rs -li- by Mr. Otterman on the prior day that a large storm was moving toward Utirik and he advised leaving a day ahead of our scheduled departure. this for two reasons. I agrecd to First, we had discovered a pre-cclamptic lady who needed to be evacuated to Kwajalein as soon as possible - with the least amount of trauma, and second, hecause we were aware that a tropical storm had developed south of Kwajalein and the deteriorating weather, in Mr. Orterman's judgment, might hit Uttirik anid present some problems for the ship. An additional problem that developed because of our hasty departure involved a "going away party” scheduled to be qiven for the medical team by the people of Utivik. We aktempted to have a combined BNL/island party the evening before departure but the magistrate had nol urderstood thak we wore leaving early, the resulting confusion again coupromised the credibility of the medical group. SUMMARY OF SHTPS LOGTST(C REPORP It's obvious from the length and detatl of this report that I consider the ship logistic support for the January-February medical survey to be inadequate. I have presented all of the foregoing observations and opinions in writing, in a rough draft, to Mr.~Stanley, Mr. Brown and Mr. Ray. I did this specifically to alert thein to the problems, as I saw them, prior to tha Users Conference that was scheduled for February 28th, in Livermore, California. I anticipated that a very delicate administrative problem would develop during the Users Conference since Mr. Otterman had been invited to that confer s:nce. I requested that the concerned DO representatives have a preliminary meeting at Livermore, prior to the conference, to attempt to resolve these problems and not to use the conference itself as a forum For the discussion of the dctails of the survey. Unfortunately, we were unable to accomplish this. can expand on why this was nol accomplished if necessary. During the Users I