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...Agency. Instead of the charming, old-fashioned practice of trying to cut up the defense budget pie more or less equally among the services, McNamara now budgets by function, cutting across service lines to provide funds for Strategic Retaliatory Forces, Continental Air and Missile Defense Forces, General Purpose Forces, Airlift and Sealift Forces, Reserve and National Guard Forces. Over anguished protests, he is pushing ahead with a reorganization of the National Guard and Army Reserve, including the elimination of 1,850 units. He has ordered nearly 100 military installations shut down, including many overseas...
...nearly double their striking range to 2,500 miles. And to close the range gap between the Polaris and the 350-mile Pershing tactical missiles, McNamara has ordered research on a new medium-range missile that can be fired either from surface ships or mobile ground launchers. Through improved airlift, U.S. troops will be able to move much more rapidly to the world's trouble spots. Sealift for amphibious operations will be increased, but the future of the fleet is in question. McNamara recently sent shivers throughout the entire Navy when he said: "The entire question of the cost...
Writing for Airlift magazine, Bechtold recently complained that the Federal Aviation Agency has ignored pilot recommendations for new landing aids at Idlewild. "Our margins," he wrote prophetically, "are woefully thin now." Bechtold had often criticized Idlewild's facilities...
...Boeing C-135 jet transports started slamming down on Guantanamo's Carter Airfield. Each plane carried 125 fully equipped marines, among them platoons of "force reconnaissance" marines with a very special job: to scout out the size and type of enemy forces. Within 5^ hours, the airlift was completed...
...defenders and forced the evacuation of the key military post guarding the entrance to Karakoram Pass. The Chinese moved in tanks and were massing supplies, presumably to seize Chushul airfield which, at 14,000 ft., is one of the world's highest. India's response was to airlift light tanks to Chushul, since, if the airfield falls to the Chinese, all of Ladakh may have to be abandoned to the enemy...