Department of Defense Appropriations for 1989: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, Part 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 - United States |
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active duty additional administrative agencies AGR program AGR's Air Force Reserve Air National Guard aircraft American Legion appropriate areas Army National Guard Army Reserve ARNG assigned base budget Captain CARRICATO Chairman CHAMPUS CHAPPELL civilian technicians cleanup combat Command Committee completed Congress continue contract cost DEFENSE ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION Defense Logistics Agency Department of Defense disposal donor Environmental Restoration Program equipment facilities Federal fiscal year 1989 FLINN full-time support funding groundwater Guard and Reserve hazardous waste identified increase Individual Ready Reserve installation issues landfills Logistics maintenance Marine Corps Reserve McDADE Military Technician million mission mobilization National Priorities List Naval Reserve NAVRESREDCOM Navy officers operations percent personnel potential problem procurement projects RD/RA readiness reduction registry remedial action request requirements Reserve Components Reservists response RI/FS schools Selected Reserve squadrons staff tion trichloroethylene
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Page 247 - ... programs must maintain a minimum level of appropriated funds to sustain a strong quality of life on each installation. We are faced with a potential drop in revenue as installations close and we bring some of our forces back from Europe. We intend to monitor carefully the impact of this transition on the quality of life of our service members and their families. The Persian Gulf mobilization has reinforced the direct link between mission readiness and morale support activities for our forces....
Page 59 - President determines that there may be an imminent and substantial endangerment to the public health or welfare or the environment because of an actual or threatened release of a hazardous substance from a facility...
Page 579 - PICA, was providing an unreduced annuity for his survivors. Under the new system the survivor of a Reservist who had no Social Security credits based upon military service will still suffer an annuity reduction from 55% to 35% at age 62. We believe that this arbitrary formula unjustly impacts on this...
Page 645 - Initiative represents only about 1% of the DOD budget; and WHEREAS, The Strategic Defense Initiative has compelled the Soviet Union to return to the bargaining table and has spurred concessions from the Soviet Union in arms control negotiations; and WHEREAS, The Soviet Union has been quietly, but purposefully, developing and deploying elements of their own strategic defense, including anti-ballistic missiles, ground-based lasers and phased-array radars; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, By The American...
Page 994 - ... the backlog of maintenance and replacement projects for current mission facilities. The unfunded construction projects are fundamental structures such as armories, maintenance shops, storage facilities for newly assigned equipment, fire suppression systems at air bases, and training facilities. Each additional project not only enhances the readiness of the units affected but also adds to the economic health of the community and state where it is located. We urge that Congress recognize the existing...
Page 314 - Forces consist of the Army National Guard, Army Reserve, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve, and Coast Guard Reserve.
Page 669 - September 2,3,4, 1986, that Congress must restore and maintain military pay comparability, or we may, in the long run, see an exodus of those with highly transferable skills and find it extremely difficult to recruit quality personnel; and, be it further RESOLVED, That Congress must strive to improve those "quality of life...
Page 57 - Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the...
Page 884 - We assure the committee, that the use of "sham", "fraud", "deception"., and "waste: are accurate and Justified, when describing the AGR program. It is a matter of simple logic that two groups of workers, doing the same work, will achieve the same results. How much intrinsic value can the AGR program possibly have? There was never any real need to graft the program unto the Reserve Components. Anything that had to be done, could have been done by simply hiring more technicians. We would now like to...
Page 938 - Our members continually heap abuse on the performance evaluation system complaining of irrelevant standards, forced distributions, and management bias. This proposal is a recipe for disaster. Compensation decisions inevitably will be tainted with the perception, if not the reality, of bias, favoritism, discrimination, and cronyism. We urge the Committee to oppose this proposal. Civilian Technicians I would like to speak for a moment about the problems faced by civilian technicians in the National...