UNITED STATES OF AMERICA MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1963 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to adjournment, in room 1114, New Senate Office Building, Hon. John Stennis (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Stennis, Proxmire, Symington, and Saltonstall. Also present: Senator Monroney. MILITARY CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY STATEMENT OF MAJ. GEN. W. R. SHULER, DIRECTOR OF INSTALLATIONS, OFFICE, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR LOGISTICS; ACCOMPANIED BY MAJ. GEN. E. L. ROWNY, SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR TACTICAL MOBILITY, 0/ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF FOR FORCE DEVELOPMENT; H. T. LaCROSSE, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ARMY BUDGET, OFFICE, COMPTROLLER OF THE ARMY; BRIG. GEN. F. J. CLARKE, DIRECTOR OF MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, OFFICE, CHIEF OF ENGINEERS; BRIG. GEN. J. J. TOLSON, DIRECTOR OF ARMY AVIATION, OFFICE, ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF FOR FORCE DEVELOPMENT; COL. W. R. JOHNSON, CHIEF, CONSTRUCTION DIVISION, OFFICE, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR LOGISTICS; COL. BARTON 0. BAKER, OFFICE, CHIEF OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; COL. W. R. BOND, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL WARFARE, OFFICE, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR MILITARY OPERATIONS; COL. R. M. RAWLS, OFFICE, DIRECTOR OF ARMY AVIATION, OFFICE, ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF FOR FORCE DEVELOPMENT; COL. J. R. RORABAUGH, CHIEF, FAMILY HOUSING DIVISION, OFFICE, CHIEF OF ENGINEERS; LT. COL. A. S. BARTHOLOMEW, S-4, CAMERON STATION, VA.; LT. COL. D. E. EPPERSON, HEADQUARTERS, ARMY SECURITY AGENCY; LT. COL. J. R. EVANS, CHIEF, AIR DEFENSE BRANCH, OFFICE, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR LOGISTICS; LT. COL. J. L. SHERMAN, MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMAND, OFFICE, THE SURGEON GENERAL; H. BULLOCK, COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS DIRECTORATE, OFFICE, CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER; J. L. MCDANIEL, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, REDSTONE ARSENAL, ALA.; R. B. FOSTER, CHIEF, INSTALLATIONS MANAGEMENT DIVISION, OFFICE, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR LOGISTICS; B. R. JACOBELLIS, DEFENSE COMMUNICATIONS AGENCY; H. D. VanKUREN, INSTALLATIONS AND SERVICES DIRECTORATE, ARMY MATERIEL COMMAND; AND H. B. ZACKRISON, OFFICE, CHIEF OF ENGINEERS BUDGET REQUESTS Senator STENNIS. Gentlemen, we will now come to order. It is nice to have you with us and I want to extend to you a special welcome. The President's budget request for fiscal year 1964, including loran station and the Reserves, and exclusive of family housing, was $1,232 million. This amount was reduced considerably by the actions of the Armed Services Committee. The military construction hearings starting today will consider the following requests from the services and the Office of the Secretary of Defense agencies: The Department of the Army, $221,164,000; Department of the Navy, $218,387,000; Department of the Air Force, $534,397,000; and the Office of the Secretary of Defense agencies, $21,403,000. In addition, the committee will consider requests for loran stations, $20 million; Army Reserve, $4,500,000; Naval Reserve, $6 million; Air Force Reserve, $4 million; Army National Guard, $3,500,000; and Air National Guard, $16 million. The President's budget requested $734,400,000 for military family housing. Due to reductions by the Congress in granting authorization, the figure being considered by this committee will be $685,312,000 which is broken down as follows: Army, $227,465,000; Navy (including the Marine Corps), $181,785,000; Air Force, $273,466,000; Defense Atomic Support Agency, $2,552,000; and Defense Supply Agency, $44,000. Each service will justify its own housing program and then we will hear from the Department of Defense on housing matters. The subcommittee does not plan to go into extensive hearings regarding policy matters. It is our intention to go immediately into the justifications for the line items in the bill. If certain policy matters fail to be understood by the subcommittee or if there is any need for additional presentation of policy matters, we will call on you gentlemen. General Shuler, we are glad to have you here. You continue to represent the Army, I am sure, with your usual efficiency, you and your staff, and we will be glad to hear from you now. Major General SHULER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, with your permission I would like to place my statement in the record but to brief the committee on the statement. (The statement referred to follows:) DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY BUDGET ESTIMATES, FISCAL YEAR 1964 (Statement by Maj. Gen. W. R. Shuler, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, on Military Construction, Army) BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Maj. Gen. William R. Shuler was born in Temple, Tex., on January 16, 1911. He is a 1932 graduate of the California Institute of Technology in electrical engineering. He was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy from the State of California and graduated in 1936, receiving a commission in the Corps of Engineers. He captained the 1935 Army football team. He received a graduate degree in civil engineering from the University of California in 1940. He graduated from the Army War College in 1954. Prior to World War II, his assignments included duty with the 6th Engineers at Fort Lewis, Wash.; with the Engineer School at Fort Belvoir, Va.; and with the training center at Camp Claiborne, La. His World War II duty was with Amphibious Task Force No. 9 in the Aleutians campaign and as commander of the 1115th Engineer Combat Group in the European theater. General Shuler served with the Manhattan Engineer District from 1944 to 1945 and with the Seattle Engineer District from 1946 to 1948. He was Deputy Engineer, U.S. Army, Pacific from 1948 to 1950. From 1950 to 1953 he was district engineer, Los Angeles Engineer District. From 1954 through 1958, General Shuler served as Chief, Construction Division DCSLOG, Department of the Army; and then as Division Engineer, Mediterranean Engineer Division from 1958 to 1960. From 1960 to 1962 he served as Division Engineer, Missouri River Engineer Division at Omaha, Nebr. He was assigned as Director of Installations, DCSLOG, Department of the Army on April 23, 1962. General Shuler's decorations include the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, the Commendation Ribbon with two Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Purple Heart. His foreign decorations include the French Legion of Honor, French Croix de Guerre, the Belgian Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre. He is married to the former Marjorie Beeuwkes and has two children. He was promoted as follows: First lieutenant, June 12, 1939; captain, September 9, 1940; major, February 1, 1942; lieutenant colonel, October 20, 1942; colonel, August 21, 1943; brigadier general, March 21, 1957; and major general, May 1, 1962. OPENING STATEMENT Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am happy to have the privilege of presenting to this committee the fiscal year 1964 "Military construction, Army." appropriations program. For this program this year the Army is requesting $221.2 million in new ap propriations. The list of items in support of this appropriation request has been provided to this committee and consists of $186 million of new authorization items, $9.2 million of prior year authorization items, and $26 million of continuing authorization items. Because of the House and Senate action on the authorization bill we are not able to request new appropriations in the amount shown in the President's budget of $249.5 million. The program before you today is directed toward fulfillment of our most urgent construction requirements and has been carefully coordinated with the other Army programs related to personnel materiel, and research and development. These construction requirements are in consonance with approved Defense Department objectives, stationing plans, and organizational concepts. During the entire screening process we have given top priority to selecting those projects that have a direct impact on combat power, with particular emphasis placed on support of new missions and new deployments of operational units. With the continuing emphasis on the numbers and quality of conventional warfare forces, the Army feels that it is important to provide more efficient and modern troop accommodations at its major permanent training stations. Recent funding levels have precluded an adequate rate of replacement of the World War II temporary facilities which comprise about one-fourth of these troop accommodations in the United States. These facilities were hastily constructed some 20 years ago for rapid mobilization, using criteria, designs and materials in line with a life expectancy of 5 years. If an adequate annual level of replacement of these facilities is not maintained, we will arrive at a time where, because of structural failures, these replacements are required on such a scale that inclusion in any 1- or 2-year programs will be prohibitive because of the dollar cost. The program before you includes several troop housing complexes consisting not only of the barracks but also of the messhalls, the administration and supply buildings, the troop chapels, and the unit dispensaries and motor parks that are required to provide a completely balanced increment of such construction. This "Military construction, Army" program is designed, within the budget for this fiscal year, to construct the most needed operational, logistic, and other support facilities: (a) To maintain in a high state of readiness the Army components of unified commands deployed overseas in support of our national policies and international commitments. (b) To maintain and improve the capabilities of Army elements of the Continental Air Defense Command, (c) To maintain the Army component forces of the STRIKE command in readiness for immediate deployment to any troubled spots in the world. (d) To support the general training base. (e) To support the research and development, maintenance, production, and supply activities that contribute to the overall capability of the Active Army forces. Again this year our projects have been developed within the framework of the Department of Defense programing system, which is based on accumulating and relating all manpower, material, and financial aspects of functional and mission groupings. Our appropriations request for each of these mission groupings is: A I would like now to recapitulate where we stand with respect to previous funding granted by the Congress. By efforts directed toward completion of final design and early award of contracts we have reduced our committed but unobligated funds carried over into the new fiscal year from $161 million in fiscal year 1958 to $103 million in fiscal year 1964. It should be noted that the balance brought forward from fiscal year 1963 to fiscal year 1964 of $305 million includes $202 million in reimbursable work, primarily for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Our planned obligations for fiscal year 1964 are $221.2 million which equal the requested new appropriations and indicate a carryover into fiscal year 1965 of the same amount carried over into fiscal year 1964. carryover of this amount is considered reasonable for a program of this magnitude, operated on a full funding basis, but we will continue our efforts to reduce it. We show no savings available for application to the new appropriations request items. During fiscal year 1963 under provisions of section 103 we have reprogramed $6.3 million from savings and canceled projects to cover urgent projects arising from new deployments, increased R. & D. efforts, and the like. We have reprogramed $3 million to date in fiscal year 1964. We have under evaluation several similar projects which were not advanced sufficiently for inclusion in our submission to the Congress in February, but which are not deferrable to the fiscal year 1965 program. Appropriate reprograming requests are being processed by the Army and the Department of Defense for the most urgent of these items, in the total amount of $9.8 million. Current evaluation of project estimates on all projects underway and yet to be awarded indicates that we have about $10.1 million in accumulated savings and cancellations available to finance these urgent requirements. Mr. Chairman, this concludes my summary of the fiscal year 1964 "Military construction, Army," appropriations request. The detailed project justifications supporting this request are contained in three books, including one which is solely for classified justifications. Copies have been furnished to the committee. NEW PROVISIONS Major General SHULER. This year the Army is requesting $221.2 million in new appropriations. This consists of $186 million of new authorization items, $9.2 million of prior year authorization items, and $26 million of continuing authorizations. Senator STENNIS. Repeat those, General, will you? The Army total is how much? Major General SHULER. We are asking $221.2 million and that is broken down into $186 million of new authorization items, $9.2 million of prior year authorization items, and $26 million of continuing authorization items. Because of the House and Senate action on the authorization bill we are not able to request new appropriations in the amount shown in the President's budget of $249.5 million. The recent funding levels have precluded an adequate rate of replacement of the World War II temporary facilities which comprise about one-fourth of these troop accommodations in the United States. These facilities were hastily constructed as you know some 20 years ago for rapid mobilization, using criteria, designs, and materials in line with a life expectancy of 5 years. If an adequate annual level of replacement of these facilities is not maintained, we will arrive at a time where, because of structural failures, these replacements are required on such a scale that inclusion in any 1- or 2-year programs will be prohibitive because of the dollar cost. PREVIOUS FUNDING I would like now to recapitulate where we stand with respect to previous funding granted by the Congress. By efforts directed toward completion of final design and early award of contracts we have reduced our committed but unobligated funds carried over into the new fiscal year from $161 million in fiscal year 1958 to $103 million in fiscal year 1964. It should be noted that the balance brought forward from fiscal year 1963 to fiscal year 1964 of $305 million includes $202 million in reimbursable work, primarily for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Our planned obligations for fiscal year 1964 are $221.2 million which equal the requested new appropriations and indicate a carryover into fiscal year 1965 of the same amount carried over into fiscal year 1964. A carryover of this amount is considered reasonable for a program of this magnitude, operated on a full-funding basis. We show no savings available for application to the new appropriations request items. During fiscal year 1963 under provisions of section 103 we have reprogramed $6.3 million from savings and canceled projects to cover urgent projects arising from new deployments, increased R. & D. efforts, and the like. REPROGRAMING We have reprogramed $3 million to date in fiscal year 1964. We have under evaluation several similar projects which were not advanced sufficiently for inclusion in our submission to the Congress in February, but which are not deferrable to the fiscal year 1965 pro |