67 COMBAT SUPPORT GROUP TRIP REPORT

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           water shop any our storeroom guys barely ad time to sit down.
           CES also had the flatbed truck and forklift we consistently had
           to borrow. We never received a much needed forklift or truck at
           this location.
          
           - Pallet build up class should be mandatory - Not one single
           Services person at our site had had a pallet build up class. The
           LGX people at Bergstrom told me we didn't need it, we wouldn't
           ever build pallets...well,  needless to say we had to build
           baggage pallets everytime we moved,  we had equipment pallets
           going to homestation (local purchase items), and we had to
           palletize all our excess food to ship back to port...SURPRISE,
           SURPRISE.
          
          D. Billeting was a nightmare in the beginning as I mentioned. We
          arrived after the majority of the people. Transient personnel
          constantly came through our areas going to and coming from the
          front. We were the only billeting for 300 miles around and thus
          could not turn people away. We ran a 24 hour operation, mostly
          due to the constant influx of personnel at all hours of the day.
          The population in each temper tent was on the average 12-13
          personnel. We were always maxed out on space and constantly
          running out of cots. we begged,  borrowed, and pleaded to get
          extra cots. Transient personnel, flightline people and fire dept
          took cots to 24 hour work stations or further up north without
          our knowledge, the majority of people in transient never checked
          out thus creating accountability problems of spaces and cots. The
          atmosphere and craziness of our location afforded many things to
          be uncontrolled, especially since bunkers were still being dug
          until the day of the war and we were still putting up tents. Our
          manning never met the our requirements and many things were let
          go and overlooked to prepare us for attack. The locator system
          was done manually initially and kept up as best could be
          expected. Each tent had to literally be checked and rechecked two
          to three times a week to verify tent chiefs paperwork. Disputes
          were abundant in the beginning and I lived on the defensive for 6
          months but I them, moved them, and added cots affecting
          probably every tent city occupant but there was no other choice
          except to empty out every tent and start over which almost
          happened. Supplies eventually rolled in after being there 6
          weeks. 1200 mattresses arrived for s population of 1500 and
          rising also 1200 blankets, pillows and sheets arrived, As the
          population sweltered to 2200, additional items were ordered but
          never arrived making half the tent city more than pissy and a
          constant nag on the billeting staff. Office space was tight for
          awhile.  Billeting/SVS staff office tent was shared with CES than
          PERSCO until the war was over and they moved into a GP medium. A
          computer saved the day after a gracious donation from Comm
          including some great software but nothing even close to billeting
          software which we designed,  and struggled to create eventually
          becoming a great asset to the camp and more accurate than
          PERSCO. Billeting also was charged with being the tent erection
          experts because CES didn't have time, so we set up a system that