one on the lst and one on the 26th, Communications-wise, both ~ were successful. Two men, or. tech controller and one miltiplex meintenance technician, were assigned duty on the USS Estes for the period 12 ~ 27 March. Circuit J 401. They did much to reduce the outage on Because of their success, it is now contemplated that two men will be stationed on the Estes during all shot perfods. Assignment of personnel to this duty will be handled on a rotating besis, with .. change after each shot.? Message traffic handling in the Communications Center has remained fairly constant, as indicated by the following breakdown, by circuit, of messagep sent and received; Circuit Msgs Sent Msgs Rec'd J 400 2300 6818 J 403 None 9021 J 406 142 J 401 J 405 J 411 Arny Landline 9635 2080 57 1589 = ~~ . 839 1051 _ — 1790 2544 3399 Circuit Outage was slightly higher than for the month of February, as evidenced by the following outage chart, showing hours outage on the receive side of circuits operated: Circuit J 400 J 401 J 403 J 405 “~ J 406 J 41 3. Channel Qutage:m Receive Side 2 2 147:15 283:35 B/A N/A 7339 15:53 N/A 41:35 N/A Staff Visit on Coordination. None For the period 16 - 21 March, 3Ltr, ComOff to Conér, Corm Elm, Subj: Trip Report to the Estes (Lt Young), dated 26 har 54 (Confidential). Attached as Exhibit C. 8 ae 70%

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