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be BOUNDARY TARE controller will establish radio and IFF
contact with VIKING aircraft and provide them with range and bearing to

their H-hour positions,

VIKING aircraft will remain under the direct

control of BOUNDARY TARE on VHF Channel "C" until completion of their
missions, except when directed to switch to VHF Channel "BY for time hacks.
VIKING aircraft will maintain radio silence on Channel "B", returning to

assigned mission Channel (VHF "C") immediately after receiving the time

-hacks.

Each aircraft will orbit H-hour station and, just before H-hour,

pilots will orierit the longitudinal axis of their aircraft, in relation

to Ground Zero, as instructed at the mission briefing.

VIKING aircraft

will be positioned in space at different altitudes over the same geo-

graphic reference point, as specified in Annex D. VIKING aircraft are
prohibited from approaching a position closer than thirty (30) nautical

miles horizontally to the periphery of the nuclear clowl or any portion
thereof.
¢. VIKING aircraft will be instructed by BOUNDARY TARE to switch
to VHF Channel "BY" for the following time hacks:

(1)" H - 2 hours 2 minutes for H - 2 time hack.
(2)

H-1 hour 2 minutes for H -1 time hack...

(3)

H - 32 minutes for H - 30 minutes time hack.

(4)

H - 3 minutes and remain on B until after H-hour.

d. VIKING aircraft will maintain assigned altituie at all times
and execute normal orbit pattern so that observers can watch cloud
development,
e.

Commanders of VIKING aircraft may establish whatever time

they desire for departure from the operational area.

However, the departure

plan must be coordinated first with the CIC (BOUNDARY TARE) on WHF Channel
"C",

BOUNDARY TARE will then release the VIKING aircraft concernéd from

the area, with instructions to proceed to its point of first intended

landing as specified by the pilot in his previously filed DD Form 175.
BOUNDARY TARE also will notify DIRTY FACE of the VIKING departure,
f£. Personnel aboard each VIKING aircraft will turn in their density goggles and film badges, together with any other related special
equipment, to the TG 7.1 Radiological Safety monitor accompanying each
aircraft, In turn, the Rad Safety monitor will insure that all such items
of equipment are returned to the proper agency of Joint Task Force SEVEN,

OFFICIAL:
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PAUL H. FACKL elen.

HOWELL M. ESTES, JR.
Brigadier General, U.S. A. F,.
Commander

Lt Colonel, USAF

Director of Operations

TASK GROUP 7.4
OPRS ORDER NO, 2-54

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