CHIEFS REPRESENTATION HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE EIGHTY-SECOND CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 677 A BILL TO FIX THE PERSONNEL STRENGTH OF THE A PERMANENT MEMBER OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF 82535 APRIL 13, 17, AND 21, 1951 Printed for the use of the Committee on Armed Services UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1951 Devereux, Hon. James P. S., Member of Congress from the State of Maryland (brigadier general, USMC, retired), representing the Table, comparison of organizational strengths, Weapons and Motor Transport, Marine division and Army Infantry division- Table, comparison of average costs per military person during fiscal Appendix A and appendix B to statement of Mr. Arthur B. Hanson 132-138 Defense Department advertisements.. 142-143 Letter dated April 19, 1951, from the Secretary of the Navy to the 147-149 III Insertions in the record-Continued Letter dated April 19, 1951, from Mr. Ferdinand Eberstadt (chairman Hoover committee Task Force on National Security) to Deputy Letter dated March 22, 1951, from Mr. Ferdinand Eberstadt to Memorandum dated April 24, 1951, from Rear Adm. H. A. Houser to chairman of the subcommittee regarding number of occasions when Basic organizational structure of the Naval Establishment_ Command and administrative responsibilities within the Naval The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:15 a. m. in room 212, Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C., Senator Estes Kefauver (chairman of the subcommittee composed of Senators Kefauver, Stennis, Long, Saltonstall, and Flanders) presiding. Present: Senators Kefauver (presiding), Stennis, Long, and Saltonstall. Also present: Justice M. Chambers, of the committee staff. Senator KEFAUVER. The committee will come to order, please. This is a subcommittee to consider S. 677, a bill to fix the personnel strength of the United States Marine Corps and to make the Commandant of the Marine Corps a permanent member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Let the record show that by appointment of Chairman Russell the members of this subcommittee are Senator Stennis, of Mississippi; Senator Long, of Louisiana; Senator Saltonstall, of Massachusetts; Senator Flanders, of Vermont; and the chairman of the subcommittee is Kefauver, of Tennessee. Copy of the bill, with the amendment thereto, shall be placed in the record at this point. (The bill and amendment referred to above is as follows:) [S. 677, 82d Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To fix the personnel strength of the United States Marine Corps, and to make the Commandant of the Marine Corps a permanent member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first sentence of section 206 (c) of the National Security Act of 1947 is hereby amended to read as follows: "The United States Marine Corps, within the Department of the Navy, shall include four full-strength combat divisions, four full-strength air wings, and such other land combat, aviation, and other services as may be organic therein, and the personnel strength of the Regular Marine Corps shall be maintained at not less than four hundred thousand." SEC. 2. The Commandant of the Marine Corps shall be a permanent member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. [S. 677, 82d Cong., 1st sess.] AMENDMENT Intended to be proposed by Mr. Douglas (for himself, Mr. McCarthy, Mr. Smathers, Mr. Case, Mr. Fulbright, Mr. Gillette, Mr. George, Mr. Johnson of Colorado, Mr. Robertson, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Tobey, Mr. Ecton, Mr. Neely, Mr. Butler of Nebraska, Mr. Duff, Mr. Sparkman, Mr. Schoeppel, 1 |