oP 162 RADIOLOGICAL CLEANUP OF ENEWETAKATOLL FIGURE 3-10. D-DAY ARRIVALS. service laundromats until the industrial laundry equipmentarrived. Under a sign reading ‘‘Freeman’s Inc. Free Laundry,”’ they began providing laundry service on 17 June 1977. The initial team not only did the organizational clothing and linens for which they were responsible but provided individual laundry service for other cleanup project personnel, washing, drying, and folding some 800 bundles of laundry per month (Figure 3-11). ORGANIZING THE JOINT TASK GROUP: JUNE 1977 Upon thearrival of the Military Service Element commanders, COL Mixan began organizing the JTG to accomplish its mission (Figure 3-12). His efforts were greatly complicated by the Joint Staff decision (in the CONPLAN)to give Commander, JTG ‘‘supervisory authority’’ rather than commandauthority over the Military Service Elements.©° Theeffect of this decision was to exclude the CJTG from the chain of command of the three Military Service Elements assigned to accomplish and support the cleanup project. He assigned missions and tasks, but had only limited ability to control the timing or manner oftheir execution. Most of the Service Element commanders, as well as the JTG commanders, found supervisory authority authority. 6!,62,63,64,65 to be a poor substitute for command