TOMS 400, Subj: Weather Island Eoui pment (1) It will insure your dotachmonts of on hand serviceable cquipment with which they are familiar and can depend upon in future operations. (2) It will prevent the wastcful deterioration of valuable couipnent by being maintained in a ready condition. (3) It would appcar to increase the mebility potential of the detachnents. (4) It would very likely increese the efficiency of your detachments since they could be assured of arriving at the point of oncration with properly maintained cauipment. It would follow what appears to be a reasonable precert of placing primary responsibility for the handling of the ecuipment in the hands of a unit which will be using it under operntional conditions and finally, but probably nost important, it would save many Air Force dollars annually in the support of nuclear tests in the Pacifie Proving Grounds. _ 4. For your further information, an evaluation of the weather islandpopes ty yy the Cormander, Weather Reporting Element, Provisional, is quoted in p.rt™in Tnelosure To. 1. Inclosure No. 2 is a repraesent2ztive weather island paccge a 3 cequusted by Commander, 6th Weather Squadron, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. Only the non-expendable items are concerned in this proposal. 2 Incls: 1, 2nd Ind, in part, fr WREP to TSUP, dtd 13 Mar 954 2. Woa Island Package Inventory HOWELL M. ESTES, JR, Brigadier Gencral, USAF mmander 2 apwLlWo gol 34?