National Security Act of 1947: Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2319, a Bill to Promote the National Security by Providing for a National Defense Establishment which Shall be Administered by a Secretary of National Defense and for a Department of the Army, a Department of the Navy and a Department of the Air Force Within the National Defense Establishment and for the Coordination of the Activities of the National Defense Establishment with Other Departments and Agencies of the Government Concerned with the National Security |
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... ground forces are many times what they were a generation back . A third force , air power , has come into the picture , with the swiftest speed and longest range of all , and with capabilities that even now are not comprehended . The ...
... ground forces are many times what they were a generation back . A third force , air power , has come into the picture , with the swiftest speed and longest range of all , and with capabilities that even now are not comprehended . The ...
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... ground forces of the Army . You have an air force chief there . What provisions under this setup would you have for a merger in that local area ? Secretary PATTERSON . The bill provides that the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall be ...
... ground forces of the Army . You have an air force chief there . What provisions under this setup would you have for a merger in that local area ? Secretary PATTERSON . The bill provides that the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall be ...
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... ground forces or any other component of the War Department or any component of the Navy . That would be true under this bill . Mr. JENKINS . I think that also stems back to the thing that I had in mind with respect to the Joint Chiefs ...
... ground forces or any other component of the War Department or any component of the Navy . That would be true under this bill . Mr. JENKINS . I think that also stems back to the thing that I had in mind with respect to the Joint Chiefs ...
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... ground . Mr. LATHAM . Is it not a fact that the Joint Chiefs of Staff have officially taken up this question of limiting the functions of the Marine Corps ? Secretary PATTERSON . There has been no decision of that kind . The CHAIRMAN ...
... ground . Mr. LATHAM . Is it not a fact that the Joint Chiefs of Staff have officially taken up this question of limiting the functions of the Marine Corps ? Secretary PATTERSON . There has been no decision of that kind . The CHAIRMAN ...
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... ground troops , the latter might dislike to be put fully under his command , thinking he does not know much about air and army work . Is there any thought , for instance , of taking all the graduates of West Point and Annapolis and ...
... ground troops , the latter might dislike to be put fully under his command , thinking he does not know much about air and army work . Is there any thought , for instance , of taking all the graduates of West Point and Annapolis and ...
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Page 6 - Defense, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Air Force...
Page 600 - Corps shall be organized, trained, and equipped to provide fleet marine forces of combined arms, together with supporting air components, for service with the fleet in the seizure or defense of advanced naval bases and for the conduct of such land operations as may be essential to the prosecution of a naval campaign.
Page 2 - ... to provide United States representation on the Military Staff Committee of the United Nations in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations. ( c ) The Joint Chiefs of Staff shall act as the principal military advisers to the President and the Secretary of Defense...
Page 676 - SEC. 404. The committee shall have the power, without regard to the civil-service laws and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended...
Page 4 - Council-- (1) to assess and appraise the objectives, commitments, and risks of the United States in relation to our actual and potential military power...
Page 5 - Institute for the purposes of the gift; (4) in accordance with the civil service laws, appoint and fix the compensation of such personnel as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this...
Page 422 - Defense, and the Secretary of Defense shall be the head thereof. "(b) There shall be within the Department of Defense (1) the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the...
Page 137 - Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, it is hereby ordered as follows: 1.
Page 7 - No suit, action, or other proceeding lawfully commenced by or against the head of any agency or other officer of the United States, in his official capacity or in relation to the discharge of his official duties, shall abate by reason of the taking effect of...
Page 2 - Establishment the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which shall consist of the Chief of Staff, United States Army; the Chief of Naval Operations; the Chief of Staff, United States Air Force; and the Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief, if there be one. (b) Subject to the authority and direction of the President and the Secretary of Defense...