Supplemental Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1966, Hearings Before ... 89-2, on H.R. 135461966 - 455 pages |
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1966 supplemental activities additional Admiral McDONALD Air Force aircraft ammunition appropriation Army attacks believe BELL bombers bombing budget cadres Cam Ranh Bay Chairman RUSSELL civilian Colloquy deleted combat committee Communist costs Defense effect equipment fighting fiscal year 1966 funds going Government guerrilla Haiphong Hanoi helicopters increase interviews JOHNSON Korea Laos logistics losses Marine Corps MCCLELLAN MCCONNELL ment military construction military personnel million missiles months Navy North Dakota operations percent procurement question request Saigon Secretary BROWN Secretary MCNAMARA Senator ALLOTT Senator BYRD Senator CANNON Senator ELLENDER Senator ERVIN Senator JACKSON Senator MANSFIELD Senator MCCLELLAN Senator MUNDT Senator PASTORE Senator SALTONSTALL Senator STENNIS Senator SYMINGTON Senator THURMOND Senator YOUNG ships soldiers South Vietnam southeast Asia statement supply tactical tion troops U.S. steel units Viet Vietcong VIETNAM Senator Vietnamese weapons WHEELER YOUNG of North YOUNG of Ohio
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Page 8 - It is important to note that whereas in 1964 we had no artillery in Vietnam, we now have a substantial number of artillery battalions there. In 1964, the US Army and Marine Corps flew an average of 19,000 helicopter sorties per month; by the middle of last year they were flying about 60,000 sorties per month and at the end of the year, about 125,000. This intensive use of helicopters greatly increases our mobility, making it possible to operate with a much smaller central reserve and to conduct offensive...
Page 110 - Each Party recognizes that aggression by means of armed attack in the treaty area against any of the Parties or against any State or territory which the Parties by unanimous agreement may hereinafter designate, would endanger its own peace and safety, and agrees that it will in that event act to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes.
Page 11 - Code, may be maintained in only such amounts as are necessary at any time for cash disbursements to be made from such funds: Provided, That transfers may be made between such funds and the "Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Defense...
Page 111 - Consonant with the Constitution of the United States and the Charter of the United Nations and in accordance with its obligations under the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, the United States is, therefore, prepared, as the President determines, to take all necessary steps, including the use of armed force, to assist any member of protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty requesting assistance in defense of its freedom.
Page 1 - President determines that compliance with section 2313 (b) of title 10, United States Code, for contracts made under this Act for the establishment or development of military installations and facilities in foreign countries would interfere with the carrying out of this Act ; and (2) the Secretary of Defense and the Comptroller General have agreed upon alternative method of adequately auditing those contracts ; the President may exempt those contracts from the requirements of that section.
Page 1 - United States Code. The authority to place permanent or temporary improvements on land includes authority for surveys, administration, overhead, planning, and supervision incident to construction. That authority may be exercised before title to the land is approved under section 355 of the Itevised Statutes, as amended (40 USC 255), and even though the land is held temporarily.
Page 4 - Secretary McNamara and General Taylor reported their judgment that the major part of the US military task can be completed by the end of 1905, although there may be a continuing requirement for a limited number of US training personnel.
Page 8 - ... and personnel into South Vietnam. By June of last year, the number of these sorties had increased to 2,800 and by December to over 5,000. The number of attack sorties flown by fixed-wing tactical aircraft against targets in South Vietnam has increased from a monthly average of 1,200 in 1964 to 7,200 in June 1965 and almost 13,000 in December 1965. In addition, we have been flying approximately 300 B-52 sorties, consuming about 6,000 tons of bombs per month since July 1965. Overall, we consumed...
Page 227 - I don't think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the war can be won out there. In the final analysis, it is their war. They are the ones who have to win it or lose it. We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisers, but they have to win it — the people of Viet-Nam — against the Communists. We are prepared to continue to assist them...