very easy thing. We are trying to do it just a little more efficiently. Let me point out that towards this end we will not have what we call a hot ship as we did in CASTLE, They will all be washed down to the greatest extent practicable and we will cover all the areas of the ships that are not being used for other projects with strip coating material and take off all the appurtenances that are not necessary for the trip. If I describe an operational cycle of these ships, it might give you an idea of how similar it is to Operation CASTLE. The requirements for most of the projects demand that the ships be at Eniwetok prior to participation. That means it takes about 16-18 hours to move to the FA, I might point out that the participation is for Bikini. The requirement here is to leave the Eniwetok lagoon at daylight and enter the lagoon at Bikini at daylight hours, crew will be stripped to a skeleton crew. At this time the The few people left will then move the ships out, also in daylight, and move toward a designated area which is controlled by the fallout predicitions and the forecasts. The area of operation at the particular point of interest is rather long, the crew aboard is very small, and this is a rather strenuous effort. There will be some project personnel aboard, and it might be advisable for the project officers to bear in mind that the people they select should follow some sort of specification so that they have a low metabolism rate; are not overly tall, short or fat; that they can go for long periods without eating; and that they don't show any undue emotional jags in periods of high stress or do not mind heat and humidity, If they survive the rocket programs and fallout, they will still have 25 hours to go before thay come back, I'm sure they will be rather tired and we'll have a job. We hope that it's almost 100% less tedious and exasperating to the support group than it was at CASTLE, We didn't know about this flexible time and we went to Bikini with three days rations and stayed 21, so I never realized we had to beg for food. This time we will have ample supplies up to about 100 days for the journey, I believe our construction planning is in good hands. We hope to combine almost all the support facilities and constructions for these eight or nine projects concerned. They all seem rather pleased that this be done and we want to make a lesser burden on the FA. We are discussing this now, We have an appointment with J-3, I hope very soon and with J=4, J-6 and J-l before Friday. I'm sure there are no questions,