' CHAPTER 2
PROCUREMENT OF PERSONNEL
2.1
SOURCES OF PERSONNEL
As in the past, primary sources for technically qualified health physics personnel are the
Health Division, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL) and special organizations within the
Department of Defense. In the interim period between Ivy and Castle, the Departmentof the
Armyauthorized the Chief Chemical Officer to establish the Ist Rad-Safe Support Unit (RSSU)
with a mission of supporting test operations at the Nevada and Pacific Proving Grounds. This
organization was established at the Chemical Corps Training Command, Ft. McClellan, Ala.,
in the summer of 1953. This activity provided the bulk of Army personnel for TU-7.
The technically trained Navy personnel were provided from the National Naval Medical
Center; Special Weapons Unit, Pacific Fleet; Sandia Base, Armed Forces Special Weapons
Project (AFSWP); and the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. One Marine Corps noncommissioned officer was obtained from the second Marine Division, FMF.
2.2.
METHOD OF PROCUREMENT
In January 1953, TU-7 advised the J-1 Section of an anticipated personnel requirement of
86 enlisted men and 14 officers. After a conference with the Scientific Deputy and the Task
Group Commander, a revised personnel request was submitted late in March 1953 for 36 en-
listed men and 12 officers. This reduction in personnel was directed by the adoption of a policy
in which:
1. Training programs would be initiated by the Task Group Rad-Safe Officer to qualify
program and project personnel inradiological-safety principles and techniques of monitoring.
2. Consolidation of the radiological-safety organizations of TG-7,1 and TG-7,5 would be
accomplished,
3. An increase of the military-support mission of CTG-7.2 would be made sothat the following services could be provided to TG-7.1 and TG-7.5: (a) Support of the over-all radiological-safety program by training and providing radiological-safety monitors as needed and (b)
support of the over-all radiological-safety program by training and providing decontamination
personnel as needed.
In early April JTF-7 was requested by CTG-7.1 to procure from the military services,
prior to 1 September 1953, 1 executive officer, 7 control officers, 4 laboratory officers, 10
monitors, 4 laboratory technicians, 8 photodosimetry technicians, 4 radiological-instrument
repairmen, 3 supply clerks, 1 supply sergeant, and 6 clerk-typists,
In mid-August the Ist RSSU received its first notice of TU-7 personnel requirements.
This created a strain on the organization since the RSSU had only nine men available for duty.
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