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ETSTORICAL INSTALLMENT NO. IV
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ORGAN IZATION
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TASK orem BriyD-UP
The Task Group Commander's Staff reached full strength on 17 July
1952 with reporting of 1CD° C. A. Grubb, CEC, USN, as Staff Radsafe
Officer.
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The Flag Allowance of enlisted personnel reached approximate full
strength about 1 August.
On completion ofprocessing for security
clearances and preliminary training at the Amphibious Training Command,
Naval Amphitious Base, Coronado, California, (PhibTraPac), a total of
30 men were transferred to the prospective flagship, SS RENDOVA (CV7-11,)
early in August.
When combined with the 14 men on board with the Staff
in Washington, D. C., this represented an excess of 2 over the prescribed allowance of 42.
The extra ratings, both in communications,
could still be lost before operation time and 1 man of another rating
group was iost when it was discovered, after his trensfer to the flagship, that he waa eligible for release to inactive duty.
j-replacenent
vas requested 18 August and was in sight et the end of theperiod.
The
movement of the Staff to the Flazship on 26 August allowedpersonnel
accounting to become centralized in the flagship, although it was
necessary to detach 18 men on temporary auty to accompany the Task
Group Commander and a s-all operational staff in the (SS CURTISS (AV-4)
fn which he embarked on 26 August instead of the RENDCVA.
It had been
decided that the Task Group Commander would embark in the CURTISS and
- sail in that vessol to the forward area, while shifting the Task Group
Administration to the R™NDCVA, pending arrival of the 2°™DOVA at ERIWTO”.
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