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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:
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560 Remt
168
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168
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393 Rqmt
Reduction
169
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112
393
-56
- 167
112
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