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Responsible for administration of deployed personnel,

Each member

participating in the sampling series was cautioned if questioned as to his
destination or where he had been "I am assigned to one of the USAF units
carrying out a special world-wide operation to check on weather and the
composition of the atmosphere to determine the reservoir of radio active

debris and the rate of fallout,”
Deployment was to East Sale Air Base, Australia,
MUSIC MAN IIT was a repetition of previous weather-radioactive debris
sampling missions and was also enacted at East Sale Air Base, Australia,
GOLF BALL
The Air Force placed a high priority requirement on the 950th Test

North African area for a 15-day period occuring sometime between 1 February

and 1 March 1960,
in the Sahara,

This coincided with French experiments being conducted

The 926th deployed four JB-57B samplers to Wheelus Air

Base, Libya, and collected both particulate and gas (compressed) samples.”

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Squadron Transferred to Military Air Transport Service
Early in 1961, steps were instituted which within a year transferred
the test squadron from the Air Force Special “eapons Center to the Military

Air Transport Service.

Because of the demand for the service of the squadron

by the Air Weather Service, by the Defense Atomic Support Agency, and the
Atomic Energy Commission, and by Air Force Technical Applications Center
plans were formulated to transfer the squadron as early as January 1961.

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Negotiations for the transfer continued throughout the early months of 1961

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