o> 3038 While this appears to be a rather poor utilization of aircraft, closer examination disclose@ that many missions were flown with priority passengers going one way, and the return trip, which was also considered a mission, was frequently flown without passen-ers. .Therefore, the eetwad number of passen-ers on ordered or schedule’missions actually averaze between 3 and l passeners per mission, Scheduling of TG 7.1 passengers on intra-atoll flights was initiall, done by J-3. However, it soon became apparent that this was an unnecessaz: step in the procedure and arrangements were made for all personnel to make reservations with the HtN dispatcher either directly or through their Task Units, J-3 continued to schedule all flights on minus one days anc shot days in order to insure maximum utilization of aircraft and to keep track of personnel movement for muster purposes. This arran ement was satisfactory to all concerned and no problem was encountered in the scheduling of passengers at Bikini. Durinc the Sycamore event wiich required evacuition of the entire atoll, the L-20 aircr2ft were evacuated on an LST and were not available -after noon deminus one day§andco2a2-subsequent minus one day§, Although deprived of the use of L-20's for a week during the Sycamore event, there was no critical shortage of aircraft since sufficient helicopters were available to an in for the L-20's, For the Poplar event, however, the L-20's were flown to a position some 20 miles sduth of Inyu during time of detonation. Durin; these periods of total evacuation, the helicopters were evacuated on minus one days to the Boxer (ijonticello in case of Poplar). This was done just before dark each day, at which time the need for airlift had ter- oopgai bok LSE RG? minated, Since the copters cetarked shortly after daylicht on days when the shot hrd been postponed,no immairment of onerations was caused by evac- | ’ 130t uation of the helicopters to the Boxer. j SCPIED/O0g ft fA wh. PACE <>