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The Task Force Headquarters will
Colonel T.E, Barbour, USA as J-1.
perform planning and command functions with respect to the four
operational Task Groups, which ave the Scientific Task Group,
the
the Navy Task Group and the Air Force Task Group.
Army Task Group,
9, The Scientific Task Group, headed by Dr, Graves, will
include personnel from all the military services who are engaged
in the various experimental programs,
It will perform,
and Dr.
Graves will supervise, both Armed Forces and AEC experiments.
The Army Task Group will be generally responsible for base
services,
phySical security at the proving ground,
etc.
The Navy
Task Group will be generally responsible for surface and undersurface security,
local and logistic
sea transport and will
participate in aerial reconnaissance.
responsible for the drone operations,
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The Air Task Group will be
air transport,
local (500
aspects of Long Range Detection and inter-island air
transport.
Local weatner service and control of air operations
will also be a basic responsibility.
The Long Range Detection
Program will be accomplished under standard Air Force organization and command,
except for the local control mentioned above in
close liaison with the Task Force,
The Commander,
JTF-3,
in
addition to being responsible for the over-all test operation,
Will assume responsibility for both test and Proving Ground security from the time of departure of the Task Force for the
forward area until
its return.
Allocation of Costs
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The-proposed allocation of costs is based on mutual
fiscal Support,
inasmuch as the aperation will be of considerable
benefit to the Armed Services, both from an experimental and a
training standpoint,
Generally,
the Armed Forces and the AEC wiil
each pay for their own experiments,
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