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Show A4 ___The SaltLakeTribune NATION Friday,July 19, 1996 Defense Bill BolstersGuard, Reserves THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Nation- al Guard and Reserves flexed their political muscle Thursday as the Senate passed legislation add- ing hundreds of millions of dollars to the part-time military. The $245billion defense appro- priations bill gives generously to the 902,000-member backup force — far more generously than the Pentagon The support runs counter to prevailing expert opinion on how the United States should build and maintain its national defenses but falls in with a long tradition of congressional support. “When we all go home, we see our Reserve components, we see the members of the National Guard, and they they've asked for,” tell us what said Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Appropriations de- fense subcommittee. “When we come back we inquire what's in the budget, we findit's not there, so we seek it.”” The appropriations bill contains generous additions to the Guard and Reserve budgets. The bill adds $65 million for Guard and Reserve personnel while cut- ting $45 million from active-duty accounts; adds 1,510 Guard and Reserve slots along with 921 new full-time support personnel; and ary Assessments,a think tank that follows defenseissues. The Army @ How Utah Voted National Guard and Army Re- serve, meanwhile, will have de- Republican Sens. Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett voted for the $245 biilion defense appropriations bill that gives generously to National Guard and Reserve forces. 736,000 to 575,000 — leaving a force larger than the active Army. “Although the Guard has come adds $239 million for Guard and counting Office concluded in a Marchreport. clined by 22 percent, from down in size, our analysis shows that the combatforces maystill be too large for projected war req .” the General Ac- Reserve operations and mainte- nance. In the largest single add-on, the bill provides $760 million for equipment for the National Guard and Reserve where none was requested in the Clinton administration budget. This mirrors similar additions averaging $866 million in each of the last three years. All this comes despite a variety of expert analyses questioning the need for so large a Reserve force. It also comes as the active-duty Army competes with the National Guard and Reserve for positions in a shrinking combatforce. From 1990 through 1998, the strength of the active-duty Army will have declined by 37 percent, dropping from 781,000 to 495,000 soldiers, according to the Center for Strategic and Budget- The Armystaff and aides to the Joint Chiefs of Staff have estimated in studies that military readiness requires 70,000 to 100,000 fewer National Guard and Re- WARNING! YOU HAVE PVC (VINYL) MINI HAVE SMALL CHILOREN IN YOUR YOU ARE ADVISED TO REMOVE THEM! BLINDS MAY BE WALLPAPER WAREHOUSE WILL REBATE BACK $5.00 PER BLIND PER PURCHASE OF EACH NEW BLIND serve soldiers than planned, ac- cording to the CSBA. The independent Commission on Roles and Missions, headed by John White, the Pentagon’s current WARRANTY No.2 official, recommendedsimi- FIRST TIME lar cuts in the Guardlast year. 75% But retired Gen. Edward C. 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