d. Supply Section for providing rad-safe supplies and laundry services
(facilities furnished by TG 7.5).
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Decontamination Soction for operating facilities for personnel and

equipment decontamination.
f. Instrument Repair Section for maintaining rad-safe instruments.
g. Laboratory Section for determining the achount of radioactivity In
soil and water samples.
The Task Unit headquarters consisted of erd-1, a photodosimetry

officer, a supply supervisor, and an administrative clerk. All photodosimeiry
work was controlled directly by CTU-7 through the photodosimetry officer,
thus relieving the atoll commanders of responsibility for the legal dosimetry
records. Thia arrangement was necessary because of the requirement to

maintain, in many cases, duplicate dosimetry records at Bikini and Entwetok,
since many of the technical personnel participated in missions at both atolls.

Under normal operating conditions the Eniwetok organization strength

was 65; that at Bikini, 50. All supply problems were hendled through J-4,
located at Eniw.tok. The master files of photodosimetry records were miintained at Eniwetok and the film badges issued to membera of TG 7.2, TG 7.3,

and TQ 7.4 were processed by the Eniwetok Dosimetry and Records Section.
Radiological safety aupport for TG 7.5 was provided by H&N rad-safe
personnel, who were incorporated into TU-7 during the operatior.al period.

Generally, the group comprised approximately 10 people.
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Procurement of Personnel

Personnel for manning TU-7 were procured from the Army, Navy, and

Air Force.

The majority (102 officers and enlisted men) came from the

Army, as the entire compiement of the U. 8. Army First Radiological Safety
Support Unit (the First RSSU), Ft. McClellan, Alabama, was made available
to TG 7.1. Included in this total are two officers (nuclear e‘fecte engineers)
requisitioned directly frorn the Chemical Corps.

Eight officers and enlisted

men and thirty civilian trainees were provided by the Navy.

The civilians,

employees of the Navy ai various shipyards throughout the United States,
were used primarily to operate control points and decontamination centers.

Four Navy enlisted hospital corpsmen provided all radiochemistry services,
normally the counting of water and soll samples. Navy officers were placed
throughout the Task Unit as required. Air Force officers and enlisted men

worked In the Plotting and Briefing Sections and in the Monitoring Sections.
Air Force personnel performed all necessary monitoring functions concerned
with the loading of sample-return aircraft.

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