tion. Normal maintenance and modification of ammunition such as disassembly, re-fusing, adding serviceable cartridge cases, primers, and powder, repainting would also be accomplished in this building. The only facility at present consists of a tent with an improvised wooden frame, wooden floor, and doors. This is a fire hazard and not in accord with safety practices. No heat, due to flammable nature of the present facility, can be furnished and the inspectors are subjected to unnecessary hardships. If the ammunition surveillance workshop is not approved, infraction of safety regulations, inadequate working space, lowering of morale, and poor quality of work produced will continue. Three hundred sixty-seven family quarters (Capehart) ($0): This project is required to provide permanent family housing for 367 of the 1,544 company grade officers authorized family quarters at this station. Because of a shortage of company grade quarters, recently completed Capehart noncommissioned officers quarters were diverted to company officer use and the noncommissioned officers continue to occupy substandard quarters in mobilization-type buildings in three areas of the post. Company grade officers are assigned to Wherry units which have from 61 to 71 percent of the 1,250 square feet authorized for them. Authorization of this project will permit assignment of noncommissioned officers to Wherry housing where the net floor area is within from 71 to 82 percent of the 1,080 square feet authorized for them; and will result in a more equitable distribution of available family quarters, providing housing for 56 percent of the field grade officers, 51 percent of the company grade officers, and 92 percent of the noncommissioned officers. In addition to existing permanent facilities there are also 645 substandard units located on the post which are currently occupied. Number of units: Requested by Army: 367. Approved by OSD: 367. Estimated cost: $6,055,500. Authorization: Public Law 1020, 84th Congress. Current assets: Requirements (based on long-range troop strength): Officers and upper grade enlisted men.. Lower-grade enlisted---- Essential civilians---- Total. 501 2,000 1,500 367 1,557 5, 925 7, 121 2,507 0 9, 628 The construction of this project will enable the Department of the Army to provide 83 percent of the maximum gross housing requirement based on the long-range troop forecast. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the item is approved. 20066-58-No. 86- -10 Mr. KELLEHER (reading): Fort Campbell, Kentucky: Operational and training facilities, maintenance facilities, medical facilities, and administrative facilities, $847,000. General SHULER. Fort Campbell, Ky.-Tenn.: Third Army; installation located 8 miles southeast of Clarksville; initially occupied in 1942; designated "permanent." Mission: Principal mission is basic and technical training of airborne division, engineer group, and other nondivision units, including parachute landing (equipment and personnel) and weapons firing stations. Total cost (based on price when acquired), $90,889,116. Cost of improvements (permanent and other), $86,657,339. Present strength: Military, 16,675; civilian employees, 1,643. total): Two trainfire I ranges. Motor repair shop. Dental clinic, 28-chair. Battalion headquarters building. Eight hundred thirty-seven family quarters (Capehart). Detailed justification follows: Two trainfire I ranges ($183,000): Trainfire I has been adopted as the basic rifle course by the Army. This project will provide for essential training facilities required for rifle instruction based on this new training concept. Facilities which are outmoded by trainfire I are currently being utilized. Motor repair shop ($112,000): Item is required to provide unit. maintenance and repair facilities for approximately 125 vehicles, and will be utilized in conjunction with recently constructed motor park hardstand. The need for this item is presently being met by overcrowding of existing permanent shops and by use of mobilization-type buildings. The utilization of existing mobilization-type shops requires a round trip of 5 miles for each vehicle served. These buildings are scheduled for demolition to make room for future permanent construction. Deferment of this item will cause a continued loss of vehicle and driver time, fuel and oil for the servicing of an estimated 125 vehicles at an annual cost of approximately $7,000. Dental clinic, 28-chair ($502,000): Project is required to provide dental care for military perosnnel in the new permanent troop housing area. Need is now being met by use of 2 mobilization type clinics (14,500 square feet) constructed in 1942 and in need of major repairs. The main clinic building, containing laboratory facilities, is to be razed upon completion of project, to clear area for future permanent post headquarters building. This clinic is located some 2 miles from permanent troop housing area. Deferment of project will require continued use of existing mobilization type clinics, thus increasing maintenance costs, preventing orderly development of master plan and, because of distance from troop housing area, require needless lost time for personnel to receive dental care. Battalion headquarters building ($50,000): Project required to provide facilities for administrative supply and command functions for one battalion of troops in a new barracks area. Existing facilities in mobilization type buildings, built in 1942, are located too far away (approximately 1 mile) from new barracks area for utilization, and the majority of these buildings are in need of major repairs. The worst in excess of possible future needs are to be razed, as the new buildings are completed, to save maintenance costs and to clear areas for future construction. The need for additional battalion headquarters is being met by using troop space in the new barracks. Deferment of project will necessitate continued use of this space needed for troop housing. Eight hundred thirty-seven family quarters (Capehart) ($0): This project is required to provide an increment of the permanent family housing facilities for officers and enlisted personnel assigned to this station. Essentiality of this project is predicated on the direct support of the 101st Airborne Division. In addition to existing permanent facilities there are also 669 substandard units located on the post which are currently occupied but which must be disposed of prior to July 1960. Number of units: Requested by Army: 837. Approved by OSD: 837. Estimated cost: $13,810,500. Authorization: Public Law 1020, 84th Congress. Current assets: Public quarters- Existing Capehart_- Proposed Capehart.. Community support--. Total Requirements (based on long-range troop strength): Officers and upper-grade enlisted men-- Lower-grade enlisted.. Essential civilians--- Total 538 1, 200 0 837 1,032 3, 607 4, 643 623 20 5, 286 The construction of this project will enable the Department of the Army to provide 77 percent of the maximum gross housing requirement based on the long-range troop forecast. The CHAIRMAN. All right. Read the item off the book. Mr. KELLEHER. Yes, sir. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the item is approved. Mr. KELLEHER. Those houses have been cleared by the committee, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. That is right. We looked that over very closely. Mr. KELLEHER. There were some items from last year, at Fort Campbell, quite a number of them, Mr. Chairman. They are not totaled, but I would say they equal something in the order of 5 or 6 million dollars. These are items that were not funded, projects deferred in the interest of saving the taxpayers money, pending the determination of the use of facilities at Campbell Air Force Base. If the Air Force agrees, the Army can cancel the need for certain of the authorized facilities. The CHAIRMAN. What about that, General? General SHULER. Mr. Chairman, this is another instance where the Army is trying to be alert to things it can do to save money, instead of something that costs more money. We saw a chance to possibly get a co-use agreement with the Air Force at Campbell Air Force Base, which is right adjacent. As soon as we can work that out, sir, we would then have no need for certain of these items, and we would advise the committee and only construct those that we would have to construct. The CHAIRMAN. What progress are you making? That is very commendable. What progress are you making to work it out? General SHULER. I would say, sir, that there is an agreement fairly close; I would say within the next 2 months. The CHAIRMAN. Who will take it up with the Air Force to see that that is worked out? General SHULER. I would say General Rentz, when he comes up here to testify on the construction. The CHAIRMAN. Make a note of that, Mr. Kelleher. We don't want those things blocked by someone not desiring to go along. Mr. KELLEHER. Yes, sir. The CHAIRMAN. We are in an era of unification and coordination. Mr. GAVIN. Integration. The CHAIRMAN. And we want to stay in that area. Mr. RIVERS. Mr. Chairman Mr. BATES. What was that first word? Mr. BECKER. Integration. Mr. GAVIN. Unification, coordination, and integration. Is Campbell the home of the 101st Airborne? General SHULER. Yes; it is. Mr. RIVERS. I want to sympathize with the humiliation that the Army had to undergo in using the 101st Airborne against fellow Americans. I want that in the record. Mr. KITCHIN. That is in the category of integration. The CHAIRMAN. The next one is Fort McClellan, Ala. Mr. KELLEHER (reading): Fort McClellan, Alabama: Operational and training facilities, and hospital facilities, $3,505,000. The items are a telephone exchange building, $90,000. A train fire range, $84,000. And a station hospital, 100 beds on a 400-bed chassis, $3,331,000. General SHULER. Fort McClellan, Ala.: Third Army; installation located 7 miles north of Anniston; initially occupied in 1915; designated "permanent. Mission: Chemical Corps Training Command including operation of Chemical Corps School which provides CEBAR training for troop units and selected personnel for Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Corps, and NATO; 100th Group Chemical Corps, Chemical Corps Field Requirements Agency; WAC basic training and WAC specialist school; National Guard and Reserve summer training. Total cost (based on price when acquired), $40,293,481. Cost of improvements (permanent and other), $39,551,383. Present strength: Military, 3,716; civilian employees, 903. Line items requested for fiscal year 1959 authorization ($3,505,000 total): Telephone exchange building. Train-fire I range. Station hospital (100,400 square feet). Detailed justification follows: Telephone exchange building ($90,000): Present telephone exchange consists of 1,120 usable pairs of which 1,070 are now in use; 75 pairs have to be reserved for National Guard and Reserve summer training, leaving a deficit of 25 lines for use. At present, there are 119 family units under construction with an additional 200 units approved. The increase of family housing plus other future construction of United States Army hospital, barracks, classrooms, BOQ's, and so forth, exceeds the capacity of the present facility. Present facility will be utilized to consolidate other Signal Corps facilities, such as signal supply and telephone maintenance, now decentralized within the Signal Corps facilities area, providing a more efficient operation and supervision. If this project is not provided, required telephone service cannot be provided. Trainfire I range ($84,000): Trainfire I has been adopted as the new basic rifle course by the Army. This project will provide for essential training facilities required for rifle instruction based on this new training concept. Facilities which are outmoded by trainfire I are currently being utilized. Station hospital (100,400 square feet) ($3,331,000): To provide adequate permanent hospital facilities, for an average daily census of 125 patients, for troops and their dependents stationed on this post, plus personnel from satellite installations such as Anniston Ordnance Depot, Alabama Military District, and retired personnel in this area. A permanent hospital is required to replace the present mobilizationtype hospital which does not afford the required fire safety, privacy, and security for patients, and to increase efficiency and economy of medical activities in both money and personnel. The present mobilization-type hospital is rapidly deteriorating and is costly in operation and maintenance and does not provide for many of the modern economical consolidations of the hospital activities. Only two wards are air-conditioned, there is no paging system and no phone (central) system. Piped oxygen is not available. Present facilities will be returned to mobilization site facilities. Elimination of this project will result in continuing in use mobilization-type facilities. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the item is approved. Mr. BATES. Tell us a little bit about that hospital, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. The committee knows you must have ample hospital facilities. It is to take care of the sick. Mr. BATES. We know all that, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. That is what it is all for. Mr. BATES. Tell us what it is replacing, if you will please, and what the nearest facilities are presently. Colonel CLELAND. The hospital is 125 on a 200-bed chassis. It is replacing a wooden cantonment-type facility. The nearest hospital, I believe, is at Montgomery-about 100 miles. I think it is about 100 miles to the nearest hospital. I ask to be corrected on that. Mr. BATES. This was built in |