i 156 RADIOLOGICAL CLEANUP OF ENEWETAK ATOLL Originally, the first CJTG was to have been Colonel Howard g. 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 assignment fell to Colonel EdgarJ. Mixan, USA. He assumed command on 17 May 1977 and activated the JTG. Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Focht, USA, and CPT Day, from the Fiejg 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 advanceparty 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 membersof the Air Force Medical, Postal, and Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants (POL) Teams. The H&Nfirst aig 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 onthefirst 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 USAEofone general construction platoon, supported by a skeleton staff and