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... reliability , and so forth . There could be no doubt in my mind that we ought to do everything within our power to move as rapidly toward the MINUTEMAN as we can . If we could move to the MINUTEMAN in quantity today , it would be such a ...
... reliability , and so forth . There could be no doubt in my mind that we ought to do everything within our power to move as rapidly toward the MINUTEMAN as we can . If we could move to the MINUTEMAN in quantity today , it would be such a ...
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... reliability , especially of the ICBM , but of your IRBM too , and secondly , what do you know about his hard surface ? Does he have his IRBM's hardened and are his ICBM's pads that he now has up hardened ? What do you think ? I will ...
... reliability , especially of the ICBM , but of your IRBM too , and secondly , what do you know about his hard surface ? Does he have his IRBM's hardened and are his ICBM's pads that he now has up hardened ? What do you think ? I will ...
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... reliability ? General TWINING . With his NIKE - HERCULES he probably has a capability with an atomic weapon , but I think he is considerably behind us in it . Mr. FLOOD . You do ? General TWINING . Yes . Mr. FLOOD . That is not what the ...
... reliability ? General TWINING . With his NIKE - HERCULES he probably has a capability with an atomic weapon , but I think he is considerably behind us in it . Mr. FLOOD . You do ? General TWINING . Yes . Mr. FLOOD . That is not what the ...
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... reliability and increased combat effective- ness to their normal useful life . Of the present ship inventory , some 81 percent was built under World War II programs . The fact that all of these ships were built in a relative short ...
... reliability and increased combat effective- ness to their normal useful life . Of the present ship inventory , some 81 percent was built under World War II programs . The fact that all of these ships were built in a relative short ...
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... reliability . Secretary MCELROY . Yes . We are clear in our minds that for some time ahead , the reliability of delivery by long - range aircraft is superior to that of any other delivery system we know of , and we think that will be ...
... reliability . Secretary MCELROY . Yes . We are clear in our minds that for some time ahead , the reliability of delivery by long - range aircraft is superior to that of any other delivery system we know of , and we think that will be ...
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Page 666 - Defense, the Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps, we have a multitude of initiatives well underway to make our infrastructure more effective and less costly.
Page 225 - The Marine Corps shall be organized, trained, and equipped to provide fleet marine forces of combined arms, together with supporting air components, for service with the fleet in the seizure or defense of advanced naval bases and for the conduct of such land operations as may bo essantial to the prosecution of a naval campaign.
Page 660 - Objective: to consolidate the dictatorship of the proletariat in one country, using it as a base for the overthrow of imperialism in all countries.
Page 221 - Force, with their assigned combat and service components; to provide for their authoritative coordination and unified direction under civilian control of the Secretary of Defense but not to merge them...
Page 665 - Force, the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps in overseas areas on attache or mission aircraft.
Page 432 - Chiefs are advisers to the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, and the President.
Page 223 - The Joint Chiefs of Staff are the principal military advisers to the President, the National Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense.
Page 222 - The operational chain of command runs from the President to the Secretary of Defense to the commanders of the unified combatant commands.
Page 296 - President left, trailed by the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Av Lincoln walked over to Hood. "Congratulations, Paul. I sense an ass-kicking.
Page 219 - Memorandum for the Secretaries of the military departments; the Director of Defense Research and Engineering; the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; the Assistant Secretaries of Defense; the General Counsel; the assistants to the Secretary of Defense; and the Directors, defense agencies.