Operational Report R@neer Section Organizationof the Engineer Staff Section The Engineer Section of Joint Task Force Seven began flmctioning on 3 October 1947. Its final organizationand the chronology of its axpansion are illustratedin the accompanying chart. Gnly one officer was asked for by name by the Joint Task Force Engineer. Others were selected from the record. Such key personnel as Lt. Cols. Kennedy, Stevens, and Frye and Captains ‘Waits,Hoffmann, and Richards came ideally aquipped by virtue of past background and association to play their important parts in executing a staff plan which, being dependent upon a madmum of decentralization,denwnded a high degree of individual Initiative. 2 Section XVI .