able and health and sanitation deficiencies can no longer be economically corrected. READINESS IMPROVEMENT To improve our readiness, we believe it is imperative to provide a standard of living in the Army community which will cause our young soldiers to look at extended active military service as an attractive career. Certainly, satisfaction in one's job, modern equip ment and inspired leadership go far toward promoting that goal; however, we must not lose sight of the fact that the improvements in facilities I discussed earlier contribute in large measure to a young soldier's perception of military service as a way of life. Our fiscal year 1981 military construction program is molded not only to support the Army's mission, improve readiness and comply with energy conservation and pollution abatement requirements, but to move toward adequate living conditions and facilities for our soldiers and their families as well. This concludes my summary. Thank you. Senator HUDDLESTON. Thank you, General. Admiral? DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY STATEMENT OF REAR ADM. D. G. ISELIN, COMMANDER, NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING COMMAND, DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY QUALITY OF LIFE INITIATIVES Admiral ISELIN. Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the opportunity to comment on the Navy's military construction budget supporting quality of life initiatives. The Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps have this year directed an increased emphasis on people programs, programs intended to improve the quality of life of our service members. It is hoped that one result of this emphasis will be improvement in the retention of highly qualified Navy and Marine personnel. Military construction can improve the quality of service life by providing new and modernized barracks, better health care facilities, safer and more efficient work spaces, and community facilities which are so important to the morale and welfare of our service members. ADDITIONAL BARRACKS SPACES This year's budget requests $84.5 million for the construction of 4,566 new barracks spaces and the modernization of another 1,141 barracks spaces for the Navy and Marine Corps. Providing modern, semiprivate or private accommodations for enlisted personnel during their years on shore duty is one clear signal of our concern for their welfare. MEDICAL CARE The provision of quality medical care is required to fulfill commitments made to Navy and Marine Corps personnel and their dependents, since the time they began military service. As we meet our obligation to provide quality health care, we make service life more attractive and thereby make progress in solving our retention problems. This year's request includes $25 million in appropriations for a replacement hospital in San Diego, Calif., and $23 million for modernization of the existing hospital at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md. For San Diego, the total estimated cost is expected to be $293 million, the amount of the authorization request this year. MODERNIZATION OF WORKPLACE A clean, healthful workplace is as essential to our military personnel as to their civilian counterparts. The quality of the workplace has a direct impact on the productivity of those working within it. The Marine Corps military construction program in 59-461 0 - 81 - 11 cludes $13.3 million to improve facilities for maintenance of tank equipment, electronic and communication equipment, and ground support equipment. The Navy program includes $22.6 million for modernizing the workplace of our highly skilled sailors engaged in the intermediate maintenance of ships at two of our major naval bases. This construction is in addition to the $14.6 million requested to improve the work environment for civilian and military personnel under our occupational safety and health program. In time of constrained budgets, operational facilities take precedence over community facilities. However, a decision to defer these facilities may be counterproductive in that inadequate community facilities have a negative impact on morale and thus on the retention of qualified personnel. Therefore, an attempt is made to include some funding in each budget for a limited number of community facilities that are essential to the morale and welfare of our service members and their families. This year we are requesting $15.7 million for three chapels, a youth center, a swimming pool, a community services center, a theater, personnel support facilities, and an educational services complex. ENHANCEMENT OF PEOPLE PROGRAMS In summary, Mr. Chairman, our military construction request of $184 million out of a total $703 million is to enhance our people programs so important to the quality of life of our service members. We care about the welfare of our service members. We must be perceived by them to care. Thank you. Senator HUDDLESTON. Thank you, Admiral. DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE STATEMENT OF MAJ. GEN. WILLIAM D. GILBERT, DIRECTOR, ENGINEERING AND SERVICES, OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF, LOGISTICS AND ENGINEERING, DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE FAMILY, TROOP HOUSING AND QUALITY OF LIFE General GILBERT. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to present the Air Force family housing, troop housing and quality of life programs for fiscal year 1981. We in the Air Force give a high priority to the provision of adequate housing for our members because we know that nothing save strong leadership is more conducive to high morale than adequate housing. We do that only when local housing is not available for our families. In carrying out that theme, we are asking this year for authorization of appropriation for military family housing in 1981 in the amount of $639,883,000. This amount will enable the Air Force to achieve its objectives in the family housing area during fiscal year 1981. These objectives are to operate and maintain our existing assets, to carry on a lease program to supplement the houses in our onbase housing inventory, and to improve the livability of existing family houses at our Air Force bases, and this year for the first time in several years, to construct additional housing at two foreign locations overseas. Additionally, our appropriation request provides funds for minor construction work in our existing family housing inventory, planning funds for the design of various projects in family housing, and, of course, to make our debt payments on Wherry and Capehart houses. NEW CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMS In the way of new construction, we are asking this year for 350 units at two locations, 200 units at Incirlik, Turkey, and 150 units at our base at Lajes in the Azores. Not included in the Air Force total are 100 units for our base at Sunnyvale, Calif. These units are included in a larger project with the Navy where they are going to construct 270 units at Moffett Naval Air Station in California. In improvements, we are asking for 26 projects where we will renovate and modernize 3,887 housing units. In energy conservation, we are asking for 66 projects under which 30,192 units will be improved energy conservation-wise. This is carrying on the Air Force energy conservation investment program that we have had under way for several years. In the way of leasing, we are asking for funds in our fiscal year 1981 program to cover 6,340 leases; 1,550 for use in the CONUS, and 4,790 for use in Europe and Korea. Finally, we are asking for sufficient funds to operate and maintain our existing inventory of 146,847 housing units worldwide. In our unaccompanied personnel housing, a program that the Air Force has really put high emphasis on now for several years, we are asking for $42.2 million so that we can continue to upgrade and provide new, where that requirement exists, bachelor unaccompanied personnel housing for our people. It has become painfully apparent that it is increasingly difficult to attract and retain top quality people. The younger generation perceives a decline in the quality of military life and benefits. It behooves the leadership to turn this perception around. We can do this, certainly, by improving the quality of life for our people. In the way of community facilities, Mr. Chairman, we have a program for $18.3 million for community-type facilities. These are principally for morale and welfare of our forces, and they include facilities both overseas and in the continental United States. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION FACILITIES Our program includes religious education facilities at Griffiss Air Force Base in New York and a chapel center at Misawa Air Base in Japan. We are also asking for two gymnasiums, one at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas, and one in the Netherlands. A library is another item in our community support program for Dover Air Force Base, Del., and then a personnel services support center at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia. The remaining community facilities, although they are not directly enhancing the quality of life, do not directly enhance the quality of life, they do provide adequate support facilities to protect our base facilities and re sources. These include such things as some fire stations and security police facilities. In addition, we have an ambitious medical program for 1981 where we are attempting at several of our locations to provide adequate treatment facilities for our military members and their dependents. We feel that good health care facilities are conducive to and enhance a professional medical program for the treatment of our Air Force people. Mr. Chairman, this concludes my brief statement. I will file the entire statement for the record, with your concurrence. RELOCATABLES Senator HUDDLESTON. Thank you very much, General. I have some general questions, as well as some specific ones. I will start with General Read. You mentioned the relocatables that you are planning for Korea. That, I am sure, is related to the possible policy of some withdrawal from Korea. Does that give you the ability to recover substantially the cost of these new facilities? General READ. Yes, sir. That is the reason we chose to go this route. We have reached the point over there where the facilities we have are no longer economically repairable. They should be replaced in kind, but we feel that the most prudent way to go is with the relocatables. That will give us the option, should the decision |