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= Planning anc’ —uilcup
Planning for !ask vroup 7.4 participation in Operation HARDTACH
conm.need in late 1956 coincident with the roll-up of that year's nuclear
test at Eniwetok, Op-ration REDWING, and with the rlanning for the 1957
continental test, Operation PLUMBBOB.
The first efforts were directed
at the preparation of aircraft, supply, construction, transportation, and
budget requirements.
These studies led to the development of the data
which was presented at the Joint Task Force SEVEN planning conference
in February 1957 as being our needs for the conduct of our test mission.
Ry mud=1987 a Schedule of Events and a Communications Plan had been
published and our officer and airmen personnel requisitions had been
forwarded to higher headquarters for action.
As has been mentioned
previously, the activation of the various Task Group 7.4 agencies occurred
early in the month of October 1967.
Immediately thereafter the Task
arsup held its Logistics Planning Conference which brought the test
participants together with representatives of the various Air Materiel
Areas and the Task Group Materiel staff for the purpose ofoutlining .
requirements and the steps necessary toward meeting those peeds.
Mean~
while, the Task Group staff published its first planning directive outlining the general operational concepts, undertook rehabilitation of the
air control equipment, the AN/USQ 12, arranged for the modification
of additional sampling aircraft, and prepared supplemental budgets
necessery-to reflect the changing requirements.
By the end of the year
the Operations Plan and a draft of the Movement Directive had besn completed and the Commander and his deputy had completed staff visits to
the forward area.
One of the principal purposes of these visits was
to make mutually satisfactory arransements with the Army Task Group, 7+2,
for the support the; would provide during the operational period.
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