Ms. Claudia Nichols
1338A Wili Wili Circle
ASO LS
Wahiawa, Hawaii 96786
Dear Ms. Nichols:
The information you requested in your letter of 21 January 1980 is
provided below:
Medical Records - The individual medical record should contain
DD Form 1141 or an equivalent record which shows information on radiation
dose received as a result of radiation exposures during duty related
assignments.
For personnel assigned to Enewetak, dosimeter and bioassay
values for the period May 1977 thru October 1979 have been reportdéd to
the individual's new duty station for inclusion in the medical record.
Values for subsequent periods will be reported when received from the
laboratory.
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If the appropriate form is not in the individual nedical
record, the individual should contact the Commander, Field Command, Defense
Nuclear Agency (FCZ), Kirtland AFB, New Mexico 87115 where centralized
permanent records for doses received during the Enewetak operations are
maintained,
In the case of Air Force personnel, a centralized repository
of these type records is also maintained by the Occupational and Environmental
Health Laboratory.
Whole Body Count - If an individual considers the need for a
whole bedy count essential, that individual should contact his local
medical facility,
Generally, the equipment to perform a whole body count
is centralized at one of the larger Service medical facilities, hence the
local medical facility could make arrangements for the individual to have
a whole body count.
However, it should be noted that the equipment used for
this purpose will only measure internal gamma radiation.
DRAFT
LGEC 1/31/80
Consequently,
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