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In the event a typhoon strikes theratoll it would result in
inundation of land areas and severe damage to some of the
installations.
Although there is a great deal of bad weather
from the standpoint of firing, if yields are held to those now:
planned there should not be excessive delays.
If the PILGRIM
shot program were transferred to EPG unchanged from the present
program then it is estimated that it would take about two to
three months,
4, One cannot disregard the implications of such a Tall
1957 EPG operation on HARDTACK.
Separate planning staffs would
have to be set up for HARDTACK since it would not be possible for
the same groups to plan for HARDTACK in 1958 while conducting
PILGRIM at EPG in 1957.
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If the HARDTACK planning date must
remain firm then it would not be possible to go into the normal
interim phase between PILGRIM and HARDTACK.
Thus there would
not be a PILGRIM roll-up and a HARDTACK build-up as is now
customary since such a sequence with deactivation of the major
portion of the Task Force normally consumes 18 months,
Instead
the Task Force would remain operational and there would be a
clean-up and construction phase during which overhaul, maintenance and replacement of equipment and construction for HARD-~
TACK would be accomplished.
It is obvious that this type of
operation would border upon a continuous operation over an
extended period of time, since although there would be no firing
between January and May 1958, there would be a considerable
amount of work being done to prepare for HARDTACK.
This would
have a very deleterious effect on the morale of the participants,
civilian as well as military.
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Appendix "D"