Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Parte 1

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Página 562 - Force, the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps in overseas areas on attache or mission aircraft.
Página 260 - I would be pleased now to address any questions you or the other members of the Committee might have.
Página 97 - Protection of our land-based retaliatory forces against a direct attack by the Soviet Union. "2. Defense of the American people against the kind of nuclear attack which Communist China is likely to be able to mount within the decade. "3. Protection against the possibility of accidental attacks from any source.
Página 12 - The United States is willing to stop all aerial and naval bombardment of North Vietnam when this will lead promptly to productive discussions. We, of course, assume that while discussions proceed, North Vietnam would not take advantage of the bombing cessation or limitation.
Página 121 - Thank you. (The information requested is classified and has been furnished separately to the committee.) Mr.
Página 282 - Last year we began a special new training program to accelerate production of non-commissioned officers to help meet replacement needs. In this program, selected junior enlisted men are given special training to prepare them to serve as non-commissioned officer leaders or skilled specialists. Already this fiscal year we have trained about 11,000 soldiers in 43 different skill areas.
Página 283 - ... months of service have received promotions to grade E-5. Finally, and perhaps of greater significance, is the fact that many of these men are being trained in skills which will equip them to find useful, productive jobs in the civilian economy.
Página 235 - There is no point whatever in our responding by going to a massive ABM deployment to protect our population, when such a system would be ineffective against a sophisticated Soviet offense. Instead, realism dictates that if the Soviets elect to deploy a heavy ABM system, we must further expand our sophisticated offensive forces and thus preserve our overwhelming assured destruction capability. But the intractable fact is that should the talks fail, both the Soviets and ourselves would be forced to...
Página 692 - Four million dollars for C-130 series aircraft, and $6 million for A-3 series aircraft. The service life extension program is a continuation of prior year programs. Because of the policy during SEA hostilities to procure mainly for combat and operational attrition only, our modification and service life extension programs have had to accept the burden of modernizing our older aircraft to sustain inventory levels.
Página 205 - Advisors to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, and the three outstanding men who have served as Directors of Research and Engineering to three Secretaries of Defense— have unanimously recommended against the deployment of an ABM system designed to protect our population against a Soviet attack. These men are Doctors Killian, Kistiakowsky, Wiesner, Hornig, York, Brown, and Foster.

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