Admiral PRESSEY. Well, sir, that would meet about a quarter of the requirement that will exist when the school is completed.

Senator SALTONSTALL. But you are asking for a school for an ultimate population of 702, which is just twice what you need at the present time. That is what I had in mind.

Admiral PRESSEY. Well, sir, we anticipate that additional family housing will be completed at the time the school is completed, sir. Senator SALTONSTALL. In other words, we are going to increase our dependents, our families up in Iceland?

Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir.

Senator SALTONSTALL. Rather than to decrease them?

Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir.

Senator SALTONSTALL. Is that station permanent?

Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir. This is a NATO base, sir.

Senator SALTONSTALL. Could you provide for the record, when we discuss this in executive session, what you would provide if we authorized $750,000 or $500,000?

Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir; I will.

(The Navy provided the following information in response:)

There are presently 256 children of elementary school age at Naval Station, Keflavik. This station has the poorest school facilities used by Navy dependents anywhere in the world. Upon completion of the proposed construction of 100 family quarters that are requested in this bill, the elementary school population will rise to 350 students.

The school requested contains 12 classrooms, or approximately 30 students per class, and a small multipurpose room will be used for minimal student assemblies and to provide the children with a place to eat lunch. This item has received critical analysis at all stages of review to insure only the minimum space needed is requested. Any further reduction in the present size of the building or the amount requested will mean that some of the substandard quonset huts must remain in use with the end result that the overall education program at this isolated station will be deficient.

Due to the construction factor of 2.8, a $1 million construction item in Iceland is approximately equivalent to a $350,000 item in the United States.

Senator STENNIS. Another thing, what about the number of children? Is it going to decrease?

Senator SALTONSTALL. It is going to increase, Mr. Chairman. The ultimate school population is estimated to be approximately 702. Senator STENNIS. May you have covered that.

Admiral PRESSEY. The station is not going to change its mission or increase its station complement, but we are providing family houses so that there will be more family-accompanied men. This will bring more children in, about double the number of children, sir, on the base.

Senator STENNIS. I just don't see how we are going to go on indefinitely putting in more and more facilities and operating in more and more places of the world and carrying virtually all of the load ourselves, providing for the dependents in those areas and bringing the American standard of living along, too.

Of course, that is not good enough for them, they ought to have more than that, but I don't see how we can continue.

Admiral PRESSEY. This island and our forces there are very strategically located for the defense of the United States, sir. Senator STENNIS. I know.

Admiral PRESSEY. And for control of the Atlantic Ocean.

Senator STENNIS. They are all indispensible in the eyes of someone, Admiral. I don't know where the line is. I am sure this one is highly important. I am not advocating that we close it down. What about your structural fire and crash station. That is in connection with your airpower and the airfield lighting. Is that airfield lighting for safety?

Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir. This is one of nine items. It is a proposed centerline light item and is required for safety.

The structural fire and crash station is now in several World War II buildings, quonsets and Butler-type buildings. They have deteriorated to the point that they are no longer worth repairing, sir. The roofs leak and they can't be heated. Much of the equipment must be kept in the open in this area, and the weather is such that equipment of this kind should not be exposed.

We would like to relocate or colocate our equipment under cover with the personnel from their present dispersed locations, sir. Senator STENNIS. All right, anything else, Senator?

Senator SALTONSTALL. No.

Admiral PRESSEY. The fifth project is at the Naval Station, Keflavik, Iceland. It consists of three items for a total of $1,906,000. This station is an all-weather field which supports an Air Force fighter interceptor squadron, Navy patrol and barrier squadron detachments, and transient military air transport flights.

The first item is for construction of airfield lighting at the estimated cost of $350,000. Over 55 percent of the aircraft operations at this field are conducted under instrument conditions. Extended periods of low visibility are common at this station. The proposed centerline lighting has been proven by extensive tests to be a definite aid in making the transition from instrument flight to visual flights during the landing approach. This is the same type of lighting proposed at various other airfields in the program.

The second line item is for construction of a structural fire and crash station at the estimated cost of $556,000. The existing facilities consist of several World War II quonset huts and Butler-type buildings. These buildings are inadequate in space and have deteriorated to the point where repair is not economical. Roofs leak, heating is inadequate, and electrical wiring is a constant fire menace. Much of the equipment must be placed in the open, exposed to the severe weather conditions of this area. The rapid response to emergency calls required of the crew and equipment precludes dispersing them throughout other buildings on the station. This item will provide a masonry and steel frame building to house fire equipment and crew, and replacement of the existing deteriorated fire alarm and reporting system.

The final item is for construction of an elementary school at the estimated cost of $1 million.

The present school is housed in eight separate quonset huts connected by uncovered wooden sidewalks. The huts were erected 15 to 20 years ago as barracks and have been converted for school use. Where possible, classroom space is set up in half of each hut and the

other half is used as an indoor play area. Lighting is generally fair, ventilation in the huts is poor, and the surrounding unpaved areas are muddy in rainy weather and dusty in dry weather. The sloping walls of the huts do not permit enough space for blackboards or bulletin boards, rooms are small and not soundproof, toilet facilities are unsanitary. The children must eat hot lunch in the enlisted men's barracks located 111⁄2 miles from the school.

The

The new facility is an urgent requirement in this isolated area with inclement weather during 8 months of the year and no available offbase facilities where the English language is taught or spoken. new school will provide educational facilities more comparable to those generally available in the continental United States. A dining area with kitchen facilities would allow the children to remain inside during inclement weather, resulting in less loss of learning time due to absence of children with colds or other minor ailments. The multipurpose assembly area is essential for physical fitness and general assembly of students.

There are 256 children attending this school with an anticipated increase to 702 by 1968. Most enlisted men spend their tours here without family, but 100 units of family housing are planned in fiscal year 1965 and additional units are planned for a future program. Senator STENNIS. The next item.

NAVAL STATION, MIDWAY ISLAND, PACIFIC

Admiral PRESSEY. The next item, sir, is at Naval Station Midway Island on page 121a, electric powerplant, first increment, $743,000. Senator STENNIS. When it is an increment, give us the total number of increments, and the amounts.

Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir; there will be one more increment, sir, for $965,000 next year.

Senator STENNIS. How much is that?

Admiral PRESSEY. $965,000, sir.

Senator STENNIS. You have got to have it, I suppose?

Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir; this will replace emergency generators and a number of units which have been added from time to time. We just do not have enough power there. The commanding officer has actually gone around himself removing light bulbs from the offices and quarters to hold down the load.

Senator STENNIS. Well, the President is doing that at the White House.

Admiral PRESSEY. Perhaps that is where the captain got the idea. Senator STENNIS. Well, that is one claim I make, that I was cutting out lights long before President Johnson was President. I don't believe in burning lights all night.

Now you have to have this, I suppose. This is far away and you have got a high cost ratio, but they are dependent on us here for everything and we have to take care of them. You don't have other facilities that you could use? I hear talk about your having a world of generators and everything of your own in storage?

Admiral PRESSEY. We have got two 600-kilowatt portable generators in there now, sir, that should not be used regularly. They are emergency equipment that should be put in only until we can provide for permanent and continuing needs.

Senator STENNIS. Doesn't the Navy have a whole lot of extra diesel motors and generators stored somewhere?

Admiral CORRADI. The requirement here can't be met with the type of emergency equipment that we do have available. This is why we would like to replace the skid-mounted 600-kilowatt units that are now there with more permanent-type equipment. This power project is required to carry the baseload of this station.

Senator STENNIS. What is your cost ratio out there?

Admiral CORRADI. Two, sir.

Senator STENNIS. All right, nothing further.

Proceed, gentlemen.

NAVAL AIR FACILITY, NAHA, OKINAWA

Admiral PRESSEY. On page 122a, the Naval Air Facility, Naha, Okinawa, an antisbmarine warfare training building, $93,000. Senator STENNIS. Repeat that, will you please, sir?

Admiral PRESSEY. Page 122a, Naval Air Facility, Naha, Okinawa, an antisubmarine warfare training building, $93,000, sir.

Senator STENNIS. That is a small item. What about the equipment shop there?

Admiral PRESSEY. The survival equipment shop, sir, page 122b, $204,000. This is the third of four repetitive items of this type. We have a small shop with a parachute loft, but this is inadequate for proper parachute packing and has no humidity or dust control, sir. The Air Force has a facility at Kadena and at Naha but they are using their own fully, sir.

Senator STENNIS. Senator, do you have any questions on that one? Senator SALTONSTALL. No.

Senator STENNIS. All right.

NAVAL AIR FACILITY, NAPLES, ITALY

Admiral PRESSEY. On page 123a, Naval Air Facility, Naples, Italy, communication facilities, $370,000. This is to provide better facilities for the air-to-ground and ground-to-air radio transmission requried with aircraft up to 30 to 40 miles from this air facility. This facility supports our deployed Mediterranean Fleet units abroad the aircraft carriers. They frequently fly into Naples for off loading, for training ashore, when the carrier may be used with other deck loads. Communication equipment is on hand and is adequate for requirements, but we cannot use it because of lack of space.

Senator SALTONSTALL. Is this needed to complete the condition of the airfield, or is it simply a safety measure to help communications? Admiral PRESSEY. This is basically to provide local communications for control of aircraft, sir, between the planes and the ground. Senator SALTONSTALL. But this isn't an airfield?

Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir.

Senator SALTONSTALL. It is connected with the regular airfield? Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir.

This is a safety item and has to do

Senator STENNIS. All right. with planes coming in and taking off? Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir.

Senator STENNIS. All right, next item, please, sir.

Admiral PRESSEY. Page 123b.

Senator SALTONSTALL. May I ask one other question in connection with that, Admiral. This is within the city limits.

Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir.

Senator SALTONSTALL. It is in Naples. Now what leasing conditions have you on this field, and if we have to give it up, do we have to leave all this equipment, or what?

Admiral PRESSEY. I will have to submit that for the record, sir. Senator SALTONSTALL. It seems to me important to know. Admiral PRESSEY. I have Mr. Hanabury here.

Senator SALTONSTALL. We are putting $370,000 more into it. Mr. HANABURY. Senator Saltonstall, Naples is actually an Italian Government or NATO field. The Italian Government is the host and we, the Navy, are the tenants. They run most of the airfield. We have small acreage there upon which we locate our facilities. Our tenure would be the duration of NATO, and if NATO expired we would then presumably negotiate a bilateral agreement with the Italian Government.

Senator SALTONSTALL. And would we give up all these facilities we are putting in?

Mr. HANABURY. No, sir; I do not think so.

Senator SALTONSTALL. We would get paid for them?

Mr. HANABURY. That would have to be ironed out in negotiations, sir.

Senator STENNIS. We will never get paid for them.
Senator SALTONSTALL. This is a NATO facility?
Mr. HANSBURY. Yes, sir.

Senator SALTONSTALL. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Senator STENNIS. All right, next item here, 123b was denied by the House.

Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir; barracks. It was denied by the House. We wish to reclama this, sir.

Senator STENNIS. Speak right up on it then.

Admiral PRESSEY. There are no barracks there now for most of the people who are on this station. They live ashore, in the city in rental spaces, and we believe that they would live under much better conditions, and, of course, under better military discipline if we had barracks for them. It would also be cheaper for the Navy to provide barracks.

Senator STENNIS. Do you know how much it will save?
Admiral PRESSEY. No, sir; I have not computed it.

Senator STENNIS. That is always very persuasive. It is not stylish here any more, but it is still persuasive.

Admiral PRESSEY. I believe that the amortization of the barracks, sir, over what would be saved from the BAQ would take a considerable number of years.

The next project is at the Naval Air Facility, Naples, Italy. It consists of two line items for the total amount of $793,000.

The first line item is for construction of communication facilities at the estimated cost of $370,000. The communication building, an