They will take them off any air base in Japan or the Rkukyus, or any other place. He has done that thing. We have taken jeeps away from the Army to build up our little tactical control affairs, but when they need them and needed them badly, there is your command decision. But, we are not throwing things away. We are not sandbagging here and hanging on to them. We got better stock-control records of Air Force property than any system over here. We can tell you where it is and how much there is, if you want it and tomorrow you can have it. The ship order comes to us and we move it. Mr. LANTAFF. Maybe the Army logistics system should be patterned after the Air Force. Brigadier General ALKIRE. I don't know, sir. Don't get me wrong. I am not criticizing their system. They are fighting a ground war; we are fighting in the air. Mr. LANTAFF. General, don't think we have preconceived ideas about this problem. We are trying to see if we can find out some of the answers and your presentation here this morning has been extremely helpful. As far as I am concerned, I see an entirely different picture on this matter. I still think that one service can issue common-use items and we can avoid duplication, but do think at the same time in making any such recommendation that it must be so designed as to enable you to fully carry out your mission. Mr. BROWNSON. Isn't what the general is saying simply this-that unification should be a two-way street. If they want to unify the Air Force with the ground force and the Navy, that is fine, but the ground force and the Navy in the unification program have to consider seriously the needs of the Air Force. Brigadier General ALKIRE. In other words, we are fighting the same war. Mr. LANTAFF. One other question, General, with reference to local procurement by your command. The Logistical Command has a procurement officer to procure locally from local markets such things as produce, or the steel you need in your operation here. Should there be a theater procurement officer to prevent competition between the Air Force between your command here and the Logistic Commandfor the same labor or the same steel. Brigadier General ALKIRE. In raw stocks in the Japanese economy, there are two things that control it. In the first place, when we are going out to procure something, we sound out the other two or see if they need this item. If so, how much. Then, we gage our contract to take care of all three of us. We have done that in one case here with 90-gallon napalm tanks. We called the Navy and they said they were going into the market the same time we were. We said we would get them for all of us, which we have done. Mr. LANTAFF. You think it is sufficiently coordinated so there is no competition between the services? Brigadier General ALKIRE. It has been; yes, that is so. Mr. LANTAFF. I think you had some question you wanted to ask, Mrs. Harden. Mrs. HARDEN. I was just going to ask your medical officer if you have all the medical personnel that you need. Colonel JENKINS. At the present time, we are adequately staffed for the service we render and the missions committed to this station. I am very happy to make that statement. That includes doctors, nurses, administrative corpsmen, and so forth. Mrs. HARDEN. Thank you. How many WAF's do you have, General? Brigadier General DOYLE. My WAF detachment is one, a major. Mrs. HARDEN. Could you use more? Brigadier General DOYLE. I could use quite a number more if I could house them. Right now, I have no place to put them. Mr. LANTAFF. General, thank you very much. This has been very helpful to us. Brigadier General ALKIRE. Again let me remind you, sir, that we are pretty close to the forest here, but have tried to be honest and put our cards on the table as we see them. Mr. LANTAFF. In Washington, we have the same feeling-that sometimes we are too close to the forest and can't see the trees. That is why we are in Japan. Thank you very much, gentlemen. The meeting will stand adjourned. FEDERAL SUPPLY MANAGEMENT (Overseas Survey) MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1951 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES Yokosuka, Japan. MORNING SESSION-SECOND GROUP The second group of the subcommittee met Monday, October 29, 1951, at Yokosuka, Japan, Hon. Herbert C. Bonner, chairman of the subcommittee, presiding. Members of Congress present: The second group consisted of Herbert C. Bonner, chairman; George Meader, and Harold Donohue. Also present: Congressman John F. Kennedy, of Massachusetts. Staff representative present: Thomas A. Kennedy, general counsel. Supply Department, Fleet Activities, Yokosuka, Japan, representatives present: Rear Adm. Kenmore M. McManes, USN, ComNavFe; and Commander Fred W. Fallis (SC), USN, Supply Officer, Yokosuka, Japan. STATEMENT OF ADMIRAL KENMORE M. McMANES, USN, COMNAVFE Admiral McMANES. Mr. Bonner, and gentlemen of the subcommittee, we are happy to welcome you here to Fleet Activities, Yokosuka. We have preceded this presentation of our mission by a survey of the naval installation. It is to be regretted that time is so short. However, I know that you gentlemen will receive the full cooperation of our staff, and I understand that you will gather later in the Dai Ichi Bulding at SCAP Headquarters. It is my intention if it pleases the committee to have representatives of our Fleet Activities present at that meeting for the purpose of more detailed questioning of our naval program in Japan. I will now call on our supply officer at ComNav Fe, Commander Fred W. Fallis, who will outline the supply functions at Yokosuka. Mr. BONNER. Thank you, Admiral McManes. NOTE. Asterisks denote classified material deleted for security reasons. STATEMENT OF COMMANDER FRED W. FALLIS (SC), USN, SUPPLY OFFICER, UNITED STATES FLEET ACTIVITIES, YOKOSUKA, JAPAN BASIC RESPONSIBILITIES OF COMNAVFE Commander FRED W. FALLIS. The Supply Department, Fleet Activities, Yokosuka, performs a number of logistics functions. One of our chief responsibilities of course, is the procurement, storage, and issue of material, supplies, and equipment required to support the naval base and ships repair facility, and other Navy shore commands and activities * In addition we are charged with the responsibility of providing similar logistic emergency back-up support of Naval Forces in the Far East to the extent practicable. * * Other important Supply Department responsibilities include operations of the Navy air freight terminal at ** * *; operations of the Yokosuka Navy ships store and the commissary store; and operations of the Fleet Activities general mess involving the feeding of station and transient enlisted personnel three times a some day. * * * The Supply Department is also charged with several very important fiscal responsibilities. One of these is the semimonthly payroll preparations and payment of all shore-based and small-craft Navy personnel in the Yokosuka area. Another is the maintenance of extensive appropriation, allotment, and stores accounting records, reports, and returns to the General Accounting Office as they pertain to the Supply Department operations of the Yokosuka command. FACILITIES The movement of materials between and within the storage areas is also greatly facilitated, in addition, by our large fleet of trucks, fork-trucks, dock-mules, warehouse trailers, dollies, and other modern materials-handling equipment in order to accomplish the necessary movement of supplies with maximum efficiency and a minimum cost in time and labor. STOCK POSITION And now I should like to spend a few minutes on the matter of stock levels. The supply department Yokosuka, in carrying out its logistics support responsibilities, currently stocks some 240,000 line items, carried at an inventory value of approximately $66,500,000. Of these 240,000 line items, only about 25,000 are considered to be nontechnical in the broad sense, such, for example, as office and housekeeping supplies, provisions, general hardware, etc. A brief review of the following chart will be of interest: Having in mind the degree of emergency back-up support_that Yokosuka is required to provide to the Naval Forces in the Far East, and remembering also the vast amount of complex technical equipment |