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Group Commander, based upon a known requirement for a permanent Budgeting
and Accounting Officer to represent the group during tests at either test-

ing site, This position afforded the group a full Comptroller planning
capability in the proving ground.
In another Personnel action a visit of the Special Weapons Center
Ground Safety Officer to Eniwetok in December resulted in a recommenda—
tion that an authorization for a Ground Safety Technician should be in=
cluded in test requirements,

A previous authorization for such an indi-

vidual in the 495lst Support Squadron had been deleted during a manpower

survey of that unit in May 1957.

Re-establistment of the position, or=the

provision of the techmician in some manner, thus was requested for the
test series,

Special Weapons Center ultimately agreed to provide a Ground

Safety Technician to Task Group 7.4 on a temporary duty basis, and this
technician joined the task group in March 1958,
When Colonel Wignall, the Group Deputy Commander, visited the proving
ground in November and December 1957, one of the matters discussed with
the Task Group 7.2 Commander was the question of augmentation of certain
Task Group 7.2 activities by Task Group 7.4.

The Task Group 7.2 Commander

expressed a desire for Task Group 7.4 augmentation of bakers, cooks, mess

attendants, motor vehicle mechanics, and Air Police.

The Air Police were

considered necessary to perform duties normally related to Air Base defense and security for which Military Police were not trained.

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