resulted in a drill-pay Marine Corps Reserve that is each year better trained and more truly "ready" than ever before.

During fiscal year 1961 the Marine Corps Reserve has made further progress toward fulfillment of its mission: to provide trained personnel for duty with the Marine Corps in war or in a national emergency. Continued benefits were derived from the earlier conversion to 4-hour drills. These drills are performed in multiples of two or four on weekends. Units are regularly conducting weekend field problems, which greatly advance the level of training conducted, as well as to provide more realistic training. Multiple-unit exercises involving two or more units are being stressed.

The $26,400,000 requested for fiscal year 1962 will support a drillpay end strength of 42,200 officers and men excluding 6-month trainees on active duty, and will permit 2,850 Reserve officer candidates to enter training. The Reserve program provides for an increase of 462 in drill-pay end strength over fiscal year 1961. This permits some progress toward the Marine Corps requirement to meet initial Fleet Marine Force mobilization requirements from the drill-pay Reserve. By the end of fiscal year 1962, about 90 percent of the enlisted drill-pay reservists will be personnel who have completed initial 6month training, or who had the equivalent of such training. About 88 percent will be subject to the attendance requirements of the Armed Forces Reserve Act.

The total requested appropriation will also support 1,800 15-day officer assignments to professional or occupational field training, thirty-five 30-day officer assignments to service schools or technical training, 271 30-day enlisted assignments to refresher technical training and 230 enlisted assignments of an average length of 97 days in excess of the initial 6 months' active duty for training that is designed to qualify selected enlisted reservists in critical specialties. Also included are assignments to support and enforce the mandatory training provisions of the law on a token basis.

During the current fiscal year, much has been done to enlarge the scope of individual training by a greater utilization of other-service occupational field schooling and assignments to staff billets involved in Fleet Marine Force exercises. Training not only has been tied more closely than ever before to mobilization requirements, but also to emergency measures short of full mobilization. In addition to the foregoing, the development of a career training program will further aline training to mobilization requirements in the long-range perspective.

With continual increases in the level of training conducted, and with a small increase in strength, the organized Marine Corps Reserve will be in the best condition of readiness for service in mobilization or national emergency in its history.

Mr. Chairman, we will be happy to answer questions on this appropriation.

DATA ON RESERVISTS' PROGRAM

Mr. Chairman, that completes my formal statement, except to add that I understand the committee would like charts similar to those provided by the Army Reserve in its testimony, and those charts are under preparation.

(The charts referred to follow.)

Light antiaircraft missile (HAWK) (batteries effective Mar 1, 1961-

Communications (2 battalions, 9 companies).

Engineer (2 battalions, 12 companies).

Combat service support (1 battalion, 3 ordnance field maintenance

Air delivery (company)

Aviation squadrons (39 fighter/attack, 17 helicopter, 12 air control).

Marine Air Reserve group-.

Staff group (ground)

1

3

11

14

4

14

1

68

18

11

All personnel in the above listed units are slated for Fleet Marine Force assignment during the M+1 period.

124 drill pay.

the requirement for housing exists. The individual then negotiates directly for himself for the house. The certificate of eligibility is sent to the FHA by the loan company which is to grant the loan. The FHA will approve or disapprove the loan on their own criteria. The service concern is then notified of all details if the loan is approved and payment of the premium by the service will

commence.

As long as the individual remains in the service on active duty and maintains ownership of the home the insurance premium is paid. This premium will terminate upon selling the house to an individual not a member of the Marine Corps on active duty or upon termination of his active service. Maximum loan guarantee is $20,000. This does not mean that purchase price of the house is limited to that amount but the individual must pay any amount in excess thereof.

The advantages of the program are: (1) The FHA can insure up to 95 percent of the loan where under regular FHA loans the FHA can insure up to about 90 percent. Thus the individual saves about 5 percent in down payment. (2) Under this law the rate of interest which can be charged is limited. (3) The Government, i.e., the appropriation Military Personnel, Marine Corps for Marines, pays one-half of 1 percent of the value of the mortgage as an insurance premium which the individual would otherwise be required to pay in full. Mr. FORD. That is all.

1 Reimbursements from non-Federal sources are derived from the sale of clothing to Regular Marine

Corps personnel (10 U.S.C. 7601).

Mr. ANDREWS. Now, gentlemen, we will take up the Marine Corps, Reserve personnel budget.

JUSTIFICATION OF THE ESTIMATES

At this point in the record we will insert the appropriate pages of the justifications.

(The pages referred to follow :)

The purpose of this program is to train members of the Ready Reserve immediately required in the event of mobilization for augmentation of existing units and as a nucleus for new units. Most reservists in paid status are organized for training purposes into ground and aviation units similar to Fleet Marine Force units. They perform 48 drills of at least 4 hours duration, and 2 weeks of active field training annually. In addition, some nondrill reservists scheduled for early mobilization but who are not assigned to units also receive periodic active duty training. The paid personnel strength is indicated in the following table:

Ready Reserve personnel are obtained either from personnel with prior military service with an interest or an obligation to serve further in the Ready Reserve, or from men without prior service participating in a 6-month active duty training program. Enlisted personnel in drill pay status obtained from those sources

are summarized below: