CHAPTER3 TRAINING AND INDOCTRINATION This phase of TU 7 operations was divided into two parts: The first included the training of personnel to form a reserve pool of backup monitors whose function would be to perform the duties of monitors in the event that the regularly assigned monitor personnel received or approached the prescribed dosage limit for the operation. The second consisted of an indoctrination of TU 7 personnel in all phases of Operation Ivy. 3.1 TRAINING FOR BACKUP MONITORS As mentioned above, it was necessary to conduct a series of lectures and practical exercises to qualify personne! in the duttes of monitors for the various missions, Personnel were obtained from different units throughout the Task Force. Those people who did not possess the training equivalent to that obtained in the Armed Forces six weeks course in atomic defense were required to take tne training. 3.1.1 Training Subjects The following subjects were included in the course of instruction’ (a) Introduction to Atomic Weapons — Conference (2 Hr), The scope of instruction inchided 1. Similarities and differences between atomic and high-explosive (HE) weapons. 2. Radioactivity, including concepts of half life and the nature of alpha, beta, and gamma emissions. $. Methods of detection. 4, Theory of instrument operation through the discussion of the ionization of gases, and a correlation between this physical effect and the effect of ionization on the tissues of the human body. (h) Instrumentation — Conference and Demonatration (1 Hr). The scope of instruction included 1, Cumulative-dosage types of instruments, i.e., film badges and dosimeters. 2. Dose-rate (intensity) types of radiac instruments, i.e., the AN/PDR-T1B and the IM- 39/PD (Beckman MX-5). 3. Demonstration of these and other types o: instruments, stressing the salient operational features of each. Werner oeen a ee (c) Calibration —- Conference and Practical Exercise (3 Hr), Included in the scope of inatruction were 1, 2. $. 4. Characteristics of instruments used by monitors. Methodology of calibration. Calculations involved in the use of standard radium sources. Practical exercise using instruments and standard radium sources. 20