Mobilization Plans for brush clearing, soil and debris cleanup, and crater con were reviewed, and equipment requirements were adjusted t recent operations experience. Requirements were cancelled for 4 some of which hadalready arrived onatoll and had to be shippec the United States, and 14 new items were added by the engineer It appeared that manpower would have to be adjusted a. construction engineers were due to be replaced by combat cleanup forces on 15 November1977. The construction engineers retained until their 179-day TDY limitation expired in Decemt however, if the combat engineers’ arrival was delayed an equalti would have delayed the start of cleanup. It was decided to reta individuals in the construction forces having critical skills and tc the mix of the replacement forces arriving |5 November 1977. In to the four combatplatoonsscheduled to begin soil and debrisclez the two platoons scheduled for Runit site construction and operati extra construction platoon would be deployed. Some of the platoons would be used to assist in completing construction, v others would begin cleanup operations. The engineers predicted th additional construction platoons were not provided, beneficial ox would be delayed until mid-February 1978.85 Based on arrangements made at the logistics con! COMNAVSURFPACships picked up cargo from the Militar Terminal, Bay Area and delivered it to San Diego for later ship Navy amphibious ships to Enewetak Atoll. Two LARCs, which | towed down the Sacramento River from Rough and Ready De several thousand measurementtons of other cargo were move USS OGDENon 18 August 1977.86 Two weeks later, two more and additional cargo were delivered to San Diego by the USS| VERNON(Figure 3-19). On Enewetak Island,thefirst fatality of the cleanup project occ 19 August 1977. Hull Technician Victor J. Priest, USN, was weldir bow rampof a landing craft when preservative in the void area i1 ramp exploded, ripping a 6-foot hole in the ramp and killing t accident was investigated by Commander, Amphibious Group Pacific. Memorial services at the base chapel the following Sun: attended by over 200 military and civilian personnel, includ JohannesPeter and manyofthe dri-Enewetak.87.88 On 29 August 1977, the USS BOLSTERdelivered a YC barge smaller barges from Pearl Harborfor usein intra-atoll transporta JTG Logistics Officer took advantage of the ocean transport by h YC barge loaded with over 100 measurementtons of cargo from | Missile Range.89