Department of Defense Appropriations for 1963: Hearings ... 87th Congress, 2d Session |
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... Reserve Forces program is concerned , but there has been no finalization of the detail of the exact distribution as be- tween the National Guard and the Reserve Forces within this figure . These figures have not yet been finalized by ...
... Reserve Forces program is concerned , but there has been no finalization of the detail of the exact distribution as be- tween the National Guard and the Reserve Forces within this figure . These figures have not yet been finalized by ...
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... RESERVE FORCES Mr. LAIRD . Then when you listen to the Deputy Secretary , Secre- tary Gilpatric , putting out statements which are given high publicity throughout the United States , to the effect that you cannot rely on the Reserve and ...
... RESERVE FORCES Mr. LAIRD . Then when you listen to the Deputy Secretary , Secre- tary Gilpatric , putting out statements which are given high publicity throughout the United States , to the effect that you cannot rely on the Reserve and ...
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... Reserve planning in the past traditionally was toward a slow large - scale mo- bilization . We have never used , as far as I know , our Reserves on a quick mobilization to meet a crisis that does not result in a shooting war . I just ...
... Reserve planning in the past traditionally was toward a slow large - scale mo- bilization . We have never used , as far as I know , our Reserves on a quick mobilization to meet a crisis that does not result in a shooting war . I just ...
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... Reserve call - up versus State population is essentially correct , with 8.6 percent of the Army Reserve callup coming from Wisconsin , which has 2.2 percent of the Nation's population . However , the substantial call to active duty of ...
... Reserve call - up versus State population is essentially correct , with 8.6 percent of the Army Reserve callup coming from Wisconsin , which has 2.2 percent of the Nation's population . However , the substantial call to active duty of ...
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... Reserve units and individuals was necessary in order to obtain the needed trained units and individuals in the shortest possible time . This requirement for an immediate increase in the combat strength of the Army could not be provided ...
... Reserve units and individuals was necessary in order to obtain the needed trained units and individuals in the shortest possible time . This requirement for an immediate increase in the combat strength of the Army could not be provided ...
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Page 222 - Advertising costs mean the costs of advertising media and corollary administrative costs. Advertising media include magazines, newspapers, radio and television programs, direct mail, trade papers, outdoor advertising, dealer cards and window displays, conventions, exhibits, free goods and samples, and the like.
Page 170 - It is insurance we trust will never be needed, but insurance which we could never forgive ourselves for foregoing in the event of catastrophe.
Page 129 - Training Corps, under the appropriation "Reserve Personnel, Navy" which we call "RPN." The estimates presented for these appropriations are based upon projections for naval force objectives and policies approved by the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations. I shall treat each of the two appropriations separately, beginning with "Military Personnel, Navy.
Page 195 - Representatives. (b) The Department of Defense is authorized to incur, in applicable appropriations, obligations in anticipation of reimbursements in amounts equivalent to the value of such orders under subsection (a) of this section. Appropriations to the President of such sums as may be necessary to reimburse the applicable appropriation, fund, or account for such orders are hereby authorized.
Page 195 - Defense to any friendly country or international organization if such country or international organization agrees to pay not less than the value thereof in United States dollars. Payment shall be made in advance or, as determined by the President...
Page 17 - ... for one or more meals. Also, includes subsistence in messes, cross-service feeding by other departments, emergency and operational rations, and payment for meals furnished under contract at commercial facilities. Subsistence supplies are provided by procurement from military stock funds or by local purchase from commercial sources. Excludes cost of subsisting civilian personnel or officers, or subsistence while in a travel status.
Page 523 - Thank you very much. (The information requested is classified and has been furnished for the committee's use.) SPACK BOMBARDMENT VEHICLES Mr.
Page 38 - WAR There has come into prominence, in the last year or two, a kind of war which Mr. Khrushchev calls wars of national liberation or popular revolts, but which we know as insurrection, subversion, and covert armed aggression. I refer here to the kind of war which we have seen in Laos and which is now going on in South Vietnam. It is sometimes called sublimited war because the scale and character of the hostilities are kept just below the threshold where the world would recognize it as overt military...
Page 298 - ... important consideration : As Secretary McNamara indicated earlier, the defense program is based — in part — on an arbitrary assumption that the special measures associated with the Berlin crisis will terminate at the beginning of fiscal year 1963, and that no unusual requirement will have developed elsewhere. Should this assumption prove invalid, the military considerations I am about to discuss would change radically, and reexamination of Army programs would become necessary.
Page 38 - Political assassination, robbery, arson, subversion, bribery — all are acceptable means to further their ends. They are quick to take advantage of any breakdown of law and order, of any resentment of people toward their Government, or of any economic or natural disaster. They are masters of mass psychology and of propaganda, having had many decades of experience in these fields. We have a long way to go in devising and implementing effective countermeasures against these Communist techniques.