their duty stations. This does not permit the crews sufficient time to prepare missiles for firing. The requirement is now met by men sleeping in the generator and missile test buildings under unsafe, crowded, and noisy conditions. Ready buildings were not provided at the time of their conversion to HERCULES because of funding limitations.

The next item is classified and will be discussed during executive session.

There is need for a missile assembly and test building-Detroit-16 at an estimated cost of $55,000. Funding limitations at time of conversion from AJAX to HERCULES precluded inclusion of this facility. The function was performed in a building at site D-14, an AJAX site about 2 miles away, which has been inactivated but cannot be disposed of until this facility is provided.

This next project provides 2 combination barracks-BOQ's site Seattle-92, at an estimated cost of $293,000. These are to replace prefabricated buildings which were constructed in 1955. They lack latrines and are now in poor condition. This site is near Kingston, Wash., in an isolated area on the west side of Pudget Sound. Because of alert requirements all personnel must spend approximately 75 percent of their time on site.

The next item is for a 100-man enlisted men's mess, site Chicago41 at an estimated cost of $96,000. This item is to replace a smaller, inadequate wooden prefab built more than 9 years ago when the site. was a gun battery. Repairs and expansion would cost $49,000 and still would be costly to maintain. The site is in Jackson Park, Chicago. The remainder of the buildings are masonry.

At Lincoln-Offutt defense area we are requesting $16,000 for water softeners. The item is required to eliminate the heavy deposits of calcium carbonate currently being experienced in dishwashers, steam tables, hot water heaters, and hot water lines in the administrative areas of four NIKE sites. In the 2 years since this defense area has been operational, heavy calcium deposits have made it necessary to replace hot water lines in two areas.

This next item provides air conditioning for administrative and mess facilities at NIKE sites in the Kansas City defense area at an estimated cost of $108,000. Current criteria, which were changed while the sites were under construction, specify air conditioning for such facilities in this weather zone. Kansas City is in a zone where wet bulb temperature is 67° or higher 1,700 hours per

year.

The next item is classified and will be discussed during executive session.

This item is for construction of a sentry station, site Cleveland -02 at an estimated cost of $9,000. The existing security shelter does not provide necessary visability and does not provide for housing of the alarm devices at the entrance to the exclusion area.

This item provides for canine equipment storage buildings at 14 NIKE sites in California at a total estimated cost of $29,000. These facilities are necessary to provide storage of food and supplies and care and maintenance of dogs in the launcher areas. No such facilities now exist; therefore, it has been necessary to scatter these functions in other buildings, some of which are miles away. Lack of ade

quate, readily available storage and maintenance space seriously hampers the handlers in prescribed care of sentry dogs.

The next item provides for an aircraft hangar addition, at an estimated cost of $39,000, in the Los Angeles defense area. Construction provides a leanto for office space, an operations office, and tool supply room which are now dispersed in various other buildings. Original funding limitations precluded construction of these support items for the hangar. Existing facilities will revert to the use for which they were originally built.

The last item is classified and will be discussed during executive session.

Chairman RUSSELL. General, you made some reference to an air defense facility in Florida, I believe, in your opening statement. This is a rather substantial sum that you are requesting, $14.5 million, isn't it?

General SHULER. Yes, sir.

Chairman RUSSELL. Is that amount for the installation itself or for the barracks and other facilities for the troops, or does it include the whole cost?

General SHULER. This is strictly for construction and what real estate we have for requirements, Mr. Chairman. It involves construction for one group headquarters, three batallion headquarters, of which two are HAWK and one is NIKE-HERCULES.

One of these HAWK battalions will be at Key West, and the rest of the installation will be in the Miami-Homestead area. It also includes a command post for the Army Air Defense Center, and it includes installing three HERCULES batteries and seven HAWK batteries, just as we have around the United States, the same type of construction, and then the supporting facilities which are listed on the form the committee has. Frankly, sir, this is an extremely expensive area for us to construct on down there because we either have to pay a lot of money for the land or we have to reclaim it.

In other words, if the land does not cost a lot of money we have to make fill and reclaim the land, so the cost in this location in order to satisfy the tactical requirements is above the average. It is a complete permanent setup just as we have in any NIKE-HERCULES for this area.

Chairman RUSSELL. Isn't there room on the naval base at Key West to put this installation?

General SHULER. Sir, we are making the maximum use

Chairman RUSSELL. I know that it always touches a sensitive spot whenever it is suggested that an Army facility be put on a Navy base, and vice versa; it is just as versa as it is vice, but it is awfully expensive country down there. If you could use a corner of that naval facility, it would save a lot of money.

General SHULER. Mr. Chairman, I believe the committee appreciates that in the last 2 years, at least, there has been a terrific drive on by the three services, supervised by the Department of Defense, to make the maximum cross-servicing use between the services and to get rid of unnecessary places, facilities, land, and to save money. Announcements have been made on these savings; this has been a real effort. I have been here during that period, and I can tell you that personally.

We have a very fine cross-service agreement both in the Key West area and the Homestead-Miami area with the other two services.

We are putting this construction down there, to protect both the SAC base in the Homestead-Miami area and the naval facilities at Key West, which are very important facilities and, of course, we have got to site these HAWK and HERCULES installations at a distance out, that is, proper tactically in order to perform our mission. So we are trying to do exactly as the chairman would wish us to do in this We have not overlooked this, and we have been working very hard at it.

area.

Chairman RUSSELL. Of course, you have a large area around Homestead, too. The Air Force has a tremendous location there.

General SHULER. Yes.

Chairman RUSSELL. But I suppose you could hardly put these defensive facilities too close to that site.

General SHULER. No, sir.

Chairman RUSSELL. This does not seem to include construction of living quarters.

General SHULER. Mr. Chairman, we would like to take that up when we come to the family housing section. But again we have got a very fine arrangement with the other two services, where we are on the same basis as the service that owns the base is, as the people move out of the houses. In other words, as a family moves out of the house, the next eligible person on the list, be he Navy or Army, or be he Air Force or Army, gets that house. So here, to me, is true couse of facilities.

We may need some leasing-in fact we do have some leasing authority to lease houses, so I think that between the cross-services and the leasing we will be able to get by on it, with probably some future additional requirement.

Chairman RUSSELL. There is as much Capehart housing at Homestead as any base I have been on.

General SHULER. Yes, sir.

Chairman RUSSELL. There must be 7,000 units there. I think there is a plan to transfer part of that complement somewhere else, and it seems to me there would be enough housing there to take care of your needs.

Does any member of the committee have any questions for the general with respect to these items?

General, you may proceed.

General SHULER. This brings us to Alaska and Hawaii.

ALASKA COMMAND AREA

FORT GREELY, ALASKA

Fort Greely, Alaska, is the location of the Army Arctic Center including the U.S. Cold Weather and Mountain School (survival, tactical, and logistical operations) the Arctic Test Board (research and development functions), and the Chemical Test Center.

The only item requested for this installation is for EM barracks with mess for 231 men at an estimated cost of $1,556,000. These barracks are to replace temporary wood frame barracks and quonset huts which have deteriorated beyond economic repair.

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FORT RICHARDSON, ALASKA

Fort Richardson, Alaska, provides logistic support for all Army operations in Alaska, including special requirements for supply and maintenance facilities for both Alaska civilian components and Continental Active Army units receiving tactical training in Alaska. Provides air defense for Elmendorf Air Force Base.

The first item requested is for a hangar with shop and includes the following supporting facilities: unit operations building, flammable storage building, aircraft tie-downs; and an aircraft wash area. The estimated cost is $1,498,000. This item is required to provide organizational maintenance and operational facilities for one transport helicopter company.

Next item provides an addition to the NIKE heavy support shop at Fort Richardson, Alaska, at an estimated cost of $213,000. Since the original facilities were provided, the maintenance load has been increased by addition of two high-power acquisition radars (HIPAR), four improvement kits and one FPS-71 (alternate battery acquisition radar) to the sites receiving first through fifth echelon maintenance at this shop. There are no alternative facilities which can be used for this purpose.

FORT WAINWRIGHT, ALASKA

A similar NIKE heavy support shop addition is requested at Fort Wainwright at a cost of $40,000.

PACIFIC COMMAND AREA

HAWAII DEFENSE AREA, HAWAII

The item for AN/FPS-71 radars for the Hawaii defense area is classified and will be discussed during the executive session.

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, HAWAII

Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, is the headquarters for U.S. Army Hawaii and the 25th Infantry Division. It provides logistical support for Army activities in Hawaii.

The program includes three items for this installation with a total estimated cost of $913,000 which are detailed on pages 354 through 357 of the justification books.

The first item is for two motor repair shops and facilities estimated to cost $721,000. This item will provide 20,840 square feet of primary shop space and 33,950 square yards of hardstand plus supporting facilities for 645 vehicles of 3 Infantry battalions of the 25th Infantry Division. These facilities will replace deteriorated, inadequate temporary buildings which will be demolished.

The second item provides for the installation of a 38-kilovoltampere uninterrupted power supply to replace the present 15-kilowatt manual start generator in the communications center. This generator will provide, at an estimated cost of $39,000, an uninterrupted electric supply needed to support the communications equipment which is synchronized with the Starcom network. Until this generator is provided, power outages result in serious interruptions of the communications capabilities of the Army headquarters and 25th Infantry Division.

The last project for Schofield barracks provides for an increase in the water supply at an estimated cost of $153,000. Total demand for water supplied by the Army to Army, Navy, and Air Force activities in the Schofield area has increased and has become critical with completion of 384 units of Capehart housing. The project will provide a new deep-well pump which is needed to satisfy peak water demands during the summer months and to permit programed repair of the three old deep-well pumps which have been in continual operation since 1937. The existing pumps will continue to be used except during periods of repair in offpeak periods.

FORT SHAFTER, HAWAII

We are requesting $74,000 for provision of a 125-kilovolt-ampere uninterrupted power supply at Fort Shafter, Hawaii, headquarters of the US. Army, Pacific. The present manual start emergency generator in the U.S. Army, Pacific Communications Center cannot supply the continuous electric power needed to maintain synchronization of the communications equipment with the Starcom network. Until this continuous power supply is provided, power outages will degrade the communication capabilities of the U.S. Army, Pacific. This concludes my presentation of the program "Inside the United States." Mr. Chairman, with your permission I will proceed with the program "Outside the United States."

Chairman RUSSELL. You may proceed.

OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES

ARMY MATERIEL COMMAND

General SHULER. Two R. & D. items for the Army Materiel Command outside the United States covering alterations and adjustments-technical facilities NIKE-ZEUS are classified and will be discussed during the executive session.

ARMY SECURITY AGENCY

Mr. Chairman, you are familiar with the classified mission of the Army Security Agency. Our program for ASA overseas totals $5,798,000 for projects at 11 locations. I propose to discuss these and answer questions concerning specific items during the executive

session.

Chairman RUSSELL. General, I direct your attention to page 289. It is not a classified item, and relates to ASA location 12.

General SHULER. NO.

Chairman RUSSELL. We have been authorizing substantial sums for this location for several years. It appears that this facility is located on an old Japanese airbase, and as early as fiscal year 1960, when the Army requested an authorization of $289,000, you indicated that you were getting out of temporary structures and consolidating your position, and turning back portions of this base to the Japanese. But since that time, every year you have had considerable authorizations. In 1960, as I said it was $289,000: 1961, $517,000; 1962, $2,586,000, and a substantial authorization in this bill of $1,692,000.