detachment commander to reaffirm the mission of his unit to his men and attcnpt
to push tho competitive spirit back up to the limit.
You all know what we mst
have in heights, The detachment will not be much stronger than the weakest mn,
Every man mst” give his best or the whole detachment fails to produco its best.
I further noted that our standing in the 6th Weather Squadron is being
threatened.
During Jarmary and February we were definitely a way ‘out in front
in hoight averages in all Air Weathor Sorte.
Now that the season is warming
up back in the ZI, the hoights there will be increasing rapidly. We will not
maintain our place even with the new balleons without oxpondiing a little more
effort and care than used prosently. .
In reviewing records, I find that recreleases are producing higher heights
but I am firmly convinced that the same heights could have been produced on the
‘first release if proper eare had been oxerei sed throughout all preLininary“pile-
parations,
Hereafter, I wall expect that detachnent commanders insure that not
more than 20% extra re-releases are nade.
and is the absolute naximmn,
This is 20% of obligated observations
Normally it should be considerably less.
A/1C Chapman has prepared a section on rawinsonde errors.
.
We cannot
consider anyerror level as being satisfactory but we, know errors will be made
so perhaps on error rate of 1.0 per observation tight be our goal at present.
All detachments are voll‘above that.
Reduetion of errors will result only fron
constant review of errors and possible errors by NCO's with their operators.
We are getting the error information to you now so take advantage of it for
your own benefit,
Action will be taken this month to obtain several trophies to be awarded
to detachments and shifts for outstanding achievement in obtaining heights, low
errors and other offorts.
This will be on overall operation results and the
base rawinsonde section will be in the competition.
wb,
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