153 Mobilization FIRST NAVY SEALIFT: 14 APRIL 1977 Muchofthe sealift for the Enewetak Atoll Radiological Cleanup Project was furnished by Commander, Naval Surface Forces, Pacific (COMNAVSURFPAC) and subordinate elements, including Commander, Amphibious Group Eastern Pacific, and Commander, Amphibious Group ONE.Their deployments of amphibiousshipsto the Western Pacific several times a year called at Enewetak Atoll throughout the project, bringing equipment and supplies. Without this extraordinary effort by COMNAVSURFPAC—and the total cooperation of all Navy echelons from the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations down to individual ships’ crews—the project would have been in serious financial straits from thestart. The first such task group arrived from San Diego on 14 April 1977 (Figure 3-5). It included the USS ANCHORAGE, USS ST. LOUIS, USS ALAMO, and USS SCHENECTADY .38 They delivered 2,588 measurement tons (M/T = 40 cu. ft.) of cargo, including a 90-ton crane, generators, trucks, causewaysections, anddistillation units from the West Coast, and busses, shop vans, trucks, construction equipment, and building supplies from Pearl Harbor. All this materiel had been acquired and delivered to the ports of embarkation in less than 3 weeks by Field Command, H&N-PTD, USASCH,and Pacific Air Forces in order to take advantage of the no-costsealift offered by COMNAVSURFPAC. FIGURE 3-5. CONVOY ARRIVAL.