On WAHOO and UMBRELLA, when the re especially stringent local aircraft requirements, a senior staff officer was also stationed at the central dispatch office controlling the helicopter and liaison aircraft. Throughout the operation a rear echelon was maintained at Kirtland Air Force Base. Its function was to monitor and to assist the actions being taken at that Base in the support of the operation. In addition, it provided an agency through which the dependents could obtain information and assistance, a function which contributed materially to the morale and welfare of the families of the men participating in the operation. When it was decided to conduct the high altitude shots, TEAK and ORANGE at Johnston Island rather than at Bikini, we placed one of our operations, staff officers on detached service with Joint Task Force SEVEN to serve a Base Operations Officer at Johnston Island and later established command posts at both Johnston Island and Hickam Air Force Base, Honolulu. Inmediave control of the air operations in connection with the two events was exercised by the Task Group Commander from the AOC in the USS S0XER (a destroyer was used to provide AOC facilities when they were required at Bikini during the absence of the BOXER). Aircraft participatinz in NEWSKEEL operated from Hickam Air Force Lase and Barbers Point Naval Air Station in Hawaii. Operational ° control of these aircraftduring the takeoff, enroute and landing phase of the missions was exercised by the Deputy Commander, Task Group 7.h, from a command post located in the Honolulu Air Traffic Center. The Commander of the Test Services Unit served as the acting commander at the Eniwetok Proving Ground while the Task Group Comnander and his deputy were away participating in NEVSREEL. Task Group was required to provide planning assistance and aircraft for Operation LITTLE DAVID, a nuclear rocket test to be conducted at Eglin Air Force Base during August. _ COPIED/DOE i LANL RC a4