Senator CANNON. Of the NCO clubs, six of them are replacements and three of them are new; is that correct?

Colonel FENLON. Yes, sir; that is correct.

Senator CANNON. What did you previously use? For instance, at Ankara what did you previously use for a noncommissioned officer club?

Major STURGEON. Here again, sir, this is in Ankara where we are utilizing leased facilities for practically all of our personnel facilities in Ankara and other items, too. The NCO club is one of those that is in a leased facility now?

Senator CANNON. It is a leased facility?

Colonel FENLON. Yes, sir.

Senator CANNON. Is it a long-term lease so that you are going to have lease obligations if you get one authorized?

General CURTIN. No, sir.

Senator CANNON. What about at Howard? That is not a leased facility.

Colonel FENLON. That is a buildup at Howard with the flying mission there. Some of these personnel were billited and housed up at Albrook. They are now at Howard with the buildup of the aircraft in there, the commando squadron, and the flying activity at Howard.

Senator CANNON. So you have no facility there at all at present. Colonel FENLON. That is correct.

Senator CANNON. And is that true with your classified location, too?

Major STURGEON. It is a classified location, sir. I believe we are using the butler type building right now, a very small building.

Senator CANNON. I note at Beale you have an addition for $330,000. I thought they had a pretty substantial NCO club at Beale, do they not?

General CURTIN. I will get the exact size in just a minute.

Senator STENNIS. Let me say to all members of the Armed Services Committee we will have our regular committee meeting in the morning, and we will then continue these hearings. Our regular meeting room in the other building will be large enough to hold those that can attend. These hearings from here on will be in the regular room, and you can come there in the morning at 10:30. I will set the regular meeting at 10 and that will give us time to dispose of the matters that are on the calendar, and then we will go right on into these hearings.

General CURTIN. At Beale, Senator Cannon, the existing facility is 9,938 square feet. The requirement associated with the end position there is 22,000 square feet. In terms of physical construction, the existing facility qualitywise is adequate. It is just too small. Senator CANNON. So you are just adding onto it.

General CURTIN. That is correct.

Senator CANNON. At Homestead this 22,000-square-foot replacement is as big as the entire requirement at Beale.

Colonel FENLON. Yes, sir.

Senator CANNON. Is there that much difference in the size of those installations?

Colonel FENLON. At Homestead, sir

General CURTIN. The Homestead population is fairly stable at about 6,800 total. The requirement is the same, 22,000 square feet for Homestead.

Senator CANNON. And the one at Homestead would just simply replace the existing one at the present time.

Colonel FENLON. Yes, sir; the existing facility is a makeshift arrangement in a very poor building. It is quite cut up. I was in it recently. It is impossible from a site standpoint to expand it at all.

Senator CANNON. Now, one other question. The one at McConnell is shown as an addition of 21,989 feet. Is McConnell that large that you need a 22,000-foot addition on what you already have?

Major STURGEON. Sir, this actually is not a complete addition. It includes approximately 11,000 square feet of existing NCO club and an addition of approximately 10,000. This 21,989 is the total that they would have.

Senator CANNON. That would be your net footage after you have modified part of it and added on; is that right?

Major STURGEON. Yes, sir; it is a misnomer. It is a combined project.

Senator CANNON. All right, sir.

GYMNASIUMS

Colonel FENLON. Our next repetitive item, "Recreational gymnasiums." These are used for physical training and for physical conditioning, both officers and airmen. The facility as it is designed and built provides showers, dressing rooms, squash, badminton, and a basketball court and also space to hold intramural games and calisthenics.

The standard gymnasium now is 20,500 square feet, and with two or three exceptions here, these are replacements for World War II-type facilities. These were mobilization types, and they amount to just about a covered room.

There are none of the other additional features that we have cited here for physical training. These are listed on page 57.

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Recreatonal gymnasiums provide for daily physical training, conditioning, and recreation for both officers and airmen. They provide indoor covered space for showers, dressing rooms, squash, basketball, and badminton courts and areas for intramural games and calisthenics. These buildings are centers for a major portion of the military physical fitness program.

Gymnasium size is based on the military strength of the installation. The standard gymnasium is 20,500 square feet.

These facilities contribute to the physical fitness and morale of our personnel

Senator CANNON. Are all of these at bases that you intend to keep

in the program?

Colonel FENLON. Yes, sir.

Senator CANNON. Through this projected time period?

General CURTIN. That is correct.

Senator CANNON. All right.

Senator STENNIS. Let me ask one question. Do any of these gymnasiums go to places where we have the new recruits, where you are bringing in new men?

Colonel FENLON. No, sir; Lackland is our only center.

Senator STENNIS. What is your situation at Lackland? Do you have a sufficient gymnasium there for those young fellows?

Major STURGEON. Sir, we have what we call a fieldhouse at Lackland now. I think it is around 33,000 square feet. It is World War II type building. It is programed for replacement sometime in the future, but it is sufficient for the time being.

General CURTIN. I believe it is in next year's program, Mr. Chair

man.

Senator STENNIS. How much would it be? I just make the point because it seems to me those youngsters that are going in there are Just boys. They are entitled to some consideration rather than to put them last. Put them first, it seems to me. What is your response to hat?

General CURTIN. We have a sizable program in here for Lackland his year, Mr. Chairman, but it is devoted primarily to improved living onditions and dining facilities for the recruits. Our feeling was hat we ought to take care of this first. We are able to live at least 1 hore year with the other facilities, but we do have a programed schedle for replacing these facilities over the next 5 years.

Senator SMITH. Mr. Chairman, following up Senator Stennis' quesion, do you have anything in the line of a physical fitness program hat would require these gymnasiums and recreation halls?

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General CURTIN. The Air Force has sponsored over the past couple of years, Senator Smith, a so-called 5BX program. Officers and airmen are tested periodically in terms of being able to meet the minimum requirements under this program.

There are five basic exercises geared to the age of the individual, and this is the basic element of training.

Now, of course, at training centers like Lackland and others where there are high-density populations of students, there are other athletic programs that are geared to give them an adequate amount of physical exercise and are compulsory.

Senator SMITH. And there are sufficient facilities for that kind of training for this young group that Senator Stennis referred to?

General CURTIS. For the moment the facilities are adequate in size. But they are old and need to be updated and replaced. I believe the first replacement in the Air Force program is scheduled in next year's program.

Senator SMITH. Thank you.

Senator STENNIS. One more question.

Are these gymnasiums used mainly for games or mainly for calisthenics and similar matters?

General CURTIN. The present ones that we are trying to replace were built during the World War II time period. Essentially they are a small basketball court, generally with a latrine and shower facilities at one end of the building and two small lean-to's for spectators. If you do have calisthenics or physical exercise, you have to do it on a portion of the basketball floor.

In the present facilities generally there are no separate rooms for calisthentics, exercising, weight lifting, judo.

Senator STENNIS. Briefly describe the modern ones, the ones you are building.

Colonel FENLON. We have here a handball court and exercise room where you would have your horses, your weight lifting, rowing, and so forth. There is a small equipment room, a steamroom, showers, men's latrine, and locker room, some administrative and utility space here, and then a large gymnasium here.

Senator STENNIS. Basketball courts there?

Colonel FENLON. Yes, sir; in here.
Senator STENNIS. Thank you, sir.

WAREHOUSES

Colonel FENLON. We have some other repetitive items we thought we should list, Mr. Chairman; we have several warehouses, some 10 projects totaling $4 million. These are mostly brought about by increased missions and stock levels and stock items on the bases. Šome of them are replacements. There is one here which we mentioned yesterday, which is a replacement for the Elmendorf one, which was lost in the earthquake, and these are shown, I believe, on page 58.

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Senator CANNON. That is a pretty expensive warehouse for Elmendorf.

Colonel REILLY. 1.7 is the cost factor.

General CURTIN. Actually in the case of that one, Mr. Chairman, there was over 200,000 square feet lost in the earthquake. The requirement has been restudied, and we feel we can get along with a replacement of 120,000 square feet.

Senator STENNIS. I noticed Davis-Monthan comes in for a great number of these places. Is that because you are transferring to DavisMonthan some of the activities you are closing down elsewhere? Does that come into the picture? Why are there so many new projects at Davis-Monthan?

Colonel LUSCHEN. Davis-Monthan here is receiving at the present time, an increase in the bulidup in the F-4 training mission, the TAC combat through training school for the F-4 type aircraft in DavisMonthan. After the B-47's were phased out last year, this is a merging of the base mission. Likewise it has two squadrons of TITAN II missiles as a reconnaissance wing, the U-2 reconnaissance wing, and it is also the site for consolidated Air Force and Navy aircraft reclamation and salvage program.

Senator STENNIS. It seems odd if you are going from a B-47 to a fighter craft that you would have to have a new $270,000 warehouse. What is the special reason for that?

Colonel WOOD. Without looking at the books, I cannot recall the exact justification for this one.

you know.

Senator STENNIS. You had better wait until
General CURTIN. We will have it in just a minute, Mr. Chairman.

LIBRARIES

Colonel FENLON. Mr. Chairman, the libraries that we have shown here total some 10 projects. Of course these are both recreational and technical facilities in a sense, similar to the library that would exist in a small community. In many cases these are replacements for rather makeshift facilities on the base. They provide a recreation library for the airmen and officers and their dependents. From a technical standpoint, they are a reference library that people who are taking offcampus courses and so forth would be using on off-duty time.

(The following information was subsequently furnished.)