The personnel costs of maintaining an enlisted man for a year is estimated at $4,400. This includes the cost of his initial training and processing as well as his pay, allowances, subsistence, and related items.

Mr. DORN. Just to get started.

I just wanted that in the record, Mr. Chairman, because I think it is important to note that we are spending a lot of money to more or less help educate these boys as well as make good soldiers of them. And I am sure that, as you put it, going abroad is a very broadening thing. And then I might ask this, too: The school's 28-week period by no means ends his training. I mean, he is being continually educated from that day until he gets out.

I might say this, Mr. Secretary. I think you have made a splendid statement, and we are certainly delighted to have you, as far as I am personally concerned, and all of your fine, distinguished officers from all of the branches of the service. I think it is nice that they come here to help us out.

Mr. HALEY. I want to concur, Mr. Secretary, in that. You have made a fine presentation. And while at the moment it seems that in the Congress it is very popular to jump on the various Departments of Defense, the gentleman from Florida is certainly not in that category. I think that you are doing a splendid job. I think that it is a very bad situation in our Nation when the men charged with the defense and they are usually dedicated men are called to heel, so to speak, and maybe not given the proper opportunity to present their side of a question.

I think that the defense of this country rests in the hands of dedicated men who want to do as they see it the best things for the United States of America. And I certainly do not go along with this proposition that everything is wrong in the Defense Department. I think that under trying and very rapidly changing conditions in the world today, you are doing a splendid job.

I want to thank you and your colleagues for appearing here before this committee this morning.

Mr. JACKSON. Thank you, sir.

Mr. HALEY. Without objection, the tables which were attached to your statement and the other material you submitted will be placed in the record at this point.

(The tables and referenced material follow :)

TABLE I.-Percentage distribution of assigned enlisted personnel by occupational group, Department of Defense, Dec. 31, 1958

Group

Percentage of total assigned enlisted personnel

TABLE II.-Percentage of enlisted personnel initially trained in service schools and average length of training courses, by major occupational group, 1956

TABLE III.—Percentage distribution of enlisted jobs by major occupational group, end World War II, Korean conflict, 1958

'Estimates for World War II based on authorized strengths in first half 1945. Estimates for Korean con flict based on authorized strengths as of varying dates between 1951 and 1953. The occupational groupings for these periods are designed to assure maximum comparability with current occupational groups, but are necessarily inexact due to major provisions in service occupational classifications during the intervening

years.

Exclude recruits, trainees, transients, and other nonspecialist categories, who have accounted for about 10 to 15 percent of total authorized enlisted positions in recent years.

COMPARISON BETWEEN KOREAN GI BILL AND S. 1138, "AN ACT TO PROVIDE READJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE TO VETERANS WHO SERVE IN THE ARMED FORCES BETWEEN JANUARY 31, 1955, AND JULY 1, 1963" (AS PASSED BY SENATE JULY 21, 1959)

REENLISTMENT RATES-DEFINITIONS

The following definitions established under Department of Defense Instruction No. 1304.3 dated September 20, 1954, and revised July 13, 1956, apply to reenlistment rates listed in this section.

Separatees eligible to reenlist.-Consists of enlisted personnel who, under current policy in each service, are acceptable for reenlistment in the Regular components, either at expiration of term of service or who receive a separation action, prior to expiration of normal tour of service for the purpose of reenlistment. Excluded from eligibles are enlisted persons given medical, disciplinary, inaptitude and unsuitability discharges, persons separated for retirement and dropped from rolls, persons separated for transfer out of enlisted status, transfer between components of the same service or to another service, and other separatees who, under service policies are not eligible to reenlist.

Reenlistments.-Entry into active duty in the Regular component of individuals with prior military service, either as regulars or as inductees of the same service, within 90 days after separation from a prior tour of active duty. Excluded from reenlistments (for rate computations) are reenlistments in or from the Reserves or National Guard, extensions of tours of duty for less than a normal term of service, enlistments in a service of individuals with prior service only in another service, and reenlistments of those individuals who reenlist after 90 days from the date of their separations.

Reenlistments listed in the following tables represent reenlistments used in computation of rates given in the adjacent columns. Prior to July 1, 1956, reenlistments of "persons separated" during the specified period are shown. For July 1956 and subsequent periods reenlistments "occurring" during the specified period are shown.

Reenlistment rate: Fiscal year 1950 through fiscal year 1956.-Reenlistments of enlisted personnel separated in a given period as a percentage of the total separated in that period who were eligible to reenlist. This is the official reenlistment rate for release outside DOD.

Reenlistment rate: Fiscal year 1957 to date.-Ratio of total reenlistments occurring in a given period to total separations, eligible to reenlist, occurring in the same period, expressed as a percentage. This is the official reenlistment rate for release outside DOD.

Adjusted reenlistment rate.-A modified reenlistment rate designed to measure the net reenlistment yield from a group of separatees who would normally complete a term of service in a given period, excluding the effect of early separation for reenlistment. (The adjusted rate is designed for use in analysis of trends in the career attractiveness of military service and for longer range personnel planning, rather than for current administrative or operating purposes.)

Types of separatees.-DOD instruction 1304.3 provides for reporting reenlistment rates for three major groups of separatees. First term regulars consists of individuals serving on an initial term of service in the Regular component of a service. Career regulars consists of individuals serving on active duty for a second or subsequent term of service in the Regular component of a Service. Inductees represent persons inducted under the UMTS Act of 1951.