2 1 Forces of the United States for procurement of aircraft, ? missiles, naval vessels, tracked combat vehicles, torpedoes, 3 and other weapons as authorized by law, in amounts as 6 For aircraft: for the Army, $134,500,000; for the Navy 7 and the Marine Corps, $3,101,600,000; for the Air Force, 10 For missiles: for the Army, $1,15:3,400,000; for the Navy, $769,600,000; for the Marine Corps, $22,100,000; 11 14 For naval vessels: for the Navy, $3,564,300,000. 15 TRACKED COMBAT VEHICLES 16 For tracked combat vehicles: for the Army, $189,100, 19 For torpedoes and related support equipment: for the 20 Navy $194,200,000. 22 For other weapons: for the Army, $70,400,000; for the 23 Navy, $25,700,000; for the Marine Corps $900,000. 3 1 TITLE II-RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, 2 AND EVALUATION 3 SEC. 201. Funds are hereby authorized to be appropri 4 ated during the fiscal year 1973 for the use of the Armed 5 Forces of the United States for research, development, test, 6 and evaluation, as authorized by law, in amounts as follows: 8 For the Navy (including the Marine Corps), 12 SEC. 202. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Defense during fiscal year 1973 for use 13 14 as an emergency fund for research, development, test, and 18 Sec. 301. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1972, 19 and ending June 30, 1973, each component of the Armed 20 Forces is authorized an average active duty personnel strength 4 1 Except when the President of the United States determines 2 that the application of these ceilings will seriously jeopardize 3 the national security interests of the United States and in 4 forms the Congress of the basis for such determination. 5 TITLE IV-RESERVE FORCES 6 SEC. 401. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1972, 7 and ending June 30, 1973, the Selected Reserve of each 8 Reserve component of the Armed Forces will be programed 9 to attain an average strength of not less than the following: 10 (1) The Army National Guard of the United States, 15 (5) The Air National Guard of the United States, 20 401 of this title for the Selected Reserve of any Reserve 21 component shall be proportionately reduced by (1) the 22 total authorized strength of units organized to serve as units 23 of the Selected Reserve of such component which are on 24 active duty (other than for training) at any time during the 25 fiscal year, and (2) the total number of individual members 5 1 not in units organized to serve as units of the Selected 2 Reserve of such component who are on active duty (other 3 than for training or for unsatisfactory participation in train 4 ing) without their consent at any time during the fiscal 5 year. Whenever such units or such individual members are 6 released from active duty during any fiscal year, the average 7 strength for such fiscal year for the Selected Reserve of 8 such Reserve component shall be proportionately increased 9 by the total authorized strength of such units and by the 10 total number of such individual members. 11 TITLE V-GENERAL PROVISIONS 12 Sec. 501. Subsection (a) (1) of section 401 of Public 13 Law 89-367 approved March 15, 1966 (80 Stat. 37), as 11 amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: 15 “ (a) (1) Not to exceed $2,500,000,000 of the funds 16 authorized for appropriation for the use of the Armed Forces 17 of the United States under this or any other Act are author 18 ized to be made available for their stated purposes to sup 19 port: (A) Vietnamese and other free world forces in sup 20 port of Vietnamese forces, (B) local forces in Laos; and 21 for related costs, during the fiscal year 1973 on such terms 22 and conditions as the Secretary of Defense may determine. 23 None of the funds appropriated to or for the use of the Armed Forces of the United States may be used for the 24 6 1 purpose of paying any overseas allowance, per diem allow 2 ance, or any other addition to the regular base pay of any 3 person serving with the free world forces in South Vietnam 4 if the amount of such payment would be greater than the 5 amount of special pay anthorized to be paid, for an equiv6 alent period of service, to members of the Armed Forces 7 of the United States (under section 310 of title 37, United 8 States Code) serving in Vietnam or in any other hostile fire 9 area, except for continuation of payments of such additions 11 10 to regular base pay provided in agreements executed prior to July 1, 1970. Nothing in clause (A) of the first sentence of this paragraph shall be construed as authorizing the use 13 of any such funds to support Vietnamese or other free world 14 forces in actions designed to provide military support and assistance to the Government of Cambodia or Laos: Pro16 vided, That nothing contained in this section shall be con17 strued to prohibit support of actions required to insure the 18 safe and orderly withdrawal or disengagement of United 19 States forces from Southeast Asia, or to aid in the release of 20 Americans held as prisoners of war.” |