Lf CHAPTER III, SECTION 4 tures by the EPG Security Officer or his representative. A contract guard force of 14 men was maintained at the Home Office. A Guard Sergeant under the supervision of the Home Office Security Officer was responsible for the administration and effectiveness of the guard force. 7.1 or TG 7.5 showing dates of arrival and de- parture. MEDICAL AND DENTAL. The Medical Department was under the administrative supervision of the General Supervisor-Industrial Relations, and was supervised by a Chief Medical Officer. The primary function While the build-up for Operation HARD- of the Medical Department was to provide a sitated a limited number of “GSR” (Good Security Risk) clearance be authorized in order nel attached to other elements of JTF-7. Surgical and dental services were not elective by the TACK commenced in March 1957, it was not until November that Jobsite requirements necesto expedite certain categories of workers to the EPG. It was mandatory that “GSR”-cleared employees be utilized in non-sensitive jobs not requiring access to classified material. From 15 October 1957 to 15 March 1958, it was necessary to dispatch 107 “GSR”-cleared H&N employees to Jobsite for employment in the Construction medical and surgical program and emergency dental service to H&N employees and to personpatient. With the exception of emergency appen- dectomies and some emergency care of traumatic conditions, surgery was limited to injuries and infections which, by treatment at Jobsite, would restore the patient to active duty in a reason- & Maintenance, Service Operations, and other able period of time. Major surgery cases were evacuated by air to general service hospitals, usually the Tripler Hospital or the Queens employees had to depart Jobsite—was 15 March, services were under the direct supervision of a Chief Medical Officer at Site Elmer who was divisions. The cut-off date for “GSR” employees —that is, the date by which “GSR”-cleared at which time it was determined that only 5 of the remaining 17 “GSR’-cleared employees would obtain “L” clearances. Special extensions of the cut-off date were granted individually to these 5 men, and they were “L” cleared by 27 April 1958. The greatest manpower urgency occurred in the Camp Utility Worker classification in the Camp Department, caused by the conclusion of an agreement with Military Task Groups whereby H&N would supply 70 such workers to provide general assistance in the preparation of food, its serving, mess hall cleaning and maintenance, and scullery work at the Fred Mess Hall. By agreement and authorization those workers were to be employed on a “GSR” clearance, and until such time as they received their “L” clear- ances they would not be permitted to leave Site Fred. By 1 June 1958 all but two of these employees had received an “L” clearance. The remaining two employees were transferred to John- Hospital at Honolulu. All medical and dental assisted by a Medical Doctor and a Dentist assigned to Nan and by a Medical Doctor and a Dentist assigned to Johnston Island. Under the respective Medical Doctors, a Chief Aid Man directed the activities of the First Aid Men. During the interim and build-up periods, the Chief Medical Officer made several trips to Majuro, Kwajalein, and Guam to consult with U. S. Navy Health Officers and Trust Territory Public Health Officials on procedures and regulations on the prevention, treatment, and con- trol of hepatitis and polio. The prevalence of these conditions among the natives on the various atolls on which H&N and other TG 7.5 per- sonnel lived and worked while Weather Stations were being constructed or operated was a matter of prime concern to the AEC and H&N. Methods in preventing their contraction by Jobsite per- sonnel were formulated and evaluated for effectiveness. In March 1957 a Navy Sanitation Officer with long experience in tropical sanitation site Security Officer. The duties of the Pass & was invited to visit Jobsit to inspect and offer advice and counsel on that subject, with particular attention being given to insect and rodent control. The possibility of an outbreak of polio was a matter of concern to the Chief Medical Officer. Early in 1957 he strongly recommended media; to keep accurate files containing a record Jobsite on a compulsory basis. The presence of polio at Majuro Atoll caused the Army, Navy, and Air Force to adopt the Salk immunizations ston Island where they soon received “L” clearances. The Pass & Badge Office was a separate section under the direct supervision of the Job- Badge Section was to prepare all identification badges for all Task Groups in the EPG; to maintain strict accountability of all identification of all identification media issued and certificates signed by individuals visiting and assigned to controlled areas at EPG; to retain accurate files of active personnel clearances of all personsof all Task Groups authorized access to AEC-con- trolled areas at EPG; and to prepare a monthly list of persons traveling to EPG by order of TG Page 360 that immunization vaccine be administered at and a tri-services recommendation was made that the program be extended to all personnel in the EPG. In February 1958 H&N, with the concurrence of the AEC, started the first round of polio shots on a compulsory basis. An insignificant number of employees refused the shots and signed waivers absolving H&N of any re-