CHAPTER 7
SUMMARY OF U.S. NAVY PARTICIPATION ORGANIZATIONS IN CASTLE

Naval organizations and individuals participated in CASTLE in Head-

quarters, JTF 7; in TG 7.1 (Scientific); in TG 7.2 (Army); in TG 7.3
(Navy); and as units that had missions that took them to or near the
Pacific Proving Ground

(PPG) during CASTLE.

occurred in the TG 7.3 activities.

Most naval participation

These activities supported the scien-

tific programs directly by providing instrumentation platforms and data
recovery Operations and indirectly by providing evacuation and sealift
capability.
This chapter lists the naval organizations given as the affiliation
for personnel appearing in the Consolidated List of CASTLE Radiological
Exposures

(Reference 13).

It also gives the number of uniformed or civil-~

ian persons shown as being with that organization, and the function of the
organization in the CASTLE operation.

Table 59 statistically summarizes

all Navy Consolidated List personnel exposures for each organization.
The order of presentation of these participating organizations is by
task force group, followed by non-task-force naval units that appeared at
the PPG during CASTLE.

Appendix D (Index of Participating Organizations),

an alphabetical arrangement of all organizations covered in this report,
can be used by readers unfamiliar with the task force structure to locate
naval units.
HEADQUARTERS JOINT TASK FORCE 7
Bureau of Ships, Code 588, Washington, D.C.

One civilian.

No function

identified; may have been an observer or connected with BuShips activities in TG 7.1.

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