Unt i l
late
hkitch, F&cm January until Wrch
1956 the Ckplains were
responsible for all services at both BIKINI and ENIWK
Atolls.
This made it necessary to travel by both air and water since services
were held on every island where a construction site was in operatim.
On 18 hkrch 1956, TG 7,$ Chaplains arrived in this area and awumed
the responsibility for religious activities at BIKINI Atoll*
TMs
made it possible for the Chaplains on ENIWETOK Atoll to increase their
T
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religious activities and to visit the outlying weather stations~
After Headquarters, JTF SEVEN arrived in the forward ar8a
and assumed the functions of ATCOM, ENIWETOK, the volume of 8dxninistration in S1 activities leveled off and ren@ned
constant until the
end of the operation.
2.
Strengths, Records, and Reportst
a,
Strength. Personnel strength during most of the period
of this report was satisfactory. Statistical data pertaining to
assigned and attached strengths is attached.4 The interti Table Of
Distribution, which was effective until 1 July 1955, was adequate.
The operational Table ~
Distribution, which
ws
effective 1 JlilY
1955, was generally satisfactory except as follows:
(1) Authorized personnel in many cases did not arrive
as soheduled thereby creating a hardship in many sections, especially
during the build-up phase preceding the operation. The requisition of
enlisted personnel was on a phase-in basis~ Requisitions were placed
so as to reach operational T/l)strength by 30 November 1955,
this strength was not reached until 30 Mrch
4-TABD
Howevers
1956.
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