Outage Circuit J~401 Mar 12 thru 22
=- Send 25:00
Reccive 16:45
The period 2 March thru 12 March is the ten (10) day period prior to
arrival of Air Force Technical Controller and Maintenance man.
The.
period March 12 thru Mar 22 is the ten (10) day period when the CKT
had an Air Foree controller and on Air Force maintenance man operating the NWDE terminal of the circuit.
4.
The evident circuit improvement is, I believe, also partly
attributable to the difference in the Air Force and the Navy method
of circuit control. Due to lack of space for housing, the Navy is
restricted in the number of personnel they can have aboard the ship.
This theory of operation means that each individual maintenance and
control man aboard the ship is responsible for a great deal of equip-~
ment.
Since the equipment is spread around aboard the ship the man
responsible for equipment usually has work to do on several different
decks. This of course means that he can not give all of his attention
to one circuit or one picce of equipment. This, I believe, is the
largest single factor in causing the difference between the number
of hours outage when the Air Force controls the circuit and when the
Navy controls the circuit.
5.
In view of the above criteria, I recommend that we furnish
personnel to control the Navy end of the circuit (NWDE termination)
at all timcs,
To accomplish this I propose that the Communications
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Element (Provisional), furnish one technical controller ond one maint-
enance man. In order to keep up the morale of the personnel, I highly
recommend that the personnel be rotated after each shot. I recommend
this becanse oll of the Air Force personnel who have been stationed
aboard the Estes up to this violently dislike it. This is due to the
lack of mail, separation from the parent unit, separation from the
responsible finance office and o general dislike of sea duty.
CLIFFORD D YOUNG
lst Lt, USAF
Communications Officer
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