were unfamiliar with hospital feeding. Also, supervisory personnel lacked experience and knowledge in hospital food service and were therefore unable to give the proper guidance and super11ision in the operation of patient feeding. The TO&E change authorizing hospital food service personnel and the arrival in-country of these personnel resulted in an improvement in modified diet preparation and ward food service to patients. The staff dietitian made1 37 staff visits to medical treatment facilities. Emphasis was placed on mess hall sanitation, space design and layout, procurement of garrison mess equipment training of cooks in preparation and service with particular emphasis on patient feed­ing on the ward, training or local Vietnamese national (LVN) personnel, mess management and administration standard hospital diets, pro­curement of supplemental foods and beverages for patient feeding, and organization of mess operation in the utilization of MOS 94F40 personnel. Five visits were made to mess facilities of the Free World Military Armed Forces to lend assistance with the garrison mess equipment program. Hospitals visited included the Republic of Korea Army hospitals in Vung Tau and Qui Nhon and the Australian hospital in Vung Tau. Permission was given by the medical group commanders, in the areas in which these hospitals were located, to permit the staff dietitians of the groups to give assistance to the hospital personnel on their regular consult visits in the area. Plans for the renovation of the 6th Convalescent Center mess hall were completed and approved. The construction was scheduled to be completed in the first quarter of 1969. The equipment was replaced with garrison mess equipment. The installation of equipment in the mess hall constructed at the 93d Evacuation Hospital in 1967 was completed in May 1968. Space design and layout for the renovation and enlargement of the mess hall of the Jd Field Hospital in Saigon was, in the planning stage at the end of 1968. During 1968, TO&E equipment was replaced with garrison mess equipment in all medical units within the 44th Medical Brigade except for those field ration messes in the I Corps Tactical Zone. Most equipment for the medical units in the I Corps Tactical Zone was located in the Saigon, Cam Ranh and Qui Nhon Support Commands and with the assistance of the personnel at the 32d Medical Depot, the equipment was in the process of being shipped to Chu Lai and Da Nang at the end of 1968. Two