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Test Base Unit.
The Test Base Unit was manned, trained, and equip-
ped by the Air Force Special Weapons Center, using the resources of the
495lst Support Squadron (Test) at Eniwetok and the 4952nd Support Squadron (for personnel augmentation only), Kirtland Air Force Base,
Five
C=54, sight L~20, and 15 helicopter aircraft were operated by the unit,
providing both inter-island and inter—atoll support airlift,
The Test Base Unit, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel dalter K.
Hedrick, Jr., consisted of three principal elements, the Materiel ilement,
the Administrative Element, and the Operations Element,
The Materiel «lement included sucn functions as Base Suoply, Main
tenance, Unit Supply, Installations, and POL, all of which were concerned
with the operation of air base facilities at FHED (Eniwetok) and NAN (Bikini).
The Administrative Klement provided a consolidated Personnel and
Administrative Section for Group Headquarters, Test Aircraft Unit, and
Test Base Unit,
Besides the normal administrative services provided by
tnis element, it included also a Vomptroller Section, an Air volice Sec-
tion, and an Information Services section,
The Operations slement was composed of a hotary wing Section, a
Fixed_ving Section, a Base Cperations Section, a Bikini Operations Sec~
tion, and an suiwetok Air Operations Section,
among those aircraft assigned to tne Test Base Unit were tnree v-54
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