1 July 1954, assume responsibility for the funding of all aviation

type POL supplies required at Eniwetok.

All other POL products

would be financed from Task Force operational funds and in implementing its part of the arrangement the Air Force would establish
an Air Force stock fund type of accounting.
The remaining Headquarters divisions were occupied during the
plarming phase by more specialized problems.

The biggest of these

confronting the J-1 Division was the matter of procuring and phasing military personnel for the Task Force Headquarters and for

Task Groups 7.1 and 7.2.

Because of the nature of the Task Force,

the ACofS, J-1, and his assistants must be familiar with the per-

sonnel policies of the three military Services.

With such an under-

standing, the J-1 Division is in a better position to know what currently may be expected in the way of filling specialized spaces and
can act accordingly.

Availability of qualified personnel varies

from time to time and in many instances prompt decisions to accept
personnel not considered completely qualified are advantageous to
the Task Force.

The maintenance of amicable relations with the per-~

sonnel divisions of the three Services as well as giving due conSideration to their problems in filling requisitions is important
to establishing a working basis for the almost continuous negotiations which must be pursued by the Task Force.
Associated with the general problems attendant to CASTLE personnel procurement were, as previously pointed out, the ones of establishing Army Task Group T/D's in connection with the reorganization

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