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and priorities, the location of staff sections, and the message forms to
be used.
The command post exercise was designed to bring out problems
which might arise during the aotual tests and to illustrate the command
or staff action requirede
Time schedules were so arranged that the first day of the command
post exercise (11 March 1948) telescoped the action of the three days ime
mediately prior to "X" day into one day.
numerous problems arose.
Throughout this first day,
Messages did not go to the right offices, no
action was taken on certain messages, action was not reported to proper
authorities, and many major and minor violations of good staff procedure
were observed.
At the critique held by the Air Commander at the close of the
first command post exercise day, it was pointed out that too many of the ©
officers did not take the exercise seriously enough, and as a result,
maximum benefit was not derived from ite General QM commented upon
this point and stressed the fact that each officer and enlisted man was
to be engaged in operations on camand post exercise days just as he would
on the actual test days.
He emphasized that the Office of the Air Com-
mander was primarily one of operations and not of administration.
During
the first few months, so much of the time had been taken up with adninistras
tion and planning, that operations had, of necessity, taken a secondary
position in the minds of all concerned.
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The seeond day of the command post exercise was scheduled for
12 March 1948, the fifth day at seae
Possibly because of the fact that
everyone had their “sea legs" by this time, the exercise progressed more
satisfactorily.
Section VIII:
This day was te represent the actual "X" Day, the day of
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