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1 July According to the Maritime Administration, there are 532 vessels of 1,000 tons and over in the active oceangoing merchant fleet as of this date. There is a decrease of one active vessel and no change in the number of inactive vessels in the privately owned fleet compared to 1 June 1975. The number of vessels in the privately owned fleet is 583. Of these, 518 are active. The total U. S.-flag merchant fleet decreased from 1 June by two to 891.
The Department of Defense announced the Navy had ended its use of Culebra Island, Puerto Rico, as a target for weapons training.
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President Ford asked Congress to give commonwealth status to the Mariana Islands. This would be the first addition to U. S. territory in fifty years.
The President nominated Lieutenant General Daniel (Chappie) James, Jr., U. S. Air Force, for promotion to the rank of General. General James is the first black officer to reach four-star rank.
Rabbi Bertram W. Korn became the first rabbi to reach flag rank when he was promoted to rear admiral in the Chaplain Corps of the Naval Reserve.
Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Inc., received a $79,119,370 contract modification to provide for material and services used in the Trident Fleet Ballistic Missile Program.
2 July Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger was reported to have said that under some war conditions the United States might make first use of strategic nuclear weapons against selected targets in the Soviet Union.
3 July The Defense Department announced that Rear Admiral Jon L. Boyes would be nominated for promotion to vice admiral to continue in his present position as Director, Command and Control and Communications Programs, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.
6 July Senator Dewey F. Bartlett said his on-site inspection in Somalia with a group of American experts confirmed Department of Defense allegations that the Russians were installing a missile facility there. (See entries for 10 and 29 June.)
7 July President Ferdinand E. Marcos said the Philippines plan to assume control of U. S. air and naval bases in his country but will still allow the United States to use them subject to negotiated arrangements.
8 July The Secretary of the Navy announced that an international naval review would be held in New York Harbor on 4 July 1976 as part of the nation’s bicentennial celebration.
11 July The State Department said the Master of the SS Gateway City, an American merchantman, was fired on by two unidentified fishing vessels thirty miles
from Sattahip, Thailand, in the Gulf of Thailand.
Lockheed Missiles and Space Company. Inc., received a $54,402,242 contract fof technical engineering services used in the Navy Fleet Ballistic Missile Program-
12 July The Communist Party newspaper Pravda accused U. S. Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger of playing a "dangerous game” by making "belli#' erent statements” about U. S. policy °n the use of nuclear weapons.
The Peterson (dd-969) was launched at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division ! Litton Industries, Pascagoula, Miss,s' sippi.
14 July The Defense Department announced that the President had nom1' nated Vice Admiral Stansfield Turner f°r appointment to admiral and assignment as Commander-in-Chief, Allied Force* Southern Europe.
15 July Approximately 355 pleb^s- including 27 women, arrived at the Ll. Merchant Marine Academy as the cla*5 of 1979.
17 July The United States Ap0^1 vehicle and the Soviet Union’s So)u^ docked in space in the first internation space rendezvous.
19 July Two American civilian tech111 cians from a U. S. naval communicati0*1' station in Asmara, Ethiopia, among four persons kidnapped by mef|1 bers of the Eritrean Liberation Fro111 (See entry for 12 September.)
23 July The Department of De(e<]\ announced the end of U. S. milh^ participation in Suez Canal clearing °V erations. The USS Opportune (ARS-f1' the last ship of Task Force 65 remain j in the Canal, sailed from the Suez i<] marked completion of over 15 mo111 of U. S. naval activity in that area-
25 July
poration received $47,119,771 C, $11,244,335 contract modifications ^ naval nuclear comoonents and
The Navy announced it would
s°rne of the Naval Oceanographic Program to the National Space Technology Laboratories in Bay St. Louis, Missis- s*PpL (See entry for 5 December.)
26 July China reported launching its third satellite in a program of promoting preparedness against war.”
July The Los Angeles Times reported erred in publishing an article by e°rge McArthur saying the U. S. conducted "heavy bombing raids” in South 'etnam on the day of the American evacuation of Saigon. The White House aud Department of Defense had denied the report.
general Electric Co. received a >460,000 contract for naval nuclear Propulsion research and development $48,960,000 and $31,416,000 con- modifications for naval nuclear c°mponents.
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7 an(f Marine Corps figures were pa’ an<d 197,192 respectively, com- ago ^4<a>989 and 189,401 one year
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Why has the Soviet Union built this impressive fleet and what is its role? How do their ships, armament, training, manpower, and communications rate?
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by Andre Beaufre
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This monograph provides an abbreviated discussion of U. S. and Soviet strategic weapons development— both the rationale for their development and the weapons themselves. An effort has been made to keep the discussion nontechnical. Still, the "hardware" must be described. Their existence or nonexistence, and not necessarily the rationale behind their development or nondevelopment, must be a primary consideration for those interested in national strategic policies.
The discussion is chronological to the extent possible, beginning with the detonation of the first nuclear weapons in 1945. Strategic weapons development is primarily the history of U. S. and Soviet efforts. But because the impact of nuclear weapons development in other nations could be increasingly important in international affairs, a brief chapter on the other nuclear powers is included. .
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Jiily 1975 The number of vessels in the privately owned fleet is 583. Of these, ^95 are active. The total U. S.-flag merchant fleet decreased from 1 July by 11 to 880.
^tiring Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Admiral William P. Mack said 'n his change-of-command address that e failures of American political and nt’litary decision-making in Southeast Sla were caused by closed minds and the rejection of dissenting opinion.
general Louis Wilson, the new Marine 0rps Commandant, said the Marines acl changed an earlier decision and w°uld buy four squadrons of F-iss instead of the same number of F-i4s. The u14s would go to the Navy for carrier
August The New York Times reported at the Commandant, Eleventh Naval slstr'ct, Rear Admiral Fillmore Gilke- °n had written Captain Paul L. Hum- II ’ a fegional president of the Naval eserve Association, barring him from ava Reserve facilities because of his °r>tinuing criticism of Naval Reserve Policies.
tal U^Ust ^ wingless X-24B experimen- la HairCraft made 2 200-mile-per hour test 2t Edwards Force Base in a . °f forthcoming space shuttle re- SUlrements.
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<Z^U&Ust The Grumman Aerospace hegy°rat*0n sa‘d chat since May it had the p making a profit on deliveries of coij-' The USS Dahlgren (DDG-43)
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ships are the USS Macdonough
(DDG-39), HMS Argonaut (F-56), HNLMS Evertsen (F-815), PNS Almirante Gago Coutinho (F-473), HMCS Iroquois (DDH- 206), and FGS Schleswig-Holstein (D-182) respectively.
9 August The Texas (CGN-39) was launched at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company.
The Caron (DD-970) was launched at Ingalls Shipbuilding at Pascagoula, Mississippi.
10 August Writing for The New York Times, Admirals Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., and Worth Bagley, both retired, said "Soviet violations of the SALT I AntiBallistic Missile Treaty and Interim Offensive Agreement signed in 1972 . . . have created a new strategic arms relationship . . . different and less desirable than the one defended before the Congress and one which has no congressional sanction.”
11 August The Coast Guard announced that women would be admitted to the Coast Guard Academy beginning next July.
12 August The Navy announced that Resource Sciences Corporation of Tulsa, Oklahoma, had been selected to operate the naval petroleum reserves at Elk Hills, California, under a $60 million contract.
13 August It was announced that the U. S. Navy would help Egypt clear the Damietta minefield in the Mediterranean north of the Suez Canal. The operation was expected to take about 30 days.
16 August The USS Richard B. Russell (SSN-687) was commissioned at Norfolk, Virginia.
19 August A nuclear task group made up of the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), USS South Carolina (CGN-37), and USS Seahorse (SSN-669) departed the Virginia Capes area for a training cruise to Northern Europe. The cruise marked the first operational deployment of the Nimitz.
21 August An A-6 Intruder from the USS Midway (CVA-4i) crashed into the sea off Japan. One crewman was reported rescued and one missing.
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22 August The Soviet intelligence-
gathering trawler Zatorozhe rescued four fishermen drifting in a disabled boat off the Virginia coast. The trawler towed the boat for two hours and then turned her over to the USS Seattle (AOE-3).
A court suit filed by environmental groups against the Trident program was dismissed by the U. S. District Court in the District of Columbia.
23 August The Soviet Union reportedly set off a multimegaton nuclear explosion at an underground Arctic test site.
32 August The Coast Guard reported that the icebreaker Glacier (WAGB-4) had broken free of ice north of Alaska and, though disabled, had entered open water. The ship had been locked in the ice for about five days.
The Department of Defense announced that in August the Armed Forces recruited 92 per cent of their total objective of 42,200 men and women. Navy and Marine Corps percentages were 99 and 102 respectively.
Total numerical strength of the Armed Forces on 31 August 1975 was 2,111,097, a decrease of 17,636 from the previous month. Navy and Marine Corps figures were 534,729 and 195,858 respectively, compared with 547,220 and 190,269 one year ago.
1 September According to the Maritime Administration, there are 520 vessels of 1,000 tons and over in the active oceangoing merchant fleet as of this date. There is an increase of 11 active vessels and a decrease of 9 inactive vessels in the privately owned fleet compared to 1 August 1975. The number of vessels in the privately owned fleet is 585. Of these, 506 are active. The total U. S.-flag merchant fleet is 880, the same as it was on 1 August 1975.
Israel and Egypt initialed a Sinai withdrawal agreement negotiated by the United States.
3 September The Prince George’s County, Maryland, government filed suit in federal court in Washington to block the transfer of 1,300 Naval
Oceanographic Office employees from Suitland, Maryland, to Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
5 September Honeywell Incorporate^ received a $56,687,784 contract for MK Mod 2 torpedoes plus anciiiary service* and supplies.
6 September Egypt announced she hw earned $27 million from tolls charge^ : the 1,866 ships that had transited the , Suez Canal since it was reopened 5 JunC 1975.
8 September The LTV AerospacC Corporation received $64,092,60®’ j $43,368,300, and 18,539,700 contra^1 modifications for procurement of vat1' ous models of A-7 aircraft.
9 September The Washington Post j ported that the Navy had relieved the ; commanding officer of the USS FinbW • (SSN-670), Commander Connelly D. Ste venson, because on 10 July he allowed * \ go-go dancer to perform topless on dcc as the submarine sailed out of P°rI Canaveral, Florida. The Navy reported
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confirmed that Stevenson had been reeved pending investigation of an inci- ent of a non-operational nature.
U September The Washington Post re- P°rted that for the first time since j or^ War I, the U. S. Marines would and in northern Germany. The report said a 1,500-man amphibious force w°uld take part in October exercises associated with the NATO "Autumn 0rge” exercise.
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repla ' miss^es an<^ announced it would \jcj,Ce them with weapons bought from p °nnell-Douglas and from a anco-German company.
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ter t^e>n^er Chinese Foreign Minis- AsSe /ao Kuan-hua told the General Vit^ J °f the United Nations that armame superpowers expanding their ^as '< ent so madly,” a new world war
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29 September The (Baltimore) Sun reported that Chief of Naval Operations Admiral James L. Holloway III and Air Force Chief of Staff General David C. Jones had signed an agreement to provide for Navy training of Air Force units to assist in sea control missions.
The Greek liner Stella Solaris became the first ship to sail directly from Egypt to Israel since Israel was founded in 1948. The liner sailed from Alexandria and arrived in Ashdod.
The FMC Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a $104,000,000 contract for MK-26 shipboard guided missile launching systems.
A fire in the USS Albany (CG-io) killed one sailor and injured five others while the ship was off the North Carolina coast. The fire was caused by a ruptured fuel oil strainer.
30 September The Department of Defense lifted restrictions on advanced schooling for military personnel at 14 universities that dropped ROTC during the Vietnam protest years.
The Armed Forces recruited 97 per cent of their September goal of 41,500. The Navy achieved 96 per cent of its goal and the Marine Corps exceeded its goal.
Total numerical strength of the Armed Forces on 30 September 1975 was 2,104,795, a decrease of 6,302 from the previous month. Navy and Marine Corps figures were 532,270 and 195,683 respectively compared with 546,464 and 192,174 one year ago.
1 October According to the Maritime Administration, there are 520 vessels of 1,000 tons and over in the active oceangoing merchant fleet as of this date. There is an increase of one active vessel and a decrease of three inactive vessels in the privately owned fleet compared to 1 September 1975. The number of vessels in the privately owned fleet is 583. Of these, 507 are active. The total U. S.-flag merchant fleet decreased from 1 September by six to 874.
British officials reportedly conceded that the United States waived up to $10.5 million in research and development surcharges for the British purchase of the Polaris missile system in exchange for the use of Diego Garcia.
Peterson Builders, Inc., Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, received a $9 million contract modification for MSC-322 class coastal minesweepers.
2 October The Hyundai Construction Company of Seoul, Korea, signed a $1® million contract to build a shipyard with a dock capacity of 400,000 deadweigh' tons on the main island of Bahrain. The contract calls for completion by 30 SeP tember 1977.
After a review of the incident involving the embarkation of a go-go dancer on board the USS Finback by the subrff rine’s commanding officer, Command Connelly D. Stevenson, the Chief 0
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3 October Mauritius announced 11 would buy from a private owner 0 islands located 580 miles north of ritius in order to resettle the 1,200 t0 1,400 people who were removed fl0<t Diego Garcia before 1972.
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3 October President Ford signed a °ngressional resolution authorizing the ironing of up to 200 American civil- technicians to operate an early-warn- S station between the Egyptians and raeHs in the Sinai.
. ^ October Nine Marines were killed ln the crash of a TC-4C student navigator gaining aircraft at the Marine Corps Air ration, Cherry Point, North Carolina.
■y. ®ctober The merchant ship Thuong ln I sailed from Guam for South Vietnam carrying about 1,700 refugees who had decided to return to their homeland.
McDonnell Douglas Corporation received a $41,700,000 contract modification to provide additional advance procurement funding for the A-4KU and TA-4KU aircraft.
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Sparrows Point, Maryland, received a $24,415,000 contract for an auxiliary repair drydock, Medium (ARDM).
24 October The (Baltimore) Sun reported that U. S. satellites had photographed evidence that the Soviets had begun construction of a third Kiev-class aircraft carrier at the Nikolayev yard on the Black Sea.
25 October A Navy spokesman was quoted as saying that nine senior Navy officers had been "counseled” by the Chief of Naval Operations for using a hunting lodge as guests of the Northrop Corporation. Senior officers from other Services and senior defense civilian officials were also involved.
26 October The Tokyo Shimbun reported concern in Japanese military circles because the strength of the Soviet Pacific naval force was outstripping that of the U. S. Seventh Fleet.
28 October The 112,000-ton Greek tanker Kriti Sun exploded, broke in two, and began sinking off the western tip of Singapore Island. All 53 crewmen were rescued, although five were reportedly badly burned.
31 October The Armed Forces recruited 106 per cent of their objective of 35,000 personnel during October 1975. Navy and Marine Corps figures were 102 and 100 per cent respectively.
Total numerical strength of the Armed Forces on 31 October 1975 was 2,096,620, a decrease of 8,175 from the previous month. Navy and Marine Corps figures were 527,355 and 194,893 respectively compared with 550,721 and 192,355 one year ago.
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1 November According to the Maritime Administration, there are 528 ves-
sels of 1,000 tons and over in the active oceangoing merchant fleet as of this date. There is an increase of eight active vessels and a decrease of eight inactive vessels in the privately owned fleet compared to 1 October 1975. The number of
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vessels in the privately owned fleet is 583. Of these, 515 are active. The total U. S.-flag merchant fleet decreased from 1 October by four to 870.
3 November President Ford announced that he was replacing Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger with Donald H. Rumsfeld.
President Ford appointed Air Force Lieutenant General Brent Scrowcroft, currently deputy director of the National Security Council, to succeed Secretary of State Flenry A. Kissinger as White House adviser on national security.
4 November Hughes Aircraft Company received a $108,777,048 contract modification to exercise an option for AWG-9 weapons systems and spares and AWM-23 test sets for the Phoenix missile.
5 November Mexico announced the extension of its offshore jurisdiction from 12 to 200 nautical miles, claiming exclusive economic rights over the sea area. This measure restricts foreign exploitation of fishing grounds or any other natural resource within the 200- mile zone.
7 November The Department of Defense announced that the Navy and Air Force Component Commands of the U. S. Southern Command, Quarry
Heights, Canal Zone, would be disestablished as of 31 December 1975. The Army had already closed its component command.
8 November In tests at Edwards Ait Force Base, California, the B-i bombet flew across the desert at an altitude of 200 feet at a speed of 625 miles per hour-
10 November In his farewell address at Pentagon ceremonies, James R- Schlesinger said detente should be puf" sued "vigorously” but "without iUu' sion.”
Exercise Ocean Safari involving eight NATO nations began today. The exercise which included 65 ships and 17,0$ people from Canada, Denmark, Fran* the Federal German Republic, The Netherlands, Norway, the United King dom, and the United States, was sche^' uled to last ten days and take place lfl the eastern Atlantic and the Norweg>an Sea.
12 November French President Valefl Giscard d’Estaing said in an intervie^ that instead of increasing the number ® land-based missiles, his country won1 strengthen its submarine-launched nr> clear missile force as the latter syste(I1 provided the best security for the coun try.
14 November Crews of ships frC)|1'
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I?. ^ovember France has chosen the ^lrage Delta-2000 to equip its air force n the next decade, according to a report n be New York Times.
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ase ^enate confirmed Donald Rumsfeld Sectetary of defense by a 95 to 2 vote.
6 ^°use of Representatives voted to a hi?110 t^le •^rme^ Services Committee I pj would make Rear Admiral
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a<^miral retired on active duty. The r I can be brought up again under a Sn6,ab°wing the full House to debate ^ y er s merits for the post.
nC Chief of Naval Operations an- ni^Ce^ that he had ordered establish- p. °f a Navy Affirmative Action ;n Task Force "to conduct an
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• me *at0rS reacbecl tentative agreement huiij ^’Week-old strike by 10,000 ship- Qf p rs against Electric Boat Division
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Japan °ast Guard announced that 'the ■B ha^Se hshing vessel Eikyu Maru NR than been assessed penalties of more a half million dollars—the largest
penalties ever levied against a foreign vessel by the United States for fishing zone violations.
The Air Force announced plans for a test program for training women as pilots.
22 November The British Polaris submarine HMS Revenge fired a test missile 2,880 miles down the Atlantic range while cruising submerged about 30 miles off Cape Canaveral.
The USS jBelknap (CG-26) collided with the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) while the ships were steaming in the Mediterranean. Six sailors in the Belknap and one in the Kennedy were killed in the accident. Twenty-five Belknap sailors were injured seriously enough to be evacuated and twenty-two were treated for minor injuries and returned to duty. Damage to the Belknap was extensive.
24 November The USS Belknap was towed into Priolo, Sicily, after the collision with the USS John F. Kennedy on 22 November.
26 November Retaliating for the deployment of British warships in support of the British fishing fleet off the Icelandic coast, Iceland announced she was closing her airspace and airports to the Royal Air Force.
27 November The Canadian government announced it planned to buy 18 P-3 Orion aircraft and spare parts worth $950 million.
28 November Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics received a $48,149,409 contract modification to overhaul the USS Daniel Webster (SSBN- 626), including refueling, Polaris/ Poseidon conversion, and repair.
30 November The Department of Defense announced that in November the Armed Forces recruited 101 per cent of their goal of 33,100. Both the Navy and the Marine Corps achieved 98 per cent of their goal.
Total numerical strength of the Armed Forces on 30 November 1975 was 2,099,366, an increase of 2,746 from the previous month. Navy and Marine Corps figures were 528,398 and 195,211 respectively compared with 551,602 and 191,992 one year ago.
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1 December According to the Maritime Administration, there are 536 vessels of 1,000 tons and over in the active oceangoing merchant fleet as of this date. There is an increase of eight active vessels and a decrease of eleven inactive vessels in the privately owned fleet compared to 1 November 1975. The number of vessels in the privately owned fleet is 580. Of these, 523 are active. The total U. S.-flag merchant fleet decreased from
1 November by three to 867.
Shipyard workers at Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics at Groton, Connecticut, returned to work today after a 154-day strike.
The press reported that the Canadian Cabinet had approved the largest increase in Canada’s defense budget since the Korean War, committing the country to $1.5 billion worth of new arms within the next five years.
2 Decetnber Appearing before the House Select Committee on Intelligence, Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., Retired, former Chief of Naval Operations, accused the Soviet Union of gross violations of the 1972 strategic arms limitation agreement and claimed Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had concealed the breaches from Congress and the President.
Retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel Nick Thorne, head of U. S. technicians who will monitor the separation of Egyptian and Israeli forces in the Sinai Desert, departed San Diego enroute to find locations for the monitoring forces.
A seventh crewman from the USS Belknap (CG-26) died at Brook Army Hospital, Texas, as a result of injuries he sustained in the Belknap-Kennedy collision on 22 November. This brought the total number of deaths from the collision to eight.
3 Decetnber The National Assembly of South Korea passed a 1976 budget that increased military spending by 52 per cent.
5 December A U. S. District Judge in Washington, D.C., indefinitely barred a transfer of the Navy Oceanographic Office from Suitland, Maryland, to Bay
St. Louis, Mississippi, because he sai the Navy had failed to adequately c°n' sider effects of the transfer on the env1' ronment in either location. (See entn for 25 July.)
The New York Times reported that the Chinese were returning the ashes oftw'0 Navy men shot down during the nam War.
6 December North Vietnam jn nounced that the bodies of three Amd1 can pilots killed during the Vietn31” War would be turned over to th^ families in a few days.
9 December Secretary of State Kis5111 ger said his next talks in Moscow °jj nuclear arms would be delayed unt positions on both sides were better prC pared and understood.
The Navy announced that the hea'*^ damaged cruiser Belknap would be to" from Naples to Philadelphia for repa|fi
10 December The Defense Dep3^ ment notified Congress that it plann to sell Israel 25 F-15 fighters for $ million and that Saudi Arabia had c0<1
tracted for $1.8 billion in construed0^ maintenance, and training program . the final phase of a $3 billion zation of the Saudi Air Force.
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Hughes Aircraft Company receive0 $87,555,917 contract modification exercise an option for the AIM-54A ‘ nix missile for the F-14.
14 December The General Account;^
Office reported that up to $1.5 ^
would be required to strengthen ^ wings on the C-5A to give the P longer life. This would be in additi°n , the $207 million already spent n* defects.
15 December The USS Saratoga and USS Mississinewa (AO-144) eo 1 during refueling operations 90 vn'^cS^ of Mayport, Florida. There were noc alties and damage was minor.
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Office report released today sal ^ Navy had dumped at least 13-n11 gallons of waste fuel at sea over 1 two years. ^
The press quoted intelligence s° ^ that reported seven Soviet Nav)
er>tered the Malacca Strait enroute to the Indian Ocean. The task force included tw° destroyers, two minesweepers, a tanker, an oceangoing tug, and a land- lng ship.
National Steel & Shipbuilding ComPany, San Diego, California, received a *162,737,086 contract for a destroyer tender (AD-41 class).
Th
ne uss Inchon (LPH-12) and USS ^loosahatchie (AO-98) collided during e ueling operations off the west coast of
a y- There were no casualties and namage was minor.
7 December Commander-in-Chief Attic Fleet has ordered a review of ree lng-at-sea techniques after three re- P°tted accidents in a month.
off ^ecem^er The Senate voted to cut 0 funds for covert military aid to An- S° a even though the Soviet Union and a were providing large amounts of pSSlstance—including Cuban forces. The ^residem reportedly deplored the Senate
23 December Richard S. Welch, special assistant to the U. S. Ambassador to Greece, who was identified in a Greek newspaper as a CIA agent, was shot and killed outside his Athens home.
27 December China released three Soviet helicopter crewmen and their aircraft today, almost two years after they were captured in Chinese territory. Chinese authorities said they now believed the crewmen who maintained they accidentally strayed over China in bad weather.
28 December The captain of the Icelandic gunboat Tyr reported to Islandic coast guard headquarters that his ship was rammed and damaged by the British naval frigate Andromeda, but the British Defense Ministry called the incident an accidental collision, not a ramming. Iceland claims a 200-mile fishing zone, but Britain refuses to recognize more than a 50-mile zone. It has been reported recently that Icelandic gunboats have been chasing British trawlers and the British have retaliated by sending three frigates to protect their fishing fleet.
29 Decetnber The Soviet Union and Turkey announced they would soon sign "a political document on friendly relations and cooperation.”
31 Decetnber The Armed Forces recruited 109 per cent of their objective of 24,700 men and women during December 1975. Navy and Marine Corps figures were 105 and 99 per cent respectively.
Total numerical strength of the Armed Forces on 31 December 1975 was 2,084,306, a decrease of 15,060 from the previous month. Navy and Marine Corps figures were 524,854 and 193,349 respectively compared with 549,419 and 192,167 one year ago.
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