sought after by the Ordnance Maintenance Section,
The continued
operation of old equipment has been accomplished at the cost of an
excessively rapid rate of depreciation of all capital equipment,
Since 1 February the large volume of third echelon repairs accomplished in the shops has been necessary because of cursory,
incomplete, or neglected first and second-echelon service and repairs,
Special purpose vehicles and equipment have constituted the large
volume of work during this period.
received better care.
However, general purpose vehicles
Action was taken to improve this condition
by the training of organizational mechanics in the field maintenance
shops and periodic visits of inspection-instruction teams to the using
units,
4.
Medical:
Following BRAVO this installation admitted as patients
28 military personnel who had been at the weather station at RONGERIK
during heavy radioactive "fall-out",
They had been exposed to radia=
ticn above the maximum permissible exposure and could possibly have
still been contaminated from particles deposited on adhesive portions
of their bodies,
as stated in the second installment of this history,
plans had been made for such an emergency.
The hospital was expanded
to include Building #23 in order to accommodate these patients.
housing arrangement was satisfactory,
after careful radiological monitoring.
Daily blood counts and clini-
and stool were sent to KWAJALEIN for analysis.
Specimens of urine
After a short period
of hospitalization these patients were evacuated to KYJAJALEIN.
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&
The patients were decontaminated
cal examinations of the patients were performed.
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