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...chairman of the Senate Budget Committee was indignant because Jimmy Carter had just appeared to change his mind about the budget that Hollings had shepherded through a House-Senate conference committee. In the same week that Carter told the crew of the homecoming nuclear aircraft carrier Nimitz that he favored higher pay for servicemen (see cover story), the President also told a group of civic leaders that Congress's proposed budget provided too much money for the military. "He doesn't want a balanced budget," roared Hollings. "He wants a campaign budget...
...Memorial Day after an exhausting mission showing the nation's flag in distant seas. Yet the joyful welcome was clouded by a growing concern. For all of its sophisticated weaponry, America is facing a shortage of the most valuable military resource of all: manpower. The return of the U.S.S. Nimitz made the point symbolically, and President Carter made it directly as he stood on the nuclear carrier's gigantic flight deck and praised its crew...
...Nimitz was back at last after a nine-month cruise, including 144 consecutive days at sea, most of them spent on patrol in the Indian Ocean. The ill-fated Sea Stallion helicopters had taken off from her flight deck on their attempt to rescue the 53 American hostages from their captors in Iran. Not since World War II had any U.S. warship been at sea so long...
...excitement of the homecoming could not mask the fatigue of the 5,500 men on the Nimitz and the 934 on its two guided-missile cruiser escorts, the California and the Texas. The patrol had been an extraordinarily arduous and lonely duty. In his talk, Carter thanked the crew for projecting "the presence of the U.S. Government and its military forces at a time . . . crucial to the maintenance of peace." He then took the occasion for an announcement that implicitly acknowledged that the services of the carrier's crew and similar American forces deserved better recognition from the nation...
...feel they spend too few hours in the cockpit or fire too few artillery practice rounds or take their recruits too few miles on marches. In addition, the professional military man's morale has suffered because of prolonged separations from family. The 144-day Indian Ocean patrol by the Nimitz is but an extreme example of what is happening more and more...