Mobilization 165 guidelines and procedures, and control would have been established more readily.69 A significant organizational shortcoming during the first year was the lack of a JTG deputy commander/chief of staff to relieve the commander of administrative burdens. With much of the work either incomplete in definition or in an experimental phase, the CJTG hadto devote his time and efforts to the operational mission. Eventually, this need was recognized, and a lieutenantcolonel position was established, although too late for the initial year of the project. 7° Despite these and other organizational shortcomings and command and control problems, the on-atoll organizational structure for the cleanup forces proved to be workable andeffective. It resulted in highly successful accomplishment of the complex mission, on time and within budget. FIELD RADIATION SUPPORT TEAM DEPLOYMENT: 28 JUNE 1977 The Field Radiation Support Team (FRST) was formed on 19 June 1977 at Hickam AFB. FRST personnel were given a 4-day basic radiological indoctrination course at the 25th Infantry Chemical-BiologicalRadiological School, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Initial FRST personnel deployed to the atoll on 28 June 1977, where they began a 3-week specialized training course in local radiological hazards, the method of cleanup operations, and the instrumentation peculiar to their Enewetak mission. Experience showed that the 4-day basic indoctrination course in Hawaii was unnecessary and, after January 1978, all Enewetak-related training for replacement FRST personnel was accomplished onatoll. The on-atoll specialized FRST training for the first increment was interrupted for an urgent on-site investigation of a suspected radiological burial site near the Erie shot ground zero on south Runit. This investigation, described in Chapter 4, diverted some FRST members from training classes to on-site work. By the time the investigation was completed, other operations had progressed to the point where theinitial FRST incrementreceived most of its specialized training by field testing the equipment and procedures the radiological planners had devised for the cleanupproject, rather than by classroom training.7! Mostofthe radiation safety and detection equipment obtained for the cleanup was state-of-the-art commercial equipment. The radiation detection equipment was chosen because the one electronics package could be used to measurealpha, beta, or gammasimply by attaching the appropriate probe and adjusting the high voltage setting. The commercial protective masks were chosen to comply with Occupational! Safety and Health Administration’s requirements for field of view for heavy