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File: aacad_06.txtwater 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
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