Department of the Air Force Appropriations for 1954: Hearings ... 83d Congress, 1st Session1953 - 1051 pages |
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activities air attaché Air Command Air Force Base Air Materiel Command Air National Guard aircraft airmen airplane amount appropriation areas Army ASENSIO budget Chairman CHIEF OF STAFF Civil Air Patrol Colonel CARLSON Colonel CLARK Colonel ELVER Colonel LYNCH Colonel WALSH Colonel ZOECKLER combat committee contract correct cost course depot Discussion dollars DOUGLAS engine equipment estimate expenditures facilities figure fiscal year 1954 flying hours funds requested going HARBOLD headquarters HOPWOOD HRUSKA included installations Korea MAHON maintenance and operation Major HUTTO man-years McILNAY ment million mission Navy obligations officers overseas percent PICHER pilots planes present procurement production record reduction reimbursements requirements Reserve RICKS ROTC SCRIVNER Secretary of Defense Secretary TALBOTT squadrons statement Strategic Air Command supplies things tion Total transportation TWINING United States Air utilization VANDENBERG vehicles wings World War II
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Page 403 - We thank you for your appearance and the information that you have given the committee.
Page 230 - And others will earnestly advocate the "indispensable" needs for ships or tanks or rockets or guided missiles or artillery — all totaled in numbers that are always called "minimum.
Page 206 - ... been followed ? General RICKS. We have already demonstrated our ability on that, Mr. Mahon. I believe we had 19 jet squadrons, and they operated very successfully. It does require a lot more time on the part of the officers and on the part of the airmen to keep pace with this, but they are interested to the point that they do it on their own time. I have just had handed to me a survey which Boston made. They figured that the officers had put in about 300 hours without pay.
Page 154 - MAJ. GEN. MJ ASENSIO, DIRECTOR OF BUDGET, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF, COMPTROLLER Mr. SCRIVNER. We have with us this afternoon Lt. Gen. Charles B. Stone III. Do you have a statement, General? GENERAL STATEMENT General STONE. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, the purpose of my presentation is to bring you up to date on the overall status of Air Force finances and to touch on a few matters with respect to our efforts to get the best we can out of dollars allocated to the support of United States...
Page 626 - In forward combat areas, or that required by the Department of the Navy for internal administration, or required for the fulfillment of the mission of the Navy, or air transport over routes of sole interest to the Naval forces where the requirements cannot be met by the facilities of MATS.
Page 230 - ... in and out of the military services. But this I do assure you : What has been so carefully, so painstakingly evolved is a sound program. It contemplates in each of the Armed Forces calculated risks which have been prudently reasoned, and it represents, in my judgment, what is best for our Nation's permanent security. There is, I believe, only one honest, workable formula. It is not magical but it is the best that competent men can define. It is this : A defense strong enough both to discourage...
Page 231 - Today 3 aircraft with modern weapons can practically duplicate the destructive power of all the 2,700 planes we unleashed in the great breakout attack from the Normandy beachhead. Clearly every technological advance profoundly affects this problem of airpower — including the development of missiles now in production.
Page 627 - USC 2805 provides authority to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of the Military Departments to acquire, construct, extend, alter or install permanent facilities having an approved cost of $1,000,000 or less not otherwise authorized by law.
Page 398 - PART I. PURPOSE AND SCOPE The funds requested are to provide for expenses in connection with the apprehension of deserters, absentees, and escaped military prisoners and for their delivery to the control of the Department of Defense including cost of subsistence furnished during the period an enlisted member is detained in civil confinement for safekeeping when so requested by military authority, costs of rewards and reimbursements for expenses incurred...
Page 285 - ... around actions. You have to build it around the process of receiving and answering requests for instructions from diplomatic and military missions abroad. There is something solid, a solid core of work to build a staff around. If you build it around that, what have you done to the work of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Office of the Secretary of State ? Senator MILLER.