Assessing Health Outcomes Among Veterans of Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense) (2016)
Chapter: Appendix E: Units Participating in Project SHAD Tests and Units Selected as Unexposed Comparisons
TABLE E-1 Military Units That Participated in Project SHAD Tests and Units Selected as Unexposed Comparisons, by Test
| Participant Unit (hull number) | Unit Type | Operating Area | Comparison Unit (hull number) | Unit Type | Operating Area | |||
| Autumn Gold (Test 63-2) | ||||||||
USS Granville S. Hall (YAG-40) | Auxiliary ship | Pearl Harbor | USS Interceptor (AGR-8) | Radar picket ship | Canada, California, Portland | |||
USS Navarro (APA-215) | Attack transport | Pearl Harbor | USS Talladega (APA-208) | Attack transport | Long Beach | |||
USS Tioga County (LST-1158) | Tank landing ship | Pearl Harbor | USS Vernon County (LST-1161) | Tank landing ship | Japan, Philippines | |||
USS Carpenter (DD-825) | Destroyer | Pearl Harbor | USS John R. Craig (DD-885) | Destroyer | San Diego | |||
USS Hoel (DDG-13) | Guided missile destroyer | Pearl Harbor | USS Towers (DDG-9) | Guided missile destroyer | San Diego | |||
Marine Air Group 13, VMA 214 | Attack squadron | — | Marine Air Group 14, VMA 332 | Attack squadron | — | |||
| Big Tom (Test 65-6) | ||||||||
USS Granville S. Hall (YAG-40) | Auxiliary ship | Pearl Harbor | USS Oxford (AGTR-1) | Auxiliary ship | Philippines | |||
USS Carbonero (SS-337) | Submarine | Hawaii | USS Raton (SS-270) | Submarine | San Clemente, San Diego | |||
| Copper Head (Test 65-1) | ||||||||
USS Power (DD-839) | Destroyer | — | USS Gyatt (DD-712) | Destroyer | Virginia | |||
| DTC Test 69-10 | ||||||||
USS Fort Snelling (LSD-30) | Dock landing ship | — | USS Spiegel Grove (LSD-32) | Dock landing ship | Virginia, North Carolina, Puerto Rico | |||
Landing Force Carib 1-69/BLT, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Division | Infantry | — | 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Division | Infantry | — | |||
VMA 324, MAG-32 | Attack squadron | — | VMA 324, MAG-32 | Attack squadron | — | |||
| DTC Test 69-31 | ||||||||
USS Herbert J. Thomas | Destroyer | Pearl Harbor | USS Agerholm | Destroyer | San Diego | |||
| Participant Unit (hull number) | Unit Type | Operating Area | Comparison Unit (hull number) | Unit Type | Operating Area | |||
(DD-833) | (DD-826) | |||||||
| DTC Test 69-32 | ||||||||
USS Granville S. Hall (YAG-40) | Auxiliary ship | Pearl Harbor | USS Jamestown (AGTR-3) | Auxiliary ship | Philippines, South China Sea, Thailand, Vietnam, Special Operations | |||
Five light tugs (hull numbers not specified) | — | — | None selected | — | — | |||
| Eager Belle I (Test 63-1) | ||||||||
USS George Eastman (YAG-39) | Auxiliary ship | Pearl Harbor and maneuvers | USS Interceptor (AGR-8) | Radar picket ship | San Francisco Picket Stations 1 and 9 | |||
| Eager Belle II (Test 63-1) | ||||||||
USS George Eastman (YAG-39) | Auxiliary ship | Pearl Harbor | USS Interceptor (AGR-8) | Radar picket ship | San Francisco Picket Stations 1, 3, 9 | |||
USS Tioga County (LST-1185) | Tank landing ship | Pearl Harbor | USS Vernon County (LST-1161) | Tank landing ship | Hong Kong, Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan | |||
USS Carpenter (DD-825) | Destroyer | Pearl Harbor | USS Agerholm (DD-826) | Destroyer | Hong Kong, Japan, Okinawa, Philippines | |||
USS Granville S. Hall (YAG-40) | Auxiliary ship | — | USS Interdictor (AGR-13) | Radar picket ship | — | |||
USS Navarro (APA-215) | Attack transport | — | USS Noble (APA-218) | Attack transport | — | |||
Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 161 | — | — | Marine Medium Helicopter Squadro 161 | — n | — | |||
| Errand Boy (Test 64-1) | ||||||||
USS George Eastman (YAG-39) | Auxiliary ship | Pearl Harbor | USS Interceptor (AGR-8) | Radar picket ship | San Francisco, Picket Station 7 | |||
| Fearless Johnny (Test 65-17) | ||||||||
USS George Eastman (YAG-39) | Auxiliary ship | — | USS Oxford (AGTR-1) | Auxiliary ship | Hong Kong, Philippines | |||
USS Granville S. Hall (YAG-40) | Auxiliary ship | Pearl Harbor | USS Georgetown (AGTR-2) | Auxiliary ship | Hong Kong, Philippines | |||
| Participant Unit (hull number) | Unit Type | Operating Area | Comparison Unit (hull number) | Unit Type | Operating Area | |||
| Flower Drum I (Test 64-2) | ||||||||
USS George Eastman (YAG-39) | Auxiliary ship | Pearl Harbor | USS Interceptor (AGR-8) | Radar picket ship | San Francisco, San Diego, Radar Picket Stations 1, 5, 7 | |||
USS Granville S. Hall (YAG-40) | Auxiliary ship | — | USS Interdictor (AGR-13) | Radar picket ship | — | |||
| Folded Arrow (Test 68-71) | ||||||||
USS Granville S. Hall (YAG-40) | Auxiliary ship | Pearl Harbor | USS Oxford (AGTR-1) | Auxiliary ship | Philippines, South China Sea | |||
USS Carbonero (SS-337) | Submarine | Pearl Harbor | USS Tunny (SS-282) | Submarine | Philippines, Special Operations | |||
Five light tugs (hull numbers not specified) | — | — | None selected | — | — | |||
| Half Note (Test 66-13) | ||||||||
USS George Eastman (YAG-39) | Auxiliary ship | — | USS Oxford (AGTR-1) | Auxiliary ship | Hong Kong, Taiwan, Special Operations | |||
USS Granville S. Hall (YAG-40) | Auxiliary ship | Pearl Harbor | USS Jamestown (AGTR-3) | Auxiliary ship | Malaysia, Taiwan, Special Operations | |||
USS Carbonero (SS-337) | Submarine | — | USS Tunny (SS-282) | Submarine | Pearl Harbor, Philippines | |||
Light tugs 2080, 2081, 2085, 2086, 2087 | — | — | None selected | — | — | |||
| High Low (Test 65-13) | ||||||||
USS Berkeley (DDG-15) | Destroyer | — | USS Lynde McCormic (DDG-8) | k Destroyer | Hong Kong, Japan, San Diego | |||
USS Fechteler (DD-870/DDR-870) | Destroyer | — | USS John R. Craig (DD-885) | Destroyer | San Diego | |||
USS Okanogan (APA-220) | Attack transport | — | USS Montrose (APA-212) | Attack transport | San Diego, Pearl Harbor, San Clemente | |||
USS Wexford County (LST-1168) | Tank landing ship | — | USS Washoe County (LST-1165) | Tank landing ship | Japan, Okinawa | |||
| Participant Unit (hull number) | Unit Type | Operating Area | Comparison Unit (hull number) | Unit Type | Operating Area | |||
| Magic Sword (Test 65-4) | ||||||||
USS George Eastman (YAG-39) | Auxiliary Ship | Pearl Harbor | USS Interceptor (AGR-8) | Auxiliary ship | Durban, Philippines | |||
| Purple Sage (Test 66-5_ | ||||||||
USS Herbert J. Thomas (DD-833) | Destroyer | — | USS Agerholm (DD-826) | Destroyer | San Diego | |||
| Scarlet Sage (Test 66-6) | ||||||||
USS Herbert J. Thomas (DD-833) | Destroyer | — | USS Agerholm (DD-826) | Destroyer | San Diego, Long Beach | |||
| Shady Grove (Test 64-4) | ||||||||
USS Granville S. Hall (YAG-40) | Auxiliary Ship | Pearl Harbor | USS Interceptor (AGR-8) | Auxiliary ship | Bremerton, Washington; Panama Canal Zone; Cuba; Portsmouth, Virginia | |||
VMA 214, MAG13 | Attack squadron | — | VMA214, MAG 13 | Attack squadron | — | |||
HMM 161, Marine Air Group 13 | Medium helicopt squadron | er — | HMM 161, MAG 13 | Medium helicopter squadron | — | |||
Light tugs 2080, 2081, 2085, 2086, 2087 | — | — | None selected | — | — | |||
| Speckled Start (Test 68-50) | ||||||||
USS Granville S. Hall (YAG-40) | Auxiliary Ship | Pearl Harbor | USS Oxford (ATGR-1) | Auxiliary ship | Philippines, South China Sea | |||
Five light tugs (hull numbers not specified) | — | — | None selected | — | — | |||
NOTE: No personnel were identified for the Flower Drum II test so its units are not represented here.
SOURCE: Adapted from Table 6-2 (IOM, 2007) with additional information from DoD (2015).
REFERENCES
DoD (Department of Defense). 2015. Project 112/SHAD fact sheets. http://www.health.mil/MilitaryHealth-Topics/Health-Readiness/Environmental-Exposures/Project-112-SHAD/Fact-Sheets (accessed October 15, 2015).
IOM (Institute of Medicine). 2007. Long-term health effects of participation in Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
