majority participated in the air support services conducted primarily by Air
Force persannel from the Special Weapons Command (SWC) and Headquarters, Air
Force.

At each event, air support activities included the airdrop of the

nuclear device, cloud sampling, cloud tracking, aerial surveys of the terrain,
and courier service.

Air Force personnel also provided meteorological

services and communications security and monitored worldwide radioactivity
from the RANGER test for the Atomic Energy Detection System.

Since RANGER was

only a 13-day operation, the same units and participants performed the same
duties throughout the series (6: 1).
4.4.4

Dose Summary for Operation RANGER.
The summary table given below indicates that four doses exceeded the

3.0-rem limit of gamma radiation per 13-week period (6: 3):
Summary of External Doses for Operation RANGER as of 1 May 1986
Gamma Dose (rem)

0-0.5

é

0.5~1

1-3

3-5

5-10

10+

Army

8

2

2

2

0

0

Navy

3

1

0

1

1

0

213

0

0

0

0

0

Marine Corps

0

1

0

0

0

0

Civilian DOD
Participants

17

6

9

0

0

0

Air Force

4.5

OPERATION GREENHOUSE.
GREENHOUSE was the fourth postwar atmospheric nuclear weapons test

series.

Conducted in 1951 on the northeastern islands of the Enewetak Atoll,

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