XIII (S) 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.” 1 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. 52 Negotiations for the transfer continued throughout the early months of 1961 292 AFWL nu SVEH -2-003) 4! tela a~ Group (Nuclear) forparticulate and gaseous atmospheric sampling in the