RMI Nuclear Justice Documents

NREERRyrIPAoe, TE. ! 74 seta Ria Subject: AA at d Requirement for Army Personnel to Support JTF-7 Responsibilities effects on mission accomplishment, from 560 to 393 personnel and still fulfill DoD obligations. Tne proposed 393 strength for Eniwetok is 169 more than the Army programmed strength for Eniwetok and still does not include any participation by the Navy or Air Force. The Commander JTF-7 stated that the Navy and Air Force have repeatedly refused to assume the administrative and logistical] support functions on Eniwetok. Their refusal is based on the contention that their overall support functions during a complete test cycle, including interim, that of the Army. build-up and test phases exceed They support their contention by use of man-year com- putations which include all ship crew personne}! and aircraft and ground personnel, all of which can be construed as contributing to the overall mission of the Navy and Air Force. It should be pointed out that these ship and aircraft crews perforn: functions that are normally part of their training requirements, whereas the Army support requires a special organi- zation to provide housekeeping support which is not contributing to any normal Army training missions. lated to the criteria Thus the man-year comparison is not re- of equal Service contribution to housekeeping support responsibilities. 6. The Army's programmed reduction for the US Army Element of JTF-7 for FY 59 was based upor equal participation by the three Services in the administrative and logistical support requirements of Task Group 7.2 on Eniwetok. with the consequent reduction in Army requirements on Eniwetok from 560 to 224 personnei. In effecting the reduction, Army considered the communications responsibility on Eniwetok asproperly chargeable to the Army. The communications requirement on Eniwetok amounts to 57 personnel. Of the remaining 503 requirement which consists of administrative and logistical support personnel, it is the Army concept that this type of housekeeping support shouldbefurnished on an equal basis by the threeServices. This requirement amounts to approximately 1608 personnel each Service. The commander of JTF-7 has stated that he can reduce the total personnel requirement for Task Group 7.2 on Eniwetok from 560 to 393 for a net reduction of 167 personnel. Assuming the communication personnel requirement to be constant (57) and by applying the same concept of equal Service contribution to administrative and logistical support on Eniwetok to the remaining requirement for 330 personnel, the contribution by each Service to the administrative and logistical support on Eniwetokwouldamounttoapproximately12 personnel. A comparative summary of the above support requirements on Eniwetok follows: cat) ual 224 a aauey AAVY ELagp?” AIR FORCE ee TOTAL thay 560 Remt 168 3 168 590 fyoxr qrer am: he, 393 Rqmt Reduction 169 -55 112 393 -56 - 167 112 oe ny 4 - -56 .