Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1985: U.S. military postureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 - 4470 pages |
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Page 6 - ... the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force...
Page 224 - Reserve recruiters, bonus and educational assistance incentives, and full-time support increases. These initiatives, coupled with renewed nationwide public support of the armed forces, give us confidence that the manpower posture of the Guard and Reserve will continue to improve. Table II. B. 5 Selected Reserve Manpower...
Page 7 - Whenever a function, power, or duty, or activity is transferred or assigned to a department or agency of the Department of Defense from a department or agency outside of the Department of Defense, or from...
Page 201 - Union may have to threaten attack against the United States or its allies. As we pursue our goal of defensive technologies, we recognize that our allies rely upon our strategic offensive power to deter attacks against them. Their vital interests and ours are inextricably linked. Their safety and ours are one. And no change in technology can or will alter that reality.
Page 257 - ... dictate. The retired soldiers have honorably completed their part of the written and unwritten contracts made with their country. They look to the Army and the Government to safeguard their Interests. Examples of actions that adversely affect the retired community are reductions In military health care and the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). The reduction in the Government reimbursement for doctor's fees under CHAMPUS has shifted more of the cost burden...
Page 6 - ... for such fiscal year for the Selected Reserve of such reserve component shall be proportionately increased by the total authorized strength of such units and by the total number of such individual members.
Page 6 - Reserve of such component which are on active duty (other than for training) at any time during the fiscal year; and (2) the total number of individual members not in units organized to serve as units of the Selected Reserve of such component who are on active duty (other than for training or for unsatisfactory participation in training) without their consent at any time during the fiscal year. Whenever such units or such individual members are released from active duty during any fiscal year, the...
Page 203 - The study concluded that advanced defensive technologies could offer the potential to enhance deterrence and to help prevent nuclear war by reducing significantly the military utility of Soviet preemptive attacks and by undermining an aggressor's confidence in the probability of a successful attack against both the United States and its allies.
Page 390 - As such, his primary mission is to provide transportation planning support to the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the unified and specified commands, the military services, and the Department of Defense agencies in support of the plans of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other military operations as required.
Page 7 - ... or assignment. (d) When the Secretary of Defense determines that such action is necessary in the national interest, he may authorize the employment of civilian personnel in excess of the number authorized by subsection (a...