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The number of travel orders issued during the operation is
as follows:
Issuing Office
Adjutant General
Headquarters
Number
543
Task Group 7.1
Los Alamos, N. M.
Adjutant General
Task Unit 2
230
(UCRL, Livermore, Cal.)
Adjutant General
Task Unit 3
542
(WETD, Sandia Base)
Adjutant Generals
Forward Areas
190
(APOs 105 and 437)
Total travel orders issued
1,505 (covering 2665
individuals)
A new system for MATS "reservations" was initiated durirz
HARDTACK which greatly simplified the flow of personnel through
the ports of embarkation (Travis and Hickam) and decreased the
lost-time element experienced during past operations.
Individual
reservations were made by telephone to the Liaison Officer at
Travis~-or by wire message to the Liaison Officer at Hickam--anc
each individual was given the reporting time and departure schec-
ule with his travel order brochure.
The Task Group 7.1 Administrative Plan No. 1-57 was published on November 1, 1957, and its subsequent distribution to
“er
ali AEC, Contractor, and DOD agencies who were to participate in
HARDTACK provided the necessary administrative procedures requir-
Os
(OP
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ed of the individual and the organization for movement into the
a‘Forward Area. In addition, a pamphlet titled "Instructions and
he
Oo:
information for Personnel Departing for the EPG" was published and
attached to each set of travel orders.
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