a E i re —_ PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED ’ a2= the only one who voluntesred was wife, but then she had some domestic trouble and did not follow up. I want to try again the next time. This visit was too dramatic, what with three funerals and two one-year birthdays. The whole village is involved in all that goes on, and the preparation takes cays. I have been thinking about the job I am doing and what it takes to do it right. I read your letter in the Micronitor, and want to thank you for it. He had translated it into Marshallese as well. If the | have_no/ political situation stays calm, we shallV¥fear of lack of cooperation from the people. The problem is to get there. The field trips are no good. You cannot rely on them for any regular cooperation, and in the end you will have invested in®éme, my salary and the support for me, with only half the job done; that which I can do here and on Majuro. Chartering a small boat is all right, but there is never any around, I pee by the grapevine that TeBrum's boat "Louise® is out of dry—dock and available. If true, I shall rent her. But again, you cannot build a program on that kind of support. I see three ways of resolving the issue. The best, but presumably way too expensive, is to put an amphibious plane at the disposal of your man here, Bill Streenan suggested another one, which I assume involves too much red tape: To have the air rescue units log some of their traing hours by moving me around. But there are none here on Kwajf. They are moved in from Honolulu or Wake each time they have a job here, The third possibility was suggested by Sid Loeb, K¥R's marine expert. He said the Army is long in supply of "Boat, passenger and cargo, design 2001", They are brand new, you can get one for the asking. But I guess it would cost you $100.000 to take her out of the mothballs, QoPy a ob Sas gaan | ‘ 3 1 PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED