echelon of @othsr
senice subordinate to the task force hetiqwters
level. By the same token the Liaison Officer should not be designated
as a staff officer on the staff of a commander of a subordinate echelon
While such situations may be considered necess~ry as an ffpedient in
attempting to adjust the peculiarities of administrative and operation:
as the coprocedures of the services,it is felt that untilsuch tinle
cept becomesa doctrine,it should not be resorted to except in emergcles, and then, adjusted as soon ~s practicable.
f.
Security control work in Joint operations is a highly spec-
ialized type of activity uhich requires especially trained personnel
who normally have absolutely no other work to perfonn~
In carrying Ou
the security controlmissionof such operationsit is obviouethat
meticulousattentionmust be’givento detailti order to insurethe most
rigid enforcementof the security directives. AS organized for Oper~
tion Sandstone the Security Control Unit (700-X CIC Det) at Kwajaleia
was an integral part of To 7.50 and, ae such came under the direct command of the Co_der
of the Task Group. HOWever, since it was the de-
sire of the Island Commander, KwtiJalein9
to have this unit under hls cob
trol, am arrangement was resortedto wherebythe SecurityControlUnit
was pbced under the ‘command”of the J!lW7LiaisonOfficer, and the
Liaison Officerin turn placedon the staffof CTG 7.7 as a Task Unit
Commander(CTU 7.7.3)for duty as Isiland
CommandSecurity Officer. Such
a situation was not good for two reasons: first, the authority of CTG
7.5 was usurpe~ and, second, the Lluison Officer was hopelessly em
meshed in a chain of two command and stdf channels which made independan
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