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CONFIDENTIAL
From:
Commanding Officer, USS HOOPER ISLAND (ARG17)
Subj:
Report of Operational Phage of Operation Hardtack
Ref:
(a) CIG 7.3 INST 03401.1A
To:
l.
Commander Task Group 7.3
Reference (a) directs a report on participation in the Operational Phase
The required report, paragraphs numbered as in the
of Operation Hardtack.
enclosure to reference (a), follows:
l.
Planning.
Previously submitted.
2.
Training.
RadSafe schools ashore for key personnel, and shipboard
classes, demonstrations, and drills fer all hands.
Movement to Forward Area.
132040Z April.
No problems.
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Operations
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Navigation
i.
Eniwetok charts adequate but outdated.
PCO
a.
Chopped to CTG 7.3 at
In view number of ships
2.
Mooring buoys inadequate and unsafe. This ship moored to assigned
buoy, took four ships alongside in nest, then found by diving that
in area, issuance cf new large-scale chart by H.0. justified.
two legs of buoy were disconnected and remaining third leg consiste
of a 11/8 inch wire wrapped around a coral head.
All buoys used
by ships should be lifted, overhauled, and relocated inshore, where
there is ample water and room to take advantage of the lee and reduce time required for rough, wet, and unsafe boating.
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b. through «4.
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Not applicable.
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Radiological Safet
1.
Washdown system activated only one day when actual fallout reached
7 mr/hr.
About 90% effective.
Minor difficulties in control of
runeoff and decontamination of deck drains.
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