qualified, They operate under technical direction of the Radiological Defense Operstions Officer (Technical Service Units) and under tactical direction of the individual in charge of the operational unit to which assigned and with which they move in operations, They would collect and interpret that technical information (intensity and rate of radiation) which igs necessary to prevent overexposure of personnel whose duties require their entry into radiologically hazardous areas, Their primary function would be the radiological protection of members of the various technical service operational units, They would not normally engage in area survey operations, Both because of the likelihood that enemy attack may come with little or no warning and because the initial strike may be so devastating as to render a large percentage of all members of a local Civil Defense organization essentially "hors de combat", it is important that development of the local radiological defense organization incorporate the following characteristics, Pirst, reserve personnel for the four key positions (Chief, Operations Officers and Logistics Officer) should be "at least two deep", In other vords, there must be for each of these nositions at least one additional individual capable of immediately assuming the positions in the event that the regularly desimated personnel be for any reason unavailable, These reserves should not only be fully qualified and trained, but should also be widély dispersed insofar as their regular slaces of residence and employment are concerned, Only then will constant availability of necessary personnel be reasonably assured, Secondly, all radiological defense overational units, especially Area Survey and Technical Service Units and the versonnel comprising them, must be no® ARCHIVES