XTII his limit of radiation, or expended his quota of temporary duty, he transferred.” The difficulties of maintaining a sufficient force of sampling pilots, radiac technicians, aircraft maintenance specialists, and others associated with sampling were well exemplified during Operation HARDTACK. Staffed with a force planned to be adequate for 2) shots, to take place within a 90-day period, the 926th Test Squadron (Sampling) found itself saddled with 3) shots extending over a mich longer period. "As a result, all sampling element persmnel stand to accrue additional radiation dosage, The sources of this dosage will be the extra sampling - missions flown (for the aircrews) and the extra handling of radioactive aircraft and sample collection equipment (for ground crews), be a certain amount of radiation from fallout, There may also This can easily amount to lr or more if the first three months of the operation can be used as a guide," recorded the Final Report. ". . . There are many personnel in the sampling element that are rapidly approaching their MPE (Maximum Permissable Exposure) and will almost certainly exceed it during the remainder of the operation unless specific measures are taken, In all of the cases where the MPE has been exceeded, the cause can be attributed to one of several unforseen factors. These factors are: many events only one day apart, a moderate increase in the particulate sampling requirements, a very large increase in the gaseous sampling requirements, a shortage of sampling equipment, especially gaseous sampling, and a shortage of personnel _to handle the sampling equipment,"?? 271 APAL/HL SVEH~2-003) 91° "eH