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Page 761 - 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 473 - Very well, sir. (Whereupon, at 12 o'clock noon, the committee recessed to reconvene at 2:30 pm the same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION, THURSDAT, JUNE 25, 1959 TRINITY DIVISION, CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT STATEMENT OF HON.
Page 154 - Operational evaluation, V/STOL" and "New surveillance aircraft'' — are both part of a broader Defense Department program for the development of experimental prototype vertical, or short, takeoff and landing aircraft suitable for operational testing by the three services. Both of these project have heretofore been funded on a tri-Service basis.
Page 172 - Service colleges, staff schools, post-graduate schools, officer candlate schools, and the education of military personnel at civilian colleges and universities. The requirement for personnel with a scientific or engineering background is rising every year. For example, the Air Force estimates that within the next ten years as many as 22,000 officers may have to receive professional training.
Page 840 - I believe, beginning to get mucb stronger support from industry in their capacity as designers and suppliers. Industrial leaders are being told that they must assume more of the responsibility to provide the Navy with the best management and technical assistance in antisubmarine warfare areas. You might feel that this is just another antisubmarine warfare organizational layer in the Navy. I can assure you it is not. I have been given authority and I use it. It would be impossible to carry out this...
Page 6 - Total obligational authority" (TOA) ; ie. the full cost of an annual increment of a program regardless of the year in which the funds are authorized, appropriated, or expended. These costs will differ in many cases from the amounts requested for...
Page 408 - The joint committee will now take a recess, subject to the call of the Chair. It is expected that the next witness will be Dr. Brown, and that the next sitting will be on Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, in this room. (Whereupon, at 6:30 pm, Friday, February 26, 1965, the committee recessed, to reconvene at 10 am, March 2, 1965.) MILITARY AUTHORIZATIONS AND DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1966 TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1965 US SENATE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, AND SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENT...
Page 413 - MANNED STRATEGIC VEHICLES Although missile system developments constitute a large proportion of our current and prospective effort in strategic systems, strategic aircraft have now and for the foreseeable future will continue to have a significant place in the force structure.
Page 231 - Individual service chiefs, the Joint Chiefs of Staff agree that the program supported by this budget will increase our overall combat effectiveness and will provide effective forces in a high state of readiness for the defense of the vital interests of the United States.
Page 138 - The maintenance of the facilities and resources necessary to institute promptly nuclear tests in the atmosphere should they be deemed essential to our national security or should the treaty or any of its terms be abrogated by the Soviet Union.

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