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...McNamara's Critics...
...would like to disagree violently with S.L.A. Marshall that "McNamara has lost the confidence of the armed services" [May 31]. As young members of the Officers' Corps of the U.S. Air Force, we look upon Secretary McNamara's efforts to give some meaningful purpose to military expenditures as a refreshing breeze in an otherwise cesspool atmosphere of basic incompetence, empire building, wanton waste and a "don't rock the gravy train" attitude. Secretary McNamara's reforms have had the only really uplifting effect on officer morale in the past five years...
...other hand, when McNamara proposed a military pay hike, Korth wrote a blistering letter to protest that the increase was inadequate. He has cemented friendships for the Navy on Capitol Hill with his frank answers, booming voice and earthy humor. Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, likes Korth so much that he took him along home recently to meet all the Vinson relatives in Milledgeville...
Resisting the Stampede. Korth's big test will come as the Navy tries to answer McNamara's insistent questions about why it needs more carriers (TIME, March 29), why a carrier needs such a huge protective force, why the Navy wants its carriers to be nuclear-powered. Declares one top naval officer: "Before World War II, the Navy really was the senior service. If we didn't want to answer a question then, we didn't do it. That's the spirit we need in the Navy today. If they cut back on our shipbuilding...
...insists that McNamara has the right to ask such questions and deserves statistical, factual answers, not seven-seas rhetoric. In his role as a sort of service middleman, Korth says: "I love the Navy, but I have loyalties upwards...