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fully responsible for air operations at MADD -- in- eluding both incoming and outgoi~g flights; and the line of command from Campbell to Headquarters was reinforced by Headquarters communications at subse- quent intervals prior to Campbell's departure in 1961. l6a/ The bulk of this group had come out of Opalocka black; and some like Eddy<·Ferrer, had been aboard C-54's flown by theOSTIARIES. Major Campbell and others who were associated with these initial air force trainees were very high in their praise of the qualifications of the group. Many of the recruits had been Cuban military or com- mercial pilots. The ex-military types were more or less familiar with the B-26, and the commercial group, with both C-46's and/or C-54's. Campbell emphasized that the pilot instructors for this group were of extremely high caliber. Throughout the course of Project JMATE 1 lat Eglin was subject to constant pressures from all sides, and in the very early days: We had to maintain our aircraft at Eglin, we had to assist in Guatemala, and we had an operation going commer- cially down in Ft. Lauderdale withi--- I Itraining crews there. We weic - 108 -