as the Adjutant Oeneral in the rear echelon.
23. The period beginning 15Feb~am
19hB ad
ending lb ~rch 1948
was an extremely active period for this Section. Initially, at Fort
Shafter, there was some confusion in establishinfiindividual job assign-
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ments, since the Section was moved by tiditiduals rather than as a group
and arrived over a period of more than a month. Also at Fort Shafter, it
was necessary to begin the consolidati~nof the files brought fromWashing1
ton with those that had been established at Oahu. This task required a
considerablepefiod of time and effort. The OdU
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Echelon had established
a suspense system which was used on practically all incom~
radios,
This system involved a great deal of time and its value was rather dubious.
2~. As had been the custcm In Washington, the Adjutant General drafted
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all orders and sutmitted them to the Adjutant General, Headquarters,
USARPAC, whose problem consisted of merely cutting the stencils and productig the necessa~ number of copies. It was necessary to have orders
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published for all officers and enlisted personnel at Fort Shafter$ schedtied
to move to Enlwetok on the USS Mt. McKinley or by air.
sary to have orders issued on q
It was also neces-
civilians under contract to the Ataaic
Energy Commission.
25.
Upon reporting aboard the USS Mt. McKinley on 8 hrch, the
Adjutant Generalls Office assumed the additional duties of Flag Secretary and the Section functioned accordingly. ~
this tinw the Adjutant
Generalts Section was divided as follows: Lieutenant Colonel Taylor and
two [2) enliete@men remaimd in the rear echelon in Washington; .
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