Department of Defense Appropriations for 1993: Operation and maintenance

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Page 305 - Navy by the Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Page 446 - Languages and dialects are not so carefully partitioned from each other in the speakers' heads that the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing.
Page 312 - States are maintained for the purpose of providing trained units and qualified individuals to be available for active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States in time of war or national emergency, and at such other times as the national security may require...
Page 465 - Survival of the United States as a free and independent nation, with its fundamental values intact and its institutions and people secure...
Page 487 - Civilization has climbed above such perils. The interdependence of nations in trade and traffic, the sense of public law, the Hague Convention, Liberal principles, the Labour Party, high finance, Christian charity, common sense have rendered such nightmares impossible. Are you quite sure? It would be a pity to be wrong.
Page 537 - Act (FAA) of 1961, as amended, as "the quantity of defense articles owned by the United States Government, and not procured in anticipation of military assistance or sales requirements, or pursuant to a military assistance or sales order, which is in excess of the...
Page 233 - Section 511(d) is amended to read as follows: "(d) Under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy...
Page 467 - Reconsiilutioii" capability is intended to deter such a power from militarizing and, if deterrence fails, to provide a global warfighting capability. Reconstirution involves forming, training, and fielding new fighting units. This includes initially drawing on cadre-type units and laid-up military assets; mobilizing previously trained or new manpower; and activating the industrial base on a large scale. Reconstitution also involves maintaining technology, doctrine, training, experienced military...
Page 57 - ADMIRAL PABKER Rear Adm. Edward Nelson Parker graduated from the United States Naval Academy and was commissioned an ensign on June 4, 1925. He attained the rank of rear admiral on September 1, 1952. During the period between 1925 and 1940 he served in assignments at sea as well as ashore including instruction In general line, ordnance and gunnery. In World War II, he was awarded three Navy Crosses and the Silver Star for...
Page 464 - ... changed the concept of threat analysis as a basis for force structure planning. We can still plausibly identify some specific threats - North Korea, a weakened Iraq, perhaps even a hostile Iran. But the real threat is the unknown, the uncertain. In a very real sense, the primary threat to our security is instability and being unprepared to handle a crisis or war that no one expected or predicted.