CHAPTER IV, SECTION 1 ALLOCATED JTF-7 Headquarters 199 TG 7.1 TG 7.2 919 79 TG 7.3 212 TG 7.5 1,267 TG 7.4 46 Normal capacities were based on housing 18, 36, or 48 men in each of the various sizes of barracks, eight men to an 8-man tent, and four: men to a 4-man tent. The number of billets required above normal capacity were pro- vided by installing double bunks in the various barracks and by putting ten or more bunks in the 8-man tents. Four barracks assigned to TG 7.1 and eight barracks to HEN were fully doublebunked to provide twice the normal occupancy; the remaining barracks were, in general, doublebunked to provide one and one-half times nor- mal occupancy. Sixty of the seventy-one 8-man tents assigned to H&N were provided with 10 bunks each. To accomodate all H&N personnel at Elmer, it was also necessary to install 186 bunks in the new Machine Shop as an emergency measure, and for one night during the evacuation of the northern islands, 82 bunks were erected in the Day Room. Through May and June 1956, HEN population varied from 1,300 to 1,436 men, except for the first week in May when the northern islands were evacuated and the total reached 1,610 at this site. These population figures do not reflect truly the number of billets actually required. There was usually a number of transients moving in and out of camp who had to be temporarily accommodated. Requirements for temporary accommodations were particularly heavy at the base camp during the peak period of activity. There was also a number of men whose duties entailed frequent movement between islands, and as a result they required accommodations at more than one camp. Experience indicates that at the base camps, housing should be provided in excess of anticipated population by at least ten per cent. The camps at Yvonne and Fox were also required to house more men than had been originally contemplated. Billets were made available by placing bunks in the Recreation and Office tents and by setting up 10 or more bunks in each 8-man tent. Additional tents for these camps were authorized and erected on an asneeded basis. Page 4-8 NORMAL CAPACITY BILLETS PROVIDED 185 706 132 208 44 925 199 985 151 212 46 1,656 Various factors contributed to the overloading of housing facilities. Under normal operating conditions, reductions in the construction force should start about the time instrumentation personnel start arriving at Jobsite. How- ever, during this Operation, peak construction activity had to be continued to the first de- tonation, and reduction of construction person- nel could not be effected as early as had been anticipated. It had also been contemplated that the camps on Gene and Ursula would be reoccupied after the first test. This reoccupation was not possible because of radioactive contamination, thereby placing an additional load on the housing facilities at Elmer. The congestion in housing facilities present- ed many operating problems; some H&N person- nel were required to move as many as three times within a short period. Overloading of housing facilities for relatively long periods was the cause of many complaints not hitherto experienced. For a good workable standard of living during the fairly short period of peak population, barrack occupancy should be limited to one and one-half the normal capacity, and tent occupancy should be limited to designed capacities. In order to provide for a workable standand in future Operations with magnitudes comparable to REDWING, recommendations for additional housing facilities were submitted to the Atomic Energy Commission in the Long Range Improvement Report for 1956. POST OFFICE. Postal facilities were initially operated as branches of APO 187 on Fred; the central H&}’ facility located on Elmer served postal facilitic located at other camps. All incoming and out going mail was processed through both the Elmer and Fred facilities. In January 1956, the address for all i: coming mail of H&N personnel was changed from APO 187 (HOW) to APO 435. The use of this address permitted segregation of t mail forwarded for the H&N facility from tr . destined to the Army and also facilitated processing and distribution. On 10 April 1956, an