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Directorate of Personnel and Administration and were transmitted to the
appropriate parent organizations,
After utilizing tnis procedure several
times, a determination was made that preparation of requests in the Units
and coordination by the headquarters was a more feasible msthod.
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element identified those individuals who had to be replaced or extended
and submitted those names to the parent organizations of those persons.
If a determination was made that replacements were not available from
the parent organizations, requests for extensions of temporary duty were
forwarded from the Units to Headquarters Task Group 7.4 for subsequent
submission to Joint Task Force SHVEN,
By this method, the group satis=
fied its personnel requirements for the completion of the operation,
Task Group 7.4 furnished personnel from the Eniwetok complement
to augment the task force effort in Operation NEWSHEEL [ace "Operation
NBWSHEEL (Johneton Island)", this chapter/.
The bulk of Task Group 7.4
personnel engaged in that operation were moved to Hickam Air Force Base,
Three officers and two airmen were transferred to Hickam to comprise
the Headquarters Task Group 7.4 (Hickam).
The Weather Reconnaissance
Element also transferred 35 officers and 175 airmen, together with four
of itswB-50 aircraft, during July.
In the same month, the Ionosphere
Element, having one C-97 aircraft, returned to Hickam from Cambridge
Researen Center witn five officers und eleven airmen; and the Very High
Altitude-Ultra High Altitude Zlement, having two 8-36 aircraft, with
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