fied personnel who will be available for TDY with the Task Force
when the need arises.
Welletrained personnel are of paramount importance to the Task
Force communications mission.
The short tour of duty (one year)
for garrison force personnel precludes the assignment of unskilled
or semi-skilled men for they will require training befcre they may
be profitably employed.
If a training program is carried on it
means that; (1) competent men whose services are needed elsewhere
will be required as instructors, and (2) by the time a man is comp-
etent to perform his duties little time remains before he is eligible for rotation.
This is a difficult problem to resolve since
the pipeline replacement personnel have received only basic training and primarily consist of men in the grades of E-2 and E-3.
In
order to remedy this for Operation CASTLE arrangements were made
with G1, D/A, and OCSigO to provide men from special levies placed
on ZI communications installations under the control of OCSig0O.
Some shortages still existed, however, and these were filled with
TDY personnel from both the ZI and USARPAC during Operation CASTLE.
C.
Eauipment and Facilities.
In construction of facilities ard procurement of equipment,
planning must begin well in advance of the operational period.
Ail
major equipment and construction requirements must be firm by at
least 90~- 120 days prior to the commencement of on=3ite operations
for it takes this long as a lead time for delivery of equipment and
as a construction period for facilities.
Any requirements submitted
after that time will have to ccmpete with the high priority needs
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