Hearings

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on the Utilization of Manpower in the Military and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The jurisdiction of the subcommittee as to how the military uses its manpower is very broad, and it seemed appropriate to start these hearings with testimony as to what our military manpower consists of: how many enlisted men we have for each officer and for each noncommissioned officer, what their rank is, where they are, and what they are doing. In an effort to present some perspective about what our Defense Establishment consists of today, I have made some comparisons between what it consists of today and what it consisted of a generation ago. I have chosen the date of June 30, 1946, for a comparison with June 30, 1971, not merely because it represents a 25-year period but also because there are other similarities which make such a comparison valid. We were then, as we are now, reducing our Military Establishment after a wartime buildup. The total size of the Miltary Establishment on June 30, 1946, was approximately the same as it was on June 30 1971--3,030,088 men in 1946 and 2,714,727 in 1971. The shape of the Army at that time, however, was far different than it is today. Here I use the word 'shape' solely in the sense of configuration and not in the sense of equipment, morale, or any other factor. Our military officer personnel profile 25 years ago was roughly in the form of a pyramid with large numbers of Indians and srmaller numbers of chiefs"--Page 1/2.