156 KALI LUA CLL AINUE Ub listers ean ce eka Originally, the first CJTG was to have been Colonel Howard B. Thompson, USA, who had been in charge of Field Command’s planning office in Hawaii for the previous 2-1/2 years. However, because his 3-year assignment to Field Command was almost completed before the project was funded and mobilized, the assignmentfell to Colone! Edgar J. Mixan, USA. He assumed command on 17 May 1977 and activated the jTG. Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Focht, USA, and CPT Day, from the Field Command Hawaii Office, arrived in the advance party to serve as Chief, Engineering Division (J-3), and Chief, Radiation Control Division (J-2), respectively. Other JTG headquarters staff members in the advance party included Major Gerald G. Garner, USA, Chief, Administration Division (J-1) and Captain Randolph A. Flint, USA, Morale and Welfare Officer.45 The advance party included members of the Air Force Medical, Postal, and Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants (POL) Teams. The H&N first aid station in Barracks 462 was used as a dispensary until a larger facility was completed. The POL Team remodeled an abandonedfacility into an office and fuels laboratory and serviced the fuel trucks and trailers which had been delivered on the first sealift (Figure 3-6). APO 96333 was opened by the Air Force Postal Team on 6 June 1977. The largest contingent of the advance party was the USAE of one general construction platoon, supported by a skeleton staff and Mooiizanon 157 commanded by Captain James T. Scullary, USA. Their mission was to construct concrete slabs for the buildings at Lojwa Base Camp.46 The date, 17 May 1977, marked another arrival at Enewetak Atoll. On Japtan Island, a baby boy was born, the greatgrandson of Iroij Johannes Peter. He was the first dri-Enewetak to be born on the atoll since the people were removedin 1947. These events and the status of mobilization efforts were reported in weekly situation reports (SITREPs) from the CJTG to Field Command. Field Command extracted the items of general interest and issued its own weekly SITREP to al! activities concerned with the Enewetak Cleanup Project and Rehabilitation Program.47.48 LOJWA CAMP CONSTRUCTION: MAY-NOVEMBER 1977 During Congressional hearings, a Senate staff member had advised DNA that a recent study by the Army indicated that the military depots had on hand a number oftents and prefabricated base camp components that could be used in the cleanup project to minimize costs of camp construction. Under the original concept in CONPLAN 1-76, the base camp at Lojwa was to employ these tents, prefabricated buildings, field kitchens, and latrines for approximately 400 troops. CONPLAN I-76 projected that it would take 2 months for construction of this prefab camp.49 After the CONPLAN wasfinalized in September 1976, the Services were contacted to determine actual availability of the base camp components, such as the Air Force special purpose portable kitchen and mess hall. The Air Force advised Field Command that there were not enough complete , serviceable units on hand for the cleanup project. During the second Enewetak Planning Conference, it was learned that the prefabricated base camp components were not in depot stocks, but consisted of drawings and bills of material. Additionally, the Army planners determined that tents would not be satisfactory for a 3-year project and that more comfortable and durablefacilities would be required. They developed preliminary plans for a camp which would take a minimum of 7 months to construct, at an estimated cost of about $3.4 million. This was reduced by $500,000 when the Army wasable to provide a power plant from their Nontactical Power Generati FIGURE 3-6, POL & LABORATORY AREA. m The design and construction of the camp was a joint effort by 84th Engineer Battalion personnel in Hawaii and H&N, based on a Field Command-USASCH memorandum of agreement dated 7 March 1977. At the first design conference on 19 March 1977, it was agreed that the battalion would construct all general purpose buildings on Lojwa, provide