Supplemental Military Procurement and Construction Authorizations, Fiscal Year 1967: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services and the Subcommittee on Department of Defense of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, First Session |
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1967 basic appropriation 1967 supplemental additional Air Force aircraft ammunition amount Army ARVN believe bombing BYRD of Virginia Chairman RUSSELL civilian Colloquy deleted combat committee Cong CONGRESS THE LIBRARY cost Defense agencies Department of Defense direct program equipment facilities fiscal year 1967 FY 1967 Budget Haiphong Hanoi increase infiltration Korean LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Marine Corps materiel Mekong Delta ment Military construction Military personnel missiles months Navy North Dakota Operation and maintenance percent port procurement question Saigon Secretary MCNAMARA Senator ALLOTT Senator BYRD Senator CANNON Senator DOMINICK Senator ELLENDER Senator JACKSON Senator MCCLELLAN Senator MILLER Senator MONRONEY Senator PASTORE Senator PEARSON Senator STENNIS Senator SYMINGTON Senator THURMOND Senator YOUNG ships South Vietnam southeast Asia statement stock fund supplies targets Thailand thousands of dollars tion troops Viet Vietcong VIETNAM Senator Vietnamese WHEELER YOUNG of North YOUNG of Ohio
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Page 2 - 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 2 - 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 9 - Vietnam and elsewhere to support the larger forces that might be required. Without these data, we could only guess the amount of the additional funds which would be needed for the balance of the fiscal year. Second, many of the decisions which would have been involved in preparing an amendment to the FY 1967 Budget would also...
Page 9 - ... forces required, their composition, and their tempo of operation. Consequently, we could not determine with any degree of precision how many more men we would need through the balance of the fiscal year, how much more ammunition and other supplies we would consume, how many more aircraft we would lose as a result of enemy action, and how much more construction we would need in Vietnam and elsewhere to support the larger forces that might be required. Without these data, we could only guess the...
Page 13 - But we can do this successfully only in conjunction with the South Vietnamese military forces, since the cleared areas must ultimately be taken over by these forces. The last two tasks, reserve reaction operations and defense of government centers, have been carried out satisfactorily. No provincial capitals have fallen to the...
Page 24 - 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...
Page 15 - Vietnam total over 235,000 compared with the 190,000-200,000 estimated last summer. The Communist hard core strength, including some 107 battalions, totals about 87,000, the irregulars number about 110,000, and the political cadres about 39,000. Within these totals, the confirmed North Vietnamese regular Army forces in South Vietnam now number at least 11,000 men organized in 22 battalions, and there are probably more.
Page 9 - The Congress was informed of these actions through the reprogramming process and related hearings. But, while it was clear even last summer that additional funds would be required for FY 1967 if the conflict in southeast Asia were to continue, the timing and the amount of the additional request posed a problem. With regard to timing, we had essentially two alternatives : (1) request an amendment to the...
Page 10 - Some of these reprograming actions required the prior approval of this and other interested committees; all of them have been reported to the committees concerned. However, in order to facilitate your consideration of the...
Page 139 - Nease, professional staff members; and Charles B. Kirbow, chief clerk. Of the staff of the Committee on Appropriations: William W. Woodruff, assistant chief clerk to the committee; Francis S. Hewitt, clerk to the subcommittee ; Vorley M.