Fr pen .- the above-mentioned "half-effort® * for each shot as far as decontamina- tion was concerned, Due to the number of aircraft taking part in ROMEO, the maintenance system was not tried. It was intended to test this sys- tem following KOON, the third shot. General Estes committed the Air Task Group to support firing on a three-day interval with all required sampling aircraft, but stated that this was the maximum Task Group 7.4 capability. To shorten the three— day interval, the sampling effort would have to be cut in half: one B-36 sampler, one B-36 controller and six F-84's would be available. Due to the possible need for reducing the shot interval, General Clarkson and Doctors Ogle and Graves decided to keep the half sampling effort in mind, because with it a one-day turn-around was not entirely impossible. The Air Task Group had stated that a one-day turn-around was possible, providing there were no B=36 aborts or maintenance requirements. . Following KOON, the new decontamination procedure worked very well, but the Air Task Group still did not test the maintenance system, due to the less than full-scale number of aircraft in operation. It was again planned to check the short interval maintenance system subsequent to UNION, the fourth shot. This very simple maintenance system entailed certain priorities which called for putting the effects B-36 crew and the other crews from the contaminated B-36's to work on the control B-36 immediately upon its return from the mission. *So-called because approximately one-half of the Air Task Group aircraft would be ‘available for a shot. AFWLHO 957