Task Group 7.4 during the opurntion, raised the totals of vehiculzr
equipment supported through Operation CASTLE to 510 picces,
In addition
485 arms of virilous types ranging from small arms to three inch selute
guns were supported by the section,
Of these 510 vehicles, 405 were
Arry owned; the remaining 105 pieces were owned by the Air Force,
Of
the Army owned vehicles, 158 were issued to Task Group 7.1 for their
use during the operation.
Orgenicaticnal end field mintenance of the 158 vehicles
issucd to TG 7.1 was performed by Holncs and Narver shops on islands
other “hon IN\IveTOK,
Hewever, since the Ordnance Field Maintencnce
Shop 0: Task Group 7.2 is rcquired cach year to renovate all Arny
owned automotive equipment during the interim phase, in eddition to
providing ficld maintenance support to other task groups-when *‘rected,
considerable interest existed in the state of maintonance of all
vehicl:s and automotive equipnent in opcration in the entire Trask
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The 510 venicles previously mentioned, in addition to
ams and equipment were Supported during CASTLE with an average of 36
maintenance personncl,
Support of this large volume of equipment, was
uccomplished by this smell nunber of men at the expense of an abnornally rapid rato of deprecistion in the overall stite of mintcn2nce
on these itcas of equipment»-
An average of about 100 job orders werc handled each
month during the operation,
hpproxi nately 15% of the vehicles in uso
were out of services at any one time because o. maintenance require~
rents, This percentage of incpcrative vchiclcs resulted from the