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4 45-day period; billeting and messing support, generators, fuel supply;
and carpentry support,
intra-a toll communications; minor welding

emergency medical support, and evacuation provisions in a contingency

1980 to 26
situation. The survey was scheduled for the period 12 January
to
February 1980. A mobile trailer was moved from Enewetak Island
Enjebi to provide billeting and showerfacilities for the 15 participants who
would camp there. Onetrailer was already permanently installed at Enjebi
to support the tree nursery. Portable, tactical radios were assigned to the

team to provide communications support from the base survey vessel, the

LCM-8, to the whalers and to the base camp on Enjebi, as well as to

provide 24-hour communications from Enjebi to the Enewetak Island base

camp radio control station. Emergency MEDEVACsupport was provided
by the helicopters attached to the JTG and H&N provided personnel for
messing support and to operate the boats. Food resupply runs were
established to insure a supply of fresh food wasavailable at Enjebi. Prior to
the arrival of the technical survey crew, a 48-hour test of the

communications system was performed and constant communications

were maintained throughout the period.

On 11 January 1980, a C-141 MACspecial mission flight took off from

Ellington AFB, Texas, for Honolulu with the survey equipment,
contractor personnel, and Field Command representatives. On 13
January, the flight departed Honolulu for Enewetak. Onarrival, all of the
personnelparticipating in the project were briefed by JTGrepresentatives
on the environment, safety considerations, communications systems, area
of operations, MEDEVAC provisions, weather and tides, occupational
and health hazards, and recreational activities. After equipment
preparations, the survey team joined with the H&N personnel and moved
to the northern camp at Enjebi on 17 January 1980.
By 4 February, EASI survey operations were complete at the Mike and
Koa Craters and, based on operational experience, Field Command
authorized the conduct of overwater multipak and refraction surveys at

the Oak Crater.53 Despite some periods of high winds and heavy wave

action during which operations were suspended, the measurementsat Oak
Crater were completed on 21 February 1980, 3 days aheadof the planned
completion date. The navigation stations and towers which had been
emplaced to support the various surveys were demobilized and, on 22
February, the base camp at Enjebi was vacated. All contractor-supplied

equipment was packed and crated and, on 26 February, the EASI

participants departed Enewetak by C-141 for Honolulu and subsequent
return to Houston, Texas.
Even though cleanup demobilization efforts accelerated greatly during
the January-February time frame and, in fact, all military personnel were
scheduled to depart by 28 February 1980, the EASI project was supported

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