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rotation date would have their overseas tours extanded one month and
those men whose ETS was five or six months subsequent to rotation
date would have their overseas tour curtailed, and would be rotated
during the seventh month prior to their ETS.
The latter condition
increased by 50% the expected losses for April.
To alleviate this
situation, a message was diapatched to JTF SEVEN (REAR) on 9 March
1954 requesting 100% fulfillment of TG 7.2 requisitions for personnel
to arrive in April and May; an emergency requisition for 64 men was
submited on 13 Merch 1954 and command extension of overseas tour
was effected for ten men.
2.
Army Fost Office:
As the operational bulld-up progressed and the population
of Joint Task Force elements reached the peak authorized, operation
and storage space for APO 187 became critical.
General Delivery service
for Task Group 7.2 officers was moved from the APO to the Message
Center, Building #15.
As MATS traffic over available scheduled air-
craft limited the amount of parcel post that could be handled, a
class room in the Service Club was made available for storage, with
such mail being dispatched by water transportation as ships were avai!able.
Enlargement of the APO by additional construction is being
studied.
APO 187, with full augmentation from Task Group 7.4 and one
man from Task Group 7.3, continued to provide excellent service to
all elements of the Task Force.
DNA
The amount of mail handled was in
proportion to other months; however, the money order business for
February and March exceeded that of any previous month on record?
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