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Operation BUSTER/JANGLE
Following Operation GREENHOUSE, the Air Force and the Atomic Energy
Commission looked more favorably upon manned samplers.

GREENHOUSE

became the last atomic test series during which drone aircraft were used

for this purpose,

At Air Weather Service headquarters in Washington,

Colonel Fackler worked out what he considered to be a reasonable test
unit for the Air Forceportion of atomic testing.

The plan called for

C~-82 transport aircraft, helicopters, radio jeeps, B-29 sampler aircraft,

aircraft to track atomicclouds, and for terrain surveys, and those
required for logistic and administrative support.

Major General Wilson,

Office of the Assistant for Atomic Energy, agreed that such an organi.
zation would be good for atomic energy testing; but, the services were
operating under short funds and the Korean War was in progress.

General

Wilson believed the plan was too "plush" and would never be approved
by the Air Force,

However, Brigadier General John S, Mills, Commander,

Special Weapons Command, was looking for men and the General asked
if Colonel Fackler would like to transfer there, so that he became part
of the mainstream of sampling activities,

Meanwhile, on 7 May 1951, a group of officers from Special Weapons
Command visited the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and were told that
a new test series was planned for the fall, and that the Conmand would

*this organization would have been comparable to the 950th Test

Group (Nuclear) which was finally organized five years later,
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