existing or programed facilities which be utilized for this function. Further, there are no commercial facilities in the near vicinity that could be used for this type of storage. The total requirement is for 14,500 square feet, the requested 11,520 square feet will fulfill approximately 80 percent of this requirement. The next item provides 20,000 barrels of jet fuel storage. Existing storage is insufficient and resupply which is by tank truck from St. Ignace, Mich., requires 24 hours advance notice prior to delivery. The total requirement for jet fuel storage is 129,863 barrels, with 64,522 barrels, either existing or under construction, leaving a deficit of 65,311 barrels. The requested project will be to fill approximately 65 percent of the requirement. The next item is for an addition to the air base group headquarters building. This addition is necessary to provide sufficient space for administration of base headquarters activities which have increased as a result of mission increases. The existing facility is totally inadequate and has forced the interim use of a portion of existing dormitory and BOQ space for administrative functions. There are no other facilities existing that can be converted or utilized for this purpose. If this project is not provided continued utilization will have to be made of the dormitory and BOQ which will result in a shortage of this critically needed space. The requested project will fulfill the total requirement for this function. The next item is a wing headquarters building to house the wing commander, control room, and other staff officers necessary for the support of the assigned SAC mission. There are no facilities existing that can be converted or utilized for this function. This project will satisfy the total requirement. The next item is a trailer court to accommodate the individually owned trailers of assigned military personnel. Community facilities are high in cost, inadequate, beyond established traveling time and distance criteria, and below minimum AF standards. Existing Air Force housing and housing under construction does not fulfill the total requirement for this function. The next item is a confinement facility. No facility exists that can be utilized or converted for this purpose. Currently prisoners requiring confinement are transported to Kincheloe AFB, 190 miles distant. This is both a costly and time consuming procedure. Further this necessitates the diversion of air police from their normal security and law enforcement duties. This project will fulfill the total requirement for this function. The next two items provide for an addition to the existing chapel and chapel annex and the commissary store, to accommodate increase in personnel. The existing chapel with annex was constructed to support a single fighter interceptor squadron. The addition of a SAC and SAGE mission to this base makes the existing facility totally inadequate. The total chapel requirement is for 900 seats, with 150 seats existing this leaves a deficit of 750 seats. The requested addition will provide a capacity of 30 percent of the total requirement. A commissary store is required to provide an accessible location for the purchase of foodstuff by base personnel. There will soon be over 54781-60- -24 1,200 familes who will occupy onbase housing. K. I. Sawyer AFB is located in an area that is subject to hazardous driving conditions in the winter and the nearest adequate food shopping center is located approximately 22 miles from the base. Distance from adequate facilities, together with hazardous winter driving make it necessary that the existing inadequate store be enlarged so that all families living on base can be accommodated. The total requirement is for 17,589 square feet. Existing 7,589 square feet leaves a deficit of 10,000 square feet which is being requested. The last item requested is for the on-base portion of a road connecting the east base boundary with Highway U.S. 41. The off-base portion is contained in the access road program. This additional entrance road is essential for the efficient control and separation of operational traffic, private autos, and domestic service traffic. The only public road presently serving K. I. Sawyer AFB is County Road 553 which lies west of the base and parallel to the main runway. All vehicular traffic entering or leaving the base from CR 553 must cross the instrument runway approach zone and through the alert hangar and main base ammunition storage areas. Senator STENNIS. What about your commissary here, we see addition to commissary, $254,000? When was that commissary built? Colonel PARKHILL. Well, I don't have the date. Senator STENNIS. How much did it cost? Colonel PARKHILL. I will have to get that record, sir. They have 7,589 square feet, and they require 17,589 to support the added mission. Senator STENNIS. How many added personnel do you have? Colonel PARKHILL. The personnel will increase from 1,310 to 4,492. Senator STENNIS. Well, doesn't that require additional housing, additional barracks? When were you going to present your Capehart housing figures? I think we would rather have them right along with the bases. General CURTIN. As we reach bases where the housing is applicable, Mr. Chairman. Senator STENNIS. That is very good, that is where we want it. Well, these commissaries and all, we want to know why you have to expand them so quickly. Here is a quarter of a million dollars, now, we have got to snatch out of somebody's pocket to build that commissary out there, commissary annex. General CURTIN. May I make a general statement on commissaries, Mr. Chairman, since this is the first one that has come up? Senator STENNIS. All right. General CURTIN. In the review of the program this year, where there was any reasonable doubt of the ability or if the local metropolitan area was reasonably handy and could support the commissary requirements, those items were taken out of the program in the review. The commissaries that we have in the program, or proposed additions to commissaries in the program, are where these conditions do not pertain, at least in our judgment. Colonel PARKHILL. In this case, it is 22 miles to the nearest suitable commercial facilities, and there will be around 1,200 families living on this base. Senator STENNIS. Well, that is very pertinent additional information. You gentlemen had better prove a strong case on these matters, or it may get dropped out of the bill. Whatever facts you have, you ought to put them in, put it in strongly. This is on page 32. The store or commissary, $254,000, comes way on over. Colonel PARKHILL. Page 47. Senator STENNIS. While you are looking there for the page, you testified it is 22 miles. All right, any other question on this? All right, if there are no other questions, proceed to you next installation. KINGSLEY FIELD, KLAMATH FALLS, OREG. Colonel PARKHILL. Kingsley Air Force Base in Oregon, page 49, we have four items, $299,000. The first item provides for the construction of a warmup holding pad at the south end of the primary instrument runway to improve the operational efficiency of this field. The only pad now existing is at the north end of the runway almost 2 miles distant. The second item requested is a precision measurement equipment laboratory. No facility exists than can be utilized or converted for the purpose. The next item is an addition to the existing dispensary to provide a flight surgeon's clinic, which is urgently required to provide adequate space for aviation medicine activities and sufficient office and examining room space for assigned physicians. The requirement for medical speace is for 8,694 square feet of which 5,894 square feet exists, leaving a 2,800 square-foot deficit. The requested project will fulfill the total requirement. The last item requested for this base is the addition of an annex to the existing 150-seat chapel for religious activities. Currently, utilization is being made of the officers dining hall. Such utilization of a make-do facility which is available only on Sunday, seriously curtails conduct of weekday activities. Senator STENNIS. General, wherever you have these additions, suppose you file with us now the original date of construction, the area involved, and the original cost, and then drop down two other items: How much you propose to add and the additional cost. Then we can go over them all at the same time. Colonel PARKHILL. All right, sir. Senator STENNIS. Unless there is a question, next item, sir. (The following information was subsequently furnished in response to Senator Stennis' above request :) |