operational muscle, not fat. DOD has submitted legislativ language which would lift the law's requirement for an add reduction in FY 1989. I request your support of this prop Any additional reductions would severely impede our abilit effectively support our warfighting forces.

Total Force Mix. During this next year, I will focus attention on Total Force policies particularly as they

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to force mix to ensure that we can continue to perform assigned missions in an efficient, responsive, and effecti manner. I have mentioned some of the initiatives that we applied to arrive at a smaller, yet better equipped and mo responsive force. However, I am aware that the DOD needs ensure that these policies and efforts are applied in a se manner. We need to monitor progress and evaluate results. these reasons, I have undertaken a "Total Force Initiativa intend to accomplish several things with this effort. want to fully understand and concur with the criteria used each of the Military Services as they make their Force Mix decisions. I intend to go back over the past 8 years and identify how decisions were made with regard to the mix of active, reserve, and civilian personnel. Second I want to the processes and data used by the Services when they made

decisions.

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Both RAND and LMI are conducting studies and develop bases to assist in this review. The data base will includ authorizations, requirements, and inventories by skills an type (active, reserve, or civilian).

It will be an impor

tool to assist my office in my oversight responsibilities on the outcome of our review, I plan to take necessary ste strengthen where needed the determination process, making that appropriate policies are being carried out. I want t sure that manpower adjustments are closely linked to force structure changes and that our manpower requests meet our

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Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other OSD offices join me

in this effort of ensuring that we have the correct force mix and that we have the means to monitor and justify changes.

FORCE MANAGEMENT

There are many aspects to managing the total force. However, today I want to limit my focus somewhat and discuss the following: Our successful reliance on the All Volunteer Force; Our work internally and with the Congress on joint officer management; Our efforts in the morale, welfare, and recreation area; and Our work toward a drug-free environment.

All Volunteer Force. Recruiting and retention successes over the past 6 years have produced the best qualified force in our history. Today, 95 percent of our accessions are high school graduates compared to 75 percent in the population as a whole and 96 percent of our accessions score average or above on enlistment These high scores are good predictors of success in training and job performance and translate into improved military capability.

tests.

Even with these successes, there are some who advocate either a return to conscription or a form of national service as a better way to meet military manpower requirements. These views generally stem from the mistaken belief that the declining youth population will make it impossible to attract enough qualified recruits and that conscription will produce a higher-quality force at less expense.

has steadily improved.

While the number of young people turning 18 has been declining steadily since 1979, the quality of military recruits Interestingly, when the youth population peaked in 1979, none of the Services achieved their recruiting objectives. When the youth population bottoms out in 1996, we

will need a smaller proportion of the youth population than was required in 1974 a good recruiting year. The reasons for this

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stem from the fact that recruiting depends upon a complex factors, including pay, quality of life, reenlistments, enlistment incentives, and recruiting resources.

Although cost estimates vary depending on which alte to the All-Volunteer Force is considered, every analysis that to sustain a force of the same quality and experienc conscription would be more costly than the current all v

system.

There is no need for either a peacetime draft or na service to satisfy military manpower requirements.

Joint Officer Management. DoD is totally committed implementation of the Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization A over the past year we have developed programs for manage officers in joint Service to ensure compliance with the legislation. We have, for example:

published an initial joint duty assignment list

now working to update it;

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issued several detailed guidance memorandums pen publication of comprehensive DoD directives;

conducted the initial review of joint profession military education programs and developed curricula star assure consistent program quality.

However, in the process of establishing the polici mechanisms to make Goldwater-Nichols work, we have iden some provisions of the law that inhibit effective imple While Congress took action to correct some of these pro year, most were deferred until 1988. We plan to addres issues as part of this year's legislative agenda and ho proposed legislation for your consideration by the end month. This is an area where we really need your help. Several issues are of particular concern to us

length.

While we are fully committed to increasing stabili joint duty assignments, the minimum tour lengths establishe the law need to be changed to preclude adverse impacts on C development and operational requirements and to ensure that have enough officers with joint experience to select the ve best for promotion to the most senior leadership positions. recent study by the GAO confirmed many of the potential difficulties associated with the current minimum tour lengt standards.

Second, we need to extend the end of the transition pe from October 1, 1988 to October 1, 1989. Unless we do, we meet all the requirements for joint specialist without wast expenditure of scarce PCS funds and moving many high-qualit officers before they complete joint duty requirements becau they do not meet the prerequisites for the billet they are filling.

Third, we need to ensure the law provides adequate provisions to preclude disenfranchising many good officers served in joint duty assignments under the rules in effect passage of the DoD Reorganization Act.

I request your support for these changes and several d that will be coming forward.

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Morale, Welfare, and Recreation. For the past two yea Congress directed cuts in the appropriated fund support pro to DoD's morale, welfare, and recreation (MWR) activities. Congress directed that these cuts be targeted to revenueproducing activities bowling alleys, golf courses, marin that might be operated largely with patron fees. E on our report to Congress ("Reassessment of Department of D MWR Programs." of August 10, 1987) and the subsequent dired in the FY 1988 DoD Appropriations Act, my office provided i guidance to the Services, and we are changing appropriate

directives. All DoD components are taking measures t MWR programs within reduced budgetary caps and to mak generating activities more reliant on their own incom from patron fees and charges.

DoD Anti-Drug Program. One of our most successf accomplishments of the last several years has been th drug abuse among our military members. The combinati testing, education, and peer pressure has led to a 67 reduction in reported drug use among military personn 1980. After HHS certification and review by the Depa Justice, we will begin a drug testing program for civ those jobs involving national security and safety. begin pre-accession drug and alcohol testing by June required by last year's DoD Authorization Bill.

We provide drug abuse education to our 190,000 children attending DoD schools, and we have mobilize military recruiters and the citizen soldiers of the Guard and Reserve to become involved in their commun stop drug abuse.

In addition, DoD has been actively involved in Government's efforts to fight the supply of drugs co this country. We have responded to requests from f governments to help eradicate and interdict illegal addition, we have assisted

and will continue to

civilian law enforcement authorities in their effor illegal drugs. We respond to an average of over 8, for assistance each year and have loaned over $303 equipment in 1987 alone.

We have also provided important assistance thr and surface surveillance. During FY 1987, we logge hours of active duty flight hours and over 2,500 sh course, this support is carried out consistent with national security imperatives. During this current