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PERSONNEL EVACUATION AND MUSTER
3.9.1
Musters
On April 8, 1958, the TG 7.1 plan for the conduct of sight-
musters in the EPG was published.
This plan established a Task
Group Muster Officer, and two Atoll Muster Officers for Eniweto™
and Bikini Atolls, respectively.
The plan also provided Muster
Officers to represent the Headquarters, and each of the various
Task Units.
Muster rosters were prepared by J-1, TG 7.1 at varying
times, depending upon thenumber of changes occasioned by arrive::
and departures from the EPG.
During HARDTACK a new system was
initiated for complling these muster rosters.
An IBM card. was
punched for each individual in TG 7.1 participating in the operation. When an individual arrived at the EPG, his card was placed
in the active file; cards of departed personnel were held in a::
inactive file.
The active file, which included anticipated
arrivals, was used by the IBM 704 Computing Section to prepare
the rosters on IBM équipment,
This new method of preparing
rosters saved many man hours of work previously required to type
dittos and assembly rosters.
The first muster was conducted on April 11 and 12, 1958, as
a Teak rehearsal, and the last one on August 18, 1958, for Fig.
Musters were normally conducted on D-l or D-Day in order to
minimize the false starts.
Where the shot was being detonated
and the time of H-Hour determined the commencement time of the
muster and the details of operation.
Therefore, the following
is a discussion of only the mist commonly used procedures.
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