Flight deck crew of the Bairoko @ Entire crew of the USS Philip @® "Certain individuals," 40 in all, whose names werelto be forwarded to joint task force headquarters at a later date. Nine days later, on 21 March, CJTF 7 sent a message from ewetak to the Chief, AEC Division of Military Applications, CINCPAC, an the Army Chief of Staff, who was the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Executive gent for CASTLE, stating that he was acting on the advice "from my staff surgeon, radiological safety advisors, and scientific director" and was accepting the request for a waiver of MPE for the groups CTG 7.3 listed. He also concurred that these individuals should be assigned "to activi ies requiring minimum or no exposure." As the operation progressed, more waivers were requested. der, TG 7.4 wrote (Reference 24, p. The Comman~ 72): The present maximum exposure of 3.9 r per l3-week test period is not a realistic MPE in consideration of heavy work loads in extensively contaminated areas. The use £ waivers to cover exposures in excess of this MPE become a needless routine without much significance when opera tions are conducted in large contamination areas withou much interval between detonations. A large number of i dividuals did exceed 3.9 r, but very few exceeded 6.0. TG 7.1 noted in the final radsafe report that the requireme s of the military projects to work in contaminated areas and with contami ated equipment soon led to block requests for an authorized exposure £ 7.8 R for the test series. reated a The waiver of the MPE early in the series loss of confidence in the established limit of 3.9 R, which was oon re~ flected in the actions of the nonmilitary task groups. ecame When it apparent that an MPE waiver could be obtained upon application, he prac~ tices of conservation of exposure and wide utilization of recovegy and contractor personnel became minimal. In many cases, waivers wer re- quested after overexposure, and in others approved waivers were ver utilized. 33 per- Although 10.8 percent of TG 7.1 exceeded the MPE, onl cent of the overexposures were covered by waivers, and 22 percen 99 of the