SECTION VIII - UNIT MOVEMENTS, INDIVIDUAL TRAVEL, AND MOVEMENTS OF SUPPLIES

a. Periods of Peace:

(1) The provisions of paragraph 68 will apply during periods of peace or periods following the termination of hostilities and before peace is formally declared. If, during times of peace, military forces of the United States becomes engaged in hostilities within a limited geographic area, and war is not declared, the provisions of paragraph 68 will also apply to unit movements, individual travel, and movements of supplies not associated with the conduct of operations within such limited area.

(2) During periods of limited hostilities referred to in (1) above, all of the provisions of this section, other than paragraph 68, will apply to unit movements, individual travel, and movement of supplies associated or intended to be associated with the conduct of operations within the geographic area involved. However, within his respective area of jurisdiction and control, the Chief of Staff, USAF, and the commander of the forces in the operational area involved may assign or authorize the assignment of items of information to a defense classification lower than that specified in the applicable paragraphs of this section if the higher security safeguards provided for the higher category are determined to be unnecessary.

b. Periods of War. During periods of war all of the provisions of this section other than paragraph 68 will apply throughout the Air Force.

a. General. Information concerning the movement of units or supplies and individual travel normally will be unclassified.

b. Requirements for Classification:

(1) Elements of information (such as destination and other elements which should be safeguarded) concerning movements of units, individuals, or supplies, other than movements within oversea areas in which Air Force units are stationed, will be classified SECRET or CONFIDENTIAL only when such classification is authorized by the Chief of Staff, USAF. Separate instructions directing such classification will be issued to offices and personnel concerned.

(2) Commanders of Air Force commands overseas are authorized to classify elements of information concerning movement of units or supplies within their respective areas.

(3) The provisions of paragraphs 71, 72, 73, and 74 will apply to classified movements referred to in this paragraph.

(4) Whenever a movement order is classified, the various classified elements thereof will be indicated. An example of an explanatory paragraph is as follows:

The following classified elements of information are contained herein: SECRET equipment (par 11a); CONFIDENTIAL mission (par 1); consignee combination (pars 2 and 3). All other elements of this order are unclassified.

a. Movement of Personnel or Supplies. Information of movements of personnel or supplies will be classified, when appropriate, as SECRET or CONFIDENTIAL by persons authorized to assign such classifications under paragraph 19. To insure proper and uniform classification, it is essential that documents concerning movements be classified in accordance with the principles contained in this section.

b. Unit Movements or Travel of Replacements to Theaters of Operation. The following elements of information concerning unit movements or travel of replacements or individuals to a theater of operations or other destination will be classified as indicated except as stated in paragraph 76:

(1) SECRET. Documents which contain any one of the following elements, either directly or by implication, normally require a classification of SECRET and in no case will they be classified lower than CONFIDENTIAL.

(a) Oversea or intertheater destination in the clear, when such destination is an active theater or area of operations or a specific location therein.

(b) A specific port of destination within continental United States for return travel by water.

(c) Date and time of departure from a port of embarkation, a port of debarkation en route, a port of aerial embarkation, or a port of aerial debarkation en route.

(d) Route, name, or destination of ship or convoy.

(e) Estimated time of arrival at an oversea or intertheater destination, or at ports or airports of debarkation en route.

(f) The meaning of an assigned shipment number as far as it represents a specific oversea, or intertheater destination.

(g) The oversea or intertheater destination represented by a temporary APO number.

(h) Events en route involving enemy action.

(2) CONFIDENTIAL. Documents which contain any of the following elements normally will be classified CONFIDENTIAL:

(a) Inactive theater of operations as a destination, in the clear, provided that the exact destination within the theater is not shown.

(b) Information or description of unit movements of nonoperational significance within areas in or adjacent to active theaters of operation.

(c) A list or tabulation of two or more units combined with and included under a single shipment number or other comparable code designation.

(d) The following types on information, or documents containing this information, except as indicated in (1) above:

1.  Orders, communications, reports, and other documents concerning unit movements, oversea or domestic travel of replacements, contingents, or oversea or domestic travel of replacements, contingents, or oversea travel of individuals. However, reports and communications concerning movements need not be classified if the classified elements of information and unit designations are not included therein and reference to the movement is made by shipment number and letter (or other comparable code designation), by temporary APO number, or by main number.

2.  Unit movements between inactive theaters of operations, between the United States and inactive theaters of operations, within inactive theaters of operations, and domestic troop movements within continental United States, provided that such movements are not associated with further movement to an active theater or area of operations.

3.  Continental United States as a destination in the clear, provided that the specific port of debarkation in travel by water is not shown.

4.  The combination of a single unit with its oversea shipment number and letter, or other comparable code designation.

c. Travel Within Continental United States. Travel of individuals within continental United States which is not associated with further movement to a theater or area of operations or with classified activities normally will not require classification.

d. Movement of Supplies:

(1) Movements of supplies and impedimenta, which are to accompany units, or are destined for or otherwise associated with specific units or specific unit movements, will be governed by the classification requirements set forth in b above.

(2) The following rules will apply to movements of supplies which are not associated with specific units or unit movements:

(a) Such supplies normally will carry a coded destination symbol such as a shipping designator or shipment number. Documents covering such shipments which by inference or by literal reference compromise the meaning of the coded destination symbol will require a classification at least as high as that of the meaning of such coded symbol.

(b) Such supplies may be addressed in the clear to oversea destination when authorized by the Secretary of the Air Force. This method of addressing normally will not be used when the presence of military installations such as oversea ports, combat airfields, harbor defenses, or similar establishments will be exposed thereby.

(c) When a coded designation of specific shipments, projects, or locations, such as a consignee combination, is used in combination with a coded destination symbol, the coded designation will be classified at least as high as the meaning of the coded destination symbol. Documents and reports covering shipments may be unclassified where the meaning of coded destination symbols, coded shipment designations, or other coded data covering the shipment are not revealed or otherwise compromised.

e. Movement of Personnel or Supplies by Hospital Ship. Orders for movement of personnel or supplies by hospital ship will be unclassified if it is necessary that such orders accompany the personnel or supplies aboard the hospital ship.

f. Returns to Continental United States. Classification requirements are the same as those prescribed herein above.

70. Reason for Classification in Time of War. Whenever a classification is assigned to a movement order, the varying elements of classified information will be indicated thereon. Unclassified elements, if any, will be identified for the guidance of commanders and all other persons involved. An example of an explanatory paragraph is as follows:

The following SECRET and CONFIDENTIAL elements of information are contained herein: SECRET equipment (par 11c) ; tabulation of units (par 1) ; CONFIDENTIAL mission (pars 2 and 3). All other elements of this order are UNCLASSIFIED.

a. Commanders. Commanders will insure that personnel affected by this section are instructed in these provisions, as applicable, and warned of the danger involved in the disclosure to unauthorized persons of classified information concerning unit movements or movements of supplies. Necessary instructions will be given both at home station and staging area prior to movement to a theater of operations or other destination.

b. Individuals:

(1) All persons who receive information concerning movements of personnel or supplies are forbidden to make public or to inform unauthorized persons of any classified element of such information.

(2) When it is necessary to advise relatives or other persons of approaching departure, individuals connected with the military service will not disclose any classified information.

(3) Arrival in a theater of operations or other destination does not diminish the necessity for safeguarding classified elements of information concerning the movement. After such arrival, no information will be given to unauthorized persons concerning names, destinations or organizations, names of vessels, data concerning convoys, routes pursued, measures taken to avoid attack, date of arrival, debarkation, or departure, number of troops, or kinds of cargoes carried.

a. Reports concerning arrivals and departure of rail or motor movements within the United States which for any reason are classified may be furnished unclassified to persons authorized to receive such reports, provided that unit designations are not included therein.

b. When rail or motor movements or travel of personnel are made preliminary to movements to a theater of operations, cars, baggage, and impedimenta will not be marked in the clear to show oversea destination, date of departure, name of ship, or other classified elements of information. In such cases, impedimenta will be marked with the assigned shipment number and letter or other comparable code designation. The unit designation will not be used as a marking on impedimenta, although a letter or abbreviation may be used to identify the impedimenta of each element in the movement.

a. Instructions will be given to all individuals concerned in the applicable security provisions in this section.

b. Commanders of staging areas or ports or aerial ports of embarkation are authorized to restrict to prescribed limits all personnel under orders for movement to a theater or area of operations for a period normally no longer than 72 hours prior to departure. The period of restriction which is prescribed need not indicate actual time of departure. For example, a 72-hour period of restriction may be imposed 48 hours in advance of the scheduled movement.

c. During the period of restriction, communication with other military personnel and civilians may be prevented or limited as may be considered necessary by the staging area, port, or airport commander concerned.

a. Unit movements will be made without attracting undue attention. Authority to use bands during embarkation of troops is left to the discretion of port commanders, where, in their opinion, the playing of a band will not jeopardize the security of the movement.

b. All persons not on official business will be excluded from the piers at all times.

c. Personnel may take cameras within the limits of the pier or overseas, subject to the restrictions imposed by the commander of the port, ship, theater, or other area concerned.

d. Members of families, relatives, or friends of personnel under oversea movement or travel orders will not be allowed in the vicinity of the piers on the day of sailing.

a. After sailing from the port of embarkation, the destination may be disclosed to members of units, replacements, or individuals aboard ship as necessary for training or indoctrination en route. When such information is disclosed, personnel will be warned of the necessity for its protection. Particular care be taken to insure that this warning is given all personnel who are allowed ashore at intermediate stopping points.

b. Events at sea concerning or resulting from enemy action will be considered as SECRET information by all individuals concerned.

a. Generally, all of the requirements for water movements apply to movements by air of units or subdivisions thereof to a theater or area of operations and to return movements to the continental United States.

b. In documents containing information of travel to a theater or area of operations by military aircraft of replacement contingents and individuals, as distinguished from units, the inclusion of the following elements normally will require a classification of CONFIDENTIAL:

(1) Oversea or intertheater geographical destinations, unless the presence of troops or particular military installations at such destinations is classified higher than CONFIDENTIAL.

(2) Date and time of departure from port of aerial embarkation, or airports en route subsequent to such departure.

(3) Air route, unless the air route is classified higher than CONFIDENTIAL.

(4) Estimated time of arrival at specific oversea intertheater destination, or airports en route subsequent to departure from port of aerial embarkation.

(5) Oversea or intertheater destination represented by a temporary APO number.

c. The provisions of paragraph 69 will apply to information concerning the oversea travel of replacements and individuals when both air and water transportation are employed.

d. Orders and allied papers for oversea travel by commercial aircraft of replacement, contingents and individuals may be unclassified, even though they contain elements of information for which a classification of CONFIDENTIAL is required by b(1), (2), (3), and (4) above. Orders for oversea temporary duty travel of individuals by military or commercial aircraft may also be unclassified.

e. All individuals involved in air movements, communicating from intermediate stopping points, will refrain from disclosing classified information to unauthorized persons.

f. Messages limited to information concerning movements of aircraft in a theater of operations may be sent in the clear when authorized by the theater commander.

g. The specific airport of destination within continental United States for returns to the United States by air from theaters of operation is CONFIDENTIAL information.

77. Theater of Operations in Continental United States. The foregoing paragraphs of this section are based on the assumption that theaters of operations will be located overseas. However, should any portion of continental United States become a theater of operations, the provisions of the foregoing paragraphs nevertheless will apply, subject to the following:

a. The portion so designated will be treated as an "oversea designation."

b. The terms "continental United States" and "United States" will refer only to the zone of interior.

c. The movements or travel by rail or motor from the zone of interior to the theater of operations and the security provisions applicable to ports of embarkation will apply also to points in the zone of interior from which direct movement to the theater commences, and the provisions applicable to water movement or travel will apply to land movement or travel.

SECTION IX - AIR SPACE RESERVATIONS, RESTRICTED AREAS, AND RESERVED AREAS

a. Definition. An air space reservation is the air space located above an area on the surface of the land or water, designated and set apart by Executive Order of the President of the United States, or by a State, Commonwealth, or Territory, over which the flight of aircraft is prohibited or restricted for the purpose of national defense or for other governmental purposes.

b. Establishment. Air space reservations over military installations or reservations over which the flight of aircraft is prohibited or restricted for the purpose of national defense or for other governmental purposes are established by Executive Order of the President of the United States, or by a State, Commonwealth, or Territory.

c. Responsibility of Commanders. The commander of an installation over which an air space reservation has been established is responsible for the surveillance of the designated air space and for the. prompt report to the Chief of Staff, Headquarters USAF, Washington 25, D. C., through military channels, of any illegal flight therein.

a. Protection of Property or Places:

(1) Commanders of major air commands, numbered air forces, air divisions, wings, groups, and installations have been designated and authorized by the Secretary of Defense, in a memorandum for the Secretary of the Air Force, 11 May 1951, subject: "Authority of Military Commanders Under the Internal Security Act of 1950 to Issue Security Orders and Regulations for the Protection of Property or Places Under Their Command," to promulgate regulations for the protection or security of military property or places subject to their jurisdiction, administration, or in their custody, as contemplated by Section 21, P. L. 831, 81st Congress, Internal Security Act of 1950, contained in paragraph 39, AFR 205-2.

(2) Regulations promulgated by the commanders designated by the Secretary of Defense will be in accordance with such policies and procedures as have been or may be published by the Department of the Air Force relative thereto, including the provisions of b and c below. The regulations will be posted in a conspicuous and appropriate place and will cite both the designation of the commander by the Secretary of Defense and the public law under which the designation was made.

b. Designation of Restricted Areas. The commander of an Air Force installation will designate as a "restricted area" such areas under his jurisdiction as he considers necessary to promulgate regulations pursuant to Section 21 of the Internal Security Act of 1950. If local conditions dictate, he will mark all ordinary entrances or approaches to such areas with a sign reading as follows:

WARNING
RESTRICTED AREA
It is unlawful to enter within this (area, building, etc.)
without written permission of (authority).

c. Procedure in Case of Violations. Persons not subject to military law who violate regulations duly promulgated by designated commanders will be delivered to the appropriate civil authority, subject to the provisions of (1) and (2) below.

(1) The commander of an Air Force installation will cause any person not subject to military law who enters a restricted area or building to be detained, warned of his rights, and interrogated as soon as practicable by proper authority. If there is no evidence of intent to violate the regulations, the person may be warned against repetition and released. Otherwise, the commander will promptly notify the nearest office of the Office of Special Investigations of the incident by the fastest means available. That office will immediately request the nearest office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to take custody of the individual at the installation as soon as possible. The commander will furnish the representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation with a written statement of the facts, the names and addresses of the witnesses, and such pertinent exhibits as may be available.

(2) When an investigation reveals that a person not subject to military law has entered such a restricted area or building, and custody of the individual has not been effected, the commander will promptly notify the nearest district office of the Office of Special Investigations of all the facts, including the names and addresses of the witnesses. The district office will notify immediately the nearest office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

80. Reserved Areas. Areas reserved for military or national defense purposes, admittance to which is either restricted or prohibited, are set apart by Executive Order of the President of the United States or by order of the Secretary of The Interior.

By ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE:

OFFICIAL: NATHAN F. TWINING
Chief of Staff, United States Air Force

K. E. THIEBAUD
Colonel, USAF
Air Adjutant General

1 Attachment:  Notice to all Personnel

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