ENCLOSURE 1 Shore-based aerological activities I. UNITED STATES Activity U. S. Fle WeaCen, Miami, Fla.. U. S. Fie WeaCen, Norfolk, Va. (including project AROWA). U. S. Fle WeaCen, San Diego, Calif.. U. S. FleWeaCen, San Francisco, Calif.. U. S. Fle WeaCen, Seattle, Wash. U. S. FleWeaCen, Washington, D. C. U. S. Naval Air Station, Anacostia, D. C. U. S. Naval Air Facility, Annapolis, Md. U. S. Naval Air Station, Atlantic City, N. J U. S. Naval Air Auxiliary Station, Barin Field, Foley, Ala. U. S. Naval Air Station, Brunswick, Maine. U. S. Naval Air Auxiliary Station, Cabaniss Field, Tex. Va. U. S. Naval Air Auxiliary Station, Cecil Field, Fla.. U. S. Naval Air Auxiliary Station, Corry Field, Fla. U. S. Naval Air Station, Glenview, Ill... U. S. Naval Air Facility, Glynco, Ga.. U. S. Naval Air Station, Hutchinson, Kans.. U. S. Naval Air Facility, Inyokern, Calif. U. S. Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla.. NADC, Johnville, Pa. U. S. Naval Air Station, Key West, Fla. U. S. Naval Air Auxiliary Station, Kingsville, Tex. U. S. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N. J. U. S. NATTU, NAS, Lakehurst, N. J.. U. S. Naval Air Facility, Litchfield, Calif U. S. Naval Air Station, Los Alamitos, Calif. U. S. Naval Air Station, Memphis, Tenn.. U. S. Naval Air Station, Miramar, Calif U. S. Naval Air Station, Moffett Field, Calif U. S. Naval Air Auxiliary Station, Monterey, Calif. U. S. Naval Air Auxiliary Station, Mustin Field, Philadelphia, Pa. U. S. Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Va. NASD, Norfolk, Va. U. S. Naval Air Station, Oceana, Va. ASO, NSC, Oakland, Calif. NATC, Patuxent River, Md. U. S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla. NASD, Philadelphia, Pa.. NAMTC, Point Mugu, Calif. U. S. Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, R. I U. S. Naval Air Auxiliary Station, Sanford, Fla.. U. S. Naval Air Auxiliary Station, Saufly Field, Fla.. U. S. Naval Air Facility, Weeksville, N. C.. U. S. Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island, Wash. U. S. Naval Air Auxiliary Station, Whiting Field, Fla.. U. S. Naval Air Auxiliary Station, Whiting Field, Fla. (Ground School) U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. WBAN Weather Tabulation Unit, Asheville, N. C. Camp Detrick, Md.. Naval Aviation Electronics Service Unit, Anacostia, D. C.. U. S. Fle WeaCen, Guam, Marianas Islands. U. S. FleWeaCen, Kodiak, Alaska. U. S. FleWeaCen, Pearl Harbor, T. H. U. S. FleWeaCen, Port Lyautey, French Morocco. U. S. FleWeaCen, Sangley Point, Philippine Islands.. U. S. Fle WeaCen, Yokosuka, Japan... U. S. Naval Station, Adak, Alaska. U. S. Naval Air Station, Agana, Guam, Marianas Islands. U. S. Naval Station, Argentia, Newfoundland. U. S. Naval Air Station, Atsugi, Japan.. ASO, NAS, Barber's Point, T. H.. U. S. Naval Air Station Barber's Point, T. H.. U. S. Naval Station, Bermuda, British West Indies.. U. S. Naval Station, Coco Solo, C. Z.. U. S. Naval Air Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.. U. S. Naval Station, Kwajalein. U. S. Naval Station, Midway. U. S. Naval Air Facility, Naha, Okinawa. U. S. Naval Air Facility, Port Lyautey, French Morocco U. S. Naval Station, Trinidad... U. S. Naval Air Facility, Oppama, Japan. Supplementary Aerological Unit No. 1, London, England.. MAAG Formosa. NavAd Unit, Saipan Total (27)---- NONDUPLICATION OF WEATHER ACTIVITIES BY THE UNITED STATES NAVY 1. Since the coexistence of the three United States weather services there have been sustained efforts to effect maximum coordination, including specific action to prevent and remove unnecessary duplication. Such efforts are continuing in the form of coordinated studies, reviews, agreements, and action to effect economies. 2. Coordination at the command level in Washington is maintained by means of the Joint Meteorological Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and is amplified by the efforts of area meteorological committees functioning within each of the unified commands. Appropriate representatives of the Weather Bureau, Air Force, and Navy are members of each of these joint committees. Also, in Washington, the Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, Weather Bureau Air Transport Association, Civil Aeronautics Board, and Bureau of the Budget are represented in the Subcommittee on Meteorology of the Air Coordinating Committee. 3. A significant example of the coordination effected by means of these committess is the establishment of a Weather Bureau, Air Force, and Navy (WBAN) Analysis Center here in Washington. This center, staffed by personnel of the Weather Bureau, Air Force, and Navy, prepares surface and upper air-weather maps of all types including extended forecasts and severe weather bulletins and transmits them by means of a facsimile and teletype network to Weather Bureau, Air Force, and Naval Stations throughout the United States. The provision of these services considerably reduces the workload at each individual station, resulting in a substantial saving in personnel. The Fleet Weather Central, Washington comprises the Navy contribution to the WBAN Analysis Center, and in addition provides personnel and facilities for distribution by radio of WBAN products, and other specialized services, to operating forces of the Navy. Elsewhere, the other Fleet Weather Centrals provide services over and above those the Weather Bureau is able to furnish. 4. In order to meet naval requirements and to reduce the numbers of aerological personnel abroad ships to a minimum, weather maps, forecasts, storm warnings, and operational charts, showing the effects of weather on specific naval operations, are prepared at weather centrals by experienced and competent aerologists, and transmitted by radio to the operating forces. The personnel in the Fleet Weather Centrals have a background of naval operations and requirements not possessed by either Weather Bureau or Air Force personnel. Many of the Fleet Weather Centrals, due to their physical location on naval air stations, consolidate all naval aerological services for their localities. 5. Certain important and often overriding considerations have determined the geographical location of the weather centrals. The three most important factors are: (1) Availability of intelligence concerning ship movements and fleet operations, (2) availability of existing naval communication facilities and, (3) proximity to responsible naval commands. The fact that Weather Bureau and/or Air Force weather activities happen to be in the vicinity of certain of these weather centrals does not necessarily mean duplication, but has actually facilitated coordination and consequently helped to eliminate duplication. 6. There are other areas in which significant savings in funds and personnel have been achieved. An example is the Northern Hemisphere network of upper air reporting stations. Through joint planning this network was programed as to locations of stations, types of equipment, standards of performance, and allocation of responsibility for operations, thus eliminating, in a field in which considerable funds are expended, the duplication which would have resulted from separate programing by each weather service. 7. In order to prevent undesirable duplication and to realize the most efficient use of available scientific personnel and existing technical facilities, the meteorological research and development plans of the three services (Army, Navy, Air Force) are coordinated in the working groups on meteorological techniques and meteorological material of the Panel on the Atmosphere of the Research and Development Board (Department of Defense). Projects and programs are presented in their planning stage in order to facilitate useful coordination. The United States Weather Bureau, through associate membership on these groups, coordinates its research and development plans thus assuring an efficient overall national research and development program in the field of meteorology. 8. The collection and tabulation of climatological data, formerly carried out separately by the weather services, has now, by action of the Joint Meteorological Committee, been centralized in the National Weather Records Center at Asheville, N. C. Not only has this action reduced duplication, but it has made available to each weather service, to meet individual needs for data, a considerably richer data source. Mr. ARENDS. Do you have copies of your prepared statement, General? General WENSINGER. Yes, sir; I do. Mr. ARENDS. Very well, you may proceed, General. General WENSINGER. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I am here to present to you the information that you may need to determine the requirements for officers of the Marine Corps in the various grades to ensure the efficient operation and administration of the corps as a force-in-readiness. The Marine Corps has been confronted with unusual problems since World War II, particularly because of its temporary expansion during the Korean situation, which expansion has, by a recent enactment of the Congress, become for the most part a permanent expansion to a regular corps of 3 combat divisions and 3 aircraft wings, with supporting troops. At the present time, our problems are further complicated by a continuous. demobilization of our active duty Reserve officers and men. At the outset, I should like to say that the Marine Corps has made an honest endeavor to keep its house in order-and we consider that we have done so. When I appeared before your full committee several weeks ago, I informed you of the manner in which we were solving our problems. Through reference to my prepared statement at that time, which I request that you incorporate in the record of these hearings, I feel that I can avoid repetition and save the subcommittee time. I have here a copy of that statement if the committee sees fit to grant my request. Mr. ARENDS. Without objection, we will make that a part of the record. (The information is as follows:) STATEMENT OF MAJ. GEN. W. W. WENSINGER, REPRESENTING THE COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, in connection with section 634 of Public Law 488, 82d Congress, I should like to state that the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 affects and restricts the Marine Corps in the same way as it does the Navy insofar as career promotions of officers are concerned. Under the Officer Personnel Act a continuation of section 634 would have adverse effects on the Marine Corps similar to those outlined by the Navy representative with reference to the Navy. |