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delay any mission based on their repsonsibilities or safety of flight considerations. Go-no-go permission had to do with such things as aircraft and equipment status, crew proficiency, and numerous other considera- tions. While Headquarters also claimed the responsi- bility for providing the appropriate bases with recap weather forecast for return routes, \ r as author- ized to provide MADD with return flight approval based on the weather forecast -- a question which had been of some concern to MADD. Headquarters claimed responsi- bility both for designating stations which would be responsible for maintaining communications with aircraft in flight and also primary responsibility for giving directions to crews in flight. Eglin had been delegated the responsibility for providing inflight control using the commo facilities JRIMM or YOGURT as necessary to insure that action messages got to airborne aircraft engaged in current support missions. Current support missions being designated as the Egli/FIG/MADD/EGLI route. * There was also a communications breakdown between Headquarters and the field in the early part of * JMFIG was a cryptonym for the Opa1~ airfield. - 134 -