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Task Group 7.4 Logistios Conference in Ootober 1957, brief mentic:: vas
made of the probable future need to place levies upon HARDTACK units for
personnel to augment the consolidated field maintenance system at Eniwetok
and to support supply roll-up operations, Such levies would be only for
those skilla which could not be provided from established Task Group 7.4
resources,
In December 1957, a review of maintenance man-hour requirements, as
subnitted by each element of the group, revealed that several specialists
in various maintenance areas would be needed and could not be provided
from within the group's manning capability,
Hence, levies were placedon
such Air Force organizations as Military Air Transport Service, Strategic
Air Command, and Special Weapons Center, as well as other agencies in re=
lation to their declared man~hour needs for these personnel, to report to
the proving ground by 1 March 1958,
Arrangements were made in a sinilar
manner to procure supply roll-up persomel, these personnel to report to
Eniwetok by 1 July 1958.
Several other aspects of the Personnel situation in the 4950th Test
Group and Task Group 7.4 during the planning phase of HARDTACK, particularly in the last months of 1957, were noteworthy.
For example, an Air
Foresdirective in mid-October expanded on the airmen early Separation
procedures first announced in August 1957, authorizing separation of
airmen first olass and airmen second class from three to six months in
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