Supplemental Department of Defense Appropriations for 1965: Hearings ... 89th Congress, 1st Session1965 - 26 pages |
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$700 million request 90 days action additional funds Air Force ammo ammunition dumps answer appropriation of $700 Army authorized and appropriated battalions believe bill bomb calling the shots CEDERBERG Chairman Chiefs of Staff combat sorties COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Congress Defense Subcommittee Department of Defense Discussion Dominican Republic emergency authority emergency funds entire $700 million equipment estimate expenditures fiscal 1966 budget fiscal year 1966 FLOOD going happy helicopters high-speed jets increased infiltration inventories Joint Chiefs JONAS June 30 LAIRD LIPSCOMB loss rate MAHON MAP funds Military Assistance Program military construction MINSHALL obligate operation and maintenance percent present President procurement question rates of activity record reprograming roughly Secretary MCNAMARA SIKES situation sorties a month South Vietnam southeast Asia strike sorties talking about losses Thanh Hoa Bridge third echelon tion U.S. troops unwise utilize Vietcong Vietnamese WHEELER
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Page 16 - CL Milburn, Jr., Deputy Surgeon General of the Army, to assist US representatives in Vietnam in formulating an expanded program of medical assistance for the people of South Vietnam. We are contemplating the expansion of existing programs under which mobile medical teams travel throughout the countryside providing on-the-spot medical facilities, treatment, and training in rural areas.
Page 3 - This is the provision which authorizes the Secretary of Defense, upon determination by the President that such action is necessary, to provide for the cost of an airborne alert as an excepted expense.
Page 25 - We have a capability far in excess of what we are currently applying. Mr. LONG. Perhaps you have answered my next question. Are any of the expenditures here going to take some pressure off the military construction budget in future years? Will any of this money reduce what you would otherwise be asking for next year or the year after? Secretary MCNAMARA. No, because these expenditures would not otherwise have been in the military construction budget next year or the year after, or the year after...
Page 3 - Defense available for research, development, test, and evaluation, or procurement or production related thereto, to be merged with and to be available for the same purposes, and for the same time period, as the appropriation to which transferred...
Page 8 - ... we need still larger numbers of people and other expenditures, we have authority under certain contingency provisions in the budget to expend funds for that purpose. It was therefore implied that we were not asking for it at that time. Further in that same exchange with Mr. Lipscomb, I said that — I don't know whether additional funds will be required, above what we have requested for fiscal year 1966. I don't want to try to make a guess, because it is so difficult to look ahead 12, 15, 18...
Page 4 - In the case of ammunition, bombs, rockets, artillery ammunition and small arms ammunition, the Congress has, as you know, appropriated substantial sums for this purpose in the last 3 or 4 years, sums in excess of previous levels. The ammunition inventories have been building up. That is particularly true of modem ordnance for both the Air Force and Navy aircraft.
Page 8 - No. The budget was submitted to Congress on January 25 and I do not believe that any of it since that time or since the decisions were made which were reflected in that budget require any change in the defense portion of the President's budget.
Page 8 - Beyond that, as you know, should it later develop that we need still larger numbers of people and other expenditures, we have authority under certain contingency provisions in the budget to expend funds for that purpose.
Page 4 - For the types of tactical aircraft I have just referred to, in the active forces, excluding reserves, we have something on the order of 5,500 active tactical aircraft compared to the 157 we have lost in our 4-year period.
Page 4 - For example, for the past 4i/2 years the total number of tactical fighters, bombers and reconnaissance aircraft lost in southeast Asia is 157, and during that same 4-year period we have taken delivery of 3,500. The total helicopter loss in 4i/2 years is 152, and we have taken delivery in that period of 3,276 helicopters.