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VA BUDGET: JUST TREADING WATER 18 The 1995funding barely manages to keep the department afloat.

BACK TO BACK & BOHOMED OUT

Defense cuts have sapped our military's ability tofight two wars at once. By William Matthews 23

WHEN JUSTICE ROBS THE VICTIMS OF CRIME

A grieving mother sparked a national movement to change how courts treat crime victims and theirfamilies. 26

HELPING HANDS

Thousands of Vietnamese who lost limbs because ofthe war receive hope and comfort. By Ken Schamberg 28

BLOODY IWO

Six hundred Marines died onjust thefirst day ofthis WWII battle. By Sid Moody 30

RUSSIA'S DIRTY CHEMICAL SECRET

Russia may have unleashed a new weapon on our troops in the . By CliffKincaid 32

OCEANS OF ENERGY

Hydrogen is clean, safe and may soon poweryour car and heatyour home. By Gary Turbak 36

EPA T IVI E N T S

BIG ISSUES Should Congress Votefor a Balanced-Budget Constitutional Amendment.'' 1

VETVOICE 4 YOUR AMERICAN LEGION 20 VETS 44

COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 8 VETERANS UPDATE 38 PARTING SHOTS 68

WASHINGTON WATCH 12 LEGION NEWS 40

COVER Budget cuts have stretched our defense capabilities and almost reduced the military to the size it was before the . See Page 23. Photography by Frederick Sutter.

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Veterans Day month later we landed at Nagasaki It is truly amazing today to hear without either side suffering any casu- from all the armchair quarterbacks Thank you, Les Brindley, for your alties. about how they would have terminated excellent coverage of our Veterans The bomb's value may be a myth the war with Japan — especially when Day celebration ("Veterans Day: A in the museum's view, but I do know most of them weren't even bom yet. Celebration For All Ages," Novem- that it has meant reality to those of us The title of the article by Paul W. ber). You captured the spirit and who made it through the Pacific fight- Tibbets Jr. says it all: "Our Job Was to excitement of this wonderful event. ing. Win" (November). Mineral Wells is a unique commu- O. Moss Raymond E. Tierney nity where old-fashioned values such Tuckerton, N.J. as family unity and love of country are still very much alive. Through the The Enola Gay and Bock's Car In the summer of 1945, I was a cooperative efforts of Post 75, the sergeant and chief of the code section should be proudly displayed by the Mineral Wells Independent School of the 349th Signal Company Wing Smithsonian Institution. No apologies District and community leaders, attached to the 86th Fighter Wing. I to anyone. national pride is rekindled on Nov. 1 received instructions to send a mes- Rudolph J. Breyer each year. sage through the International Red San Juan, P.R. We invite Legionnaires to join us to Cross to be delivered to the Japanese experience first hand this thrilling and government advising them that 10 of As horrifying as it was, the bomb moving citywide celebration. their cities would be destroyed and did end the war. We will never know Jerry Stanley should be evacuated. what the casualties would have been if Executive Vice President This message was sent in the clear, the Allies had to resort to an invasion Mineral Wells Chamber of Commerce rather than being encoded. I feel cer- of Japan. tain that this message was received the Also, horror of nuclear bomb- and retransmitted to the Japanese gov- On Enola Gay ings later served as a very real deter- ernment. Brian D. Smith and researcher Mar- rent during the . An "imag- All the world should know that cella Fleming are to be commended ined" horror would not have been Japan was warned. for their combined efforts on the arti- nearly as compelling a deterrent. J. Lane Woodcock cle, "Rewriting Enola Gay's History" Roland Lange Camden, S.C. (November). Their article had an Parkersburg, W.Va. important message: Stop trying to Hooray for Gen. Paul Tibbets' rewrite history. speaking out in defense of dropping Michael H. Hartney WE WANT YOUR the atomic bombs. I have been a mem- Orange, Mass. OPINIONS ber of the Smithsonian for several years and will be watching closely to see how they handle this matter. I have several friends and relatives The American legion Eric R. Talbot who may never have been bom had it Magazine welcomes letters to Battle Creek, Mich. not been for the Enola Gay. I may the editor concerning articles have wound up being a WWII veteran that appear in the publication. Be Japan was desperate and would instead of a Korean War veteran. sure to include a daytime phone have fought a most desperate war to Charles R. Rhodes number for verification. Short protect her homeland. The use of the Bay Village, Ohio letters are more likely to be atomic bomb saved countless lives, published, and all letters are both Japanese and Allied. I wonder where the Smithsonian subject to editing for clarity and Jack Savage Wildman Institution historians were 49 years brevity. Volume precludes in- Menlo Park, Calif. ago when those two bombs were dividual acknowledgments of

dropped. I know where I was. I was comments on editorial content. I think it's a damned shame that aboard a landing ship headed for the You can leave an electronic people like Tibbets get criticized for

invasion of Nagasaki. I wonder if I letter to the editor at going out and fighting in World War II would be writing this letter if Presi- (314) 474-7474 and doing what they thought was best dent Truman hadn't had the guts to Callers' opinions are considered at the time. They were following drop the bomb. 1 wonder if my chil- for publication and receive a D orders, and now the politicans and peo- dren and grandchildren would be here symbol when used. ple don't like it. Now everybody wants if the military landing had been made. Or you can write to: to second guess it. I think the Enola should proudly displayed. I do know that the day after the The American legion Magazine Gay be bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, we P.O. 80x1055 n Michael Bodds Ind. made a hard right turn and stopped at Indianapolis, IN 46206 Misawaka, turn Saipaii and waited. I do know that a Please page

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Writing Please read this information, as well as the It was nice to see a write leaflet which accompanies your medication, • Checking for prostate cancer. Your doctor up about before you start taking PROSCAR. Also, read has prescribed PROSCAR for symptomatic the Seabees ("The Fighting Seabees," the leaflet each time you renew your prescrip- BPH and not for cancer—but a man can have December). As a former in tion, just in case anything has changed. BPH and prostate cancer at the same time. Remember, this leaflet does not take the place Doctors usually recommend that men be 1980-83, I couldn't help but be of careful discussions with your doctor. You checked for prostate cancer once a year when offended because the Seabees were and your doctor should discuss PROSCAR they turn 50 (or 40 if a family member has when you start taking your medication and at had prostate cancer). These checks should described as a civilian branch of the reguleir checkups. continue while you take PROSCAR. U.S. Navy. 1 would bet that any other PROSCAR is not a treatment for prostate Seabee would be offended, too. They What is BPH? cancer. were not civilian. They were military; BPH is an enlargement of the prostate gland. • About prostate specific antigen (PSA). After age 50, most men develop enlarged Your doctor may have done a blood test called they had uniforms and ranks. They prostates. The prostate is located below the PSA. PROSCAR can alter PSA values. For received Navy pay and benefits, saw bladder. As the prostate enlarges, it may slow- more information, talk to your doctor. ly restrict the flow of urine. This can lead to combat and were under naval and mil- • symptoms such as: A warning about PROSCAR and pregnancy. itary regulations. Also, the Seabees • a weak or interrupted urinary stream were not authorized until February or PROSCAR is for use by MEN only. • a feeling that you cannot empty your bladder March of 1942. completely PROSCAR is generally well tolerated in men. However, women who are pregnant, or Mark Cohen • a feeling of delay or hesitation when you start who could pregnant, should women become Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. to urinate avoid the active ingredient in PROSCAR. • a need to urinate often, especially at night If the active ingredient is absorbed by a It is about time the Seabees are • a feeling that you must urinate right away. woman who is pregnant with a male baby, it may cause the male baby to be bom with given the credit they deserve. In the abnormalities of the sex organs. Therefore, Treatment options for BPH Pacific and during World War any woman who is pregnant or who could There are three main treatment options for BPH: become pregnant must not come into direct n, the Seabees were always there. For contact with the active ingredient in all past and present Seabees, thank • Program of monitoring or "Watchful PROSCAR. Waiting". If a man has an enlarged prostate you for recognizing the Seabees. Once Two of the ways in which a woman might gland and no symptoms or if his symptoms do always Seabee. absorb the active ingredient in Eire: a Seabee, a not bother him, he and his doctor may decide PROSCAR Frank on a program of monitoring which would Sexual contact. Your semen may contain Kalman include regular checkups, instead of medica- a small amount of the active ingredient Willowbrook, III. tion or surgery. of the drug. If your partner is pregnant, or if you and your partner decide to have • Medication. Your doctor may prescribe a baby, you must stop taking PROSCAR and PROSCAR for BPH. See "What PROSCAR Flag Raising does" below. talk to your doctor. If your partner could Since when does burning and become pregnant, proper use of a condom can • Surgery. Some patients may need surgery. reduce the risk of exposing her to your semen destroying the Flag constitute free Your doctor can describe several different sur- (discuss this further with your doctor). speech? What if someone blew up the gical procedures for BPH. Which procedure is Handling broken tablets. best depends on your symptoms and medical Women who Lincoln Memorial or the Wall to make are pregnant or who could become pregnant condition. a political statement? must not handle broken tablets of PR(5SCAR. What PROSCAR does PROSCAR tablets are coated to prevent con- When we took a town, the Ameri- tact with the active ingredient during normal PROSCAR lowers levels of a key hormone can Flag was raised. Some GIs looked handUng. If this coating is broken, the tablets called DHT (dihydrotestosterone), which is a should not be handled by women who are at it as a job well done; some thought major cause of prostate growth. Lowering DHT pregnant or who could become pregnsint. leads to shrinkage of the enlarged prostate of their loved ones back home; and gland in most men. 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To avoid help you, it is not known whether PROSCAR forgetting to take PROSCAR, it may be helpful I don't know what to say. I'm so reduces the need for surgery. to take it the same time every day. mad that our military personnel were What you need to know while taking Do not share PROSCAR with anyone else; it asked if they would fire on U.S. citi- was prescribed only for you. PROSCAR zens, that I'm almost sick ("Question- • You must see your doctor regularly. Keep PROSCAR and all medicines out of the able Question," Watch, While taking PROSCAR, you must have regu- reach of children. lar checkups. Follow your doctor's advice FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT November). about when to have these checkups. 'PROSCAR' AND BPH, TALK WITH YOUR We need to do more in protecting •About side effects. Like all prescription DOCTOR. IN ADDITION, TALK TO YOUR the Second Amendment. We're going drugs, PROSCAR may cause side effects. 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HEN I raised my hand tion and search for our missing men. and swore an oath to Given these circumstances, how can the of we restore faith in our government and America, I never help the families of the missing? thought of my fate as We must first resist normalizing an American GI. As a relations with until we can Vietnam era soldier, I get the fullest possible accounting of had no doubt that my our POW/MIAs. Every shred of evi- country would do dence and documentation in posses- everything possible to bring me home sion of their government should be if I were ever taken prisoner by the made available to us. We should make enemy. similar demands on North while As a Legionnaire, I have heard using diplomatic channels to get from families of POW/MIAs who said POW/MIA intelligence from the for- they once believed as I did — that mer and . their loved ones would never be aban- During my trip to Vietnam, the first doned by the nation they loved by a National Commander since the enough to die for. After all, what more war, the Vietnamese Deputy Defense could be asked of them? and Deputy Interior minister told me As National Commander, I find that the POW/MIA issue is a "humani- many of these same people have lost tarian" issue. If he is sincere, now is faith in our country its the time for his nation to with and commit- Nat' I. Cmdr. William M. Detweiler act a ment to those who serve in the U.S. humane spirit and release the docu-

Armed Forces. They are concerned. not give up the fight for the truth. mentation that we know it has.

They are angry. And so am I. The POW/MIA issue has been mis- We also need to address the fact The American Legion has always handled for years. In past wars, we that GIs captured by enemies while maintained that the POW/MIA issue were ill-prepared to rescue downed deployed on peacekeeping or "human- should be one of our nation's highest airmen. We were poor negotiators itarian" missions should be protected priorities. Our government must keep with little understanding of the way in by the Geneva Conventions and its obligation to our POW/MIAs. Not which our communist enemies used should be considered POWs. They are

because it would please The American prisoners as bargaining chips and held currently treated as political prisoners

Legion; but because it is the right and them after wars. with little or no protection under inter- moral thing to do. No one ever dis- We either failed to realize these national law. agreed with us in public. Presidents practices or chose to ignore them after Two men who illustrate the need and members of Congress showered World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the for these changes are Army Chief our sentiments with praise and patriot- Cold War. Recently, a South Korean Warrant Officer Michael Durant and ic rhetoric. who fought with the United States the late Marine Col. William R. Hig- To this Legionnaire, however, the during the Korean War escaped from gins. Both were taken prisoner as POW/MIA issue was never rhetorical. his North Korean captors after more active duty U.S. military personnel on

It is real. It is important. And it is wor- than 40 years, illustrating the commu- peacekeeping missions, and both were thy of an American President's time nist mindset to hold on to prisoners. political prisoners, not POWs. and energy. We know that the Vietnamese and Durant, classified as a detainee,

Just last year, in spite of the contin- North Korean communist parties have was freed after 1 1 days but Col. Hig- ued and unrelenting demands of The lied to us for years and continue to gins — who was captured by terrorists American Legion and the overwhelm- withhold important POW/MIA infor- —was tortured and killed by his cap- ing opposition of the American peo- mation. They have taken advantage of tors as a hostage, not a .

ple. President Clinton lifted our eco- America because it is one of the few As hostages or political prisoners, nomic embargo on Vietnam without countries that believes in returning its Durant and Higgins illustrate a chal- the fullest possible accounting of our war dead to their homes for burial. lenge that faces our country: Will missing. As a result, some have And we know that our own govern- America protect its troops while they

"thrown in the towel." 1 can assure ment has let years go by without an are deployed on peacekeeping opera- you that The American Legion will all-out effort to demand this informa- tions? It must.

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SHOULD CONGRESS VOTE FOR A BALANCED-BUDGET CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT?

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The Balanced Budget The proposed balanced- Amendment may be the budget constitutional real key to reforming YES NO amendment is quack and revitalizing the entire legislative medicine. The amendment states that process. By forcing Congress to balance "total outlays for any fiscal year shall its books, the amendment v^'ill reduce not exceed total receipts for that year," the amount of logrolling in the capital and that Congress may rely on esti- and increase Congress's accountability mates of outlays and receipts. In reality, for its spending decisions. Passage of actual outlays and receipts often vary the amendment will also ensure that other reforms — like from estimates by billions. health care and welfare — are paid for in a responsible Large spending cuts or tax increases or both would be marmer. required yearly. The amendment would practically ensure The deficit temporarily is headed down, due to President that recessions will be deeper and longer. Severe and sud- Clinton's $500 billion deficit reduction package. Because den budget cuts would most certainly end public invest- of the package's spending cuts and tax increases — mostly ments in roads, education planning, etc., not to mention on the wealthiest taxpayers — the federal government and precipitous cuts in entitlement programs and large tax its workforce are smaller today than they were two years increases. ago, and the deficit's spiral has for now, been halted. The amendment makes balancing the budget a constitu-

But deficits will start rising again at the end of this tional mandate, and thus, would tend to balance it on the decade, largely because of climbing health-care costs. The backs of the elderly and the working people. stalemating of health-care reform is one of the greatest The argument that states have some type of balanced threats we face in controlling the deficit. budget requirement is mindlessly simplistic and really not The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that relevant. The states are not required to provide for the without health-care reform, the deficit will double to more "common defense and general vvelfare of the United than $400 billion from 1998 to 2004. The CBO forecasts States" nor do they carry the burden of international affairs show that combined spending on Medicare and Medicaid or fiscal and economic policy for the nation. will surge to 6.2 percent of the U.S. economic output by In fact, the states do not balance their overall budgets. 2004, doubling present levels. They incur bonded indebtedness, borrow money for high- Some may argue that the Balanced Budget Amendment ways, schools, prison facilities, etc. They are also greatly will make health-insurance reform and welfare reform less assisted by federal contributions to their financial well- likely. I believe the opposite is true: The Balanced Budget being. Borrowing to invest for a better tomorrow is hardly Amendment will give us structural budget reform that will seditious activity. provide a responsible framework for those efforts. Congress and the President already have the power to As veterans, we know that every other generation of work toward a balanced budget. Why don't we? The rea- Americans took care of its current needs and invested in the son is that making these very tough decisions is unpopular. future. We are the first generation to partially take care of If the balanced budget provision is adopted, and then our current needs and borrow from the future. And we avoided and violated with impunity, the Constitution know that is wrong. would be demeaned and cheapened. It would seriously Those of us who hold public office generally like to get impact the constitutional system of checks and balances re-elected and hesitate to make politically unpopular deci- and separation of powers by injecting the courts into deci- sions. The trouble is, returning the nation to fiscal health sions involving the power of the purse. doesn't come without a bit Chief Justice John of short-term pain. The YOUR OPINIONS COUNT, TOO Marshall said: "We must Balanced Budget Amend- never forget it is the Con- Senators and congressmen are interested in constituent view- ment may not be a cure- points. You may express your views by writing Thie Honorabie stitution we are expand- all. But it is a method of (name), U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510, or Thie Honorabie ing." My own footnote forcing us to take the diffi- (name), U.S. (House of Representatives, Washiington, DC 20515. would be: Let us not for- Or, you may cali tiie U.S. Senate at: (202) 224-3121; and the cult .steps that public offi- get that it is the Constitu- House at (202)225-3121. cials now duck. tion we are amending.

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The Contract as late as last October that readiness Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole was as high as it had ever been. Meanwhile, there is growing is expected to come to the rescue if doubt House Republicans under the leadership the new Congress will actually increase defense spending overall. of Rep. Newt Gingrich fail to deliver on Steven the economic promises in their "Con- Moore of the Cato Institute points tract With America." The document out the Contract with America only calls for tax and spending cuts and a urged "restoration of essential parts of our national balanced budget in five to seven years, security funding," that without touching Social Security. and this can be done with a small- But some House Republican er Pentagon budget. staffers are wondering: "Do we have Moore also urges cancellation of the Seawolf , a slowdown in the talent and know-how to pull it off?" Doubts are increasing. Investor' purchases of the C-17 transport and elimination of Business Daily, a paper sympathetic to roughly $5 billion of the GOP, says the contract's budget pork barrel spending in the Pentagon budget, such as $57 million for AIDS numbers don't add up. It says the pro- research. posal seems to be based on Republican plans introduced in the last Congress that fall short of the savings required ...and Military Gays for a balanced budget by as much as Rep. Bob Doman is hop- $370 billion. ing to use his position on a subcom- By passing a line-item veto, another mittee of the House National Security element of the contract, the GOP could ^ATCH Committee to review the issue of gays to put the be hoping onus for a bal- in the military. He wants to determine anced budget on the President. it is But By CliffKincaid if the administration's policy follows unimaginable, critics say, that any the law laid down by Congress. President would eliminate hundreds of Doman also is in favor of legisla- billions of dollars of spending and man Newt Gingrich goes public. tion directing the Defense Department expect to be re-elected. Some Republicans are said to be to begin discharging military person- At this point, the speculation is that upset that Gingrich, who had the sup- nel infected with HIV, the virus that Dole will intervene by engineering a port of moderates and conservatives in appears to cause AIDS. compromise between the White House his bid to be speaker, sided with mod- "If you're overweight," notes one and Capitol Hill. erates in key House Republican Con- Hill staffer close to Doman, "you're ference races, and that his reorganiza- kicked out of the military. But if More Whitewater? tion of the House included elimination you're HIV-positive, you stay in. It The Whitewater scandal is causing of the Republican Research Commit- doesn't make sense." The policy is problems for Democrats and Republi- tee and Republican Study Committee, estimated to cost billions. cans. Senator Alphonse D'Amato, organizations which were considered chairman of the Senate Banking Com- power bases for conservatives. Military Women mittee, postponed his Whitewater hear- In addition, his public expression of Congress is expected to take anoth- ings, saying that Special Prosecutor support for liberal Wisconsin Rep. er look at the women in combat issue, Kenneth Starr needed time to pursue Steve Gunderson has drawn fire. Gun- which returned to prominance by the his investigation. But Republicans also derson may be the GOP's first open tragic death last October of female feared a public backlash if the hearings homosexual in Congress. combat pilot Kara Hultgreen. She are perceived as "too aggressive, too Gingrich not only campaigned for crashed her F-14A jet fighter into the quick," as one congressional source put Gunderson, but he declared in an inter- Pacific . it. On the House side, out of deference view that the GOP should be "a com- The cause of the crash was not to the "Contract With America," the fortable party for folks who share a lot immediately known. But a series of Republican plan for the first 100 days, of other beliefs with us but happen to faxes and other anonymous communi- Rep. Jim Leach, chairman of the House be homosexual." cations from those on board her air- Banking Committee, won't begin his craft carrier insisted that she was Whitewater hearings until April. Military Affairs... mshed into a combat role for political President Clinton's proposal to reasons, and she wasn't adequately Bad Blood spend another $25 billion on military trained. Her parents strongly disputed GOP cohesion on Capitol Hill readiness has been denounced on Capi- the charge, noting her good perfor- could easily break down if sniping at tol Hill as too little, too late. And South mance evaluations. House Speaker and Congress- Carolina Rep. Floyd Spence, chairman In any event, the latest figures show of the House Committee on National the number of women in the Armed Washington-hased Cliff Kincaid Security (formerly Armed Services), is Services is up sharply. For example, writes for Human Events and other demanding an explanation why Deputy women represent as much as 24 per- publications. Secretary of Defense John Deutch said cent of the Air Force recruits.

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swelling of the face, lips, tongue and/or throat with difficulty in swallowing or breathing; If you have conditions that can increase your risk of muscle breakdown, which in turn in person's immune system may attack parts of can cause kidney damage, your doctor should temporarily withhold or discontinue symptoms mimicking lupus (a disorder which a MEVACOR. Such conditions include severe infection, low blood pressure, major surgery, his or her own body); severe muscle and blood vessel inflammation; bruises; various disorders of in clotting problems) or abnormal blood trauma, severe metabolic, endocrine, and electrolyte disorders, and uncontrolled blood cells (that could result anemia, infection, or blood weakness; sensitivity to sunlight; fever; chills; seizures. Discuss this with your doctor who can explain these conditions to you. tests; inflamed or painful joints; hives; fatigue and flushing; difficulty breathing; and severe skin disorders that vary from a rash to a serious

Muscle Disease and Enzymes: burn-like shedding of skin all over the body, including mucous membranes such as the lining of

Temporary, mild elevations in muscle enzymes are commonly seen in patients treated with MEVACOR. the mouth.

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For example, the government outpatient clinic, it will mean is demanding that VA prepare to ever-lengthening waits for A $2.6 BIlLIOAt SHORTFALL treat large numbers of women appointments. More hospital (In thousands of dollars) veterans without supplying all wings will close and fewer the money to do so. As a result, FY 1995 NEEDED* beds will be available. Badly VA may not be equipped to ade- Medical care $16,214,749 $18,500,000 needed equipment purchases, quately handle their medical Major construction $354,294 $600,000 from bed pans to magnetic needs. resonance imaging machines, Minor construction $152,934 $150,000 Women comprise 12.5-per- will once again be delayed. State veteran liome construction $47,397 $50,000 cent of today's military and more And veterans suffering from and more of them are expected to Research $251,743 $280,000 cancer, diabetes and Alz- seek future medical treatment National Cemetery System $72,604 $78,000 heimers are less likely to sur- and compensation from for additional VA VBA General operating expense $676,1 1 1 $775,000 vive because service-connected injuries or ill- research has not funded. *Legion recommendations to Congress. been nesses. The compensation and VA's budget for medical care pension budget rose $100 has been shortchanged for over a The American Legion's Veterans million over FY '94. Although this decade. Last year's Consumer Price Affairs and Rehabilitation Commis- allows VA to hire more staff to adjudi- Index indicated that medical costs sion. "It's not necessarily fewer veter- cate claims, the process of clearing up climbed 7.4 percent between October ans. A more accurate statement would the backlog will continue to be slow.

1, 1993, and September 30, 1994. Yet, be that, under the complicated and Some veterans will doubtless die VA's 1995 medical care budget often unfair eligibility rules, fewer vet- before their compensation or pension increased less than 4 percent over last erans are judged authorized for VA checks begin to arrive. year's — from $15.6 billion to $16.2 care," says Stellar. Deliberate? Probably not. The billion. The chronic underfunding of VA money to pay claims is a mandatory The end result is that fewer veterans does not end with health care. Build- entitlement, and must be funded. Still, today receive VA care. "The Washing- ings and equipment are deteriorating with nearly half a million veterans ton spin doctors like to say that VA because construction budgets have not trapped in the backlog limbo, the has fewer veterans entering the sys- kept pace with the needs, and in process of claims adjudication will tem," says Chet Stellar, Chairman of research, an area where VA once Please turn to page 52

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Our troops are expected to fight two wars at once, but misguided cuts to our miiitary iiave sapped its strengtii.

By William Matthews

F THE CLINTON IPI administration's plan

> - for America's armed forces is not signifi- cantly changed by the new Republican-led Congress, the United States will have fewer men and women in uniform in 1997 than at any time during the past 47 years. The 1.46-million-member mil- itary the President proposes DOWNTIME The planned 1 .46-million-member military will be almost the same size as would be nearly identical in size the 1950 force that was caught flat-footed by the Korean War. to the 1950 force that was caught flatfooted by the Korean War. Drained by a massive postwar draw- Today, there is mounting concern , and if necessary, fight down, the mighty military that won that history is about to repeat itself. and win a second major war at the World War II just five years earlier The military is again in a spiral of same time. floundered against tiny, backward deep cuts. And, again, Korea is one of It's getting harder to find people North Korea. the benchmarks against which military who believe that. capability is being measured. Since the Clinton plan was unveiled

William Matthews covers national But this time things are different, more than a year ago, support for it defense issues for Army Times. He the White House insists. The Clinton has steadily eroded. Election results wrote "Lock Out," about the team asserts that the force it has last November were a good barometer Canal, in the March 1994 issue. designed would be able to defeat of how skeptical a growing number of

FEBRUARY 1995 23 Americans are about the Clinton military. Republi- cans who questioned the speed and depth of the Clin- ton military drawdown were IIOTTOMIilD OUT overwhelmingly elected to Congress, claiming a major- ity in the Senate for the first time in a dozen years and wresting control in the House for the first time in four decades. Among other things, the victorious Republicans pledged to increase defense spending, exercise greater caution about sending U.S. troops into volatile humanitarian operations where there is little or no threat to U.S. interests, and ban, without con- gressional approval, U.S. troops being placed under foreign command in UN peacekeeping missions. Under the glare of Republican scrutiny on Capitol Hill, Clinton's plan for the military may well be liv- ing out its final months, but problems with the plan were evident long before the election. The major deficiency is funding. Even the administration concedes that

the five-year budget it proposes will fall as much as $40 billion short of the

amount needed for the force it propos- es. Some experts estimate that the budget shortfall will be closer to $100 billion. Even worse, the General Accounting Office (GAO), the inves- tigative arm of Congress, says the administration is underfunding the military by $150 billion. The tight budgets are already tak- ing their toll. In November, the Defense Department announced that a quarter of the Army was not fully ready for war. Three of the Army's 12 divisions were rated C-3, the next-to- last rating on the Army's readiness scale. Top defense officials said the not say where he said. And those force string of humanitarian missions the would get the money. "Two regional enhancements are still military carried out during 1994 — Although the readi- "a couple of years , Rwanda, rescuing Haitian ness problem is ex- are ahead of us." and Cuban refugees, and the occupa- pected to be corrected wars But the administra- tion of — drained budgets and this year, there are tion is confident that the forced the Army to cancel training still long-term prob- doable, but I need to fight two wars exercises, stop buying spare parts and lems facing the mili- at once is also probably delay repairs to tanks, helicopters and tary. several years off. Perry to be In other weapons. Defense Secretary wan! said the administration In early December, President Clin- William Perry dis- believes North Korea ton said he wanted at least $2 billion closed in an interview the first one." and Iran or are the to adversaries more cover the budget shortfalls that the military's cur- —Anonymous Pentagon Officer most likely created by these military operations. rent arsenal is not able for the foreseeable He also said he would add $25 billion to fight and win two wars at once. future. While Korea today is capable to the defense budget over six years "The ability to meet the two-war con- of engaging the United States in a for pay raises and to improve the qual- tingency hinges on some force major war, Iran and Iraq are not. Perry ity of life in the military. But he did enhancements being made," Perry said. "So, fortunately, we do have

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cific new weapons, but endan- The NAVY— gers the viability of the defense U.S. fleet industrial base that the military would sink to needs during both war and 346 ships peace. from 546— In a resolution on national 37 percent defense adopted last summer. cut. Carrier The American Legion warned groups would against cuts that will enfeeble

drop to 12 in the nation's ability to build the 1999 from weapons it needs. (See box,

16 groups in "Legion Position" on Page 64.) 1990. "Modernization of the Armed Forces must be a con- tinuous process," the resolution said. "Once a conflict develops MARINE it is too late to determine CORPS— whether America's defense Though it industry has the capacity to would keep produce advanced technolo- its four- gies." division Sen. Bob Dole, the new structure, the Senate majority leader, sum- Marine Corps med up the Clinton defense would shrink plan this way: "I am extremely to 174,000 concerned about the massive from 197,000 cuts in our national defense. In troops. my view, we are not cutting defense, we are gutting it." The military President Clinton has proposed "will not do the job," AIR he said. FORCE— Within days after their elec- Attack and tion victory, House Republi- fighter cans issued the National Secu- aircraft rity Restoration Act — their would be plan to begin reversing Clin- cut by ton's defense drawdown. almost 40 The Republicans said Clin- percent- ton's defense budgets appear reduced to to be too small. "Significant 2,340 from increases in defense funding 3,769. may be necessary in the future to maintain a capable force," they wrote in the act. And in their "Contract with some breathing room to get those weapons in jeopardy. America," the Republicans promised force enhancements in," he said. Last August, Deputy Defense Sec- to protect the defense budget against According to Perry, the "force retary John Deutch ordered the Army, being raided to pay for social pro- enhancements" include putting more Navy and Air Force to draw up plans grams. They vowed to renew the mili- war supplies aboard ships to be sta- to kill or delay 10 weapons develop- tary's commitment to an antiballistic tioned near trouble spots, improving ment programs. Among the weapons missile system like President Reagan's intelligence and communications Deutch said he was prepared to scrap "Star Wars" initiative. And they capabilities, developing better defens- were the Air Force's F-22 stealth pledged to conduct a review of U.S. es against short-range missiles and fighter, the Army's Comanche heli- defense needs and capabilities. spreading "smart" weapons liberally copter, the Navy's high-tech Arleigh The review is undoubtedly a direct through the force, from Army artillery Burke and the Marine challenge to the Clinton administra- units to Air Force . Corps' V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft. tion's lengthy 1993 evaluation of the But even as the Clinton plan called To many Republicans, the threat to military, the "Bottom-Up Review," for greater reliance on high-tech eliminate the next generation of which serves as the blueprint for Clin- weapons to compensate for a smaller advanced weapons signaled a danger- ton's military. military, the squeeze imposed by the ous new chapter in the defense draw- In September 1993, after months of administration's own budget put some down. Killing off weapons programs scrutinizing the U.S. military's capa- of the military's most-prized advanced not only halts the development of spe- Please turn to page 62

FEBRUARY 1995 25 INTERVIEW ROBERTA ROPER

When Justice Robs The

After Stephanie Roper was brutally killed, tier grieving mother Roberta, sparked a national movement to change how oourts treat crime victims and their families.

N 1982, Stephanie Roper was a 22-year-old col- lege senior who had gone out for a few drinks Roberta Roper: It happened very quickly. We want- with friends in Washington, D.C. On her way ed to be involved in everything, to really understand the home, she ran out of gas alone on a Maryland process. Before that we had never even been to traffic

country road. Two men stopped to help her. court. But the prosecutor made it clear that it would be up The "good Samaritans" kidnapped, raped, tor- to us to find out anything we wanted to know. tured and murdered her. They were planning to Also, I had this ideal that the courtroom was a sacred dismember her body when someone tipped off place. I soon learned that the most important goal of the the police. Both men confessed to the crime. court system was not truth or justice. It was winning the One pleaded guilty; the other went to trial. case. A child's death transforms any parent. Up until her I heard attorneys plant seeds of doubt in jurors' minds daughter's death, Roberta Roper had been a Navy wife and about Stephanie's character. Why was she out alone at that mother of five. Much of her life had centered on creating time of night? How many drinks did she have? None of new homes each time husband, Vince, was transferred to that is relevant. Does anyone deserve to be raped, beaten another base. But for Roper, the horror of Stephanie's mur- with a logging chain, shot in the head, and then, while still der was compounded by the callous disregard with which alive, doused with gasoline and set afire? the justice system treated her and her family. As soon as the trial was over, she began a one-woman Q. After Stephanie's killers were sentenced and crusade to change the state laws of Maryland so the rights behind bars, wouldn't it have been better to put the of victims would be recognized and protected. case behind you and go on with your lives? Roper is credited with almost single-handedly pushing A We couldn't do that. My husband and I came home nearly three dozen laws through the Maryland legislature. from the trial and faced four children who wanted to These measures provide restitution to crime victims, give know why Stephanie's life had been given so little value. victims the right to file impact statements with the courts, Everything they believed in and had been taught to respect and order courts to notify victims of all hearings involving — people, God, institutions — was challenged. their assailants. The Stephanie Roper Committee and Foun- It was from the point of view of survival, of preserving a dation has become one of the largest victims' rights organi- marriage, that we felt we had to do something. Neighbors zations in the country. and friends from our church had organized to help us In this exclusive interview, Roper — one of three Amer- through the funeral and the trial. We had one last meeting icans to receive the 1994 Crime Victim Service Awards to thank them for their support and tell them of our plans to from President CHnton — tells why she became a victims' do something for victims and survivors of violent crime. rights advocate and how the movement has helped change Many of them wanted to continue with us. So within a the criminal justice system. month the Stephanie Roper Committee and Foundation was bom. American Legion Magazine: When did you go from grief to anger about Stephanie's murder? Q. You say "we." Was your husband as involved in

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this campaign for victims as you were? HI GHLIGHT A No. This was really a mother's crusade. Stephanie and I had a very unique relationship. I describe her as not only our oldest daughter but my best friend. She was an only child for the first four years. Her father was absent Robeith Rop&v Oii>. . much of that time and we were on our own together. Also,

Vince had a job — he was still on active duty in the Navy. " What victims and survivors want: 1/1/e wonf

information, even if its painful. . , we want Q. Just what do victims and survivors want from the

understanding. . .a voice not veto. . justice system? a .and justice — not revenge. A First, victims and survivors want the system to give them information, even if it's painful information. You can deal with the terrible truth. What you can't deal The justice system: T/ie most important with is not knowing. goai was not truth or justice. It was Second, you want a certain amount of compassion and winning the case. understanding. Third, you want satisfaction with the process — that your loved one who is a homicide victim is Why she fought the system: "Everything we not just another statistic, a faceless stranger. in The measure of an effective system is how it treats peo- believed was challenged. From the ple and whether victims are allowed some choices. Not point of view of survival, of preserving a every victim wants to be in the courtroom. Not every vic- marriage, we felt we had to do tim wants restitution. Not every victim wants to make a something. victim-impact statement. But the choices should be there. I'm not suggesting that the victim's interest be repre- Sentences: "It's a misuse of language that sented by an attorney, that there be a three-party system. Stephanie's killers got two life sentences But the state of Maryland didn't bleed and die; Stephanie did. We want justice — not revenge. plus 20 years, and they'd be eligible for parole in 11 V2 years. Q. What about stiffer sentences? Please turn to page 54

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By Ken Scharnberg

wo FORMER enemies wait patiently and some- what nervously outside the Tu Du clinic in South NEEDED— Vietnam. One of them, Ho resident of Ho Ngoc Hal, lost his leg to a Chi Minh City Viet Cong booby trap. The thanks the other, Kim Vdong, lost his Legion's John to an American artillery Sommer, above, attack. But more than 20 years have for a new passed, and the concept of ally and wheelchair. enemy has faded with time. Now they are bonded by their disability. At right, Their prosthetic legs are a heavy, Prosthetics clumsy patchwork of wood, cast-off donor Ca tire treads, bamboo and wire. They fit shows what poorly, causing sores and infections often passes for — a dangerous condition in a country legs in Vietnam. where health care is almost nonexis- tent. Today, there is no war, no North the two men will receive gifts from Struck by the poverty and the com- Vietnamese Army, Viet Cong or Ca's Viet Nam Assistance For The munist government's cold treatment of Army of the Republic of Vietnam. Handicapped — new artificial legs the South Vietnamese, he felt he had Now the enemy is poverty, disease that literally could mean the difference to do something. "Friends I had and a collapsing government social between life and death. known, people I had worked with, had structure. Into this chaos comes Ca Ca, a Vietnamese adviser to the aged. A guy who used to work with Van Tran, offering hope and comfort U.S. military during the war, got out me looked like my father," Ca says. to thousands of Vietnamese who lost of Vietnam on the last boat in 1975. Driven by guilt over his own limbs during and after the war. Today, Sixteen years later, a successful Amer- escape, grief over the loss of many of ican businessman, he returned in 1991 his family, and anger at the shabby Veterans Affairs Editor Ken to visit his family. "It was not until I treatment afforded the people of South

Scharnberg wrote "What' s Wrong returned," says Ca, "that I realized just Vietnam after the American withdraw- With Me?" in the January issue. how backward my country was." al, Ca was determined to do some-

28 THE AMERICAN LEGION Often, the result is traumatic amputation. At first, providing prosthet- ics for Vietnamese seemed like an insurmountable task to Ca, a restauranteur in the Wash- ington, D.C. area. How do you go about shipping a bunch of prosthetic arms and legs to Vietnam and distributing them? In a country ruled with

an iron fist, it is not easy. "I confronted the commu- nist government about the overall condition of these peo- ple, but got nowhere," says Ca. "Changing the system is a very slow process." Ca describes the life under communist rule as very bleak. Corruption is rampant within the govern- ment. Vietnam today is a land where bribery and graft rules. In the end, Ca sold some of his restaurants and — with the help of grants he received from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) — renovated an existing prosthetic factory in Vietnam. Although the factory was built by the Americans

during the war, it is still con- sidered Vietnamese govern- ment-owned. But Ca and his staff provided the modern equipment, technical know- how and raw materials for fac- tory workers to produce the prosthetics. Since the USAID grants restrict us from buying and shipping anything into the country, "we reimburse them for raw materials,' says Ca. He says the average cost for creat-

ing a prosthetic is about $50.

"Each time I go back to Vietnam, from 400 to as many as 1,000 people come to the clinics to be fitted for new thing. He found his answers in pros- What's worse, the toll continues. prosthetics," Ca says. thetics. According to Ca, discarded ordinance, John Sommer, executive director of Because booby traps are common old, forgotten booby traps, and map- The American Legion's Washington weapons of guerrilla warfare, hun- less mine fields dot the countryside. office, has seen the good work of Ca's dreds of thousands of people lost arms Because of poor Vietnamese com- Viet Nam Assistance For The Handi- and legs during the . munications, Ca says no one knows capped. During a two-week presiden- More U.S. personnel — 12,123 — lost precisely how many innocent farmers, tial mission to Vietnam in July 1994, the use of their limbs during that war travelers or children have been killed he spent some time with Ca. One day than in any other 20th century conflict or injured since the war. But Ca esti- of that visit, Sommer and Ca strolled in which America was involved. In mates that at least one person a day — the streets of , for- addition, an estimated 200,000 Viet- many of them children — are injured, merly known as Saigon. Their mission namese, both north and south, have maimed or killed by shells, bombs, was to find dual amputees and provide lost their limbs because of the war. booby traps and discarded munitions. Please turn to page 65

FEBRUARY 1995 29 By nightfall, only 150 of 1,000 men who landed on the right flank were left. Six hundred died that first day.

cockpit of volcanic ash, sulphur fumes Gen. Clifton B. Gates, who was to By Sid Moody and death where there was just room lead the Fourth Division onto Iwo, had for the clash of two ideologies: the so aptly described in a message he

NE CORRESPONDENT bushido samurai code of the Japanese sent from the front in : "I said was "like warrior that taught willpower could have no one on my left and only a few hell with the fire gone vanquish any foe; and the unflinching, on my right. I will hold." out." The tiny volcanic head-on valor of the U.S. Marines. Upholding that tradition on Iwo island two-thirds the size Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Jima cost almost 6,000 Marines their of Manhattan and 747 commander of the 21,000 Japanese on lives. Among the dead were Ameri- miles south of was Iwo, bolstered his troops in a propa- cans who represented the heart and the only WWII invasion ganda leaflet that said the Americans soul of the nation: Thornton "Gus" in the Pacific in which the "have no desire for the glory of their Lyttle, who a year earlier had been a Americans took more casualties than ancestors or posterity, nor for the student and artist of promise at a New the Japanese. glory of their family name. They go prep school; Sgt. John Too small for subtlety, Iwo was a into battle with no spiritual incentive Basilone from Baritan, N.J., who had and rely on material superiority." won a Medal of Honor in earlier fight- Freelance writer Sid Moody of New What Kuribayashi failed to tell his ing at Bloody Ridge on ; York city wrote "The Battle for troops, however, was that the Marines Warrant Officer Ennis James Ger- Gulf in the October 1994 issue. had tradition — a tradition which Maj. aghty, a 44-year-old WWI veteran

30 THE AMERICAN LEGION and on down, shrouding the island in smoke and volcanic dust. Navy frogmen, "half fish and half nuts," cleared the approaches to Iwo's one beach on the southeast side. Then on Feb. 19, 1945, the first of 60,000 Marines of the 3rd, 4th and 5th divi- sions headed for shore in a steel tidal wave of landing crafts. They stormed out of their crafts into ankle-deep ash and struggled up a steep embankment. Japanese guns, mortars and machine guns opened fire. "C'mon, you guys, let's get those guns off the beach," Marine Sgt. Basilone hollered. A mortar shell exploded at his feet, killing him and four others. Within minutes, the gray ash turned red from bodies blown to pieces all over the beach. By nightfall, only 150 of 1,000 men who landed on the right flank were left. Six hundred died that first day. They fought yard by bloody yard toward Iwo's two airstrips and the high ground — the 556-foot Mount Suribachi. By the fourth day. Marines of the 2nd Bn., 28th Rgt., 5th Div., had reached the top. They raised a small American Flag tied to a pipe, killing two charging enemy soldiers as they did so. Down below, Lt. Col. Chandler Johnson grunted: "Some son of a bitch who was told he didn't have to go es and half-buried tanks. is going to want that Flag, but he's not because of his age. "No," he insisted, He ordered his gunners not to fire going to get it." He sent for a bigger "I'd Hke to see what it's Uke." until the Americans were ashore. His one off a Navy ship. Many Japanese strongholds had goal was to kill as many Marines as he Combat photographer Joe Rosen- been bypassed in Adm. Chester could. thal of the Associated Press (AP) fol- Nimitz's island-hopping campaign The United States had pulverized lowed the party with the new Flag up across the Central Pacific and Gen. Iwo with everything from bombers to Please turn to page 60 Douglas MacArthur's leap-frogging up and into the Philip- pines. Marine Gen. Holland M. "Howlin' Mad" Smith gloomily pre- dicted 20,000 Marine casualties. He was a little low. There were 5,931 Marines killed and 17,372 wounded. But the victory provided a safe haven for American bombers.

"Without Iwo I couldn't bomb BEACH HELL Japan effectively," Maj. Gen. Japanese waited Curtis LeMay, commander of until U.S. forces the Army Air Forces, declared landed to begin his base on from huge firing. Their and in the Marianas mission was 610 miles to the southeast. as many Gh Indeed, over 2,200 big B-29s possible were to use Iwo for refueling or emergency landings before it was all over. Kuribayashi had no doubt the Americans were coming. He had hid- den 800 cannons in caves, blockhous-

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\ chok," meaning newcomer. By Cliff Kincaid The Riegle report is just the latest RUSSIA MAY HAVE piece of evidence pointing to the URIED in last year's Russian development of a new class of m explosive report of Michi- poisons that may have been trans- 1 gan Sen. Donald W. DEUELOPED A NEW ferred to Iraq for use against American " M Riegle Jr. concerning forces in the Gulf War. «i chemical and biological KIND OF WEAPON This could explain why the Depart- warfare ment of Defense (DoD) has engaged I agents was the i i assertion that Iraq may in what looks like a frantic effort since have acquired chemical AND TESTED IT ON the war to dismantle the Russian agents from the former chemical and biological warfare vSoviet Union. OUR TROOPS IN Riegle — who has since retired Washington-based Cliff Kincaid, from the U.S. Senate — and his staff who writes the Washington Watch col- said the agents were developed by the THE GULF WAR. umn in this magazine, also writes for Soviet Union under the name, "Novi- Human Events and other publications.

THE AMERICAN LEGION r--'"^-,V-.' 4.

people like Petrenko said their symp- toms resembled those of the Ameri- cans he had been reading about in the papers — the sick veterans of the Per- sian Gulf War. In short, the Russians may have pulled off one of the most spectacular and deadly deceptions in the history of warfare. Waller believes that Novi- chok may be what Russian extremist Vladimir Zhirinovsky had in mind when he warned that his country has a "secret weapon" capable of destroying the West. Zhirinovsky's party domi- nates the Russian Parliament, and Zhirinovsky has ties to the old Soviet KGB. Indications that Zhirinovsky's FULLY CAPABLE—Russia could unleash threat was a boast, not a bluff, came chemical agents with most of its when Vil Mirzayanov, a Russian sci- conventional weapons, including this entist who publicly disclosed the exis- SCUD missile. tence of Novichok, was charged with revealing the "state secret." On two occasions, in 1992 and again in 1993, he was arrested by Russian authorities for talking about Novichok. Mirzayanov's arrests caught the worldwide attention of scientists, including Nobel Laureate Joshua Lederberg of The Rockefeller Univer- sity in New York, who headed a spe- cial Pentagon panel on Gulf War ill- nesses. He said if the Russians proceeded to prosecute Mirzayanov, "we must conclude that Mirzayanov was telling the truth and a whole new class of deadly binary chemical weapons was created." However, Mirzayanov was not PREPARED?—An prosecuted, apparently because of the undetectable CHEMICAL AGENT— Michael Waller ot international attention. But that did chemical agent the American Foreign Policy Council was nothing to diminish concern that he may have been told by Russian scientists that exposure to telling the truth, the implications used on U.S. was the chemical agent, Novichol<, causes are for nation- troops in the of which ominous U.S. birth defects. al security. The prospect of humanity being wiped out by disease has always fasci- (CBW) program and develop effective Novichok has similar effects. It can nated and horrified the public mind. defenses against the agents. be toxic like a chemical agent or cause Michael Crichton sold more than 3 Vladimir Petrenko is a victim of the diseases like a biological agent. It can million copies of his Andromeda Russian CBW program. As a young be lethal or debilitating. Strain, a book about a lethal virus Soviet Army lieutenant in 1982, he Equally frightening. Waller says he from another world that threatens volunteered to test a new chemical was told by Russian scientists who Earth, which also was made into a warfare suit and was exposed to a poi- have worked on the Novichok pro- successful film. son that the Soviets had been secretly gram that the poison affects human In an effort to distract international developing since the late 1970s. genes, causing birth defects and infant attention from its own offensive bio- Michael Waller, a senior fellow illnesses among offsprings. logical warfare program, the Soviets with the American Foreign Policy These weren't the only surprises in the early 1980s came up with a fan- Council, visited with Petrenko and that greeted Waller as he traveled Rus- tasy that rivaled the fiction of Crich- says his health is deteriorating. At age sia in 1993 gathering information ton. They claimed the deadly AIDS 34, Petrenko looks 20 years older. He about Russian military activities that virus was literally made in the United is haggard and gaunt, has a grey beard still continue under President Boris States. and is developing serious illnesses that Yeltsin. He was also caught off-guard At the time, the world was preoccu- require almost constant treatment. when a Russian physician who treated pied with AIDS. It wasn't clear where the virus came from, who was at risk Detrick was converted to defensive CHEMICAL BAHLEFIELD—Soviet tanks are and how it could be spread. There still research. cleansed by a decontamination vehicle during is no cure in sight. In 1972, the United States and the a training session. The Soviets began a The Soviets spread the AIDS lie Soviets signed an international agree- chemical warfare program in the early 1960s. through their front groups and propa- ment supposedly outlawing chemical ganda organs, claiming the AIDS and biological weapons. But history CBW raw materials to Baghdad. virus had been manufactured at Fort shows the Soviets never intended to They said, "As reported by a top- Detrick by the Pentagon as part of an comply, and could kill people with level defector, in the mid-1960s Iraq

effort to develop biological weapons. impunity and lie about it. and other Arab nations were deeply The charge flew around the world, The Soviets have long been inter- concerned that was going even ending up on the CBS Evening ested in the use of poisons. Pavel nuclear. Iraq pressed the Soviet Union News with Dan Rather. Sudoplatov, deputy director of foreign for nuclear weapons, but Moscow Like most effective lies, this one intelligence of the NKVD (later called turned Baghdad down. As a result, contained a kernel of truth. Fort Det- the KGB), reveals in his book. Special Iraq opted for a C/B warfare capabili- rick had been the U.S. Army's biolog- Tasks, the existence of a poison labo- ty. In late 1967, in the wake of the Six ical warfare research and development ratory, called "Lab X" as far back as Day War, Moscow made the decision center from 1943 to 1969. 1937. The lab developed poisons used to provide Iraq with both chemical and But mainly because of criticism to assassinate enemies of Moscow at biological agents in their raw non- over the use of herbicides like Agent home and abroad. weaponized form." Orange in Vietnam, the Nixon admin- But poisons are also useful against Livingstone and Douglass said the istration in 1969 had abandoned groups of people, even nations. Oleg word was that the Soviets transferred research into germ weapons, and Fort Penkovsky, a Soviet military intelli- the agents to Iraq via a third party, gence officer considered the great- most likely the PLO, another Soviet est Soviet spy to serve the West client. since World War II, provided If anything, relations between Iraq detailed reports to U.S. officials and the Soviets grew even closer over about the vast Soviet chemical war- the years, eventually culminating in a fare program during the early 1972 Treaty of Friendship and Coop- 1960s. eration. They became so close that In the '80s, the Reagan adminis- when the Iraqis invaded Kuwait on tration publicly confronted the Aug. 2, 1990, the Soviets had between Soviets and their allies about using 3,000 and 4,000 military advisers in germ agents called mycotoxins, Iraq. Soviet chemical weapons expert known as "yellow rain," on anti- Igor Yevstafiev even had publicly communist freedom fighters in advocated withholding from the Unit- Southeast Asia. ed States and its allies Soviet informa- Other key Soviet clients, such as tion on where the Iraqi chemical and Saddam Hussein in Iraq, were also biological weapons were stockpiled. proceeding with CBW programs. In He said, "Strikes on chemical and fact, Hussein deployed chemical biological weapons facilities on Iraq's agents against the Iranians in their territory could rebound on us and war in the 1980s. cause damage to the population of our RIEGLE REPORT—An investigation last He had the Soviets to thank. In a country." year by then-Sen. Donald W, Riegle Jr. 1984 book, CBW: The Poor Man's The big mystery, according to some uncovered the Russian development of a Atomic Bomb, intelligence and in the Pentagon, is why Iraq's known new class of poisons that may have been security experts Neil C. Livingstone stockpiles of CBW agents were not given to Iraq for use against U.S. forces. and Joseph D. Douglass Jr. offered used during the war. evidence that the Soviets provided Please turn to page 58

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and invisible. It is hydrogen, an element that — combined with an energy powerhouse — the one that oxygen to form water — fills our lakes fires the sun itself. Here on earth, By Gary Turbak and oceans. When burned, hydrogen however, hydrogen does not exist in produces virtually no pollution. And free form and must be coaxed into OT LONG after that first it's renewable. The major byproduct action. "Hydrogen is not an energy Pennsylvania oil strike in of hydrogen combustion is water — source in the same sense that oil and

1859, people began fret- from which more hydrogen can be sunlight are," said Scott. "Rather, it is ting about energy short- made. "Hydrogen is just about the per- an energy currency — somewhat like ages. Ditto for coal and fect fuel," said physicist Jim Macken- electricity." natural gas. Every time zie, senior associate at World Scientists have long known that one of these fossil fuels Resources Institute, an environmental passing an electric current through burns, the globe warms, think tank in Washington, D.C. water — a process called electrolysis smog thickens and more Although many people remember — causes the liquid to separate into harmful compounds enter the air. hydrogen as the explosive force that oxygen and hydrogen. "We'll soon have to abandon fossil destroyed the dirigible Hindenburg Two gallons of water contain energy — not so much because we're over New Jersey in 1937, the gas had hydrogen energy equal to a gallon of running out, but because it's polluting little to do with the lives lost in that gasoline. Once liberated from water, the environment," says David Scott, accident. hydrogen can power everything from engineering professor at the Universi- Also, safety procedures have airplanes to cars to home furnaces. improved a lot since then. "Hydrogen There's just one problem: It Gary Turhak, a freelancer from is probably the safest of fuels," says requires more energy to perform elec- trolysis than the resulting hydrogen Missoula, Mont., wrote "The Cam- professor Scott. Called "inflammable air" by 18th can provide. Consequently, hydrogen paign Against English" in the Febru- century chemist Henry Cavendish, has been an expensive fuel. NASA has ary 1994 issue this magazine. of hydrogen has long been recognized as for decades powered American space

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FEBRUARY 1995 37 .

Veterans Update

JUDGE CHASnSES VA REGIONAL 0FHCE8

ANY VA regional offices (ROs) are ignoring direct all future remands to Brown instead of the Board of the law and telling veterans whose claims they Veterans Appeals. The action would make Brown personally

deny to 'take an appeal' if they don't like it. responsible for compliance with the court's opinions and rul- Court of Veterans Appeals Chief Judge Frank ings. M Nebeker has charged. Brown said he was surprised and deeply hurt Q. by Nebek- Nebeker caught VA Secretary Jesse Brown totally off er's comments. He pointed out that of more than 6,000 veter- guard with his scathing assessment of VA's 58 regional ans' cases heard by the court, only 81 decisions had been offices during his speech at the Third Annual Judicial Con- reversed while more than 3,000 were upheld. The remaining ference in Virginia. cases were remanded to the Board of Veterans Appeals or to Nebeker said the ROs were ignoring the law and prece- the ROs, he said. dent-setting court decisions and remands in their dealings Brown also said he does not believe that the Veterans with veterans' claims. He said VA policy is "freely ignored Benefits Administration "was systematically ignoring the law by many initial adjudicators [ROs] whose attitude is, 'I or the court. The facts do not bear this out," Brown said. haven't been told by my boss to change. If you don't like it, "This and other allegations he made are simply allegations appeal it.'" unsupported by data, unsubstantiated by any documentation." His words echoed the sentiments and experiences of He said that if the court were placed in the direct chain of many veterans, service officers and even VA adjudicators command legislatively, it would "make our regional offices who have complained to The American Legion that top into trial courts. administrators at the RO level refuse to adhere to court rul- "Transforming our regional offices into trial courts would ings. Many have described the RO claims system as a feudal change our system to the point where it is no longer veteran- fiefdom where old-guard bureaucrats are reluctant to give up friendly. Lawyer-friendly, maybe, but not veteran-friendly," their power. said Brown. Nebeker said he might seek the help of Congress to force However, Brown said that out of respect for the court, he VA to adhere to the court's decisions. He also threatened to is ordering an investigation on this and other issues raised.

Backlog Shrinks... would result in more claims being Independence and Program Improve- denied. The policy stated that if veter- ments Act of 1994 goes into effect. The Veterans entangled in VA's massive ans' medical records could not be new law nullifies the Government Pen- backlog of claims may finally be get- located within 90 days, the veterans sion Offset and Windfall Elimination ting some relief. VA reports that the would be given 30 days to produce evi- Provision, which prevented govern- backlog at Regional Offices (ROs) has dence on their own, or their claims ment employees from "double-dip- dropped 15 percent, from 570,000 would be denied. ping" by drawing both federal retire- pending claims in May to 467,916 by Gary Hickman, the director of VA's ment and Social Security based on the the end of October 1994. It amounts to Compensation and Pension Service, same income. As a result, certain fed- a reduction of more than 90,800 cases. defended the policy by claiming it eral employees, including some career VA also says the accuracy of its would allow veterans to enter the Reservists and National Guard mem- claims handling has improved. VA appeals process more quickly. Howev- bers were unable to draw full Social Secretary Jesse Brown, who began his er, veterans and The Ajmerican Legion Security benefits. career as a veterans' service officer, has saw the action as an illegal violation According to Karen Clark of the taken a personal interest in the claims and reversal of a VA regulation that Social Security Administration, those system, even to the extent of handling requires the agency to assist veterans in who were affected by the old law some claims himself. Brown is even developing their claims. should know who they are. "They slated to teach a class of American Apparently, VA's legal counsel also received a letter when they applied for Legion Department Service Officers questioned the policy. It was rescinded Social Security advising them of the (DSOs) in February. in late October. How many veterans' reduction in their benefits due to the VA also expects to have new guide- claims were affected is unknown. Government Pension Offset and Wind- lines published and in effect by April fall Elimination Provision," Clark said. 1995 for those veterans suffering from Social Security Clark says the benefit adjustments the Gulf War Syndrome. Retired Reservists and National will not be automatic, and that people Guard members who served between will have to apply for them. Widowed ...Or Does It? 1957 and 1987 and had their Social spouses are also eligible. Contact the In what some see a desperate at- Security benefits reduced are eligible to Social Security Administration at

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• I N AN unprece- American Defense Institute, U.S. government ef- dented meeting, and the American GI Forum. STILL MISSING forts in all wars since Dec. representatives At press time, no groups had The following is a war- 7, 1941; from more than firmly committed to joining by-war representation • Operations of the i of those still listed as I a dozen nation- the group. In addition, group Defense Prisoner of War/ missing in action. al organizations have formed members — while cooperat- Missing in Action Office; an ad hoc working group ing on common POW/MIA World War II 78,000 • DoD's dismissal of with the intentions of possi- goals — will retain full Korean War 8,000 live-sighting reports. bly working together to find independence. Vietnam 2,214 Many in this Ad Hoc out what happened to Ameri- "For families who are Working Group on POW/ ca's POW/MIAs. still wondering about the MIAs said that time is criti- Twenty-four POW/MIA fates of their loved ones, an action plan to present to cal because the United family members and experts and for the people who are Congress and the President States may normalize rela- on the issues attended the on active duty and may be to get the fullest possible tions with Vietnam some- meeting hosted by The sent into harm's way any- accounting of POWs and time this year.

American Legion at its where or anytime, we owe it MIAs from all wars. Detweiler, a Vietnam era Washington Office last to them to bring a resolution The group has pledged to veteran, went to Vietnam November. Among the orga- to the issue," National Com- urge creation of a standing and Korea on a nizations represented at the mander William M. Det- governmental national tour last month. He said dis- meeting were Veterans of weiler told the gathering of POW/ MIA commission and cussions with officials in Foreign Wars, Disabled activists. wants U.S. troops captured those countries centered on American Veterans, Viet- John F. Sommer, execu- in any type of military oper- America's POW/MIAs. nam Veterans of America, tive director of the Legion's ation to be given full prison- Detweiler' s trip was the first AMVETS, the National Washington Office, is chair- er-of-war protection under time an American Legion League of Families, the man of this Ad Hoc Work- the Geneva Conventions National Commander has National Alliance of Fami- ing Group on POW/MIAs. and other international visited Vietnam since the lies, American ex-Prisoners Sommer, a Vietnam combat rules. end of the war. of War, Korean War Veter- veteran, has made five trips Initially, the group plans President Clinton asked ans Association, National to Vietnam in the past four to examine the following Detweiler to report to him Vietnam Veteran Coalition, years in an effort to resolve POW/MIA issues: on the discussions and his the Marine Corps League, the POW/MIA issue. • Vietnamese govern- personal observations after Center for Security Policy, The group will prepare ment cooperation; the trip. In addition to the organi- WHO ARE zations' representatives, THEY?—T/ie others attending the meeting Department included Al Santoli, a writer of Defense and Vietnam veteran; Frank Prisoner of Gaffney, a former Reagan War/Missing administration official, and in Action Office wants a representative from New to know if you Hampshire Senator Bob can identify Smith's office. any of these At press time, the group from POWs planned to met again in ttie Korean December or January to War era. finalize its to Write to Dick presentation Christian at Congress and the adminis- The American tration. Legion, VA&R "This is a movement to Division, move," Sommer says. "The 1608 K St., legislative agenda for the Washington, DC 20006. 104th Congress is now being forged, and it's imper- ative that our POW/MIA action plan be in place."

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NEW GUINEA NATIVE SHOWS THE WAY •ESPECT for present Congress with 20 the Stars and million signatures of Ameri- America Supports The Hag Amendment Stripes crosses cans who want the U.S. Flag THE following are the latest organizations to join the the boundaries protected by a constitutional R I Citizens Flag Alliance, which now represents 80 orga- I of time, culture amendment. At press time, nizations and more than 27 million Americans: and even the Pacific Ocean. the CFA had collected more Croatian American Association National League of Families of For several years on than 2 million signatures. American Prisoners and , an Um- Twenty-four senators and Enlisted Association National Guard Missing in SE Asia bukul village elder named 190 members of the House U.S. Navy League of the U.S. Kombe used a plastic, red, have already agreed to co- Grand Lodge Fraternal Order white and blue bread wrap- sponsor such legislation. of Police Navy Seabee Veterans of per as a U.S. Flag. According to Daniel S. Italian Sons and Daughters America It occupied a Wheeler, presi- of America Navy Seabee Veterans of place of honor on Citizens dent of the Citi- Marine Corps League America Auxiliary the wall of his hut 1^ zens Flag Al- National Center for Public RR Donnelley & Sons, to remember the Alliance,Inc. liance, the Policy Research Company

GIs who liberated number of National Cosmetology Sons of The American Legion the island during World War co-sponsors is growing Association U.S. Marine Corps Combat II. weekly. National Federation of Correspondents Association Legionnaire John G. The campaign to gain Hungarian-Americans Womens Army Corps Veterans Bolduc, of Post 1, St. nationwide support for a National Flag Foundation Association Albans, Vt., heard about Flag amendment began even Kombe's devotion to the before the Citizens Flag Flag from his daughter who Alliance was formed last percent of the U.S. popula- in favor of Flag protection. was a Peace Corps volunteer August. During the past few tion — more than 234 mil- You can join the Citizens on the island. years, 44 states have passed lion people. Only , Flag Alliance, receive peti- When Bolduc's Post memorializing resolutions Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon, tions or make a donation by learned about the story, the supporting Flag protection. Vermont and Washington calling: (800)424-FLAG, members sent Kombe a real These states represent 94 have yet to pass resolutions (800) 424-3524. Flag. "Kombe wept for joy when he was presented the Rag," says Bolduc. National Emergency Fund Needs Your Support "It's amazing that a vil-

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Assn. #15766 This month there are 1 ,000 military reunions listed #13194 42nd Inf. Dlv., 142nd Engr. (C) Bn. on these pages. In addition, VETS has information on 4th Arm'd Dlv. Arty., 16th AFA, 1st Bty. (WWI, WWII) #14976 #13195 42nd Inf. Dlv., 222nd/232nd/242nd Rgt. more than 12,000 other reunions. Call VETS week- 4th Arm'd Dlv. Arty., 195th AAA #13200 (WWI, WWII) #14978 4th Arm'd Dlv. Arty., 197th AFA Inf. Dlv., days, 12 noon to 8 p.m., CDT. Calls cost $1.95 per #13201 42nd "Rainbow" Assn. (WWI, 4th Arm'd Dlv. Arty. 22nd AFA, 1st Bty. WWII) #16044 minute. The average call takes two minutes. #13196 42nd Inf. Div.(Tri-State) #19244 4th Arm'd Dlv. Arty., 66th AFA, 1st Bty. 43rd Inf. Dlv., 169th Rgt., Co. G (1950- 1 (900) 737-VETS #13197 53) #14095 4th Arm'd Div. Arty., 78th AFA, 2nd Bty. 45th/7709th Engr. Const. Bn., 1 (900) 737-8387 H&S Co.s #13198 (Schwetzingen,Ger. 1951/53) #11880 If you know the VETS five-digit number assigned 4th Arm'd Div. Arty., 94th AFA, 2nd Bty. 45th Inf. 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Rgt. #15448 Assn (WWII) #16697 Looking for an buddy or long lost relative? VETS' 20th Armd. Dlv., Trains #12696 82nd A/B Div. Assn. #10695 Finders/Seekers service will send you a computer 24th Inf. Dlv.: 21st Rgt., HQ Co. (WWII) 84th & 62nd Engr. Const. Bn. (Korea, #10174 1950-53) #14727 listing of names, addresses and phone numbers of 24th Inf. Dlv.: 26th AAA Bn., D Btry. 84th Arty., 3rd Bn. (Pershing Missile) (1952/54) Korea #11470 #13670 people in the United States who have the same name 25th, 33rd, 41st Inf. Div. (WWII) #19232 86th Chem. Mortar Bn. Assn. #16089 as the person you're seeking. Finders/Seekers guaran- 25th Inf. Div., 14th Rgt. (Korea 1950/53) 86th Inf Div, 342nd Rgt, "C" Co #19050 #10601 87th Chem. Mrtr. Bn. #18925 tees you will get at least one name that matches, or it 25th Inf Div, 22nd Rgt, 3rd Bn, Co C 87th Inf., 546th & 564th FA Bn, Ft. will refund your money. Search fees are $15 per (Vietnam 1967-71) #23123 Lewis/Ft. Lewis (54-56) #14409 25th Inf. 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unveiled, however, the planned force grade arithmetic" demonstrates that has gotten even smaller. the Clinton force is too small. Rep. Ike BACK-TO-BACK Budget problems have forced the Skelton of Missouri has concluded. Continuedfrom page 25 Navy to cut its future fleet by 16 more "The Army should never go below ships, leaving just 330. And the Air 555,000," Skelton argued last year Force has announced additional cuts to from his post as chairman of the its bomber fleet. The planned force of House Military Forces and Personnel bilities and the threats around the "up to 184" bombers now probably Subcommittee. He repeatedly urged world "from the bottom up," former will never go much above 100. the administration to scrap its plan for Defense Secretary Les Aspin an- Under the Bottom-Up Review, the a 10-division Army and retain a 12- nounced that the miUtary could safely Marine Corps maintains its 1990 four- division Army instead. be cut by more than 150,000 troops division force structure, but shrinks The 10-division Army is too small, and its budget could be trimmed by from 197,000 troops to 174,000. Skelton and others on the Armed Ser- $120 billion between 1995 and 1999. The cuts to all of the services will vices Committee wrote in a report that The planned cuts hit hardest at the leave the United States with "a force accompanied the 1995 Defense Au- Army. Compared to the 28-division that is too small to defend America's thorization Act. Army of 1990, the Bottom-Up Review interests," said Baker Spring, senior The Bottom-Up Review relies on calls for a 45 percent smaller force of defense analyst for the Heritage Foun- "highly optimistic assumptions" about 15 divisions — 10 active and five in dation, a conservative Washington the enemies the United States might the reserve. think tank. face, and counters them with a "non- The Bottom-Up Review would "Fighting two conflicts would expandable army" that leaves little strip the Air Force of almost 40 per- require a conventional force closer to margin for error, Skelton said. cent of its attack and , what the United States had in 1991," One of the most serious problems cutting the number from 3,769 in 1990 he said. That force included 26 active the military would face if confronted to 2,340 and shrinking the Air Force and reserve Army divisions, 34 active with two nearly simultaneous wars is from 24 active fighter wings in 1990 and reserve Air Force fighter wings, a getting there. There is an acute short- to 13 by 1999. 528-ship Navy and 194,000 active- age of cargo planes and ships needed The Navy would take a 37 percent duty Marines, Spring said. to move war supplies to the theater. hit, with the fleet sinking from 546 It is not surprising that the dwin- In his final appearance before the ships to 346 and carrier battle groups dling military has alarmed many Senate Armed Services Committee dropping from 16 in 1990 to 12 in Republicans, but it also worries some before retiring last spring. Marine 1999. of President Clinton's natural allies. Corps Gen. Joseph P. Hoar, warned Since the Bottom-Up Review was Southern Democrats. "Simple third- that "strategic lift in this country is broken right now." Hoar, then chief of the Central Command, said, "It was all we could do to" fly troops and equipment to the peace operation in Somalia while at Swing And Sway BACK It) U.S.O. DAYS. the same time delivering war materiel to for a training exercise. "And those are nickels and dimes compared to a major regional contingency," Hoar said. But Assistant Defense Secretary Edward Warner, one of the chief architects of the Bottom-Up Review, insists that lift problems will be solved by the end of the decade. The Defense Department is buying 19 medium- speed sealift ships and a new fleet of airlift planes, including at least 40 C- 6- 7- It's back to the U.S.O. on a 5-, or Eugene Fluckey, author of TTiunJerBe/ou); 17 cargo planes and possibly some night Big Band/ World War II Steamboatin'® Lt. Col. Richard Headric, modified Boeing 747s, he said. Vacation. Steamboat through America's "High Mission" B-1 Meanwhile, the C-141 cargo planes, flown so hard during the Per- heartland and be entertained by Big Band pilot; and members of the sian Gulf War that many had to be orchestras such as The Glenn Miller Black Sheep Squadron. grounded for repairs, are being fixed Orchestra, The Harry James On board, you'll be treated and returned to service. Orchestra and others. Plus, like the guest of honor in a If there was a happy service when

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liquid. parts, it might routinely last 200,000 Problems notwithstanding, auto- miles without major maintenance. makers BMW and Mercedes both Fuel cells are not science fiction and massive arrays of PV cells may have created experimental hydrogen devices. For decades, they have pro- soon dot America's sunbelt. vehicles, and other manufacturers are vided electrical energy for manned But why not use this energy as following suit. So far, the bulky fuel spacecraft. Several companies make electricity? Why convert it to hydro- has limited cars to a range of about 75 them, and their expanded use awaits gen? "The big advantage is that hydro- miles. only the presence of cheap hydrogen. gen can be stored," said David Swan, Eventually, this new fuel may even "Fuel cells are today where the inter- assistant director of the Center for make internal combustion engines nal combustion engine was in 1900," Electrochemical Systems and Hydro- obsolete. In their place, hydrogen fuel said Swan, a mechanical engineer. gen Research at Texas A & M Univer- cells could drive electric motors to run And when will the hydrogen age sity. vehicles and other machines with effi- really get rolling? That depends on the "It will set quite happily in a con- ciency that once seemed impossible. costs. By the end of the decade, said tainer. Electricity will not." This "The fuel cell will change energy sys- researchers Ogden and Williams, the means that virtually any machine tems the way the microchip changed hydrogen equivalent of a gallon of could be powered by hydrogen. electronics," says professor Scott. "It's gasoline should cost a very competi- How might all this come about? a beautiful technology." tive $2 — less than many nations now Here's one possible scenario envi- Essentially, a fuel cell is a boxlike pay for gasoline. sioned by two prominent hydrogen apparatus — think of it as a battery "But," said physicist Mackenzie, experts, Joan Ogden and Robert with a fuel tank — in which the elec- "there are a lot of social costs associat- Williams, both research scientists at trolysis process is reversed. That is, ed with fossil fuels — pollution and Princeton University. hydrogen and oxygen are combined to health costs, for example — that don't By the mid 1990s, deteriorating air create water and electricity. The oper- show up in the price of gasoline. Fac- quality in a major sunbelt city, say ation is chemical, not mechanical. tor these in and hydrogen may already Phoenix, makes clean fuel a must. Nothing is burned, and there is no pol- be cost competitive." Utilities begin using surplus electricity lution. Hydrogen, quite likely, will be the to make hydrogen for commercial In a standard auto engine, less than fuel of the future. fleets, and within five years, 60,000 vehicles in Phoenix are running on hydrogen. About that time, PV solar energy becomes cost competitive, and hydro- gen production skyrockets. As addi- The American tional thousands of vehicles — includ- ing many passenger cars — carry hydrogen tigers in their tanks, the air becomes appreciably cleaner. Other Legion Annuity smog-choked cities begin to envy issued by Jackson National Life Phoenix, and soon they, too, are using hydrogen. As solar cells spread out to A SINGLE PREMIUM cover more of the sun-drenched Southwest, hydrogen becomes avail- DEFERRED FIXED ANNUITY able for heating homes and water. Tax deferral Eventually, say Ogden and Wil- Current rate liams, a vast national hydrogen net- fas oi 11/24/94, subject to change) Safety work could emanate northward from A bonus interest rate, the sun belt. According to their fig- guaranteed for Liquidity ures, replacing the total U.S. oil con- one full year! sumption would require solar panels No front-end loads covering only 24,000 square miles — Expected renewal (if renewed today): 6.85%. Current declared interest rate includes a base rate and about one-half of 1 percent of the a first-year which are guaranteed for first pol- The American Legion bonus the country's land area. icy year. rate will Annuity Is offered by the Renewal probably be less. The guar- Many details still need to be Jacl

FEBRUARY 1995 63 and helped shape the Bush administra- sary by 1999, Korb asserts. tion's 1. 6-million-member Base Force. "We have our critics," acknowl- BACK-TO-BACK But not everyone agrees that the edged Assistant Defense Secretary Continuedfrom page 62 future looks so bleak. A number of Warner. "There are those who believe defense experts and policymakers con- American forces ought to be larger. tend that even after the the Clinton There are those who believe that cuts, the military will still be too big. American forces ought to be smaller. Jim Courter, a former congressman Leading this contingent is Rep. In some cases we've just agreed to from New Jersey and founder of The Ronald Dellums of California, the for- disagree." Committee for the Common Defense, mer chairman of the House Armed The Republicans have stated their cautions that the 12-carrier Navy is Services Committee. Dellums' chief disagreements loud and clear. At the likely to be scrapped as the adminis- complaint about the Bottom-Up same time, however, they have tration shrinks the military still further Review is that it "retains too much promised to balance the budget and to fit the budget. Cold War force structure." not to raise taxes. That does not leave "The services should brace for Dellums contends it is highly them with a lot of room to maneuver more turbulent times as the adminis- unlikely the United States will have to on defense spending. In the wake of tration seeks to divert even more funds fight two wars at once. And he notes the Republican victory, the question from national security accounts to that the Bottom-Up Review does not most often asked in connection with domestic programs and entitlements," account for any help the United States higher defense spending is, "Where Courter said. would surely receive from allies in a will the money come from?" There is The requirement to fight two nearly war. No serious defense analyst no simple answer. simultaneous wars "will probably be expects the United States would fight Meanwhile, the drawdown pro- discarded in the next round of bottom- alone in the foreseeable future. gresses. By 1999, the Bottom-Up up or top-down reviews," Courter Further, Dellums says, with the Review calls for a defense force that is said. Declaring that the military needs Bottom-Up Review as a blueprint, the 32 percent smaller in personnel and 35 to fight only one war at a time would United States by 1999 would have percent smaller in budget than the mil- justify making additional defense cuts. more early-arriving ground combat itary of 1990. But abandoning the two-war capa- forces than it had for Operation Desert At the Pentagon, the relentless bility threatens U.S. credibility as a Storm, and more precision-guided downsizing has taken a toll on the superpower, an American Legion res- munitions and planes to deliver them. usual "can-do" attitude. When asked olution warns. As "an absolute mini- Oddly enough, those views put Del- about the feasibility of the Clinton mum," the United States should have lums, a resolute liberal, in agreement defense strategy, an officer on the 12 active Army divisions, 12 aircraft with Lawrence Korb, an assistant Joint staff cracked this grim joke: carrier battle groups and 15 or more defense secretary during the military "Two regional wars are doable — but Air Force fighter wings. That means buildup of the Reagan administration. I want to be in the first one." maintaining a 1 .6-million-member Korb contends that the Clinton military for the foreseeable future, the defense plan both inflates the threat Legion resolution states. and discounts the value of help from THE LEGION'S POSITION The drawdown has already reduced allies. 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