Saigon area, the extreme western part of III Corps Tactical Zone, and all of IV Corps Tactical Zone were detached from the 68th Medical Group and assigned to the 67th Medical Group. This divided a previously large geographical group into two groups of more workable size and resulted in more effective command and control. This table reflects changes between 31 December 1966 and 31 December 1967 (Note 1) *Event occurred prior to 1 January 1967—Change of location in 1967 only (Note 2) Units with dates prior to 1 January 1967 were not listed in the Brigade's 1966 report Personnel The 222d Personnel Services Company (PSC), an Adjutant General (AG) company with MSC personnel officers assigned in place of AG officers, was assigned to the brigade in February and by 31 March had assumed personnel functions for the brigade including the administrative functions formerly accomplished by the various area support commands. The 222d PSC organized separate teams stationed at each group headquarters and the brigade headquarters, providing area personnel services with centralized personnel records at each team. Although this, in most cases, deprived the unit commanders of ready access to their units' personnel records, the increased standardization of procedures, personnel actions, and personnel management functions greatly outweighed this inconvenience. On 10 August when the brigade became a major command under Headquarters, USARV, the immediate impact on the S-1 office was the increase in awards processed as a result of increased awards approval authority. This required an increase of personnel to handle the workload, and at the end of 1967 there were 3 enlisted and one officer devoting their full efforts to the awards program. With the September arrival of the 67th Medical Group and the subsequent division of units located in the III Corps Tactical Zone between the 67th and the 68th Medical Groups, the additional requirement was placed on the 222d Personnel Services Company to provide another personnel team to service the group and attached units. This was accomplished by augmenting the team servicing the 68th Medical Group and having the team serve both groups. A program to convert some military positions to local civilian hires, known as "Program 5 Civilianization," was initiated in the last quarter of 1967, with implementation scheduled for January 1968. This program converted low-skilled and basic entry MOS spaces in medical TOE units to civilian spaces. There was a total of 872 civilian Local National