Supplemental Department of Defense Appropriation for 1965: Hearings Before the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session |
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$700 million request 90 days action additional funds Air Force ammo ammunition dumps answer appropriation of $700 Army authorized and appropriated believe bill bomb calling the shots CEDERBERG Chairman Chiefs of Staff combat sorties COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Congress Defense Subcommittee Department of Defense Discussion Dominican Republic emergency authority emergency funds entire $700 million equipment estimate expenditures facilities finance fiscal 1966 budget fiscal year 1966 FLOOD going happy helicopters high-speed jets infiltration inventories Joint Chiefs JONAS June 30 LAIRD LIPSCOMB loss rate MAHON MAP funds Military Assistance Program military construction MINSHALL obligate operation and maintenance percent present President procurement question rates of activity record reprograming roughly Secretary MCNAMARA SIKES situation sorties a month South Vietnam southeast Asia strike sorties talking about losses Thanh Hoa Bridge third echelon tion U.S. troops unwise utilize Vietcong Vietnamese WHEELER
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Page 22 - We have a capability far in excess of what we are currently applying. Mr. LONG. Perhaps you have answered my next question. Are any of the expenditures here going to take some pressure off the military construction budget in future years ? Will any of this money reduce what you would otherwise be asking for next year or the year after? Secretary McNAMARA. No, because these expenditures would not otherwise have been in the military construction budget next year or the year after, or the year after...
Page 10 - prompt," within the rule of reason under all the circumstances ? Secretary MCNAMARA. This is a matter for the Congress to decide. Mr. FLOOD. I understand that. Secretary MCNAMARA. I would hope before the end of the week. I would hope within a day or so. Mr. FLOOD. Before the end of this week ? Secretary MCNAMARA. I would hope so. Mr. SIKES. Mr. Secretary, with further regard to the matter of reporting of projects and activities involved, I have not had an opportunity to confer with the members of...