PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION FOR THE STUDY OF ETHICAL PROBLEMS FTE = full-time equivalent The total employment ceiling for 1981 reflects the requirements of 5 U.S.C. 3394 concerning the fractional counting of part-time FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1981. UNITED STATES SOLDIERS' AND AIRMEN'S HOME WITNESSES GEORGE H. McKEE, GOVERNOR COL. ROBERT W. HAMPTON, SECRETARY-TREASURER ARTHUR J. CURRY, BUDGET OFFICER Mr. NATCHER. We take up next the United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. Come around, gentlemen, have a seat. General McKee, we will start with the budget request for the fiscal year 1982 and then we will turn to the supplementals. General MCKEE. All right, sir. Mr. NATCHER. It is a pleasure to have you before the committee again, General McKee, as the Governor of the United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. First tell us who is with you this morning. General MCKEE. This morning I have with me Colonel Robert Hampton, Secretary-Treasurer, and Mr. Arthur Curry, the Home Budget Officer. Mr. NATCHER. Delighted to have all of you gentlemen appear at this time. General, we have your statement, together with the appropriate sketches and biographical data. With your permission we will place this in the record in its entirety and turn to the questions. [Prepared statement of General McKee follows:] STATEMENT OF THE GOVERNOR, U. S. SOLDIERS' AND AIRMEN'S HOME PURPOSE The purpose of this statement is to furnish information on the Home which may be of interest during the committee's consideration of the Home's fiscal year 1982 appropriation request. Included is pertinent information on the Home : its mission, administration, physical plant, financing, and members. The statement also provides a general description of the fiscal year 1982 appropriation request as compared with the fiscal year 1981. appropriations. MISSION The Home was established by Congress in 1851 for the relief and support of retired, invalid, or disabled soldiers of the Regular Army. Membership is a benefit for former warrant officers and enlisted personnel of the Regular Army and Air Force with the following qualifications: (1) honest and faithful service for twenty years or more as warrant officers or enlisted personnel, or (2) service-connected disabilities rendering them unable to earn a livelihood, or (3) non-service connected disabilities rendering them unable to earn a livelihood, provided they have had service during a war. These criteria are listed in this order not as priorities, but because about 87 percent of the membership is of the first group, and about 13 percent is of the disabilities groups. ADMINISTRATION General supervision of the Home was placed by Congress in a Board of Commissioners now composed of the Governor of the Home; The Surgeon General, U. s. Army; Comptroller of the Air Force; Deputy Chief of Staff, Manpower and |