w c. With referenceto the secondquestion,it was decided tisofaras practicableto use existingregulationsof the services and, most important,to use existingpermanentorganizations and facilitiesto carryout the personneland administration plan. It is consideredthat this use of pemanent organizations was the most importantitem of the entireAnnex. Under this plan the Amy Task Group,for example,was attachedto USARPACfor personneladministration, the Air Task Groupto the PacificAir Command,and the Navy Task Groupto CticPac. Fortunatelyfor our operation,the headquartersof thesethreemajor commandswere all locatedon the Islandof Oahu, T.H. Otherunits of the JointTask Forcewere shilarly attachedto permanentorganizations. permittedthe J-1 and AG Sections d. The above arrangements of HeadquartersJTF-7to remainreasonablysmall. As a corollaryit avoidedthe necessityof establishing, what would have been even at best, a large,unwieldyand inefficientjointpersonneladministrative set-up. It had the advantageof relievhg Hq JTF-7 of many personnel and administrative headachespeculiarto each service. Ithad the ‘advantagealso of placingpersopnelproceduresin the hands of those most familiarwith them,that is, existingpemanent organizations such as the threementionedabove. As a result,the savingsin the burdensomework load for the J-1 Sectionwere tremendous. e. Afterthe plan was drawnup it was submittedto each servicefor concurrence.The three Departmentsconcurredwith minor exceptions.Some of the subjectscoveredin the plan were also coordinMarineCorps. ated with Headquarters, > 4 SectionI J. .-