Mr. BROOKS. And you are doing that now? Mr. BROOKS. You submit those projects? Mr. DEININGER. Yes, sir. Mr. KELLEHER. Mr. Reporter, this statement of Colonel Rambeau's will go in the transcript. Mr. BROOKS. Let that statement be included in the record at this point. (The document is as follows:) STATEMENT OF COL. JACKSON V. RAMBEAU, OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY CHIEF OF OPERATIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, the Air Reserve forces facility requirements is for 347 installations. Of these, 153 will be flying and 194 non flying. My first chart illustrates the phased funding plan of required facilities for the entire Air Reserve forces training program, which includes Air Forces Reserve and Air National Guard. The total cost for the period fiscal year 1951 through fiscal year 1960 is estimated at $366,200,000. To the left of the heavy vertical line are shown current and prior year appropriations in the amount of $110,804,240, covering programed construction costs. Obligations as of December 31, 1954, were $80,200,000. Expenditures as of the same date were $59,500,000. To the right of the heavy vertical red centerline appears the projected future appropriations proposed to defray the construction costs of the balance of the required facilities. The time period covered is from 1956 through 1960. The dollars required are phased as shown: 1956, $49,300,000; 1957, $130 million; 1958, $57,800,000; 1950, $11 million; 1960, $7,300,000. The total remaining requirement is for $255,400,000. Of the total amount, $214,277,000 is designed to provide for the construction of new facilities and $41,132,000 for replacement of inadequate existing facilities. It is believed that with the possible exception of some minor replacements after 1960, this will complete the Air Reserve forces construction program. My second chart indicates funding of the Air Reserve forces facility requirements for the period fiscal year 1951 through fiscal year 1960, in the total of $366,200,000, as is shown in the first bar. The second bar shows that $86,200,000 has been appropriated under Public Law 783, that $24,600,000 has been funded under other authorizations and that $255,400,000 remains for future funding authorizations. The next bar indicates the total requirement for flying facilities of $304,700,000 out of the total of $366,200,000. The fourth bar shows $81,600,000 accomplished under Public Law 783 and $24,100,000 under other than Public Law 783. The remaining requirement is for $199,000,000. The next two bars refer to nonflying facilities. $61,600,000 is the overall requirement. $4,600,000 has been accomplished under Public Law 783 authorization, $500,000 under other than Public Law 783, and $56,400,000 remains for future authorization. To sum up, the Air Force has a remaining requirement for $255,400,000 to complete the funding of its Reserve forces construction program. Mr. BROOKS. You have given us a very comprehensive statement on the program of the Army. We thank you very much. STATEMENT OF COMDR. E. M. GREER, JR., OFFICE, ASSISTANT CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS (NAVAL RESERVE), DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY Mr. BROOKS. This is a different statement from that the admiral covered? Commander GREER. Yes, sir. Mr. BROOKS. If you will proceed, we will have time to cover your statement and that is all we will have this morning. Commander GREER. The purpose of this presentation is to review the facilities program of the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve, outoutlining what we have accomplished to date and what our requirements are for the future. At the end of World War II the Organized Reserve of the Navy and Marine Corps, as we know it today, did not exist. We had no organized units and no designated Reserve training facilities. In 1946 the Navy and Marine Corps Reserve programs were inaugurated, and by June 1950, enrollment in our drill pay units had grown to 181,000 in the Naval Reserve and 40,000 in the Marine Corps. In order to adequately house and train these reservists, the Navy and Marine Corps expended $120 million in providing training facilities. Facilities for the Naval Reserve surface and Marine Corps Reserve ground units were procured by the erection of temporary war surplus quonset-type structures, and the purchasing, leasing, and rehabilitation of existing buildings and property. Our Air Reserve facilities were acquired by utilizing existing airfield facilities at Government-owned stations and municipal airports, and by leasing suitable facilities at other municipal airports. Our problems, however, were not permanently solved by the establishment of these training facilities. Many of our temporary structures are in need of replacement due to growing maintenance costs, and many are held under high cost leases (some soon to expire) which cannot be economically renewed; runways need to be extended to accommodate jet aircraft; and our growing drilling units necessitate the construction of additional facilities. Public Law 783, 81st Congress, enabled us to devise and initiate a long-range expansion, replacement, and improvement program which would keep step with the planned growth of our drilling Reserve. The facilities requirements have been projected through fiscal year 1960, and are fixed by the ultimate planned strength of the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve drilling units. The enactment of this important legislation was vital to the implementation of our long-range program, and much has been accomplished under its provisions. A total of $91 million has been appropriated to the Navy for the Reserve forces facilities program since fiscal year 1951; $45 million of this was provided under the authority of Public Law 783, 81st Congress. The Navy first made representation to Congress for funds under this authority in fiscal year 1954. These funds are requested under the appropriation title "Military construction, Naval Reserve forces," which is divided into three budget activities: (1) Naval Reserve, aviation; (2) Naval Reserve, surface; (3) Marine Corps Reserve, ground. In the following review of our facilities program I will treat each of these three activities separately. (The document is as follows:) Commander GREER. Chart No. 1, attached to copies of this presentation and distributed to members of this committee, illustrates graphically the status of the facilities programs, since fiscal year 1951, of each activity. We have at present 28 Naval and Marine Corps Air Reserve training facilities; 21 of these are naval air stations whose primary mission is the training of the Naval and Marine Corps Air Reserve, and 7 are Naval Air Reserve training units located at naval air stations of the Regular Establishment. No new Naval Air Reserve stations have been constructed; the existing stations were either Government-owned World War II air stations which were turned over to the Naval Air Reserve after the war, or are civilian airport facilities under lease. Many of these stations have been rendered obsolete by the advent of jet aircraft. Runways must be lengthened and improved, and in some cases, where topographical conditions prevent runway extensions, the air stations must be relocated. In order to provide adequate training facilities for our Naval Air Reserve, we have requirements for the establishment of 3 additional new air stations, the replacement or relocation of 5 existing air stations and 1 Naval Air Reserve training unit, and improvements to 17 existing air stations. Much of this work has been started and some has been completed. From fiscal year 1951 through 1953, $44 million was received from public works funds for some of our rehabilitation and improvement projects on 13 of the old air stations. |