Military Construction Appropriations for 1965: Hearings ... 88th Congress, 2d Session

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Page 180 - Maintain and operate facilities and provide services and material to support operations of aviation activities and units of the Operating Forces of the Navy and other activities and units, as designated by the Chief of Naval Operations.
Page 8 - Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps in overseas areas on attach.6 or mission aircraft.
Page 504 - ... being a truly ready force, and as such, are playing an essential part in our readiness to respond at once to defense emergencies of any magnitude. This Ready Reserve cannot be maintained without the essential facilities required for the training and operations of a force that is subject to continuous modernization.
Page 71 - The basic mission of the model basin is to conduct fundamental, applied, and developmental research to improve the design of our ships and related equipment and devices.
Page 302 - Caribbean area. The Naval Station, Roosevelt Roads, serves the operating forces in a manner similar to the Navy's other oversea activities for the support of patrol, carrier, and other fleet aircraft. This station also supports combined air, surface, and submarine forces in operational training with guided missiles.
Page 164 - Yes, sir; it does get cold, but the principal requirement here is for food preparation. The next project is at the Naval Air Station, Jacksonville. Fla. It includes four line items for the total amount of $1,445,000. The first item is for construction of a communication center at the estimated cost of $1,049,000. A new facility is required for installation of the most modern communication equipment to enable handling the increased responsibilities placed on the Navy for rapid and reliable communications...
Page 209 - The next project is at the Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, NC It consists of nine items for a total of $3,076,000. The requirement for six of the nine items was generated by the relocation in January 1963, of the Third Light Antiaircraft Missile Battalion from the Marine Corps Base, Twentynine Palms, Calif., to the Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point.
Page 241 - The work performed at this station is principally in the fields of rockets, guided missiles, underwater ordnance, and aircraft fire control. The remote location of the station, plus the recognized technical competence of its personnel in these fields, afford advantages available nowhere else in the development of high-energy toxic propellants.
Page 209 - In fiscal year 1971, the new EA6B weapons system will be introduced into the fleet at this station and EA6B training will be conducted here. For this purpose, advantage will be taken of existing training space and equipment. However, additional space is needed to train pilots and ground crews...
Page 296 - This will not only alleviate the overcrowding on the good portion but will alleviate the overcrowding on all other parking aprons of the station. The second item is for construction of a survival equipment shop at the estimated cost of $189,000. The existing wooden building used for maintaining and repairing parachutes and other survival equipment is deteriorated as a result of termite and wood rot damage. The building also lacks required temperature and humidity controls. Equipment from Barbers...

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