Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Catching up now is certain to be expensive. How much it will cost and how long it will take are urgent questions that the mounting debate on national defense will have to resolve. What exactly is the price of power...
...receives too many benefits. I say, if military benefits are all that great, why are we having all these people leaving?" But to improve pay and benefits would be very costly. A wage increase that simply permitted servicemen to catch up with inflation since 1972 (about 75%) would cost $5 billion. Reinstating attractive educational benefits, similar to the old G.I. Bill, would run an additional $1 billion...
Providing these needed vehicles would cost about $4 billion. An extra $600 million is needed annually by the Army just for enough bullets, artillery shells and mortar rounds for adequate training. So tight has money been that Army crews training in Europe have been allowed to fire only one TOW antitank missile (cost: $5,000 each) a year. Experts believe that minimum proficiency would require three TOWS annually for each crew. Several additional billions of dollars in each of the next few years would be required if the Army sought faster delivery of some major new weapons. Only eight Black...
...fiscal 1980 budget earmarks $41 million for start-up costs for the first $300 million LSD-41, a 15,774-ton amphibious vessel that could carry about 340 Marines. But senior officers would like a commitment of $1.2 billion for four of the new LSDs. The Marines also want 336 British-designed, vertical-takeoff Harrier attack planes (cost: $5.7 billion), plus 33 heavy-lift and attack helicopters ($400 million for the first year's production). Bringing Marine Corps ammunition stockpiles up to a level that could sustain combat operations would cost an extra $1.5 billion; improving battlefield command systems would...
...wants more transport aircraft, but has not yet decided how many. Also needed are additional tankers for airborne refueling of transport and combat planes. In fiscal 1980 the Air Force will be buying four KC-10 tankers, a version of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jetliner, at a total cost of $200 million...