Fiscal Year 1967 Supplemental Authorization of Southeast Asia |
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1967 supplemental additional Admiral CONNOLLY Admiral GAYLER Admiral HUSBAND Admiral TOWNSEND Air Force aircraft airlift airplane amount answer Army attack attrition authorization BATES believe BETTS bill BOB WILSON bombing budget Cam Ranh Bay capability CATTON CHAIRMAN CINCPAC combat committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contractor cost deleted dollars engine equipment estimate facilities figure fiscal year 1967 FISHER funds Go ahead HARDY HÉBERT helicopters ICHORD included increase KELLEHER LEGGETT LENNON LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Loran Marine Corps MCCUTCHEON ment MILEY military construction million missile months Navy NOBLE North operations percent personnel PHILBIN PIKE pilot PIRNIE planes procurement projects question RANDALL reprograming request requirements runway Seabees Secretary MCNAMARA Secretary of Defense South Vietnam southeast Asia squadrons Standard missile statement STRATTON supply tactical talking Thank thing tion troops United Vietcong Vietnamese WHEELER
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Page 46 - The funds so made available may be expended to acquire, construct, convert, rehabilitate, or install permanent or temporary public works, including land acquisition, site preparation, appurtenances, utilities, and equipment.
Page 46 - USC 529), and sections 4774(d) and 9774(d) of title 10, United States Code. The authority to place permanent or temporary improvements on land includes authority for surveys, administration, overhead, planning, and supervision incident to construction. That authority may be exercised before title to the land is approved...
Page 56 - This overall concept of operations proved to be basically sound, but the results have been uneven. The search and destroy operations have been an unqualified success. The free world forces have won every major battle since their commitment in South Vietnam, and I believe it has been conclusively demonstrated that the Vietcong main force units are simply not capable of winning any major battle against US forces. Moreover, because of our great mobility, we are able to come to the aid of the South Vietnamese...
Page 54 - Accordingly, barring a significant change in the character or scope of the southeast Asia conflict, or unforseen contingencies elsewhere in the world, the fiscal year 1967 supplemental and fiscal year 1968 budget should be sufficient to cover our requirements until fiscal year 1969 funds become available, even if the conflict continues beyond June 30, 1968.
Page 58 - Interestingly enough, even including the "probable" and "possible", the number of North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam appears to have leveled off in the second half of 1966, and the strength in December was about the same as in June, between 45,000 and 50,000. During the same...
Page 67 - Supply operations will require another $172 million to handle the increased workloads. We are now operating a pipeline extending some 10,000 miles across the Pacific and, as I noted earlier, we are moving vast quantities of materiel to, and large numbers of military personnel to and from, southeast Asia; another $375 million will be required for this purpose. The further expansion of the training establishment will require an additional $128 million in fiscal year 1967, mostly in the Army where the...
Page 56 - It is evident that some reallocation of the overall military effort between search and destroy operations and clear and secure operations is now required. Because the latter are so closely related to the pacification and revolutionary development efforts, which in any event must be performed primarily by the South Vietnamese themselves, we believe that these clear and secure operations also can best be conducted by the indigenous armed forces. Accordingly, it has been agreed by all the parties concerned...
Page 61 - The South Vietnamese Navy, manned by about 17,000 military personnel, now has a large number of predominantly small craft including several hundred coastal junks. It will continue to participate with our Naval forces in both the coastal patrol and river patrol operations. The Marines have a strength of about 7,000 men. OTHER FREE WORLD FORCES IN SOUTH VIETNAM Excluding US forces, there are now a total of about 53,000 other Free World military personnel in-country, South Korea, with a strength of...
Page 59 - Cong lines of communication. Least certain, for obvious reasons, is the number recruited locally in South Vietnam. And, we have no way of knowing how many died later from wounds or disease, or how many deserted without going over to the Government of South Vietnam, or how many men incapacitated (from wounds or disease) were returned to North Vietnam. Thus, all of these estimates are subject to various degrees of error. They are better than they were last year, but they will never be perfect.
Page 60 - Cong supply problem was made even more difficult by the success of our search and destroy operations. Friendly forces during 1966 captured or destroyed, in South Vietnam alone, almost 19,500 tons of rice (enough to feed about 78,000 men for a full year), over 500 tons of salt, over 1,400 crew-served weapons, more than 17,000 small arms, some 30,000 rounds of large caliber ammunition, almost 3 million rounds of small arms ammunition, and more than 75,000 bombs, grenades and land mines.