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Financial status, Air Force construction program, fiscal year 1950 through fiscal year 1955 as of Apr. 30, 1955

Programed dollars, obligations, and expenditures by individual Air Force Base are not included for

Ceas due to security classification.

* Includes 51,000,000 MSA funds.

Financial status, Air Force construction program, fiscal year 1950 through fiscal year 1955 as of Apr. 30, 1955—Continued

programed

Expended

$8, 203, 000
3,355,000

$7,547, 957

2,372, 987

17,069, 523

21, 637, 000 753, 000 3,751,000 35, 768,000 14,003,000 5,713, 000 13, 914, 000 19,597, 000 26, 769,000

29, 130, 000
324,000

41, 714, 000
39,042, 000
8,793,000
6,830, 000
24,419,000
3,901, 000
35, 548,000
36, 018, 000
83,000
13, 590,000
7,537,000
17, 052, 000
13,019, 000
523,000
43, 623, 000
37, 341, 000
48,871, 000
4,800,000

233,000

90,372,000
11, 895,000
8, 229, 000
14,729, 000

59,000
24, 160,000

637,000

9, 916, 000 7, 565, 000 14, 436, 000 31, 485, 000 48,966, 000 7,796, 000 59, 477,000 6, 387,000 6,228,000 1,591, 000 4,363, 000 911,000 20,798,000

2, 146, 000 10, 721,000 11,571,000 5,357,000 10,092, 000 13, 321,000 3,175,000 7,452,000 23, 226,000 6,600,000 65,000 13, 624,000 7,895,000

5,274,000

4,961,000 30,741,000

328,000

62, 720,000
8,763,000
28, 394, 000
54, 529,000
8,739,000
79,000
53, 476,000
2,604,000
5, 278,000
3, 643, 000

640, 914 2,247, 484 21, 546, 815 11, 504, 574

438 727, 711 11, 909, 304 6,999, 880

22, 610, 376

321, 575 34, 960, 277 26, 787, 122

31, 533 5, 564, 767 19, 448, 463

407 28,775, 193 24, 752, 300

82, 191 9,772, 5966, 599, 778 14, 168, 507 11, 820, 817

453,000 33,878, 438 16,542, 513 38,090, 528 4, 182, 242

231, 917

72, 992, 508 11, 557, 098

7, 165, 680 10, 882, 401

58, 690 13, 490, 296

511, 245 6,591, 027 4,900, 364

Financial status, Air Force construction program, fiscal year 1950 through fiscal year 1955 as of Apr. 30, 1955-Continued

7,644, 531

Truax Field, Wis.

Turner Air Force Base, Ga.
Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla..
Vance Air Force Base, Okla.
Walker Air Force Base, N. Mex..
Washington National Airport..
Webb Air Force Base, Tex..
Westover Air Force Base, Mass.
Wilkins Air Force Depot, Ohio.
Williams Air Force Base, Ariz.
Wolters Air Force Base, Tex.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio..

Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Mich.

Youngstown Municipal Airport, Ohio..
Yama County Airport, Ariz..
Elm. of col. restr., var. loc.

SAC Special Stge, ZI.

AFSWP.

W-A-L Comm. Facilities.

Repair and replacement of afld lghtg.

42, 521,000 5,600,000 8,325,000 7,469,000 5, 192, 000 16, 145, 000 49,000 11, 369,000 32, 141, 000 6, 171, 000

8, 689, 758 151,000 22,494, 368

410, 022

6,999, 899 4,502, 365 14, 503, 340

48, 447 10,899, 932 28, 377, 468

13, 319, 276 1, 622, 442 25, 293, 501 2,248, 952 925, 777

1,670, 486 7,805, 135 151,000 14,754, 043 357, 609

35, 275, 516

4, 115, 160 4,080, 769 5,607,038 2,396, 712 11,625, 895 48, 447 10, 159, 824 14,942, 800

6, 167, 246

6, 125, 983

Army support facilities.

Propellant storage.

Strat POL

10, 227, 000

6, 163, 031

Air Force security service..

2, 199, 000

2, 196, 711

Cacterize.

1,345,000

1, 290, 938

AFOAT-1, ZI.

349, 681

AFOAT, ZI.

6, 382, 000

5,820, 537

5,750, 394

Conversion of engine test cells.

Shell housing.

Key-AFSWD.

Flood control and protection, Phoenix..

Gobal communications, ZI..

Navigational aids, ZI..

A. C. & W. S., ZÍ .

Reserve bases...

At one base in the United Kingdom, the Burtonwood depot, replacement is requested of the World War II quonsets being used as troop shelter. Substantial replacements of this character at other United Kingdom bases will be deferred until next year.

The program for Spain continues construction of the four phase I bases and the area POL system.

AIRCRAFT CONTROL AND WARNING SYSTEM

The second largest portion of the overseas program is the aircraft control and warning system, which was outlined above in conjunction with the air defense system of the continental United States.

STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND OVERSEAS

The SAC overseas program of $37,026,000, or 2.6 percent of the total program, consists almost wholly of airfield pavements, aircraft fuel storage and dispensing facilities, and operational facilities required at bases in Puerto Rico and Guam to support the SAC missions.

ALASKAN AIR COMMAND

The Alaskan Air Command program of $28,829,000, representing 2 percent of the total, consists in the main of airfield facilities to support SAC missions and the fighter interceptor units of the Alaskan defense system. The Alaska program also contains the first-phase replacement of deteriorated and substandard dormitories and dining halls.

NORTHEAST AIR COMMAND

The $23,601,000 program for the Northeast Air Command represents 1.6 percent of the Air Force total and includes facilities at Argentia Naval Air Station to permit return to the Navy of facilities now in use by Air Force units.

MILITARY AIR TRANSPORT SERVICE OVERSEAS

The overseas program for the Military Air Transport Service of $19,487,000, 1.4 percent of the total, encompasses bases in both the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean areas, and includes facilities to support the civil Reserve Air Fleet.

FAR EAST AIR FORCE

The smaller Far East Air Forces program of $14,082,000, or 1 percent of the total again, as in the case of USAFE, provides principally airfield pavements, and aircraft maintenance facilities required to support operations of the command forces stationed in that theater and the strategic forces.

The balance of the overseas program includes global communications facilities at Albrook AFB in the Caribbean Air Command and special facilities and area control navaids at various locations.

Without command identity in the Air Force appropriation request are minor construction and planning (3.7 percent of the total).

CATEGORIES OF CONSTRUCTION

The next chart shows by category the proposed use of the appropriations in the fiscal year 1956 program.

CHART NO. 3

Category distribution of Air Force, fiscal year 1956 military construction appropriation

An analysis of the type of facilities being requested emphasizes the highly operational nature of this program. As in preceding years, the major categories are airfield pavements, operations facilities, family housing, liquid-fuel storage, aircraft-maintenance facilities, troop housing and messing facilities, research and development and utilities. In all, these categories represent over 80 percent of the total program.

The largest single category is airfield pavements, representing 19.1 percent of the total. Almost one-third of this category is at SAC bases in the United States to provide additional runway lengths required to launch maximum-loaded medium bombers and to provide capability for operation of the B-52 heavy bomber. In addition, a major portion of the airfield pavements in the overseas program is for direct support of the SAC operation.

Operations facilities, the second largest category with 17.2 percent of the total program, consists almost wholly of facilities for the aircraft control and warning system.

The troop-housing category, which is 7.2 percent of the total program, establishes the first phase in a program for replacement of deteriorated, obsolete, and substandard theater-of-operations and mobilization-type dormitories, bachelor officers quarters, and dining

halls.

The miscellaneous facilities category, 4 percent of the program, consists principally of the funds for minor construction and planning. Though the personnel facilities category is only 2.8 percent of the total program, it is a significant factor in our program to make the Air Force more attractive to the trained airmen and officers and induce more men to continue in the Air Force as a career.