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HEADQUARTERS
TASK GROUP 7.4, PROVISIONAL
APO 187, c/o POSTMASTER
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
TOMT 523
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9March 1954
SUBJECT: ~ Shipment of Supplies by Air
TO:
Commander
Test Services Unit, Provisional
APO 187, c/o Postmaster
San Francisco, California
1. It has come to the attention of this Headquarters that ate
tempts are being made to ship excess supplies back to the ZI by air
when surface transportation is available, For example, on 3 March
1954, at MATS Terminal, three (3) boxes were found waiting air shipment. They had a total weight of seven hundred and sixty (760)
pounds and a oube of one hundred and scventy-nine (179) feet. It
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was learned that these same boxes had come: in on a C-97 aircraft
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perently was excess to the operation and was being shipped back to
the ZI.
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three (3) weeks previous,
This equipment was never uncrated and ap-_
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2. Supplies are not to be shipped by air that are declared excess to the operation. Only critical items will be shipped back to
the ZI by air. It is not the intent of t is letter to discourage the
turn-in and shipment of excess supplies by surface transportation.
3. Unit Commanders are requested to caution their personnel in
order that there will be no recurrence of the cited example. All air
shipments will require justification if so requested.
BY ORDER OF THE COMMANDER:
/s/Earl W. Kesling
/t/EARL VW. KESLING
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Colonel, USAF
Deputy Commander
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