Increased cost of additional enrollment of 1,200 Naval Reserve Officers' Training Appropriation "Training, education, and welfare, Navy, subhead 10, Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps": Regular appropriation. 1938 act.. Allocation, 1938 84.40 Deduct nonrecurring and other items not required in 1939: Savings in amounts to be spent for educational equipment for 6 established Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps units.. Base for 1939 Under recently enacted legislation increasing the authorized N. R. O. T. C. enrollment to 2,400, five new units are to be established and $300 will be required for each new unit to cover the cost of expendable supplies, such as mimeograph material, pads, pencils, notebooks, and so forth. While the number of students enrolled in each new unit during the first year will be smaller than in the old units, a proportionately larger amount of this material, particularly mimeograph, will be required for making up the initial large nuniber of pamphlets for instructional purposes. The estimated requirements for this project for the five new units will be the same for the succeeding years. INCREASE IN NUMBER OF STUDENTS TO 2,400 Mr. THOM. It seems here that the law permits you to increase from 1.200 to 2,400 students. Captain YATES. Yes, sir. Mr. THOM. Now you are serving 1,200 students with $84,500. Captain YATES. Yes, sir. Mr. THOM. And you are asking for $185,000 for the next fiscal year! Captain YATES. Yes, sir. Mг. THOM. Does that contemplate an increase to 2,400 students? Captain YATES. It contemplates the first increment of increase p to 2,400; yes, sir. The number of students that will be enrolled will be 1,200 plus 490 during this next fiscal year. There is, of course a very large increase in cost for the establishment of these Tew units, and it is expected that the total cost of doubling the umber of students will stabilize at probably a little more than the 5,000 we have for the six established units. This is caused by two factors, one the probability of new units being located a little farther way from the seacoast, involving an additional cost of transportaton, and the other factor, that all uniforms for students in the ew units will be required to be new uniforms, as there is no supply of old uniforms presently available. The cost of uniforms will be a little higher for a few years until those that we reclaim from men that drop out of the units can be used for other students. The predicted costs, as given on page 3, indicate that, but they are a little larger than I expect will actually take place. That is, the predictions for 1942. UNIFORMS FOR STUDENTS The next item of increase is wearing apparel, uniforms for students, an increase of $23,153. The increase is to provide new uniforms for 490 additional students to be enrolled in the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps. The need for the total funds for this item is explained below: Allocation of base: 1939 estimated uniform requirements for the enrollment of 1,200 in the six established units to provide new uniforms for advanced course students and such of the incoming freshmen as necessary after the stock of reconditioned uniforms has been exhausted, and for reconditioning of old uniforms: Purchases: Uniform outfits, 478, at $40 Raincoats, 100, at $7.50....... Pairs white trousers, 300, at $3.50 Reconditioning: Uniforms worn by 4 classes during 1936–37, 300, at $4----- Total $19, 120 750 1,050 1.200 22, 120 A uniform outfit consists of one blue uniform, one cap, insignia for uniform and cap, two white working uniforms, two white hats, one pair of leggings, one pair of gloves, and one black tie. Each advanced course student is furnished with a new uniform at some time during the 2-year advanced course. Basic course students on enrollment are furnished with either a new or a reconditioned uniform. Reconditioned uniforms are used for basic-course students insofar as the supply permits. Experience has shown that the numbers of new uniforms, raincoats, white trousers, and the numbers of uniforms to be reconditioned as listed above, are required. Increased requirements for increased enrollment: Under new legislation authorizing an increase of the N. R. O. T. C. enrollment, 490 additional students are to be enrolled in 1939. The 1939 estimated uniform requirements for these additional students are: 490 uniform outfits, at $40_. 245 raincoats, at $7.50.... 490 white trousers (2 pairs for each student expected to make the cruise), at $3.50____. Total for increase in enrollment_ Total for 1,200 enrollment_-_ Total uniform requirements for 1939. $19.600.00 1.837.50 1,715.00 23.152.50 22. 120,00 45,272,30 There will be no old uniforms available to be reconditioned for these additional students. The estimated uniform requirements for the additional students to be enrolled in succeeding years is as follows: In compliance with Secretary of the Navy letter L1-2 (1938) EN (370611), of July 2, 1937, an administrative reserve in the amount of $500 has been set up under the project for 1938. SUBSISTENCE AND SUPPORT OF PERSONS-ADDITIONAL COMMUTED RATIONS The increase of $600 is required for this project for the cruise subsistence of 1,200 in the 6 old units if the full 24-day training cruise is to be made. The training received by Naval R. Ŏ. T. C. students on this cruise is of the greatest value and the cruise should not be curtailed. The increase of $600 has been balanced in the total amount requested under this appropriation for the six old units by a saving of $600 effected in another project-educational equipment. Under new legislation authorizing an increase of Naval R. O. T. C. enrollment, 490 additional students are to be enrolled in 1939. It is estimated that one-half of these, 245, will make the Naval R. O. T. C. cruise the following summer, 15 days of which will fall in the fiscal year of 1939. The estimated requirements for cost of food for these students on the cruise is as follows: Food for 245 students on 15-day training cruise, at 50 cents per day, $1,838. The estimated increase in requirements for this project for the increased enrollment of the Naval R. O. T. C. in succeeding years is as follows: 1940, $4,884; 1941, $22,625; 1942, $43,848. TRAVEL EXPENSES The next item is "Cost of transportation, travel expenses." Under new legislation authorizing an increase of Naval R. O. T. C. enrollment, 5 new units are to be established and 490 additional students are to be enrolled in 1939. It is estimated that one-half of these, 245, will make the Naval R. O. T. C. cruise the following summer, 15 days of which will fall in the fiscal year of 1939. The estimated requirements for cost of transportation of these additional students to ports of embarkation only are as follows: 245 students, 544 miles at 3 cents per mile, $4,000. The exact location of the new units has not been determined, but using the general desired location the additional students to cruise will have an average of approximately 544 miles travel to reach ports of embarkation. The estimated increase in requirements for this project for the increased enrollment of the Naval R. O. T. C. in succeeding years is as follows: 1940, $11,736; 1941, $17,946; and 1942, $21,888. SPECIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS CURRENT EXPENSES The next item is "Special and miscellaneous current expenses." Under new legislation increasing the authorized Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps enrollment to 2.400, 5 new units are to be established and $1,200 will be required for each new unit to cover expenses such as freight and express charges, and other incidentals which cannot be foreseen or classified, and for special expenses durang the training cruises such as cost of charts, laundry of bedding and uniform, motion-picture film, and hospitalization of student's. In the establishment of a new unit, freight and express charges and other incidentals which cannot be foreseen or classified will be con 36929-38-10 siderably greater for the first year than in the units already established. The requirements for this project for the five new units during succeeding years should be as follows: 1940, $6,000; 1941, $5.00); and 1942, $2,500. Those are all of the increases, sir. EQUIPMENT Mr. UMSTEAD. Now will you discuss item (b), cost of initial essential permanent equipment for five new N. R. O. T. C. units? Captain YATES. Under new legislation increasing the authorized N. R. O. T. C. enrollment to 2,400, 5 new units are to be established. and $64,109 will be required to furnish these 5 new units with classroom, office, and drill equipment, consisting of furniture, textbooks. other professional books, and instructional and drill apparatus required to conduct courses and drills in naval science and tactics. This estimate is based on the essential equipment now in use at the six established units. These requirements are classified as follows: Files, furniture, colors, flags, bedding outfits for cruise_ $12, 843 8,376 10.000 Books (based on cost of text and reference books now in use by established units) -- - 2,890 30.000 64, 109 Total The above estimate does not include equipment which is to be supplied by the bureaus from used and obsolete equipment without cost other than for transportation. ESTABLISHMENT OF FIVE ADDITIONAL UNITS Mr. UMSTEAD. Captain, the law prior to the passage of the additional authorization this year limited the number of R. O. T. C. naval students to 1,200? Captain YATES. Yes, sir. Mr. UMSTEAD. What has been the average number of students under prior authority in the naval R. O. T. C. units for the past 5 years! Captain YATES. Twelve hundred. Mr. UMSTEAD. Have you maintained it at the limit? Captain YATES. Yes, sir. Mr. UMSTEAD. Now, in the justifications you have before us here, you propose to go to the full limit of the additional authorization? Captain YATES. Yes, sir. Mr. UMSTEAD. And to have 2.400 Naval R. O. T. C. students instead of 1,200? Captain YATES. Yes, sir. Mr. UMSTEAD. Of course, once a unit is established and the college is accepted for the location of a unit, then it operates more or less as a matter of law; does it not? Mr. UMSTEAD. The Federal Government obligates itself to do certam things? Captain YATES. Yes, sir. Mr. UMSTEAD. Provided certain things are done by the college seeking designation as a Naval R. O. T. C. unit? |