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AIR FORCE SPECIAL WEAPONS CENTER
Air Research and Development Command
Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico
SWP
4 March 1957
SUBJECT:
TO:
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Officer Personnel Requisitions for Operation "HARDTACK"™
Commander
Air Research and Development Command
Attention: RDSPMO
Post Office Box 1395
Baltimore 3, Maryland
1,
Attached are AF Forms 390 listing total known officer
perSonnel requirements for Operation "HARDTACK”®, At this time, it
appears all these 28 UMD positions for the 4950th Test Group
(Nuclear) and 4952nd Support Squadron must be filled from other
than this Center's resources, Additionally, these requisitions
should remain valid until filled, and will be added to the
mechanized roster in accordance with current requisitioning pro-
cedures, Note that the AF Forms 390, brcken out in Groups I, II,
and III, are comprised of lines number 3% through 423, and we
have added a suffix "HT", to denote “Hardtack Manning™ and thus
hope to preclude necessity of security classification of the
mechanized requisitions.
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2. All officers selected to fill these requisiti-ns must
possess a minimum security clearance of Final Secret, Officers
selected will be assigned duty station at Kirtland Air Force
Pase for a minimum period of 45 days prior to proceeding on TDY
to test location. Prriod of TDY will probably extend to a maxi-
mum of 6 months,
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3. Note further that, at this time, unit manning precedence
rating is unknown, Air Force Special 'eapons Center precedence is
VI; however, message your Headquarters, cite PDSTTW-~7-35-E, ALRAD
848/56, dated 18 July 1956, established precedence rating of 1-B,
II-3 for *Plumbbob” manning. It is requested that 100% manning be
effected, and manning precedence added when known.
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4.- For our planning purposes, and ~av-imum effectiveness of
mission accomplishment, it is deemed mandatory that officers br
in place not later than reverting dates srecified. - (U)
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