DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR

FISCAL YEAR 1974

HEARINGS

BEFORE A

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT
OF DEFENSE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1974,
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

EX OFFICIO MEMBERS FROM THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES STUART SYMINGTON, Missouri

HENRY M. JACKSON, Washington

STROM THURMOND, South Carolina

JAMES R. CALLOWAY, Committee Counsel

GUY G. McCONNELL, FRANCIS S. HEWITT, THOMAS M. GUNN, FREDERICK W. RHODES, and JOEL E. BONNER (Minority)

Staff Assistants, Department of Defense Appropriations Subcommittee

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR

FISCAL YEAR 1974

FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1973

U.S. SENATE,

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS,

Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10:15 a.m., in room 1223, Everett McKinley Dirksen Office Building, Hon. John L. McClellan [chairman] presiding.

President: Senators McClellan, Young, Hruska, Case, and Fong.

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY

STATEMENT OF HON. JOHN W. WARNER, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY ACCOMPANIED BY:

ADM. ELMO E. ZUMWALT, JR., U.S. NAVY, CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS

GEN. ROBERT E. CUSHMAN, JR., U.S. MARINE CORPS, COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS

REAR ADM. E. W. COOKE, U.S. NAVY, DIRECTOR OF BUDGET AND REPORTS, OFFICE OF THE NAVY COMPTROLLER

SUBCOMMITTEE PROCEDURE

Chairman MCCLELLAN. The subcommittee will come to order. The subcommittee is going to hear testimony today supporting the budget for the Navy. We are glad to have the Secretary of the Navy, Secretary Warner, present this morning.

We will begin with you, Mr. Secretary. You have a prepared

statement.

Secretary WARNER. Yes, Mr. Chairman.

POLICY ON PRESENTATIONS

Chairman MCCLELLAN. We are adopting a policy of permitting the Secretaries and Chiefs of Staff to make their presentations in their own way. If they wish to read their statement, they may do so.

If you want to have it printed in the record and comment on it, you may do it that way. You may read excerpts from it and have the rest of it printed in the record.

In other words, we let you determine the manner in which you feel the presentation will be most effective and most persuasive from your standpoint.

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