in them, there will not be any gaps being filled. I mean, they are going away, disappearing. The jobs that are being filled were jobs that already existed and had been validated by manpower requirements, but we had not enough funding to fill them. Could we have elected not to fill those billets? Yes, clearly we could have done so. Will we in some future budget drill elect to do so? I have no idea. The whole Department of Defense budget is up for grabs right now, and clearly that is not off limits. Any decision that was made in December is subject to revisiting. At some point in time when we have additional savings that we can take from this or similar kinds of examinations, quite likely, we will consider those additional savings, but when and what those will be will be difficult for me to say at this point. Mr. HUTTO. Mr. Machtley, if you will yield for just a second-Mr. Berteau, could you provide us the specifics on these 2,990 people on where they went? Mr. BERTEAU. We can give you a number of break-outs of that right now. We are currently reviewing each billet, where they came from, and making a judgment as to, in fact, how those billets complied with the specific recommendations and the degree to which they were the right billets to take down. In the case of a couple of commands, they are basically taking this opportunity to do some additional restructuring and manpower drawdown. So, we are, for those commands, waiting to see what the results of those are, particularly Strategic Air Command, which is undergoing essentially a complete 10 percent reduction of their headquarters as a result of this, and that will not be available probably for another month or so. We can provide you the details we have now and we will also provide you the results of the review when it is completed, which will probably be some time in April, billet by billet. Mr. HUTTO. All right. If you would. Mr. BERTEAU. We could do the same for the 2,244 that were added back in terms of where those were added back by service and by category. [The following information was received for the record:] Service Manpower Reductions The attached table shows the directed Vander Schaaf Report manpower reductions by Service and by officer, enlisted, and civilian category. The approved resource reinvestments are also shown. The attached three tables display the Army, Navy, and Air Force manpower reductions by major command. The Army fell short of its assigned target by 5 spaces, but the Navy and Air Force exceeded their reduction targets. (The information follows.) Of the 379 military identified for reduction 163 were officers. Buy back of combat spaces expends only 75 officers and converts the remaining 304 to enlisted. 89% officers restorals were at company level while 95% of all enlisted of restorals were E5 and below. All 744 Civilian Strength restorals were to support medical billets in CONUS medical facilities. 1 of 3 Restoral of end strength to ships/squadrons/medical units was on a one-for-one basis with the reductions above (i.e., 42 Officers/53 Enlisted/20 Civilians were restored in FY-89, and so on). All officer restorals were at the ensign level and over 90% of all enlisted restorals were at the junior (E5 and below) paygrades. Military restorals went to combat units (ships, squadrons, subs). Civilian strength restored to medical facilities. 2 of 3 |