THE The order is continuing and our feeling as you reason all three services are asking the Secreease reevaluate and he has agreed to do it as of We are hoping now for a change. Low many a month from now on would be sent : not have this ban? BERG. About 200 a month, sir. Our numbers are constant deployment of people without dependthe majority of our people for 6 to 8 months and -dependents to go for those deployments. 1963 NAVAL RESERVE STRENGTH Acording to your statement you will have 122,488 memVeval Reserve in fiscal year 1963. MEDBERG. That will be the average paid drill strength Does that include the ones who are on active duty now? SMEDBERG. They will not be on active duty at this time. le will not. If they reaffiliate with their units they will ed in this figure. We hope that most of them will continue ation with the Naval Reserve. RD. If this 7,980 officers and men who are now on active duty ve duty they will be included within the 122,000-plus? Admiral SMEDBERG. Yes, sir. COMPARISON OF 1963 NAVAL RESERVE STRENGTH WITH 1962 Mr. FORD. How does that figure compare with the figure you had in budget for fiscal year 1962 Adral SMEDBERG. Very close to the same, sir. 1962 was 121,000; » werage for 1962 was 121,002, and our average for 1963 is 122,488, CHRONOLOGY OF RESERVE CALL-UP ld you give us a résumé of the step-by-step process ed up the reservists to active duty? When you were zation or orders by the Department of Defense. The dates and how it has progressed. G. May I state generally and then put it in the BERG. I would say about 45 days before the 1st of e word we were to call up our Reserves. That the round the 1st of October. The Reserves were all ead of time. We called up, as I remember, the ships, ne 2d of October. We called up the 18 aircraft oner, 1 October being a Sunday. We called up the Sunday was the day they did their drilling mainly e ships the next day, Monday. ..our Reserves has been so superb that I think every man in the Navy is more proud today of our ave ever been in history. referred to follows:) RÉSUMÉ OF PERSONNEL ACTIONS TAKEN TO IMPLEMENT RESERVE RECALL Date Aug. 1, 1961. Aug. 2, 1961 Aug. 3, 1961___. Aug. 3, 1961--- Aug. 9, 1961. Ang. 15, 1961 Aug. 17, 1961. Aug. 19, 1961. Aug. 25, 1961. Aug. 25, 1961. Aug. 26, 1961_. Aug. 26, 1961. Sept. 7, 1961... Sept. 14, 1961_. Sept. 29, 1961_. Oct. 1, 1961. Oct. 2, 1961. Oct. 14-26, 1961_____. Oct. 8-Nov. 1, 1961_ Action Secretary of Defense requested submission of Military Department plans to increase military forces. Secretary of the Navy encouraged reenlistment or voluntary extension of enlistment of active duty enlisted personnel (NAVACT 05). Secretary of the Navy encouraged voluntary extension of active service of active duty officer personnel (NAVACT 06). Chief of Naval Personnel encouraged inactive naval reservists to volunteer for active duty. Chief of Naval Personnel submitted to Secretary of the Navy plans for implementing the force buildup, including Reserve recall. Secretary of the Navy announced that involuntary extensions of active duty of officer and enlisted personnel would commence on a selective basis on September 1, 1961 (NAVACT 07). Deputy Secretary of Defense approved the Navy plan Chief of Naval Personnel promulgated guidelines for Chief of Naval Operations directed activation of Chief of Navy Personnel directed recall of selected Reserve personnel to form ship crews and air. squadrons. Chief of Naval Personnel authorized involuntary recall of selected reservist to augment air squadrons called into active service. Chief of Naval Personnel directed the involuntary extension of enlistment or service obligation for 12 months of enlisted personnel in recalled units whose service would expire during the period September 13 through June 30, 1962. Chief of Naval Personnel directed involuntary extension for 12 months of Ready Reserve agreements of personnel in recalled units if agreements would expire prior to reporting for active duty. 18 Selected Reserve Air Squadrons organized to train and serve as units reported for active duty with their respective squadrons. Selected Reserve crews of 7 DD and 25 DE organized to train and serve as units reported for active duty with their respective ships. Selected Reserve crews of 5 DD organized to train and serve as units reported for active duty with their respective ships. Selected Reserve personnel to augment activated air squadrons phased to active duty. Selected Reserve crew of 1 DD organized to train and serve as a unit reported for active duty with its ship. Involuntary recall of Naval reservists completed. Number recalled: Officers 1,015; enlisted 7,002; total 8,017. NO FUND PROBLEM ISCUTITPOP ITXERTES Did you have any funding problems? Availability for the callup? - SMEDBERG. No, sir: we were given funds for the callup. D. Were you given funds concurrently with the orders of rment of Defense to call up the Reserve units? SMEDBERG. Almost concurrently; yes. There was no f roblem whatsoever involved here, Mr. FORD. Let us put in the date that you got the order to call the Reserves and the date the money was made available from Department of Defense to the Navy. Mr. FLOOD. But let us get the one that he is asking for and you have documentation-if there is a document on this. Mr. LAIRD. The important date, though, is the date the Navy made the request for funds and the date the funds were released by the Department of Defense. Mr. FLOOD. That is another day, but Mr. Ford's date is important for another reason. Admiral SMEDBERG. I believe the Secretary of Defense handled that without individual requests. He told us to call up the people and I think the Secretary of Defense went forward himself with the request almost concurrently so we had no problem in that connection. Mr. FLOOD. You felt there was no burden on you to ask for the money under the circumstances? Admiral SMEDBERG. Not at all. Mr. FLOOD. And you did not? Admiral SMEDBERG. I personally did not. Maybe the Comptroller did. Mr. FLOOD. Do you recall or will your records show either or both that as a fact you took affirmative action, even though you did not think it was necessary under the circumstances to ask the Department of Defense for funds concurrently with the order? Admiral HIRSCH. There was no funding problem. This is a very large appropriation. It was early in the year and the money apportioned kept us going until the papers were processed. They were processed very expeditiously. Mr. FLOOD. That satisfies my part of it. Now, what about your part of it? Mr. LAIRD. What I was interested in is when the money, including the third amendment, was made available to you. Admiral HIRSCH. I cannot recall. I do not have the exact figure with me, but I will insert it in the record. (The information requested follows:) The Department of Defense Appropriation Act for fiscal year 1962 was signed by the President on August 17, 1961. On August 25, 1961, the Secretary of Defense directed the callup of the Naval Reserve Forces referred to above. The funds in the appropriation, "Military Personnel, Navy," were allocated in the amount of $1,372,239,000 for the first 6 months of fiscal year 1962 on August 31, 1961. FUNDS USED TO FINANCE CALLUP OF RESERVES Mr. LAIRD. You did not use any money from this third amendment? Mr. FORD. The third amendment to the fiscal year 1962 budget. Admiral HIRSCH. The money was there. Whether it was specifically add-on money we got with the third amendment or whether we initiated our actions with the money we already had I do not know, but we received specific instructions from the Secretary of Defense to proceed without delay and the money followed without any problem whatsoever. The money that was in the third amendment was released almost immediately after his directive to take action. Mr. FLOOD. In other words, you do not understand what we are shooting at. You do not know what we are talking about. You do |