—_ * 4- Ma intenande. =a Cha Section A = Mission The maintenance missicn was to mintain assigned aircraft, ground support equipment, special purpose vehicles, and some ground and ell air Communications equipment in a maximum state of readiness. There were a total of seventy-eight (78) aircraft of sixteen (16) different types and 342 units of aircraft ground support equipment included in the Tasi: Group 7.4 inventory. An additional work load was created in providing turn-around maintenance for participating U.S. Navy aircraft, based at Kwajalein, MATS and transient traffic. (See figure 9,). Section B - Organization and Functicn The basic structure of organization and functicn closely paralleled the standards contained ijn Air Force Manual 66~]. There were, however, sore minor deviations instituted in order to tailor the rainterance efforts to the unique missicn, The maintenance crgurization included a staff rairtenance officer in the Task Group Feadquerters, a Maintenance Contro] Unit and an crganizational maintenance section in each element. The Staff Maintenance Cfficer forrmlated requirerents for both augmentaticn personrel and support equipment required in the EPG. The gross requirements develcped by participating elerents were correlated and reduced to a minimum net quantity corrpatible with the anticipated worl: loads. The Staff Maintenance Cfficer served as advisor to the Directer of Materiel; stardardized maintenance policies 2nd practices; miintained statisical data, monitored reports ard distributed technica] publicaticns. The tairter.ance Contrel Unit assigned dircetly te Tcask Croup Feadquarters, was activiated concurrent with the arrival of the Advanced 177 Aran 1!