Chairman RUSSELL. I direct your attention to page 24-A, "Berth and piers at Norfolk." This is a utilities item I see.

Admiral PRESSEY. This is an addition of utilities, sir, to a pier which provides berthing for an aircraft carrier. We now provide utilities from rail-mounted units which is a temporary expedient. We must replace these with a permanent installation.

Chairman RUSSELL. I see you have collimation towers at Norfolk as well as at Boston.

Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir.

Chairman RUSSELL. Next project, Admiral.

NAVAL STATION, SAN DIEGO, CALIF.

Admiral PRESSEY. The last project in this class is at the Naval Station, San Diego, Calif. It is a single line item for pier utilities (first increment) and dredging at the estimated cost of $786,000. The introduction of larger, deeper draft destroyer-type ships into the fleet has generated a requirement for greater water depth alongside berthing piers and two to three times the amount of electrical power required by the older destroyers constructed during World War II. There is a sparsity of suitable berthing space for the newer fleet ships in the San Diego area, necessitating their mooring to buoys in the channel. The recent release of pier 6 by the Pacific Reserve Fleet has made a total of 2,625 linear feet of berthing space available for use of active ships. However, there is insufficient water depth alongside the south side of pier 6 to accommodate the new deeper draft destroyer types, and the pier is deficient in electrical power to meet the requirement of the number of ships which will be moored to this pier.

This line item will provide for dredging to increase the project depth along the south side of the pier from 20 feet to 30 feet and for an increase of electrical capacity to the pier to meet the requirements of approximately one-half the number of ships which it is planned eventually to berth at this pier.

Chairman RUSSELL. Move on to the next facilities class, Admiral.

NAVAL WEAPONS FACILITIES

Admiral PRESSEY. The third facilities class, Mr. Chairman, is naval weapons facilities. It consists of five groups of activities inside the United States, naval air training stations, field support stations, Marine Corps air stations, fleet readiness stations, and research, development, test, and evaluation stations. These groups include 107 unclassified line items at 43 locations for $57,679,000, and 16 classified line items at 7 locations for $13,321,000. This class also includes an oversea group at 10 installations. At these stations there are 10 unclassified line items for $2,802,000, and 30 classified items for $18,156,000. The total amount for this class is $91,958,000.

The proposed projects will support several essential tasks: training of personnel; improvement of Naval and Marine Corps air striking power of our operating forces; improvement of fleet readiness with respect to naval ordnance; progress in aeronautical and ordnance research, development, test, and evaluation programs; and improvement of personnel living conditions.

NAVAL AIR TRAINING STATIONS

In the first of these groups, naval air training stations, there are seven line items at six locations for a total of $1,331,000. All of these items are part of program VII for general support. The mission of these stations is to train Naval and Marine Corps pilots and aviation technicians.

NAVAL AIR FACILITY, ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

The first project is for construction of an air terminal building for $136,000 at the Naval Air Facility, Andrews Air Force Base, D.Č.

Naval Air Facility, Andrews, serves as an official Navy flight support activity for Government officials and military personnel in the Metropolitan Washington area. Units supported include the Naval Air Reserve Training Unit and Marine Air Reserve Training Detachment. In this service capacity, Naval Air Facility, Andrews, with 139 aircraft assigned, must support large numbers of pilots, passengers, and transient personnel.

Approximately 1,200 square feet of space in the Operations-Administration Building has been set aside and is currently being used to provide air terminal service. This space is grossly inadequate to accommodate the large number of transient personnel serviced, and is also urgently needed for its intended use to support flight operations and administration requirements.

Transient personnel passing through the lobby of the OperationsAdministration Building number as high as 550 per day. Groups of 40 to 45 arriving at one time are not uncommon 3 to 4 times a week. In the Washington area 1,400 active duty pilots must utilize this facility for flight proficiency. These flights, added to the administrative and reserve flights, create a load averaging 150 personnel per day who must utilize the same space to arrange flight plans under severely crowded and distracting conditions.

The existing shortage of space for air terminal service is due to the necessity of having to utilize 4,800 square feet of planned administrative space in a Naval Air Facility hangar as a dispensary and dental facility for the station. Construction of a small air terminal building, as proposed, will eliminate passenger congestion in the OperationsAdministration Building and allow sufficient space for essential operations and administrative functions in that building.

Chairman RUSSELL. Page 26-A, this item, I believe, was deleted by the House. You do have a terminal building of sorts at Andrews now, don't you?

Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir. We have one building which provides the majority of the administrative services and support needed at the Naval Air Facility, Andrews. We do not have, and cannot obtain from the Air Force, adequate space beyond that which we now occupy, and have had to use valuable space in a hangar for a dispensary and dental facility.

The present terminal building

Chairman RUSSELL. I didn't know you depended on the Air Force at Andrews, I thought with the exception of the tower the Navy had their own facility.

Admiral PRESSEY. We have most of our own but, where it is possible, we share with them as they do with us. But we cannot obtain from them any excess space. This present terminal accommodates not only a very heavy passenger load going and coming, but also must accommodate our crews, who are preparing flight plans, weather facilities, all the operational features of the terminal building.

Chairman RUSSELL. The last time I was out there I found they were conducting some kind of classes in what was built for the VIP lounge. You ought to mention that, Admiral. That would have considerable persuasion, that they were having to have classes there. Did you know about those classes they are having there?

Admiral PRESSEY. I was not aware of that, sir. But had I, I would have mentioned it. I concur. It illustrates the need.

Chairman RUSSELL. I was told by the commanding officer of naval operations there that they are very badly in need of three or four rooms for classes. I don't know what they were teaching. I didn't think to ask him that. So, I am not very far ahead of you. I only know they had classes but I didn't know what they were teaching. Admiral PRESSEY. I am informed that the "class" which you observed, sir, was a flight briefing.

Chairman RUSSELL. I guess that is what it was, I believe they did say it was a briefing instead of a class.

Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir.

Chairman RUSSELL. That would be a reserve outfit, wouldn't it? Do you have any regular naval flying out there?

Admiral PRESSEY. We have both. This naval air station supports 1,400 naval officers in the Washington area who are Naval and Marine Corps aviators.

Chairman RUSSELL. We have already spoken of the target ranges at Corpus Christi and chapels, in general, such as the project at Glynco. Please outline your requirements, Admiral, for these projects and then go on to the next project.

NAVAL AIR STATION, CORPUS CHRISTI, TEX.

Admiral PRESSEY. The second project is at the Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Tex., for construction of multipurpose target ranges at a cost of $272,000. Corpus Christi maintains a target complex in support of weapons training flights by naval air advanced training units from the stations at Corpus Christi, Kingsville, and Chase Field. The present targets on Padre Island will be lost when the island becomes part of the proposed national seashore which was authorized last year by Public Law 87-712. In order to insure that pilots meet operational requirements before reporting to the fleet, two replacement target ranges must be provided. A dual target complex with a single personnel support area has been selected, located approximately 75 miles northwest of Kingsville. Facilities required at each of these two ranges include two spotting huts, a control tower, radio and telephone communication, roads and utilities. A site common to both targets will also require a barracks and mess for 16 enlisted

men.

NAVAL AIR STATION, GLYNCO, GA.

The third project is at the Naval Air Station, Glynco, Ga. It is for construction of a chapel and a religious education building at the estimated cost of $310,000.

Divine services are held in temporary space in the station dispensary. Sunday school is conducted in three quonset huts remotely located from the dispensary. This temporary expedient supports a population of 3,258 military personnel and their families. The quonset huts support an average Sunday school attendance of 160 children. These existing makeshift facilties porvide no stimulus to religious activity on the station. The space in the dispensary must be vacated to satisfy a requirement for needed expansion of medical facilities.

The nearest community facilities are in Brunswick, Ga., a distance of 6 miles from the station. A large number, 648, of the military population at Naval Air Station, Glynco, are in the short-term student category without an adequate transportation capability for leaving the

station.

Naval Air Station, Glynco, supports long-range Navy technical training requirements. Religious facilities of a permanent nature must be an integral part of the station for the support of the military personnel undergoing technical training and for their dependents. Chairman RUSSELL. Admiral, what do your require at Memphis?

NAVAL AIR STATION, MEMPHIS, TENN.

Admiral PRESSEY. The fourth project is at the Naval Air Station, Memphis, Tenn. It is for a remote receiver and transmitter building for $289,000. The present radio system, which is used for control of aircraft at the field, was constructed in 1942 and was adequate to handle traffic of that era. With the extension of the primary runway, there are portions of the landing and takeoff areas which are not in line-of-sight with the radio antennas. Positive control of the high performance aircraft which use this field is not possible with this outmoded radio system. Adequate communication is vital to avoid loss of life and property damage.

This item is needed to provide line-of-sight communication to the runways and taxiways and improved coverage to the approach areas of the field. It will include a remote receiver building, a transmitter building, antenna system and related utilities.

Chairman RUSSELL. Page 29-A, communication, receiving and transmitting facilities. I note throughout this entire budget you have a number of projects of this nature.

Why has it become so imperative to build all of these receiver and transmitter buildings? Don't you have some kind of building now that is serving the purpose?

Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir. At each of the stations where we are requesting this repetitive item we do have installations. But our modern high performance jets generated the need for additional and improved communication equipment, both in the aircraft and in the field facility.

In the past all the required ground-to-air and air-to-ground communications could be housed in one small area and that was usually the air control tower. This can no longer be done. The areas have become overcrowded, and they lack environmental control-air conditioning-to dissipate the heat that is generated by this equipment. Operations are inadequate due to interferences from industrial equipment, poor voltage regulation, and dead spots.

Chairman RUSSELL. What are dead spots?

Admiral PRESSEY. Areas in which we lose communication with an aircraft at a vital point in its arrival or takeoff.

The present facilities do not provide reliability in communications and safety that we require in the operation of these high performance aircraft.

Chairman RUSSELL. In addition to the buildings, would you require a great deal of new equipment to go into the buildings?

Admiral PRESSEY. We have the equipment, sir.

Chairman RUSSELL. You do have the equipment?

Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir. It is, in most cases, installed now. Chairman RUSSELL. It doesn't function now as it would in a new building?

Admiral PRESSEY. It does not function properly in its present place, sir. They are jammed in and have to be taken out of the building to be repaired or worked on, and we cannot dissipate the heat generated, and we have noise and interference.

Chairman RUSSELL. Page 32-A, airfield lighting for auxiliary field at Whiting Field in Florida. I understand that you have nine separate requests in this bill for airfield lighting.

How many of those are replacements? Are all these new, part of a lighting program for the first time?

Admiral PRESSEY. We have two which are replacements, sir. This one at Whiting Field, Fla., is a replacement for what amounts to an extension cord system by a permanent installation. The other replacement is at Argentia, Newfoundland, where we are replacing the approach lighting in the sea area, which has been damaged by ice and

storms.

The other line items, seven others, are centerline lighting. This is a flush-mounted light in the centerline of the runway which provides much better guidance for a fast landing jet than does the existing side lighting. This system of centerline lighting has been approved by the FAA and is in use by the civil airports and U.S. Air Force.

Chairman RUSSELL. Yes, sir; we are familiar with its use in the Air Force. We had a great many of them last year and after some discussion we reduced the number. So seven of them are for the centerline lighting?

Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir.

Chairman RUSSELL. Just to give us something to mull over when we are making up the bill, you had better give us a priority of those that you think are the most important of the seven.

Admiral PRESSEY. Yes, sir.