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of the relative urgency of the samples aboard,
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All flights terminated at
Travis.
MATS provided back-up aircraft at Hickam and Travis AFB's,
The Travis
back-up's were used to support Flyaways which were routed to both Alameda
and Kirtland.
As a common practice, MATS transferred the samples and couw’-
ders from one aircraft to another at Hickam.
This consumed considerably
less time than refueling the original aircraft would have; and, in many
instances, the samples were airborne again within 5 minutes of their arrival
from Eniwetok,
Average elapsed time from Eniwetok to Alamed@ was 21 hours;
from Pniwetok to Kirtland 25 hours.
Routing through Alameda to Kirtland
added less than 2 hours to total elapsed time.
The TG 7.1 Op Plan’placed responsibility for handling Flyaways on.
Jel, in coordination with J-3 and J-1.
The actual working arrangements
which evolved were that J-3 determined which samples each Task Unit had to
return, the desired departure time, routing and couriers, and informed
J-l,
Jey ordered sample return aircraft through JTF SEVEN, operated the
sample return compound on Fred, assured that samples were properly packed
and marked, delivered them to the Flyaway aircraft and released the aircraft to the JTF SEVEN Sample Return Director.
Although use of Flyaways
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to move passengers was discouraged, J-1 handled any requests for trans-
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portation of personnel for urgent official or personal reasons.
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The Sample return responsibilities assigned to Commander Task Group
7.1 by Commander JTF SEVEN will be the primary function of J-l with aseiex .
tance from J-1 and J-3,(Reference CTO 7.1 Operation Plan = Annex G.)
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Responsibilities.
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J-3, Task Group 7.1 wil}:
1. Contact task units participating in each event to determine
type and approximate number of samples to be returned on flyaway Ss
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