SWG, Hq AFSWC, 12 April 1957, Subj:
Personnel Manning of the 4951st
Support Squadron (Test), Enivetok, Marshall Islands
he The present system of providing personnel replacements for
the 4951st does not provide that unit with positive assurance that
replacements will arrive on schedule, Requisitions are submitted
five months in advance of when the replacements are required, These
requisitions are processed through the Headquarters of the 4950th
Test Group (Nuclear) and this Headquarters, both at Kirtland Air
Force Base, then to your Headquarters where they are either *cted
upon by directive to one of the Centers of the ARDC, or they are
passed on to Headquarters USAF, In either case the Headquarters
which actually writes personnel movement orders on an individual
who is to go to Enivetok is supposed to send a copy of these orders
to the 495Ist. This is the only indication the 495lst gets with
respect to sction on their requisitions. It happens very frequently
that these copies of orders are never sent to Eniwetok, and the
arrival of an individual is the first notification the 495lst gets
of his coming.
5. During a recent visit to Eniwetok by staff members of this
heedquarters, the following conditions were found to exist:
assigned,
a,
A shortage of 49 airmen,
Of 183 authorized, 134 were
Some of these shortages have existed since November 1956,
Personnel requisitions were submitted on schedule for each airman
nosition that is not now filled,
b,
<A shortage of one officer, the Base Accountable Supply
c.
losing omsO)fo have not forwarded copies of
Of “icer, who should be rotated 15 April 1957, with adequate replecement overlap. Personnel requisition was submitted on schedule for
this officer position, however, at this writing there is no officer
on orders as a rerlacement.
asSignment orders (AFM 30-3) far enough in advance for effective
planning by the 4951st Support Squadron. Because of this, follow-up
or tracer actions heve always had to be after the fact, resulting
in lone periods of time during which personnel requirements are
not met,
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d. As of 28 March 1957 the 49‘5lst had assignment orders
for 16 firefighters, all of whom would be overages to the UMD upon
arrival,
In an attemrt to alleviate the situation, an electircal
messarve was sent from the 4951st, cantaining 10 firefiehters for the
Bikini Detachment, the requisition tor which was submitted 4 March
1957,
At this writing, there are six firefichter overages tecause
all of these individuals reported to the port 8 Arril 1957,
It is
believed that these overages were caused by a double requisition,
resulting from a status request being treated as another requisition.
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