Unt i l late hkitch, F&cm January until Wrch 1956 the Ckplains were responsible for all services at both BIKINI and ENIWK Atolls. This made it necessary to travel by both air and water since services were held on every island where a construction site was in operatim. On 18 hkrch 1956, TG 7,$ Chaplains arrived in this area and awumed the responsibility for religious activities at BIKINI Atoll* TMs made it possible for the Chaplains on ENIWETOK Atoll to increase their T . religious activities and to visit the outlying weather stations~ After Headquarters, JTF SEVEN arrived in the forward ar8a and assumed the functions of ATCOM, ENIWETOK, the volume of 8dxninistration in S1 activities leveled off and ren@ned constant until the end of the operation. 2. Strengths, Records, and Reportst a, Strength. Personnel strength during most of the period of this report was satisfactory. Statistical data pertaining to assigned and attached strengths is attached.4 The interti Table Of Distribution, which was effective until 1 July 1955, was adequate. The operational Table ~ Distribution, which ws effective 1 JlilY 1955, was generally satisfactory except as follows: (1) Authorized personnel in many cases did not arrive as soheduled thereby creating a hardship in many sections, especially during the build-up phase preceding the operation. The requisition of enlisted personnel was on a phase-in basis~ Requisitions were placed so as to reach operational T/l)strength by 30 November 1955, this strength was not reached until 30 Mrch 4-TABD Howevers 1956. TECHN!CN-KW3t%MTK)fi RETURNTO KIOEJNV R*OURCE mkw%l --- L&A-.~ ~----’ ‘“L --- ‘-