Defense Issues, Volume 3American Forces Information Service, 1988 |
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Page 12 - Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps in overseas areas on attach.6 or mission aircraft.
Page 7 - Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: It is my pleasure to appear before you today to bring you up to date on the good news about the Naval Reserve and to look ahead to the future. I will discuss my "report card" for the past year and present our program for Fiscal Year 1986.
Page 7 - He further stated that once our verification concerns have been satisfied and the treaties have been ratified, and in association with a program to reduce and ultimately eliminate all nuclear weapons, he will propose that the US and the Soviet Union immediately engage in negotiations on ways to implement a step-by-step parallel program of limiting and ultimately ending., nuclear testing.
Page 7 - Europe; in conjunction with the establishment of a conventional balance and the global elimination of chemical weapons, tangible and verifiable reductions of American and Soviet land-based nuclear missile systems of shorter range, leading to equal ceilings.
Page 12 - Our aim, of course, is to meet this challenge with a robust mix of strategic airlift (C-5, C-141, and C-17), supported by the Civil Reserve Air Fleet. Outside the Warsaw Pact area (including Soviet territory) and Afghanistan, the USSR has never staged a large-scale strategic mobility exercise, ie, involving the movement of thousands of troops and supporting combat equipment by airlift and sealift over long distances. Even if they could muster the necessary airlift, it is far from clear that they...
Page 12 - America — and then deny responsibility for the whole business. When circumstances dictate, however, the Kremlin finds SPETSNAZ forces well suited for military purposes, for instance in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan. In the meantime, we are continuing to train and equip Special Operations forces for global missions. Some of these tasks will be in direct support of Commanders of Unified Commands. Others of a time-urgent or politically-charged nature will be controlled from Washington. The SOCOM...
Page 12 - General, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Commandant of the Marine Corps and I are committed to making the investments that, when mature, will bring increased access to heath services to our people.
Page 12 - PEACEKEEPER missiles, however, still confront them with a formidible hard-target kill capability — which can be made rail-mobile, if we so choose. With respect to ballistic missile submarines, the Soviets continue to find themselves at a disadvantage. They remain behind us in missile-launching capability, and they continue to worry about our superior ASW capabilities. As a consequence, the Russian Navy is deploying the bulk of its SSBNs near home waters where its own ASW forces can offer more protection...
Page 7 - ... medical departments are responsible for ensuring that appropriate preventive medicine counseling is given to individual patients and for providing public health education materials to its beneficiary population. As elaborated previously, a comprehensive, integrated, and coordinated program is ongoing. Retention and Separation Active duty personnel with serologic evidence of HIV infection are referred for a medical evaluation for documentation of fitness for continued service in the same manner...
Page 7 - HIV infection are not separated solely on the basis of serologic evidence of HIV infection. Reserve component members with serologic evidence of HIV infection are ineligible for extended active duty (duty for a period of more than 30 days) except under conditions of mobilization. Reserve component members who are not on extended active duty (duty for a period of more than 30 days) or who are not on extended full-time National Guard duty and who show serologic evidence of HIV infection are transferred...