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that required at Indian Springs, where the entire Base support was a 4950th
responsibility.
During the summer and fall of 1957 when tha 4950th Test Group was en-
gaged in Operation PLUMBBOB in Nevada, the Directorate of Personnel and
Administration was engaged in revising the Unit Manning Document of the
4952nd Support Squadron and in requisitioning persomel necessary to auge
ment and support the Test Base Unit (495lst Support Squadron) in the Entwetok Proving Ground for Operation HARDTACK,
The UMD revision and aug
mentation requisitioning required a computation of the over-all strength
of the task group in order to predict the parsonnel support requirements
that would have to be fulfilled.
Austerity in the computation was neces
sary because of the limitation of billeting space on Eniwetoky yet the
computation had to be sufficiently large to meet mission requirements
which at that time were not firmly established.
Conferences were held
with persons who were later to man the Test Services Unit, Test Aircraft
Unit, and Test Base Unit, at which meetings the strength and billeting
figures of their respective organizations were discussed.
Eventually,
estimates were obtained regarding the length of time the various units
would require to move to the proving grotmd and become operational.
From
these estimates movement dates of the various organizations were determined.
After determining firm personnel figures and movement dates, the
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accurate revision of the preliminary budget estimate was made possible.