Response to File A Personnel. The AFNTPR has essentially finished its File A effort, meaning its letters to participants who called DNA on the toll-free number. The team has completed 8,047 File A cases, which comprises 100 percent of the currently known Air Force cases. Should DNA forward any additional cases, AFNTPR is prepared to conduct the necessary research (14). The AFNTPR has been responsible for a lesser number of File A personnel than have the NNTPR and the ANTPR. The task for the AFNTPR has been compounded, however, because many Air Force participants attended more than one series and thus required comparatively more research. Assignment of Doses. The compilation of dose information for Air Force test participants is also nearing completion. As of 1 May 1986, the AFNTPR had identified 23,403 of the estimated total participants (14). This data base will become an integral part of the Air Force Master Radiation History Repository at OEHL. Notification of Medical Examination Programs. The Air Force has 32 participants in the Over-25-rem Program, which is the largest number of participants for this program among the NTPR teams. Twenty five of the Air Force participants were stationed on Rongerik Island and took part in Shot BRAVO of the 1954 Operation CASTLE (see section 4.10). Cloud-sampling pilots and crews often received higher doses than did other test participants because their missions required them to fly near and through the clouds resulting from the nuclear detonations. The cloud~sampling teams were commonly authorized special exposure limits so they could accomplish their assigned tasks. As noted in chapter 4, these limits ranged from 3.9 rem at such series as BUSTER-JANGLE, TUMBLER-SNAPPER, IVY, UPSHOTKNOTHOLE, and TEAPOT, among others, to 10 rem at Operation HARDTACK II and 20 rem at Operation DOMINIC I. The next table presents statistics on the Over-25-rem Program, Volunteer Observer Program, and the Over-5-rem Program. the The AFNTPR has noti- fied all personnel in these categories that have identifiable addresses (14). 40