Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this was too much for Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, the Armed Services subcommittee's most dogged bird dog. "That is a very remarkable thing," Byrd exploded. "We are going into a war, and we permit somebody to say that that war is going to end on a certain date, and then the procurement department does not prepare for the war and the chiefs of staff are not consulted ... Is that the way the Department of Defense is run, where a vital question of war is to be determined by somebody else other than the chiefs of staff...
General Decker tried to calm Byrd down. Secretary Marshall, he said, was working on certain ground rules laid down by the joint chiefs. And what were the ground rules? The joint chiefs, said General Decker, instead of planning how to win the Korean war, were trying to equalize the positions of the three services-so one would not be mobilized to a greater degree than another. At his winter home in Pinehurst, N.C., tired old (72) George Marshall recalled that his order "was based on the definite recommendations of the Chiefs of Staff, as presented to me by the chairman...
Philadelphia (Byrd) 7, Washington...
...showed bewildering mazes of bureaus and sub-bureaus through which procurement orders had to pass. Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper studied the charts, announced that by his count an ammunition order "would go through 42 different departments and almost 200 operations" before contracts were actually placed. Senator Byrd asked McNeil how far the order would travel in the process. Said McNeil: "The speedometer reading on that is 10,000 miles, I am told...
...your musket! Trail your rest! Open your charge! Withdraw your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Return your scouring stick! Recover your musket!" of graft or waste or human error. But in sum, they add up to inefficiency and delay. After listening to the week's testimony, Senator Byrd summed up the picture as he saw it: "I believe the record shows clearly that there were shortages in Korea. I think it shows that, to meet Korean requirements, we have drained United States stocks dangerously. I think the ammunition investigation will be a big factor in effecting a wholesale...