and craft was required for their support and scientific functions and was accomplished by
the Navy.
As shown in Table 3.3, the Air Force provided drop and sampler aircraft; effects, photographic, and other scicntific project aircraft, helicopters
at Bikini and Eniwetok; liaison planes, interatoll’ aircraft and offatoll support,
The extensive and detailed meteorologica! information required by various
scientific projects was provided by the Air Force, as was the weather information on which the decisions as to whether or not to fire were made,
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many tons of urgent freight, furnished all of the sample return services,
and lifted a number of the devices irom Travis AFB to Eniwetok, Details and statistics of a number of the items’of support provided by
the AEC and the DOD are covered clsewhere in this report.
Determination of all these support requirements represented many
months of study, discussion, negctiation, and compilation of information,
The phasing overseas of major elements of military support was determined
in December 1955 and January 1956.
Subsequent changes were of a minor
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Details of training are covered as appropriate in the reports of the
. various programs, projects, and task units. Extensive training of personnel
and testing of equipment began at the various leboratories in the U. S. and
continued overseas.
In order to make the maximum use of project Rad-Safe monitors,
about 125 of them were trained at Fort McClellan, Alabama, during the week
of January 9, 1956. During the operation several courses were conducted by
TU-7 at the PPG to provide additional nroject monitors. Five chemical laboratory technicians were trained in basic radiochemistry techniques at LASL,
and four members of TU-7 were trained in alpha monitoring at LASL and
Mercury, Nevada, NRDL trained 30 individuals from various naval shipyards
throughout the U. S. to act as TU-7 monitors for Program 2. Six men were
trained in radiac instrument repair at Treasure Island and Los Alamos.
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