heating provided is not adequate and hot water must be provided by field expedients, and the floor has sunk in some places 8 inches.

LOCATION 321-B (1), TROOP HOUSING FACILITY

The next is location 321-B (1). This is one item. This is for an adequate troop housing facility for the 30 men stationed at this remote location.

Here again the Jamesway and quonset huts are in bad condition and we can't keep them heated and we want to get the men something decent and less costly to heat.

OPERATIONS AND TRAINING SPACE

The first item is for 6,110 square feet of operations and training space at location 508. Currently the quonset huts being used to house the operational and training functions have outlived their useful life and require continued and costly maintenance.

Again, here we have these terrific heating costs in the present facilities.

UNIT SUPPLY AND ARMS BUILDING

At the same location, we are requesting the unit supply and arms building that will provide 4,000 feet of space. The five quonset structures which now house this function were moved to the site in 1952 and have long since outlived their useful life. They are in bad condition and we cannot repair them economically.

HEADQUARTERS BUILDING

Another item in the Army Security Agency category that the House Appropriations Committee denied us. It is an $88,000 item. It is for a headquarters building of 6,000 square feet.

The present headquarters for the ASA group here is in a composite structure made from components of five quonset structures constructed over 10 years ago. These structures have exceeded their normal life expectancy and have deteriorated through weathering to an unrepairable condition. The heating cost is very high.

Again, the House committee report gives gold flow as the reason for denial.

Mr. Chairman, I would like to insert in the record our reclama for this item.

Deletion or deferral of the item will not only cause continued high maintenance costs, typical for old quonset huts, but will continue a very serious fire hazard and security problem. The building is required to house the command operations of the 508th USASA Group of 60 personnel which supervises USASA activities throughout Korea. The group headquarters must, of neces

sity, maintain voluminous files of critical classified material. The present headquarters of the 508th USASA Group consists of five standard quonset structures interconnected to form a composite E-shaped facility. These quonsets were erected in 1950 and are standard design modified to fit the configuration indicated.

The quonsets have exceeded their normal life expectancy by 7 years and have deteriorated through use and weather to an uneconomically repairable condition. The exterior panels leak despite frequent caulking, resulting in continuous damage to interior wallboard as well as installed furnishings, equipment, and electrical wiring. The structures are not properly insulated thus requiring additional expense to heat. The structure houses most of the func tions of the group commander and his staff; however, facilities are inadequate. All rooms are overcrowded and additional space is required to create the physical plant to permit proper staff function and control. The compound in which the group is located is surrounded by a densely populated Korean community. The limited space available within the group compound does not allow provision of adequate security by fencing at suitable distances. The weathered and poorly insulated condition of the existing building causes a serions fire hazard to these documents because of the old oil-fed, manually operated space heaters. Provision of a suitable semipermanent structure will eliminate these hazards. A final consideration is the fact that sufficient space is not available to support the group's recent 20 percent headquarters expansion which reflects expansion of USASA activities in Korea necessitated by the current world situation.

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 con.mittee policy to reduce the gold flow in the military construction program."

Major General SHULER. Next is page 310.

Senator SYMINGTON. Before we get to that, how many civilians does the Army have in Korea and how many military?

Major General SHULER. We would like to furnish it. We have two divisions there, but also logistic forces and civilians and we could furnish it for the record.

Senator SYMINGTON. Also furnish it for the Navy and Air Force. Major General SHULER. Yes, sir.

Senator SYMINGTON. So that we have the total figure for the Department of Defense, along the lines of what was requested for Japan, which was requested a few minutes ago.

Major General SHULER. Yes, sir.

(This information is classified and was furnished for the committee files.)

TROOP HOUSING

Major General SHULER. We are requesting the last item under the Army Security Agency category and it will provide troop housing for 96 men.

Again, the present facilities we are using are old Jamesway and Quonset structures over 10 years ago and in bad condition. Long ago they should have been replaced, but we couldn't afford to do it because of the budget restrictions.

AIR DEFENSE, CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES

We now come to Air Defense in the continental United States. Some of these items, sir, I will discuss in the clear, and others I will

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ask to defer to the classified hearings and I will indicate these as I go through, sir.

Senator SYMINGTON. All right.

Major General SHULER. The total request in this entire bill in support of NIKE-HERCULES, NIKE-X and HAWK is $25,984,000. This includes continental United States and overseas.

The first item is classified; we can discuss this in executive session. The same applies to the next item.

Senator SYMINGTON. You are telling us, for the record, what was turned down by the House, are you not?

Major General SHULER. Yes, sir, every time.

Senator SYMINGTON. Thank you.

Major General SHULER. Actually, sir, I know of no other item in the remainder of the bill that was turned down by the House other than a general cut of $560,000 in the continental air defense items. Senator SYMINGTON. Thank you.

READY BUILDINGS, COASTAL CITIES

Major General SHULER. The first unclassified item is for six ready buildings, at an estimated cost of $297,000, in the New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle air defense areas.

These ready rooms are required to provide sleeping and day room facilities in the vicinity in the operations area for launching crews on

15-minute alert.

Present living facilities range up to 2 miles by bus from their duty stations. This does not permit the crews sufficient time to prepare missiles for firing.

The requirement is now met by men sleeping in the generator and missile test buildings under unsafe, crowded, and noisy conditions. The ready buildings were not provided at the time of their conversion to HERCULES because of funding limitations.

The next item, sir, is a classified item and we will discuss that in executive session.

MISSILE ASSEMBLY AND TEST BUILDING, DETROIT

This next item, sir, for $55,000, will provide a missile assembly and test building at Detroit location 16. Funding limitations at time of conversion from AJAX to HERCULES precluded the inclusion of this facility. The function has been performed in a building at location D-14, an AJAX site about 2 miles away which has been inactivated but cannot be disposed of until this facility is provided.

ENLISTED MEN'S MESS, CHICAGO

The next item is for a 100-man enlisted men's mess at site 41 in Chicago. This item is to replace a smaller inadequate wooden prefabricated building built more than 9 years ago when the site was a gun battery. The repairs and expansion would cost $49,000 and still would be costly to maintain. This, sir, is in the middle of Jackson Park in Chicago. The remaining buildings are concrete block construction.

WATER SOFTENERS, LINCOLN-OFFUTT AREA

At Lincoln-Offutt defense area, we are requesting $16,000 for water softeners. The item is required to eliminate the heavy deposits of calcium carbonate being experienced in dishwashers, steamtables in the administrative areas of four NIKE sites.

AIR CONDITIONING, FACILITIES AT NIKE SITES

The next item provides air conditioning for administrative and mess facilities at NIKE sites in the Kansas City defense area.

Current criteria which were changed while the sites were under construction, specify air conditioning for such facilities in the weather zone. It is a zone where the wet bulb temperature is 67 degrees or higher 1,780 hours of the year.

The next item is a classified item and we can discuss that in executive session.

SENTRY STATION, CLEVELAND

The next item is for construction of a sentry station at site 02 in Cleveland at an estimated cost of $9,000.

The existing security shelter does not provide the necessary visibility and does not provide for housing of alarm devices at the entrance to the exclusion area.

CANINE EQUIPMENT, CALIFORNIA NIKE SITES

This next item provides for canine equipment for storage buildings at 14 NIKE sites, in California at a total cost of $29,000. These are necessary to provide storage of food and supplies for care and maintenance of sentry dogs in the launcher area. No such facilities now exist; therefore, it is necessary to scatter these functions in other buildings, some of which are miles away. The lack of adequate readily available storage and maintenance space seriously hampers the handlers in the prescribed care of sentry dogs.

AIRCRAFT HANGAR, LOS ANGELES DEFENSE AREA

The next item provides for an aircraft hangar addition at an estimated cost of $39,000 in the Los Angeles defense area. This construction provides a lean-to for office space, an operations office and tool supply room which are now dispersed in various other buildings. Original funding limitations precluded construction of this support item for the hangar.

The next item is classified and we will discuss that in executive session.

FACILITIES AND LAND ACQUISITION, FLORIDA AREAS

The next item provides facilities and land acquisition for air defense in the Homestead-Miami area and in the Key West, Fla., area at an estimated cost of $14.4 million. These facilities are to meet a new requirement which has grown out of the temporary establishment of such defense during the Cuban crisis last fall. The reprograming of an additional $3 million under section 103, which is the emergency authorization, has been requested of the Congress. This will permit

us to meet at an early date the most critical facility and real estate requirements for two batteries not included in this item in the bill. All of the air defense units are now deployed on temporary sites within the defense areas, most of which were hastily procured during the crisis last fall.

There are two air defense areas, one in the Homestead-Miami area, and the other in the Key West area. The proposed facilities include a group headquarters at Homestead Air Force Base; three battalion headquarters (two of these being at Homestead and one at Key West); two air defense command posts; three HERCULES missile batteries; seven HAWK missile batteries; site preparation and utilities, which include waterlines, radar towers and mounds, access roads, and hardstands; real estate; consolidated barracks at both Homestead and Key West; bachelor officers' quarters at Key West; two consolidated messes; two field maintenance shops; and consolidated motor repair shops.

Senator SYMINGTON. I would like to ask one question here and then. I will yield to our distinguished senior Senator from Massachusetts, Senator Saltonstall.

Now, you have NIKE-HERCULES and HAWK batteries on the same site?

Major General SHULER. We have one NIKE-HERCULES battalion at Miami-Homestead area, sir; that is, four batteries in that area. We also have four HAWK batteries in that area. In the Key West area we have no HERCULES, but we have four HAWK batteries. Senator SYMINGTON. Why do you need both HAWKS and NIKEHERCULES at the same place?

Major General SHULER. Sir, the NIKE-HERCULES does not have the low-altitude capability that the HAWK has. The HAWK fills in on low-flying aircraft attacks.

Senator SYMINGTON. I want to be sure I understand it; you have the NIKE-HERCULES for defense against high flying attack and the HAWK for an off-the-deck attack, is that it?

Major General SHULER. Yes, sir, that is correct. In that particular location, Cuba being located where it is, the HAWK is necessary. Senator SYMINGTON. How many planes at one time can the NIKEHERCULES track, a NIKE-HERCULES battery, an individual unit?

Lieutenant Colonel EVANS. I am Colonel Evans on General Shuler's staff. Your question, as I understand it related to one battery? Senator SYMINGTON. Let us say the number by one unit. How many do you have in a unit, how many NIKE-HERCULES?

Lieutenant Colonel EVANS. In a pilot battery there are three launching, or a capability-I am trying to stay away from classified information, but there are three firing capabilities at a battery or, in other words, three launchers.

Senator SYMINGTON. My question is, How many planes simultaneously could those three launchers track?

If you would rather give us that information in executive session, that will be satisfactory.

Major General SHULER. I think that would be safest, Senator, and I will get somebody over who is an expert in the field.

Senator SYMINGTON. Will you file it for the receord, in any case, at this point?