Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Armed Services, Issues 1-10

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Page 87 - Defense, the Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps, we have a multitude of initiatives well underway to make our infrastructure more effective and less costly.
Page 714 - The Marine Corps shall be organized, trained, and equipped to provide fleet marine forces of combined arms, together with supporting air components, for service with the fleet in the seizure or defense of advanced naval bases and for the conduct of such land operations as may be essential to the prosecution of a naval campaign.
Page 449 - The purpose of the reserve components is to provide trained units and qualified persons available for active duty in the armed forces, in time of war or national emergency...
Page 705 - V" and Gold Star in lieu of a second award, the...
Page 777 - Force, the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps in overseas areas on attache or mission aircraft.
Page 161 - However, it seems reasonable to assume that in the case of the Soviet Union, the destruction of, say, one-fifth to one-fourth of its population and one-half to two-thirds of its industrial capacity would mean its elimination as a major power for many years. Such a level of destruction would certainly represent intolerable punishment to any industrialized nation and thus should serve as an effective deterrent to the deliberate initiation of a nuclear attack on the United States or its allies.
Page 746 - I would be less than candid if I did not tell you that the...
Page 395 - Washington, DC DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN : This Is to acknowledge receipt of your letter of February...
Page 291 - That the militia, when called into the actual service of the United States, shall be subject to the same Rules and Articles of War as the regular troops of the United States.
Page 79 - Connolly has the American Defense Service Medal ; the American Campaign Medal ; the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal ; the World War II Victory Medal and the National Defense Service Medal.

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