ee ee eee —_—, —_ eeEO. —_t mess on board the Bairoko and to operate the helicopter lift the carrier. stem from Seventeen personnel from HMR-362 received exposures of more than 3.9 R (with a maximum of 5.5 R) because of the heavy fal Bairoko encountered after shot BRAVO. Consequently, CTG 7.3 xr that these individuals be given an MPE waiver to avoid impairi operations. The Consolidated List for VC-3 includes only five of the nine pilots; enlisted maintenance personnel are not shown. personnel, It is assumed that these if badged, were included in some other list, perhap Bairoko's list. However, their duty stations would have been F4U aircraft at Enewetak after shot BRAVO. the ith the six Table 23, which prg@vides ac- cumulated radiological exposure of TG 7.3 personnel by ships agd units as of 22 March 1954, shows VC-3 with 20 personnel. lowest category, 9.0 to 0.999 R. All personnelfare in the VC-3 ground personnel could to have radiological exposures similar to or lower than the Ai ground personnel, who also operated out of the Enewetak air faqgility. There is no record of VC-3 flight missions into areas of potenfial radior logical exposure. Task Unit 7.3.3 (Patrol Plane Unit) This unit consisted of Patrol Squadron VP-29 with twelve PavV-6 Neptune aircraft, a P2V-5 Neptune assigned to Project 6.4, a P4Y-2 Privateer aircraft assigned to Project 1.4, and two specially configured PBM-5A Mariner aircraft. The patrol squadron was based at the Naval Air Stat Kwajalein, for the duration of CASTLE. ‘The other four aircraf n (NAS), operated from the Enewetak Island airstrip at Enewetak Atoll. VP-29 flew security sweeps of the PPG danger area to warn Sient shipping and aircraft prior to shots. The squadron also diological reconnaissance missions in the northern Marshall Is nds in support of the AEC's World Wide Fallout Monitoring Program (se Table 68). VP-29 assisted in locating Project 2.5a fallout-collector buoys The two PBMs, operating under the control of TG 7.4 (Air Force), were specially 351