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Colonel LUSCHEN. Sir, I may be able to add a little more there. We have had a change in mission at this base, and we added the Tactical Air Command F-4 combat crew-training school to this base mission since the prior hospital project was programed and constructed.

This F-4c mission just moved into the base this past year. It came from MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Fla. The movement of it was necessitated by keeping two full tactical fighter wings at MacDill Field rather than having them moved to oversea areas.

Senator STENNIS. You have had an increase there of more than 700 or 800?

Colonel LUSCHEN. That is correct.

Senator STENNIS. To that extent these figures were misleading even though they were correct.

Thank you very much for that addition.

The next item, unless there is further discussion, is on page 54.

ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S. DAK.

Colonel FENLON. Page 54, sir, chapel annex at Ellsworth Air Force Base.

Senator STENNIS. That has been covered in the repetitive items.
Colonel FENLON. Yes, sir.

Senator STENNIS. Unless you have something to add.

Colonel FENLON. No, sir.

Senator STENNIS. Suppose we go on to the next item.

FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, WASH.

Colonel FENLON. Page 56, Fairchild Air Force Base, located 12 miles west-southwest of Spokane.

We have one item, a repetitive item. It is the alteration of a former warehouse so as to provide an adequate gymnasium.

Senator STENNIS. All right, that sounds good.

The next item, page 58, the same thing, chapel?

FRANCIS E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, WYO.

Colonel FENLON. Yes, sir; this is a repetitive item at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base.

Senator ELLENDER. Mr. Chairman, may I ask a question?
Senator STENNIS. All right, Senator.

Senator ELLENDER. Referring to the chapel that you are asking for on page 54, am I right that this is costing almost a half million dollars? What is involved there in addition to the church itself, the chapel?

Colonel FENLON. The chapel here, sir, has an annex on it which provides for religious education programs and administration, so it is more than just a chapel. It does have the annex attached to it. Senator ELLENDER. You mean education or what?

Colonel FENLON. Sunday school.

Senator ELLENDER. A school?

Colonel FENLON. Sunday school, sir, and adult classes.

Senator STENNIS. What we ordinarily call the educational building? Colonel FENLON. Yes, sir.

Senator STENNIS. That goes with the church.

Colonel FENLON. The cost factor in this area as an added piece of information is 1.15.

Senator STENNIS. At Ellsworth?

Colonel FENLON. Yes, sir.

Senator STENNIS. Why is it so much more there?

Colonel REILLY. Primarily, sir, because of the remote location from large cities and industrial areas. We find, generally speaking, that at all of our northern tier; that is, North and South Dakota, most installations have higher construction costs than we find in other parts of the country.

Senator STENNIS. Ellsworth is a right nice city. You ought to have a competitive market there.

Senator ELLENDER. Mr. Chairman, according to the data before me here, this is an annex.

Senator STENNIS. No.

Senator ELLENDER. What have you there now? Isn't this annex to your base chapel?

Mr. STEWARD. Ellsworth Air Force Base; we have a religious education enrollment of 1,649 students.

Senator ELLENDER. Where from?

Mr. STEWARD. From the base housing, sir.

Senator ELLENDER. What have you there now?

Mr. STEWARD. We have one chapel, sir, and 3,280 square feet of religious education space available. available. Our requirement is 13,000. Senator ELLENDER. It costs $426,000 just for the annex.

Mr. STEWARD. No, sir, for the chapel with the annex. We will have a 300-seat chapel and to that building will be an annex of approximately 4,000 square feet, sir.

Senator ELLENDER. I cannot understand it.

Senator STENNIS. It would be simpler on page 54 if you said chapel base with educational building, and then people from the country could understand it. You have chapel base annex, and it does not carry the full story, but you are building a new chapel.

Mr. STEWARD. That is correct, sir.

Senator STENNIS. Attached thereto is an educational building.
Mr. STEWARD. Of 4,000 square feet, sir.

Senator STENNIS. Both of them new construction?

Mr. STEWARD. Yes, sir.

Senator ELLENDER. And you are going to use both chapels.

Mr. STEWARD. Yes, sir.

Senator ELLENDER. The one you have there now.

Mr. STEWARD. That is correct.

Senator ELLENDER. And another one.

Mr. STEWARD. That is right. We are in very critical deficiency here in this installation. Our average attendance is running over 400. We are having trouble trying to get the people in the one building we have.

Senator ELLENDER. I am glad to note that. You must have a lot of religious people there.

Mr. STEWARD. Sir, the attendance figures are very good at this base. Senator STENNIS. Senator, it does not cost as much as some of the officers clubs do.

All right, the next item, if there is nothing further, page 60.

GRAND FORKS AIR FORCE BASE, N. DAK.

Colonel FENLON. Yes, sir, Grand Forks Air Force Base located 16 miles west of Grand Forks, N. Dak.

The planned use of this base is for an air defense fighter-interceptor mission, a SAC bomber and tanker mission, and a SAC missile mission.

The program requested is for $4,953,000.

The first item is a repetitive item for a 200-man dormitory. The second item is a repetitive item for a 300-seat chapel with a basement annex. The third item is a repetitive item.

Senator STENNIS. That means a basement educational center.
Colonel FENLON. Yes, sir.

Senator STENNIS. All right, specify it that way.

Colonel FENLON. The third item is a repetitive item. It is an addition to the service club. The fourth item is again a repetitive item. It is an addition to the noncommissioned officers open mess. The fifth item, a repetitive item, an addition to the officers open mess.

Senator STENNIS. You have a rather long item here. We have a valuable member of our Appropriations Subcommittee who is pressed for time. I am going to ask you to turn over to Malmstrom now, and we will take that up. This is at page 87.

MALMSTROM AIR FORCE BASE, MONT.

(Discussion off the record.)

Senator STENNIS. Proceed now on page 87. We will come back to this other item. Make your usual presentation on Malmstrom, and I will recognize Senator Mansfield then.

Colonel FENLON. Malmstrom Air Force Base, located 5 miles east of Great Falls, Mont.

The planned use of this installation is for a support base for the SAC MINUTEMAN ICBM missile mission, and an Air Force air defense interceptor mission.

The program requested is for $577,000.

The first item is a repetitive item for a 200-man dormitory, and the second item is a repetitive item covered in the briefing yesterday. It is for a 1,100,000-gallon water storage tank.

Senator STENNIS. Your dormitory for the airmen was covered in your repetitive items?

Colonel FENLON. Yes, sir.

Senator STENNIS. We had charts and illustrations on dormitories Senator, and they presented them as a group.

You may proceed now.

STATEMENT OF HON. MIKE MANSFIELD, SENATOR FROM MONTANA

Senator MANSFIELD. Mr. Chairman, I only have a few questions to ask. I would point out that in comparison to practically every other SAC base in the country, about 60 percent of the structures at Malmstrom are of the World War II type, and that they are rapidly deteriorating. Very little has been done in the past 5 years to improve the base characteristics, and with Glasgow, the most modern, the most recent Air Force base in the country being marked for closing over a phased out period-which I hope does not occur-it seems prudent that Malmstrom, with the addition of a new MINUTEMAN missile

wing-50 MINUTEMEN missiles are in the process of construction; the only ones I think being constructed this year under this year's appropriation bill-that we ought to give consideration to Malmstrom, which is long overdue, so that it could be functioning structurally wise on the same basis as the other SAC bases in the country, for example, the one at Little Rock, at Homestead in Florida, and many others which could be named.

I am interested in what the long-range construction plans of the Air Force are as far as this important installation is concerned.

I might say, Mr. Chairman, that during the Second World War, Malmstrom, then known as the East Air Force Base, and Gore Field, which is now the commercial flying field, transported over 7,000 combat planes of all types to the Soviet Union by way of Alaska; and this location was picked out, not because of any political potential on the part of the delegation from the State of Montana, but only after the Army Air Force, as it was at that time, had tried to operate on that basis from the Twin Cities, but could not do so because of weather conditions not being right. Then they moved to the area of Tacoma-Seattle, and there the conditions were not right, and finally they picked on Great Falls because it had the greatest number of clear flying days throughout the year.

Now I note that a water storage tank costing $177,000 is proposed for Malmstrom Air Force Base in this bill. Is this going to fully solve the water problem there, or can we expect a later request for further improvements? I might say that Great Falls is the town in which I was raised, so I know something about the water situation in that area.

Colonel FENLON. The information available here, Senator Mansfield, doesn't indicate that there is a follow-on at the present time. I understand there has been some discussion of additional water possibly from the city, but it is not reflected in our 5-year program at this time.

Senator MANSFIELD. Will you look into that and make sure that most serious consideration is given to that, because I think the need is apparent, and with the expansion of the base, with permanency further insured through the installation of 50 more MINUTEMAN missile sites, this is going to be a problem we are going to have to face up to, and I hope that you will look into it personally and make sure that it is given the consideration which that base deserves.

General CURTIN. I will do that, Senator.

Senator MANSFIELD. Now I am informed that the base authorities requested two airmen's dormitories during the fiscal year 1966 program, but that only one is being requested here.

What happened to the other one?

Major STURGEON. As I recall, the other 200-man dormitory was deleted during the OSD review.

Senator STENNIS. That means the Office of the Secretary of Defense; is that right?

Major STURGEON. Yes, sir; it does.

Senator STENNIS. Senator Mansfield.

Senator MANSFIELD. I think the Office of the Secretary of Defense ought to reconsider that, because, as I pointed out, you have got Malmstrom operating on the basis of at least 60 percent Second World War housing. You have with the addition of the fourth MINUTE

MAN squadron in the near future an additional need for troop housing.

The situation as far as the dormitories is concerned will become more acute, and I hope that in this aspect, too, you will look into it personally and develop plans to solve this problem, which has confronted this base ever since its inception.

General CURTIN. We will do that, sir.

Senator MANSFIELD. I note that there is not even one bachelor officers' quarters in Malmstrom. Isn't this unusual for a permanent base?

Major STURGEON. Malmstrom did not request any officers' quarters in the 1966 program, sir. Our records indicate that they have space for 144 officers on the base; however, almost all these spaces are now being used to house airmen due to the shortage of airmen dormitory space. The type of structure that it is I do not have available at the present time.

Senator MANSFIELD. This is another question which I would appreciate your going into, because all the unmarried officers must live in town at a considerable cost to themselves, and at a considerable inconvenience, and I think that something ought to be done in the matter of BOQ's for these unmarried officers who live there, and I think if something is done it could be done at a saving to the Government, when you consider the cost which the Government must pay when they live in town.

Will you look into that and give it the consideration which it deserves?

General CURTIN. We will do that, sir.

Senator MANSFIELD. At the present time vehicles are being driven over 750,000 miles a month servicing the missile sites, which are stretched out over a number of Montana counties.

With the advent of new missile sites, this will increase to over 1 million miles per month. In spite of this, there are no heated storage facilities for automotive equipment at Malmstrom, and I am sure that we are all aware of just how weather conditions can be there.

As an illustration, Glasgow, which is only about 125 air miles away, had this year over 75 days of weather below zero, and here in an area which is comparable as far as weather conditions are concerned, we have this huge mileage, which is mandatory, necessary to service these missile sites, which now approximate 750,000 miles a month, which will, with the additional 50 MINUTEMAN missiles, approximate 1 million miles a month, and I think we ought to, in our own selfinterest, and on the basis of our own security, give some serious consideration to this and do some planning ahead for it as well.

General CURTIN. On that particular item, Senator, Strategic Air Command has come in with a plan to take care of this. The plan has been sent back to them for restudy, and we are to consider this in the 1967 budget.

Senator MANSFIELD. I appreciate that. Those are all the questions I have, Mr. Chairman. There are others I could raise, but these I think are the most important for the time being, and I would hope that something would be done to modernize this permanent base, that something would be done to take care of this transportation problem, that something would be done to take care of the dormitories needed for

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