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ABRAMS active additional Admiral MARTELL Admiral McDONALD Air Force aircraft ANDREWS antisubmarine warfare appropriation Army Reserve attack believe bomber capability Chairman Chiefs of Staff civil defense civilian combat command committee Communist Congress continue cost Department of Defense Discussion divisions effective effort engine enlistment equipment estimated fallout shelter fiscal year 1966 FLOOD funds going improved increase Joint Chiefs LAIRD Laos LIPSCOMB MAHON major Marine Corps ment million MINSHALL missile National Guard Naval Navy nuclear obligational authority officers operations percent problem procurement proposed question record reduction request Reserve components Secretary AILES Secretary MCNAMARA Secretary NITZE Secretary of Defense Secretary ZUCKERT ships shipyards SIKES South Vietnam southeast Asia Soviet statement strategic strength submarines tactical talking tion U.S. Army U.S. Army Reserve units V/STOL Vietcong Vietnamese weapon systems WHEELER WHITTEN
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Page 512 - On behalf of the committee, I wish to thank you for your testimony today.
Page 369 - Secretary or his duly authorized representative, that gratuities (in the form of entertainment, gifts, or otherwise) were offered or given by the Contractor, or any agent or representative of the Contractor, to any officer or employee of the Government with a view toward securing a contract or securing favorable treatment with respect to the awarding or amending, or the making of any determinations with respect to the performing of such contract...
Page 318 - Defense, upon determination by the President that it is necessary to increase the number of military personnel on active duty beyond the number for which funds are provided, to treat the cost of such an increase as an excepted expense.
Page 314 - Total active duty military strength planned for the end of fiscal year 1965 will be about 6,100 less than the number planned for the end of the current fiscal year, and about 16,950 less than end fiscal year 1963. As shown in the table below, Air Force strength will continue to decline primarily as a result of the phase-out of the B-47's.
Page 253 - Developments - the effort directed toward the expansion of technological knowledge and the development of materials, components, devices and sub-systems which it is hoped will have some useful application to new military weapons and equipment. Here the emphasis Is on exploring the feasibility of various approaches to the solution of specific military problems, up to the point of demonstrating feasibility with "breadboard" devices and prototype components and sub-systems.
Page 7 - In short, we seek a world in which each nation is free to develop in its own way, unmolested by its neighbors, free of the fear of armed attack from the more powerful nations.
Page 279 - This support includes equipment procurement for research laboratories, test facilities and proving grounds, the cost of civilian and military salaries, and the construction of new facilities.
Page 35 - Soviets to have during the next decade, it will be virtually impossible for us to be able to ensure anything approaching complete protection for our population, no matter how large the general nuclear war forces we were to provide, including even the hypothetical possibility of striking first.
Page 61 - The issue is the future of southeast Asia as a whole. A threat to any nation in that region is a threat to all, and a threat to us. 3. Our purpose is peace. We have no military, political, or territorial ambitions in the area. 4. This is not just a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.
Page 233 - Our tentative logistics objective for the Marine Corps ground forces is to provide sufficient materiel to equip and sustain the four divisions in combat for a sustained period.