Excerpt from Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1997 and the Future Years Defense Program, Vol. 6: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session on S. 1745, Authorizing Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1997 for Military Activities of the Department of Defense, for Military Construction Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, I am honored to appear before you toda to resent an overview of Department of Defense personnel issues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.