were used to supplement TG 7.3 crews in rendering housekeeping services aboard ship during the evacuation and post-test periods, PART 10. PERSONNEL PHASING The problem of supplying adequate personnel to the Jobsite at the right time involved making a series of assumptions and selecting the proper time for starting a recruiting program. In planning for CASTLE, it was assumed that the manpower required would follow the pattern estimated in March of 1953. This orig- inal forecast included only total number of men inasmuch as the details of the work to be accomplished were unknown at that time. Furthermore, it was assumed that the number of men required each month for the year following would conform to a certain pattern. € From this forecast, an estimate was made of the normal distribu° tion for each level of population. Example: per 1,000 men at the PPG there would normally be so many of each craft and s0 many in each classification of camp department, etc. It was de- cided to start a large scale recruiting in May of 1953. It was determined that recruiting should not be started too early; the percentage of men available when needed, after a long waiting period, is not as great as it would be when recruiting is followed by early employment. By the same token, if recruiting “was started too late, there would be no way to shorten the time required for security clearance between recruiting and hiring. The facilities and personnel of the California State Employment C Pe, 4,"LD,iyE Lan, VO Service was very effective in reducing to a minimum the number of people who had to be interviewed in the offices of Holmes & -25-