facilities to be available over a 24-hour period. Further, weather conditions severely restrict utilization of outdoor type facilities. Nearest offpost gymnasium facility is approximately 10 miles distant and is located in a concentrated troop area which conducts scheduled athletic events thus precluding its use by this station's personnel. Due consideration should be given to the fact that the average U.S. Army Security Agency soldier is a young man of high caliber in his formative years. The nature of his military duties does not require the physical activity usually found in military life. Consequently, he needs a gymnasium for exercise to compensate for the sedantary type work as well as for wholesome recreation. HOUSE REPORT STATEMENT (P. NO. 8) "The amount of $6,876,000 is approved for facilities at various installations of the Army Security Agency, a reduction of $517,000 in the estimates. This reduction includes funds requested for recreational, administrative, and commissary facilities in oversea locations and has been made in line with the committee policy to reduce the gold flow in the military construction program." Senator SYMINGTON. Very well. Proceed. STARCOM STATION WAREHOUSE Major General SHULER. The next item on page 273 is a STARCOM item, a warehouse structure that will provide 23,000 square feet for the maintenance, supply, and warehousing needs of this vital communications link. Senator SYMINGTON. Just where is Eritrea? Is it part of Abyssinia? Major General SHULER. It is part of Ethiopia. At present eight widely separated World War II buildings are being used to partially meet the need. Since no satisfactory structures are available, only half of the space requirement has been met. The buildings that are being used are fire hazards, and we feel they are entirely unacceptable, sir, for this reason. ENLISTED MEN'S BARRACKS The next item is at the same location, and is for a 222-man enlisted barracks. This and completion of the 64-man barracks approved by Congress last year will raise the total barracks capacity at the station to 952. Accelerated expansion of the station has seriously overcrowded the existing barracks, and only slight relief will be obtained by the 64-man barracks approved last year. We need further expansion of the barracks to relieve the crowded condition and to accommodate the increase of strength due to the increased mission. ENLISTED MEN'S MESS FACILITIES The next item is at the same station. This will provide additional enlisted men's mess facilities required by the same increase in mission and strength I described for the barracks. EXPANDED WATER SUPPLY The next item is at the same location. This will expand the existing water supply at this station. This is one of our most serious problems here because most of the water presently used is obtained from the city of Asmara, but no additional supply is available from this source. During the dry season this source is unreliable so we must complete this item. It is essential, we feel, to be able to guarantee that we will have enough water at this station. It is a very dry and hot station in the summertime, sir. Next we come to location 12. LOCATION 12 MEN'S BARRACKS The first item is for a 115-man barracks. The barracks addition is required to house additional men scheduled for arrival at the station during the period fiscal 1964 to 1965. There is no place at present to put these men. All present barracks spaces are in use. This increase in strength, sir, is dictated by an important newly assigned mission. DEPENDENT'S SCHOOL The next item at the same location is for a 17,500-square-foot dependents' school. The existing inadequate school plant cannot be continued in use. It is located at Chitose I which must be returned to the Japanese Government along with the rest of the Chitose I installation. It is marginal from the educational viewpoint. It is costly to heat, maintain, and it is scheduled for turnback. We are committed to turnback of Chitose I to the Japanese defense forces. Senator SYMINGTON. How many people has the Army in Japan? Mr. FOSTER. I don't have the figure. Senator SYMINGTON. Will you supply that for the record? Major General SHULER. I will supply it. Senator SYMINGTON. Roughly, how much is it? Mr. FOSTER. Approximately 8,000 to 10,000. Mr. FOSTER. Yes. Senator SYMINGTON. How many civilians? Senator SYMINGTON. Supply for the record, at this point, the number of military, in Japan-the number of Army, Navy, and Air Force in Japan and also the number of civilians connected with each of the three services so we know the total number of civilians and the total number of military that you now have in Japan. Mr. FOSTER. Yes. (The information referred to follows:) (Information requested is classified and was furnished separately for committee files.) Major General SHULER. The school also supports Air Force personnel at the same location. SMALL COMMISSARY Continuing on the Army Security Agency items, we come to another item that the House Appropriations Committee denied appropriations for. This is for a small commissary store approximately 7,700 square feet. The existing commissary, like the existing school, is located at the Chitose Airbase and must be returned to the Japanese Government along with the rest of the base. When the existing space at the Air Force base is eliminated, the proposed project will provide the only place for people living around this location to obtain healthful food at reasonable prices. Mr. Chairman, I would like to insert in the record our reclama for this item. The item is a necessary part of the U.S. Army Security Agency's consolidated activities in the Chitose area to be sited at Chitose III in order to reduce operation, maintenance, and administrative costs. The program has progressed to a point where this project cannot be deferred any longer. Warehousing and ration breakdown of edible supplies is now at Chitose III. However, supplies for sale to dependent families must be transported from storage over to the commissary at Chitose I for sale to personnel who must go 4 miles from Chitose III to buy them. This is especially difficult in winter, due to snow. Because of the U.S. Army Security Agency's move from Chitose I, the facilities surrounding the existing commissary have now been turned over to the Japanese Government and are used by the Japanese self-defense forces. This has resulted in several major problems in relation to the commissary. The security of the facility is no longer adequate for the situation. Rats and pests have become a major problem and, therefore, the health of personnel using the commissary is threatened. Because of the poor condition in which the single-lane road from Chitose III to Chitose I is maintained during the 6 months of snow in winter, a bus must be provided to the commissary at over $6,000 per year operating cost. The present practice of storing perishable supplies in several outdoor refrigerators should not be continued as the refrigeration units are not reliable and electrical costs are approximately 50 percent higher than with a suitable facility. Major rehabilitation is deemed impractical as this would only result in an improved but deteriorated structure in the wrong place. (HOUSE REPORT STATEMENT, P. 8) "The amount of $6,876,000 is approved for facilities at various installations of the Army Security Agency, a reduction of $517,000 in the estimates. This reduction includes funds requested for recreational, administrative, and commissary facilities in oversea locations and has been made in line with the committee policy to reduce the gold flow in the military construction program." Major General SHULER. This is a commissary, sir, the only one I think in this whole program, in the whole bill, for the Army and we think it is necessary because of the location aspects, the isolation. On page 282, sir, the same location, this request will provide a 13.4 million B.t.u., heating plant addition at an estimated cost of $546,000. The item will provide one 400-horsepower boiler and over $400,000 worth of steam distribution lines. It is designed to furnish adequate heat for our requirements in this location. As the chairman knows, it gets very cold in this part of Japan, sir. HEATING PLANT At the same location, the request is for the heating plant in the operations area; 6.7 million B.t.u.'s will be provided by this project. The present plant is supposed to heat the entire operations complex, but it only puts out 1.4 million B.t.u.'s. The requirement for 6.7 million B.t.u.'s results from necessary expansion of the operations complex to accommodate increased mission assignment. We are going to have an acute heat deficiency if we do not obtain approval of this project. EXTENSION OF UTILITIES On the same location is a request to extend the utilities. This is required to furnish hot and cold water, water for firefighting, sewage and sewage disposal, and electricity for the new facilities in the fiscal years 1963, 1964, 1966, and 1967 programs. We will be woefully short in our utilities, sir, without this project. BACHELOR OFFICERS' QUARTERS At the same location, we have a request for a bachelor officers' quarters addition. The individuals who will live in this addition are presently housed in extremely undesirable quarters at Chitose I, which we have to return to the Japanese Government. It is quite depressing on their morale to have to live in the type of structures they are in and this will give them a decent place to live12 bachelors. LOCATION 23, WAREHOUSE The first item at location 23 will provide an addition to the existing cold storage warehouse. The existing cold storage facilities provide approximately 25,000 cubic feet of refrigerated storage. The location of the station and its increased military and dependent strength require that the cold storage facility be enlarged to approximately 45,000 cubic feet. No depot facilities are located to support this installation and subsistence supplies must be shipped from the continental United States over an extensive sequence of transportation. SIGNAL CORPS SECURE STORAGE FACILITY At the same location is a Signal Corps item for a secure storage facility in support of the defense communications system and strategic Army communication installations in this area. The storage shed, paved area, and security fencing included in the project will cost $117,000. Presently the cable, antenna hardware, and packed electronic equipment, which this facility will secure, is stored in the open without protection from the elements and it requires utilization of military guards. ADDITION TO HEADQUARTERS BUILDING At the same location is a request for an addition to the headquarters building of the STARCOM and defense communications agencies elements in the area. Revisions in the communications concept caused crowded conditions in the existing headquarters soon after it was completed. Additional requirements are soon to be imposed. This proj ect will provide space for engineering personnel and adequate drafting and reproduction facilities. Senator SYMINGTON. I do not think there is any need to discuss these unless we know more about it, so I think we will pass it and then discuss it in the classified or executive session. INCREASE ON OPERATIONAL BUILDINGS Major General SHULER. The next at location 90 provides for an increase to the operational building of 3,746 square feet. This is a repetitive item which was discussed earlier in the discussion and is another building addition to the operations building to take care of the increased mission. The next station is an operations building addition of exactly the same type we were talking about in the repetitive items and again is caused by increase in the mission. The first item is a similar operation building addition brought on by an increase in the mission. ENLISTED MEN'S BARRACKS The next request is for enlisted men's barracks without mess to accommodate 130 additional men. The requirement here again is brought about by the increased strength. ADDITION TO BACHELOR OFFICERS' QUARTERS The same thing obtains for the next project, an addition to the bachelor officers' quarters for the same reason. OPERATIONS BUILDING, LOCATION 277 We have the first project and this project is for an operations building containing 3,000 square feet. The operations are now in a quonset structure. There is an ever-present danger from the lack of security in this type structure. It provide inefficient use of floor space and a high cost for heat alone, almost $60 a day. There is no other place to put the operation. BARRACKS The same location, we are requesting a barracks without mess. It will house 80 people and it is estimated to cost $112,000. The present accommodations are old, dilapidated quonsets and Jamesways that just can't go it any longer. Senator SYMINGTON. You say "without a mess. Why do you not request a mess? Major General SHULER. There is an existing mess, sir, that can accommodate these people. We want to get them out of the old, dilapidated quonsets to something they can keep warm in. Senator SYMINGTON. Very well, I wanted that for the record. Major General SHULER. This request is for an adequate mess facility for next location 321-B. The existing mess is an H-shaped structure built of quonset components in 1953. The structure has deteriorated to the point where rehabilitation is no longer feasible. The space |