Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Armed ServicesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1979 |
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active duty Active Forces Admiral HAYWARD Air Force All-Volunteer Force ALLEN Armed Forces Armed Services Army attrition believe bill budget capability Chairman Chiefs of Staff civilian classification Colonel KAUFMAN combat committee Congress conscientious objectors conscription cost Department of Defense draft registration emergency enlisted fiscal going HENDRIX high school graduates increase Individual Ready Reserve induction induction orders initiatives Internal Revenue Service legislation M-day male manpower requirements Marine Corps MCKINNEY meet ment Military Selective Service military service million mobilization Navy officers option peacetime registration percent personnel problem question recruiting reinstitute Reserve Component retention ROGERS SAM NUNN Selected Reserve Selective Service Act Selective Service System Senator BYRD Senator COHEN Senator JEPSEN Senator NUNN Senator WARNER shortfall SHUCK standby statement subcommittee Thank tion United Vietnam Vietnam war wartime WILSON women young
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Page 12 - Air Force, the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps in overseas areas on attach6 or mission aircraft.
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Page 236 - ... induction by it. The Army also obtains a portion of its new manpower through enlistments. The bulk of those who enter the service through Selective Service processing and delivery serve in the Army. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM Selective Service System The Selective Service System is an independent agency, responsible directly to the President, and authorized by law to provide military manpower for the military services in such numbers and at such times as the Secretary...
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Page 175 - Forces are placed on an all-volunteer basis for meeting their active duty manpower needs, the Selective Service System, as it is constituted on the date of the enactment of this subsection, shall, nevertheless be maintained as an active standby organization, with (1) a complete registration and classification structure capable of immediate operation in the event of a national emergency...
Page 103 - ... public approval, as a method of assigning manpower during times of crisis. However, we challenge the use of the draft as normal public policy. We ask for a return to the American tradition which regarded military conscription as an emergency device. The only justification for military conscription is an emergency that requires the exceptional mobilization of the nation's resources and manpower...
Page 181 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am pleased to appear before you and the other distinguished members of this committee to comment on the provisions of HR 1244 and S.
Page 217 - ... Field Office staffs should be augmented. This should permit more frequent visits to State Directors and also attendance by Regional Officers at all Local Board clerk conferences. An additional Regional Field Office should be established at Denver to facilitate liaison activities in Region V. CONCLUSION The Task Force concluded that the risk of failing to meet military requirements, lowering the quality of decisions, and losing public support render the change in structure of the Selective Service...
Page 128 - ... on NATO by the nations of the Warsaw Pact, led by the USSR. - and (2) - an attack in either Northeast or Southeast Asia with the direct involvement of the forces of a major power. b. - To counter the threat, US planners ("Annual Defense Department Report FY 1975") estimated a minimum of 2, 152,000 active personnel and 915,000 reserves in its military manpower pool to accomplish the job of carrying on a one-and-one-half war strategy. Also included were 1,028,000 civilian workers. c. - In FY 1979,...
Page 13 - ... have put on special briefings for the Commissioners, and have laid before them the whole scope of the NASA R. & D. program in the field of communication and navigation satellites. I think the last of these formal briefings was on the ninth of this month, if my memory serves me right. Senator JORDAN. I think it would be helpful for the record if we had a little more detail of the list you have suggested. (The material referred to follows:) The following is a list of the NASA advisory actions in...