1.4
Training of Personnel
Training of the Task Unit personnel and project monitors was carried
on at several placeg. Most of it was given at Ft. McClellan, Alabama, with
the First RSSU providing the training staff. However, mary memters of
this staff had first to be trained in their jobs, This was done through a
unit-training program at Ft. McClellan.
In addition, a project monitors!
courae, contucted by members of the First RSSU, LASL, and UCRL, wus
held at Ft. McClellan during January 1956.
Approximately 100 prujen per-
sonne! attended the course, which lasted four and one-half days,
Training of selected photodosimetry, monitoring, and radiochemistry
personnel was conducted at LASL by a rumber of groups within H-Division.
The Navy hospital corpsmen spent approximately eight weeks in ite various
laboratories, Instrument-repair personnel were specially trained at the Navy
facility at Treasure Islaud, San Francisco, arrangements being made through
the Naval RacSvlogical Defense Laboratory (NRDL).
Also, all Navy civilians
used by the Task Units were given four weeks of instruction at NRDL prior
to departure for the Pasific Proving Grounds.
Monitors! training courses were conducted at Parry and Enyu islands
as required. Holmes and Narver personnel were trained as monitors by the
H&GN organization on Parry Island.
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