1995 Army Team Lead Desk Material - Adds to List Hearing, May 21, 1993 Page: 51 of 222
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'm68in existence perfectly well with the over land
spaces they have access to, and that brought
the value up to 83.84.
The next Line and mission of
each base is reflected. Meridian and
Kingsvile, as you see, are the two strike
training bases, strike being jet carrier pilot
training. In Pensacola, you have Naval flight
officers trained, lFOs, and pilots for the E2
early warning aircraft and C2 carrier ortoard
delivery aircraft.
COMMISSIONER MCPHERSON:
Pensacola is not under consideration here, is
it?
LTC RICHARDELLA: No, sir,
it's not.
Whiting Field is where all
helicopter training is done in the Navy and
two-thirds of primary pilot training. Corpus
Christi is where maritime pilot training is
conducted, as weltl as one squadron of primary
pilot training.
Now, the capacity of each base
and capacity and pilot training rate or
training requirement are the two key issues,
and I have Listed them both next. If you'Ll
note, the capacity of the strike training
bases Meridian and Kingsville, they add to 285
students per year. The requirement is just
that, 384. And as you remember, the
recommendation closes down Meridian and has
strike training moved to NAS Kingsville.
GEM JOHNSON: But did the Navy
indicate that the strike training was going to
decrease?
LTC RICHARDELLA: Yes, sir.
The answer is yes. The strike training rate
decreases in about the next three or four
years to compensate for both the force
reduction and the overrecruitment that has
taken place as a result of that.
GEM JOHNSON: And what level
will that be?
LTC RICHARDELLA: I don't have
the numbers, General. They're tower than 384,
but by '96 or '97, the level is back up to 384
and remains there.
GEl JOHNSON: Did the Navy not
say chat their pilot training was going to be
reduced by half?
LTC RICHARDELLA: Strike
pilots, sir? I never heard that.
GEM JOHNSON: That was my
understanding when they closed the base, they
said that the requirement would be reduced by
about half.
LTC RICHARDELLA: That's not
my understanding, general.
COISSIONER BYRON: The
proposals that we have before us from the Nay,
is predicated on what size carrier fleet, 12
carriers --
MR. YELLING: Twelve.
LTC RICHARDELLA: With respect
to the training at Pensacola, 62 percent of
training - - I should say 62 percent of
capacity is Stat's being utilized. The rumter
with respect to %Ahiting gets your attention a
little bit more. Twe.nty-seven percent ofcapacity is being utilized. But the key point
there is that it's the only place that can
handle both helicopter and the votes of
primary training that's done.
COMMISSIONER BYRON: Is the
helicopter mission being Looked at by the
military to be joint primary training at Fort
Rucker?
LTC RICHARDELLA: Yes, may's.
It is and has been for years.
COMMISSIONER BYRON: Looked
at?
LTC RICHARDELLA: Yes, ma'm.
With respect to Corpus
Christi, 47 percent of its capacity is being
utilized. The purpose of those two tines was
to show where the capacity and the training
coumnd exists, as opposed to where it was
eliminated. Ard I have no further comments on
the Last Lines of that chart.
MR. YELLIM: Are there any
questions about this category?
GEM JOHNSON: I was referring,
Rich, to page 68 of the DOD input. It says,
"When considering air space and facilities of
all types that support aviation training,
there's about twice the capacity required to
perform this mission."
LTC RICHARDELLA: Air space.
GEM JOHNSON: The capacity.
Air space and facilities of alL types.
LTC RICHARDELLA: Yes, sir. I
believe that's an accurate aggregate number,
but I think you'LL note from the chart that
combining different pipelines of training, for
instance, a helicopter with strike training,
isn't done, and not every base is capable of
the type of training that's done at every
other base. So we had to look at excess
capacity in terms of specific pipelines,
strike, NFO, primary, and helicopter.
GEM JOHNSON: I'm just going
by what the Navy says. Thanks.
MR. YELLIM: Commissioner, the
comment there, I think, and our interpretation
of that, if you Looked at this as a total
category, I think you would see that there is
very substantial excess capacity. But our
assessment is that the way we read that
comment and the proposal was that it was
looking at all of the training capacity and
not just strike training.
CHAIRMAN COURTER: But you
really can't do that, can you? Welt, maybe
you can. It sees to me that you have to do-
MR. YELLIN: That may be Shat
the Navy did to get to their conclusion, but
we're trying to look at it, I think, by
category.
CW[ SS IONER STUART : But you
took at it by, let's say, the strike training
category; is that correct?
MR. TELLIN: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN CRIITER: Now,
looking at the s trike training category, which
is, in fact, what they do there, Stat are the
levels of PTR rates that you have to sustain
in order to have: a sufficient ruster of new
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