General SHULER. Now the classified book if we may take that. (Whereupon, at 12:10 p.m., the committee proceeded in executive session, and following consideration of classified items recessed at 12:20 p.m. to reconvene at 2 p.m. for further consideration of classified items.) AFTERNOON SESSION (The subcommittee reconvened at 2:15 p.m. and in executive session proceeded with the consideration of classified items, and at 2:25 p.m. continued in open session.) Present: Senators Jackson (presiding), Cannon, Byrd of West Virginia, Inouye, and Thurmond. Senator JACKSON. The committee will come to order. We turn now to title II, which relates to the requirements of the Navy. We are very glad to have you back with us again, Admiral Hull. You may wish to put your prepared statement in the record at this point, and unless you have some special overall observations which you wish to make, I think we can turn right to the justification book. STATEMENT OF REAR ADM. HARRY HULL, U.S. NAVY, DIRECTOR, SHORE ACTIVITIES, DEVELOPMENT, AND CONTROL DIVISION, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS Admiral HULL. Very well, Senator. I should also like to submit. for inclusion in the record statements of the Honorable Graeme C. Bannerman, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Vice Admiral Lot Ensey, and Rear Adm. A. C. Husband. (The statements submitted by Mr. Bannerman, Admiral Ensey, and Admiral Husband follow:) STATEMENT OF REAR ADM. HARRY HULL Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am Rear Adm. Harry Hull, U.S. Navy, Director of the Shore Activities Development and Control Division in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. It is an honor for me to appear again before this committee to testify on military construction for the Navy. In the fiscal year 1967 program being presented today, we recommend your approval of new authorization in the amount of $126,835,000. The various line items that will be considered by the committee support the following Department of Defense programs: Program I, for strategic retaliatory forces__ $488, 000 46, 408, 000 20, 681, 000 59, 258, 000 It is geared to meet the The military construction program is a dynamic one. requirements of our modern Navy. The fulfillment of these requirements is essential to the accomplishment of the Navy mission. This year, because of expanding commitments in southeast Asia, these requirements have been screened to the point where only the most urgent projects remain in the program. The Navy program is presented in 10 facility classes. These are sponsored by the chiefs of the bureaus and offices of the Navy Department, including the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps. In this statement, I propose to comment on and to summarize briefly the content of each facility class within title II, that portion of the bill devoted to Navy and Marine Corps shore activities. I am prepared to testify later on the individual line items in as much detail as the committee may desire. Section 201, the unclassified portion of the bill, would authorize 159 line items at 90 locations. The total amount inside the United States is $98,957,000; and the amount for oversea locations is $13,942,000. All overseas line items have been thoroughly reviewed with respect to the flow-of-gold problem. Costs are based on a minimum outflow of U.S. currency to foreign countries. Section 202 would authorize 17 classified line items in the total amount of $13,936,000. BUREAU OF SHIPS FACILITIES, $13,527,000 This class consists of 28 line items at 11 locations for a total of $13,527,000. Twenty of these line items totaling $9,432,000 are in the group that is in support of the continuing modernization and improvement program for the ship repair and ship building facilities of the Navy. The research, development, test, and evaluation group consists of two line items totaling $2,724,000 within the United States, and six line items totaling $1,371,000 for further development of the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center on Andros Island, in the Bahamas. FLEET BASE FACILITIES, $12,275,000 This class includes a total of 12 line items for improvements at 10 naval activities that provide direct support to the fleet. Included are various items for ship berthing, such as the replacement of a pier at the naval submarine base, New London, Conn.; relocation of activities at Brooklyn and New Orleans for $2,200,000; five items totaling $5,795,000 for personnel support facilities; and an oversea classified item. NAVAL WEAPONS FACILITIES, $48,290,000 This is the largest of the Navy's facilities classes, comprising six groups of air, ordnance, and research facilities, each of which supports a particular segment of naval aviation or naval ordnance. These groups are naval air training; field support of fleet operations; Marine Corps air stations; fleet readiness support; research, development, test and evaluation; and oversea support of the fleet. In the naval air training group there are six proposed line items in support of the training of pilot and air crew personnel at five locations within the United States. A typical example is a line item for construction of aircraft maintenance shops at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Chase Field, Tex., to provide adequate maintenance facilities required to support the training aircraft. In the group of stations for field support of fleet operations, there are 29 proposed line items totaling $16,853,000 at 12 locations to enhance the capabilities of certain of the stations to support our operational forces. One of these projects proposes authorization to fund the cost of an aircraft parking apron and taxiway at the Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla., to accommodate the larger aircraft being assigned. In the Marine Corps air station group there are five proposed line items at four locations totaling $1,955,000. These projects will provide for increased capabilities at selected locations in support of marine aeronautical operations and operational training. The guided missile support facility at Marine Corps Air Station, Beaufort, S.C., is one of the proposed items in this group. In the fleet readiness station group, there are a total of 10 proposed line items at 6 installations totaling $6,272,000. Included in this group are six classified items for $4,452,000 at several ordnance activities. All of these projects support the task of improvement in fleet readiness such as the torpedo shop proposed for the Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport, Wash. For the research, development, test and evaluation stations we are proposing 16 line items at 9 installations for a total of $13,586,000. The fuze model range facilities at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Corona, Calif., is one of these proposed line items. Included in this group are seven classified items for $6,965,000. In the final naval weapons group for support of the fleet at oversea stations, there are nine proposed line items totaling $4,428,000 at six locations. These projects will provide improvements in operational, maintenance, and personnel support facilities such as the proposed barracks at the Naval Air Station, Cubi Point, Republic of the Philippines. SUPPLY FACILITIES, $1,287,000 This facility class includes four line items at three supply activities inside the United States for $1,287,000. One of these proposed line items is for petroleum, oil, and lubricants facilities at the Navy Fuel Depot, San Pedro, Calif. MARINE CORPS FACILITIES, $6,213,000 This class of facilities includes 11 proposed items at 4 locations inside the United States, and 6 proposed items on Okinawa. These proposed items are for expanded training, maintenance, administrative, and personnel support facilities for the Marine Corps. The proposed barracks at the Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, Calif., is a representative example of the line items within this class. SERVICE SCHOOL FACILITIES, $26,245,000 It is the Navy's responsibility to train officers and men to fill the required fleet billets. In order to keep pace with advancing technology in use by the Navy, increasing school requirements are necessarily generated in order to place qualified men on the job. Therefore, to properly perform the required training functions of the Navy, improvements to and expansion of training facilities are mandatory. Toward this end the Navy is proposing 18 line items at 8 locations within the United States. The recruit barracks to be located at the Naval Training Center, Orlando, Fla., is the largest single line item in these proposed facilities. Training buildings are also proposed for Orlando, as well as Dam Neck, Great Lakes, San Diego and Pearl Harbor. MEDICAL FACILITIES, $9,488,000 This facility class includes three proposed line items inside the United States at three locations for a cost of $5,239,000 and three items at two oversea locations for $4,249,000. Among these items, we are proposing construction of two naval hospitals: one at New London, Conn., and one at Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. The item at Roosevelt Roads is for an 80-bed hospital. It will provide inpatient and outpatient care for all authorized personnel in the area, including MAAG's, military missions, Peace Corps, consulate, and other authorized personnel. hospital is required in order to continue to provide medical service in the area upon inactivation of Army installations in Puerto Rico. COMMUNICATION FACILITIES, $6,343,000 This The 13 proposed line items at 10 locations in this class are considered essential to insure the worldwide integrity of naval communications. To be fully respon sive to the command and control concept of our fleet units, communications must be rapid, accurate, and reliable. Projects in this class will assist the Navy in carrying out these tasks. Seven line items totaling $2,838,000 are located outside the United States. OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH FACILITIES, $3 MILLION This facility class consists of one item, the laboratory facilities at the Arctic Research Laboratory, Barrow, Alaska. This line item will provide adequate laboratory facilities for about 400 scientists who will be conducting fundamental research on Arctic oceanography, Arctic environment, cold weather techniques, proper design of clothing, housing, engineering structures and materials. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS FACILITIES, $166,000 This last facility class includes two projects, one for telephone lines at the Naval Construction Battalion Center, Davisville, R.I.; and the other for fleet parking in the Coddington Cove pier area, at Newport, R.I. This concludes my summary, Mr. Chairman. I am prepared to try to answer your questions. STATEMENT BY HON. GRAEME C. BANNERMAN, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY (INSTALLATIONS AND LOGISTICS) Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, it is a privilege to present the Navy's military construction authorization program for fiscal year 1967. This year's program total is $126,835,000 covering approximately 176 line items at 98 of our continental and oversea installations. The program is smaller than in recent years, but this is not intended to imply that we do not have greater unfulfilled facilities requirements at our permanent installations. The support of 62-366-66- -5 our Marines and Seabees in South Vietnam and our fleet in the South China Sea and the western Pacific necessarily has been given the first priority. To meet all our responsibilities, recognizing that funds are not unlimited, we have approved only those projects which provide additional essential direct support of the fleet and fleet readiness and facilities for operational, training, and logistic functions and personnel support received priority. Only such facilities as were necessary to overcome major deficiencies or to meet urgent new requirements were included. Replacements of existing obsolete but usable facilities have been delayed. In general, the facilities which were included fell into the following categories: Operational and training facilities-$20.1 million or approximately 16 percent of the overall program. Facilities for maintaining our ships, aircraft, and equipment and for minimal production of ordnance-$21.8 million or 17 percent. Research, which must continue even under the present restrictions-$16.7 million, or 13 percent. Facilities supporting logistic functions-$28.2 million, or 22 percent. Personnel support facilities, mainly barracks, messhalls and bachelor officers' quarters-$40 million, or 23 percent of the overall program. Directly related to our continuing effort to economize wherever possible through the closure, reduction or relocation of activities are seven projects totaling $9.6 million. A specific project in this category was developed as a result of the air Force plan to close Turner Air Force Base near Albany, Ga. We plan to utilize the existing facilities at this base to carry on the functions now performed at the Naval Air Station, Sanford, Fla. A $2.1 million project at the Turner site included in the program under the new title Naval Air Station, Albany, Ga. By closing our Sanford station and moving to the Turner site, estimated savings in military construction will be approximately $13.5 million. In addition, we shall acquire approximately 900 units of much-needed family housing. Although the need to economize and other considerations force us to relocate to Turner, we will leave Sanford with regret because of the fine relations we have had with that community over the years. Another important project in this category is for a naval hospital at Roosevelt Roads, P.R., costing approximately $4 million. This 80-bed hospital will provide essential services to the military and other authorized personnel in the strategie Caribbean area. Its need arises out of the planned closure of Army facilities at San Juan. Details on these and the other five projects in this category will be brought out later in the hearings. A project worthy of individual mention is the $14.9 million proposal for development of the Navy's third recruit training center to be located at the former Air Force Base, Orlando, Fla. This center will become the east coast recruit training counterpart of the midwest and west coast centers at great Lakes and San Diego and will relieve the crowding at each of these two existing centers. Overcrowding now creates serious health hazards for the recruits and lowers the Efficiency of their training. Establishment of the proposed recruit training center at Orlando will eliminate these deficiencies. Also worthy of specific mention are those important projects for facilities for our bachelor officers and enlisted men. Our programs last year and this year have stressed the importance of personnel support facilities. They are being given emphasis equal to that accorded operational facilities. Family housing similarly represents a very important segment of personnel support facilities. It has been necessary, as you know, to defer the start of construction of new appropriated fund housing units authorized and funded last year. However, to meet certain critical deficiences in the housing area, the Department of Defense has offered for your consideration, title V of this bill which includes a provision to increase the allowable number of rental units. Approval of this provision would help in alleviating the problem for several years. The military construction, Naval Reserve program is also small this year, totaling only $5 million. It is composed of a few line items that we consider should be built by next year at the latest. It includes essential projects for each of the three major groups of our Reserves: Naval Air Reserve stations, Naval Reserve surface forces, and Marine Corps ground forces. The distinguished military officers accompanying me today will give the details of this program. I am pleased to present Vice Adm. Lot Ensey, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics); Rear Adm. Harry Hull, Director of the Shore Activities Development and Control Division of the Office of the CNO; Maj. Gen. Paul Tyler, Quartermaster General of the Marine Corps; and Rear Adm. A. C. Husband, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks. If you now have any general questions about this program I shall try to answer them. Otherwise, Admiral Ensey will be pleased to continue. STATEMENT BY THE DEPUTY CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS FOR LOGISTICS, VICE ADM. LOT ENSEY, U.S. NAVY Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I am Vice Adm. Lot Ensey, U.S. Navy, deputy chief of naval operations for logistics, here before this committee to support the Navy's military construction program for fiscal year 1967. The objective of the Navy's program is to fulfill adequately the requirements generated by the commanders of the operating forces. This year the Navy is submitting a very small program, not as a result of fewer operational requirements, but as a result of the requirement for execution of the military construction program in southeast Asia. Our program now includes only items operationally urgent for this year, and a few high priority improvement projects, after a most critical review. Conse quently, we believe that the line items in the program are individually of such high importance that they fully warrant authorization. The fiscal year 1967 program that you are considering constitutes the best we could develop to achieve the foregoing objectives. The total amount of regular military construction is $126,825,000, and Naval Reserve construction is $5 million. The scope of several important programs has been reduced below normal by high selectivity this year. Chief among these was the improvement program to correct inadequate personnel support facilities. Although this program is austere compared to the need, the matter is of such high concern to the Department of the Navy that 32 percent of the total program is still devoted toward this end. The proposed Orlando Naval Recruit Training Center is a typical Navy effort to provide adequate facilities at a station. The total current and planned peacetime personnel program requires an average on-board recruit training load of 26,000 young men. All recruit training is now done at Great Lakes and San Diego. These existing facilities cannot accommodate the required loading without overcrowding, which in turn not only creates serious health hazards but also introduces inefficiencies into the training. Establishment of the proposed recruit training station at Orlando will distribute the load in an efficient manner and eliminate these highly undesirable conditions now existing. New construction and modernization of the ships of our fleet must be continuing, and it must be coupled with introduction of complex weapons systems vital to maintenance of the great striking power of our Navy. Such fleet improvements cannot be accomplished without concurrent modernization and construction of the necessary shore support for them. For this reason, our military construction program includes required modernization of shipyards and fleet support facilities. Fleet aircraft have increased measurably in size and complexity, commensurate with today's technological advances. In order to support, operate, and effectively employ these advanced weapons systems, officers and men must train, and ground facilities, capable of supporting the planes, must be in being. Our program includes essential items for these two purposes. In all, this program is well rounded: It affords us the best buy within our proposed dollar amount. The line items of the fiscal year 1967 program support the following Departments of Defense programs, as indicated: PROGRAM I STRATEGIC RETALIATORY FORCES, $488,000 These line items will provide for facilities that directly support the strategic retaliatory force of the Navy, and for related component systems, such as the Calibration Laboratory proposed for the Polaris missile facility at Charleston. PROGRAM III-GENERAL PURPOSE FORCES, $46,408,000 These line items propose facilities that support fleet operations, in order to carry out those tasks and functions assigned to the Navy. Facilities sponsored by the Marine Corps to maintain their readiness are included. (The aircraft parking apron at MCAF Santa Ana is an example of such facilities.) |