SWG, Hq AFSWC, 12 April 1957, Subj:
Personnel Mannine of the 4°51st
Support Squadron (Test), Enivetok, Marshall Islands
6.
The Army unit at Eniwetok (Task Group 7.2) in manned directly
out of Headquarters USA,
The Cammander of Task Croup 7.2 receives
a report from Headquarters USA that shows every officer that is
scheduled for assignment to his organization for six months in the
future. Whether they do this with enlisted men or not, we do not
know. The fact that they do it with officers does provide the
Commander, Task Group 7.2, and all of his officers with a sreat
feeling of confidence and satisfaction that is lacking in our unit.
7.
We believe that the main feature lacking in the present
system for manning the 4951st is the absence of a means to check
actions on personnel requisitions on a regular basis.
We believe
that this means should be engineered into the system and that there
should be published at regular intervals (minimum 90 days - desirable
30 days) a report listing all of the individuals of the 495lst together with the return date of each. The report should include in
the case of each individual who is to return to the ZI within the
next 90 days from the date of the report plus the rerort interval,
the name, serial number, AFSC, marital status, present duty assignment, address, and date of reporting to the port for transport to
Eniwetok of the individual who is to replace him,
8, We have given consideration to the question of how the
requirement descrited in paragraph 7 above could test be accomplished,
Our first thought was that this is something that the AFSW could
do provided that our personnel resources here would permit us to
man the unit “irectly from AFSWC resources, We have concluded that
our resources will not permit this, We believe, however, that with
perhaps a few exceptions, Headquarters ARDC does have the resources
with which to man the 495lst.
9.
It is immediately apparent that the presently specified
six months lead time in the sutmission of requisitions is inadequate,
especially if these requisitions mst funnel through two Headquarters
here at Kirtland before going forward to you or to Headquarters USAF
for implementation. Either we mst increase the lead time or cut
out some of the channels.
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One way in which the desired results might AEWLS1
for your Headquarters to take direct responsibility for manning the
4951st. Requisitions and Overseas Returnee Reports could be sent
direct from Eniwetok to your Headquarters with only information copies
to Kirtland. Your Headquarters could require renorts of completed
actions of assienments to and from 495Ist and use these reports to
prepave the consolijated renort referred to in paragraph 7 above.
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