DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1972 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT 64-083 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1971 WILLIAM W. WOODRUFF, FRANCIS S. HEWITT, T. FARRELL EGGE, AND EDMUND L. HARTUNG, Staff Assistants on the Department of Defense Appropriations (II) The subcommittee met at 9:30 a.m., in room S-126, the Capitol, Hon. Allen J. Ellender (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Ellender, Young, Allott, Hruska, Cotton, Case, Symington, and Thurmond. STATEMENTS OF: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HON. ROBERT C. SEAMANS, JR., SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE ACCOMPANIED BY: LT. GEN. GEORGE S. BOYLAN, JR., DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF, LT. GEN. OTTO J. GLASSER, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF, RE- LT. GEN. DUWARD L. CROW, COMPTROLLER OF THE AIR FORCE SUBCOMMITTEE SCHEDULE Chairman ELLENDER. The subcommittee will come to order. This morning the subcommittee begins its consideration of the Department of Defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 1972. The usual procedure has been to open these hearings with testimony from the Secretary of Defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. However, these gentlemen are appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee this week and will appear before this subcommittee next Monday and Tuesday. In order not to delay the hearings, I have decided to have the service Secretaries and military chiefs appear this week. They will be followed on Thursday by an intelligence briefing by the Director of Central Intelligence. On Friday, Secretary Packard will present a statement on the current status of the negotiations with the Lockheed Corp. on the C-5A and other contracts. In my opinion, we cannot afford to delay the enactment of the Department of Defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 1972 until next December, as was the case last year, and I want to make it clear that this subcommittee expects to report this bill within 2 weeks after it passes the other body. Of course, the schedule in the other body is dependent on the enactment of the required authorization legislation, and I hope this will be enacted early in the session. RECOGNITION OF WITNESSES We are pleased to have the Honorable Robert C. Seamans, Secretary of the Air Force, and Gen. John D. Ryan, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, with us this morning to discuss the Air Force's budget for fiscal year 1972. Of course, we are always pleased to have General Crow and General Pitts with us. BUDGET REQUEST The subcommittee will consider Air Force budget requests totaling $22,464,116,000, which is comparable to $22,147,446,000 for fiscal year 1971, including $786.4 million pending supplementals for increased pay costs. The fiscal year 1972 requests totaling $22.5 billion are for the following appropriations: Military personnel. National Guard personnel--- Operation and maintenance, Air National Guard... $6, 176, 000, 000 96, 400, 000 126, 800, 000 6, 211, 000, 000 389, 300, 000 2, 897, 500, 000 1, 944, 400, 000 1, 620, 816, 000 3, 001, 900, 000 I want to point out that the $22.5 billion request for fiscal year 1972 does not include funds that will be required for the increases in military and civilian pay that became effective on January 1, 1971. I have been advised that an additional sum of approximately $465 million will be required for these increases. You may proceed with your statement, Mr. Secretary. NIXON, DOCTRINE: KEEPING TREATY COMMITMENTS AND GREATER RESPONSIBILITY BY OTHER NATIONS Secretary SEAMANS. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am happy to meet with you again this year. I am pleased to report that we have made considerable progress in the administration of Air Force programs during the past year; but much remains to be done. Air Force programs are closely guided by overall national defense policy as described in the President's foreign policy message and Secretary Laird's Defense Report. The keystone is the Nixon doctrine which affirms that we will keep our treaty commitments while calling on other nations to assume greater responsibility. In terms of military posture, this means that our strategic forces will provide the shield, while our tactical forces will be more and more keyed to our partners' capabilities. Chairman ELLENDER. Mr. Secretary, do you mind if I interrupt? Secretary SEAMANS. Certainly not, Mr. Chairman. Chairman ELLENDER. We have been calling on other nations to assume greater responsibility for 20 years and the response has been very unsatisfactory. CONTRIBUTIONS BY ALLIES TO NATO FUNDING Secretary SEAMANS. Well, that is true, and that is the reason that President Nixon and Secretary Laird are working with our NATO allies, for example, to get them to make larger contributions to the NATO funding of the structure there. Chairman ELLENDER. I am familiar with that. It was my privilege to be in Europe during October and November of last year. I learned there that our allies in Western Europe have promised to give less than $1 billion over a period of 5 years to be spent in their respective countries, but no effort is being made to assist in meeting the expenses of our forces there, not only those in Western Europe but those in the Mediterranean and in Spain. As you know, we are spending about $14 billion to sustain our effort in NATO. It is high time that our allies assisted us in providing these forces. DEFINITION OF "Calling ON": INCREASING PRESSURE BY THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Would you define the phrase "calling on." Does that mean that the same effort will be made as in the past 4 years? If it does, it will have little or no effect. Secretary SEAMANS. My understanding, Mr. Chairman. is that the President and Secretary of Defense are not satisfied with what the NATO countries have done and are going to put increasing pressure on them to make a larger contribution. NEGOTIATIONS WITH GERMANY TO CONSTRUCT FACILITIES AT WIESBADEN AIRPORT FOR U.S. OCCUPANCY Chairman ELLENDER. Well, what if it has no effect, as in the past? In those continuing circumstances, what are we going to do? Secretary SEAMANS. I don't know what all the alternatives are but I know the pressure is being applied. We in the Air Force, for example, are negotiating with the German Government to get them to put up new facilities at the airport at Wiesbaden for us to occupy. Our intent is to have them construct the facilities and we will move out of Lindsey Air Station out of the city and onto the base, and they will fund that facility. SUGGESTED CONTRIBUTIONS TO MAINTENANCE OF U.S. FORCES: CONVERSATION WITH SECRETARY OF NATO ALLIANCE Chairman ELLENDER. What about contributions to maintain the Air Force there? We maintain our forces there in large measure for their benefit and in my opinion the amount we provide is out of all pro |