COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES.
UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

CARD DIVISION

48-296

PART 2

MARCH 25; APRIL 1, 8, 12, 13; MAY 13, 1965

Printed for the use of the Committee on Armed Services

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1965

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES
RICHARD B. RUSSELL, Georgia, Chairman

CHARLES B. KIRBOW, Chief Clerk

KOVO OSADREPAREDNESS INVESTIGATING SUBCOMMITTEE

JOHN STENNIS, Mississippi, Chairman

JAMES T. KENDALL, Chief Counsel ROBERT M. NEAL, Professional Staff Member GLENN A. SMITH, Professional Staff Member STUART P. FRENCH, Professional Staff Member

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CONTENTS

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WITNESSES BEFORE THE PREPAREDNESS
INVESTIGATING SUBCOMMITTEE

(Part 1: Pages 1-342; Part 2: Pages 343-635)

Name, title, and date of appearance:
Ailes, Hon. Stephen, Secretary of the Army, March 1, 11, 18, 1965.

Page

10,

108, 238

Cantwell, Maj. Gen. James F., president, National Guard Association of the United States, April 8, 1965.

Carlton, Col. John T., executive director, Reserve Officers Association of the United States, April 12, 1965

Johnson, Gen. Harold K., Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, March 1, 18, 1965_

Kaine, Maj. Gen. J. W., Chairman, General Staff Committees on Army
National Guard, and Army Reserve Policy, April 13, 1965_-
McNamara, Hon. Robert S., Secretary of Defense, March 1, 1965--
Sutton, Maj. Gen. William J., Chief, Army Reserve, Department of
the Army, April 1, 1965.-

Wilson, Maj. Gen. Winston P., Chief, National Guard Bureau, March
25, 1965___.

Wright, Lt. Gen. William H. S., Chief, Office of Reserve Components,
Department of the Army, March 23, April 1, 1965___

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533

15,

238

574

4

415

344

276, 465

PROPOSAL TO REALINE THE ARMY NATIONAL GUARD

AND THE ARMY RESERVE FORCES

THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1965

U.S. SENATE,

PREPAREDNESS INVESTIGATING SUBCOMMITTEE,
OF THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES,

Washington, D.C.

The subcommittee (composed of Senators Stennis (chairman), Symington, Jackson, Saltonstall, Smith, and Thurmond) met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a.m., in room 224, Old Senate Office Building, Senator John Stennis presiding.

Present: Senators Stennis, Symington, Jackson, Saltonstall and Thurmond.

Also present: Senators Cannon, McIntyre, and Tower.

James T. Kendall, chief counsel; Robert M. Neal, Stuart French, and Glenn A. Smith, professional staff members.

TOWER TELEGRAM FROM TEXAS GOVERNOR

Senator STENNIS. The subcommittee will come to order. Senator Tower has a telegram he wants to read into the record. What does it say?

Senator ToWER. It says:

As Governor of Texas I have accepted the troop allotment for Texas under the proposed merger plan: however, I have protested the excessive loss of troop units in Texas. The national average of troop units cut from the program was 25 percent; Texas sustained a reduction of 42 percent. Further, I did not concur in the renumbering of the 49th Inf. BDE (Sep) to 72d BDE (Mech) as proposed by the CNGB. Bt.

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Senator STENNIS. Thank you, Senator. General Wilson, we are delighted to have you here. You are always welcome. We are glad to have you testify on this matter. I know you are interested in it and have worked a lot on it. You have a statement. Do you wish to put it in the record and just summarize it, or would you rather read all of your statement?

STATEMENT OF MAJ. GEN. WINSTON P. WILSON, CHIEF, NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU

General WILSON. Whatever you desire, sir. I can put the statement in the record and summarize it or I can read it, sir, whichever the chairman desires.

Senator STENNIS. That being true, I believe you really can do better if you place it all in the record so we will have the benefit of every