MILITARY PAY HEARING BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE EIGHTY-FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 2014 A BILL TO CHANGE THE METHOD OF COMPUTING BASIC TO PROVIDE TERM RETENTION CONTRACTS FOR RESERVE OFFICERS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES AUGUST 21, 1957 V PART 1 Printed for the use of the Senate Committee on Armed Services / 5 1957 WSION 97221 UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1957 13 CONTENTS Cordiner, Ralph J., president, General Electric Co., and chairman, Defense Advisory Committee on Professional and Technical Benade, Lt. Col. Leo E., deputy staff director, Defense Advisory Committee on Professional and Technical Compensation. Fechteler, Adm. William, member, Defense Advisory Committee on Professional and Technical Compensation. Keck, Col. James, staff member, Defense Advisory Committee on MILITARY PAY WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1957 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, Washington, D, C. The subcommiteee (composed of Senators Stennis, Byrd, Symington, Saltonstall, and Barrett) met, pursuant to call, at 10:05 a. m., in room 212, Senate Office Building. Present: Senators Stennis (chairman) (presiding), Byrd, Symington, Saltonstall, and Barrett. Also present: Senator Bush; Lt. Col. Leo E. Benade, deputy staff director, Defense Advisory Committee on Professional and Technical Compensation; Col. James Keck, staff member, Defense Advisory Committee on Professional and Technical Compensation; Harry L. Wingate, chief clerk; Herbert S. Atkinson, assistant chief clerk; T. Edward Braswell, Jr., and Kenneth E. BeLieu, of the committee staff; and Dr. Edward C. Welsh, legislative assistant to Senator Symington. Senator STENNIS. The subcommittee will come to order. Gentlemen, I have a very brief statement here which outlines. somewhat my study on this problem, and throws out some questions to be considered and, in the course of our hearings, answers them. If you will indulge me, I will read this statement; and then to doubly assure Mr. Cordiner we are glad to have him here today. He has a prepared statement which we all are interested in, and I hope we can give him a chance to present it as he sees fit, without interruption, and then we will question him. The subcommittee is highly honored to have with us Mr. Ralph J. Cordiner, president of the General Electric Co., who was chairman of the Department of Defense Advisory Pay Committee which recommended the basic pay scales now contained in S. 2014, jointly sponsored by Senator Symington and Senator Goldwater. Mr. Cordiner will testify on the findings and recommendations of his committee report. We all realize Mr. Cordiner's committee has made a tremendous contribution to the complex problem of military pay, and this report will be extremely vital to the subcommittee in its work on the pay problem. The Chair regrets that hearings could not have begun earlier. The record should be clear, however, that the important testimony of Mr. Cordiner today represents the beginning of an intensive examination by the subcommittee of military pay and related problems. The major portion of the hearings, of course, cannot begin before the next session of Congress. In the meantime, much of the preliminary work will be completed during the recess. 1 |