DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION BEFORE THE U.S. Congress. House 4 COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS SECOND SESSION Part 2 of 4 Parts SUBCOMMITTEE NO. 3 (SEAPOWER) NUCLEAR NAVY-TITLE VIII, H.R. 12564 HEARINGS HELD JANUARY 16, 17; MARCH 5, 6, 7, 11, 29-852 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1974 HOUSE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES F. EDWARD HÉBERT, Louisiana, Chairman MELVIN PRICE, Illinois CHARLES E. BENNETT, Florida ROBERT H. (BOB) MOLLOHAN, DAN DANIEL, Virginia G. V. (SONNY) MONTGOMERY, HAROLD RUNNELS, New Mexico RONALD V. DELLUMS, California MENDEL J. DAVIS, South Carolina JAMES R. JONES, Oklahoma PATRICIA SCHROEDER, Colorado JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania WILLIAM G. BRAY, Indiana G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST, Virginia DAVID C. TREEN, Louisiana WILLIAM L. ARMSTRONG, Colorado For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C., 20402 Price $4.25 [Part 2 of 4 Parts] HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE No. 3 (SEAPOWER), Norfolk, Va., Wednesday, January 16, 1974. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 3 p.m., at the Atlantic Fleet Compound, Norfolk, Va., Hon. Charles E. Bennett (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Mr. BENNETT. Admiral Cousins, we are glad to welcome you as the first witness before the Seapower Subcommittee in our hearings at Norfolk. From left to right, Congressman Armstrong of Colorado; Congressman Spence of South Carolina; Congressman Bob Wilson, ranking member of the subcommittee, from California; Congressman Mollohan from West Virginia, and Congressman Robert Daniel from Virginia, are with us today. The main purpose of the hearings is to give the subcommittee a chance to learn first hand about the Navy's need for ships, and anything else that you might want to tell us about. You have been good enough to arrange a schedule which has let us visit both new and old ships of many classes in the Navy. We have visited destroyers, frigates, a nuclear attack submarine, a replenishment ship, and an aircraft carrier. In these visits we have had a chance to learn the capabilities of each type of ship. Then we proceeded to the amphibious base for a demonstration which showed us how the various classes of ships work together in an amphibious landing. This subcommittee is the one which will have to carry the fight for new naval vessels to the floor of the House of Representatives. What I would like to ask you to do is to tell the subcommittee in its most elemental form why we need a Navy, why we need the various classes of ships and how they operate all together in support of the national policy of the United States. As I said, Admiral, we are glad to have this opportunity to come visit your bases and this opportunity to learn from you about the Navy's need for ships, and we appreciate the hospitality you have shown us. Admiral COUSINS. Thank you, sir. Mr. Chairman, this is Rear Admiral Doyle here with me on my left, whom you met yesterday. Mr. BENNETT. He's a constituent of mine, so I know him. Admiral COUSINS. And Rear Admiral Gormley, whom I don't believe you've met before, who is Inspector General on my staff. |