WEST COAST DIRECTOR
PROJECT HANDCLASP
C/O Headquarters Eleventh Naval District
San Diego, California 92132
714-235-3438
Ser 1G/679
16 March 1978
From:
To:
West Coast Director, Project Handclasp
Colonel Edgar J. Mixan, USA, Commander, Joint Task Group
Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, APO San Francisco 96333
Subj:
Project Handclasp shipping documents; forwarding of
Encl:
(1) Seven Transportation Control and Movement Documents (TCMD'S)
ENI-053-78 thru ENI-058-78 and ENI-066-78
(2) Description of medical supplies
1.
Enclosure (1) contains copies of shipping documents for 33 pallets/
21,455 pounds/1,625 cubic feet/41 measured tons of Project Handclasp
(PH) material placed on board USS MONTICELLO (LSD-35) in San Diego in
March 1978 for delivery to Eniwetok.
2. The value of this shipment is estimated conservatively at $32,000.
No value can be placed on the efforts and goodwill of persons and/or
companies who collected and donated this material.
Inasmuch as this
represents a trust in the Navy by persons donating this material, it is
of utmost importance that all possible steps be taken to safeguard the
shipment from damage, loss, or pilferage. It is requested that close
attention be paid to the documents during off-loading and distribution,
and that the Transportation Control Number be compared on the documents
and on the pallets.
(Identifying information is marked on the top of
each pallet.)
In addition, it is important that the command representative
is present when Handclasp material is off-loaded.
Normal supply procedures
should be used, including a physical inventory of the material, a signed
receipt being retained whenever the material is turned over to another
activity, etc.
3.
All Handclasp material requires covered/secure storage.
Background information concerning preparation and applicability of a
few of the items listed in enclosure (1) follows:
(a) Three pallets medical supplies.
Two pallets containing approx-
imately $2500 of assorted Johnson and Johnson (J&J) supplies. See item
a, enclosure 2. One pallet consisting of two Phase I Medical Kit. See
item b, enclosure 2.
(b) Two Project Handclasp Sewing Machine Workshops. Each triwall
contains a new treadle sewing machine, 50 yards of material, scissors,
assorted buttons, needles, thread, and other sewing notions as well as
Band-Aids, Tang, diapers etc., used as fillers.
This workshop is very
valuable in that it gives an enterprising recipient the capability of
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