technical advice and assistance as required. The Signal Officer did not have an adequate stuff to discharge this function properly, with the resuJt that the computation of requirements and the review of stocks for excess was not performed effectively. It was noted that the logistical instructions of the Joint Task Force implied that any element having a requi.renentfor Army-type con- , mnication-electronic equipment could obtain it from the TG 7.2 . Depot without prior programing of the requirement. Also, my eler3entsof the task force assumed that certain items of equipnent which had been issued to them during CASTLE would autonatical.l,y be made available for kEDWING. Eoth of these attitudes are obviously fallacious. Good management dictates that all equipment in use during an operation and not required for the interim period be returned to CONUS, and that all stockage for a subsequent operation be based on firm requirments sutmitted by elements of the task force. d. A larger supply problem existed within the TG 7.2 Sig- nal activity itself, inasnuch as the quantity of Signal equipnent used in the fi~ed commucibation activj.tiesrepresented the rajor portion of the total Depot Signal ati .