Military Sea Transportation Service: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on Operations and Functioning of the Military Sea Transport Service, And, S. 822, a Bill to Require the Armed Services to Utilize Private American Shipping Services for the Overseas Transportation of Commodities and Civilian Personnel. March 15 and 17, 1956U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 158 strani |
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Stran 6 - Defense includes the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the military departments and the...
Stran 29 - MSTS, as briefly stated on the chart, consists basically of 3 elements: to provide sea transportation for personnel and cargoes of the Department of Defense, to plan and negotiate for use of commercial shipping to augment the MSTS fleet as necessary, to plan for and be capable of expansion in time of war as directed.
Stran 146 - G. MAGNUSON, Chairman, Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate, Washington, DC MY DEAB MB. CHAIRMAN : Reference is made to your letter of April 11, 1956, requesting additional information in connection with the investigation by your committee of the operations of Military Sea Transportation Service. Your questions are answered in the same order as presented in your letter. (1) During the first half of fiscal year 1956, of its total operations expenditure of $200,297,873,...
Stran 130 - ... justified in departing from that duty merely because civilian carriers would be benefited. As to (2) above, the size of nucleus fleets of ships and airplanes which it Is desirable to maintain is admittedly a difficult problem. It is further a problem on which the present world situation makes past experience of little help. The farflung dispersal of our forces, the possibility of a sudden outbreak of limited actions, such as Korea, and the probability that If a major war comes it will come with...
Stran 130 - ... would result In the Department of Defense operating its own transportation facilities in an inefficient manner. For example, the subcommittee's reasoning behind recommendation No. 10 indicates that passengers should be assigned to private carriers even though the Military Sea Transportation Service has unused accommodations. (2) The Commission apparently favors reducing the size of nucleus fleets of ships and airplanes below that determined by the responsible Government officials, in order to...
Stran 130 - Forces is civilian ships and planes, and that therefore these civilian means of transportation must be strengthened by Government business. The Department of Defense does not question the validity of that proposition. The Commission, however, carries the application of this proposition beyond the point to which the Department of Defense can follow in two respects : (1) In urging that the Department of Defense take certain action to keep civilian transportation prosperous, the Commission occasionally...
Stran 29 - To provide sea transportation for personnel and cargoes of the Department of Defense; (2) To plan and negotiate for use of commercial shipping to augment the MSTS fleet as necessary; (3) To plan and be capable of expansion in time of war as the Joint Chiefs of Staff direct.
Stran 151 - Maj. Gen. Paul F. Yount, Chief of Transportation, Department of the Army.
Stran 157 - Referring to the hearings now being conducted by the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee in connection with the bills S.
Stran 130 - ... maintaining larger nucleus fleets than has been thought necessary in the past. The Department of Defense knows of no other way of solving this problem than to strike what appears to be a reasonable balance between readiness for immediate combat and the desirability of strengthening civilian transport, relying in the case of ships (see tab A) on the judgment of the Government officials charged with making the decision. The Department, therefore, finds it is unable to go along with recommendations...