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1/29 324 WAR DEPARTMENT WAR DEPARTMENT GENERAL STAFF OPERATIONS & TRAINING DIVISION G-3/14457 WASHINGTON G-3 J M W January, 1926. MEMORANDUM FOR THE CHIEF OF STAFF: Subject: Report of Select Committee of Inquiry into Operations of United States Air Services--68th Congress, 1st Session. I. Papers accompanying: Memorandum from the Deputy Chief of Staff to the A.C. of S., G-3, on the above subject, dated December 18, 1925. II. The problem presented: What, if any, action should be initiated by the War Department pursuant to such recommendations of the Select Committee of Congress as relate to subjects under the purview of the Operations and Training Division, G-3! III. Facts bearing upon the problem: 1. The Select Committee, on pages 8 and 9 of its printed report, makes certain concise and definite recommendations upon matters which the Operations and Training Division concerns itself. As a number of these recommendations are similar to those made by the President's Aircraft Board, the subject-matter will be treated in parallel columns, setting forth a comparison between the recommendations of the President's Aircraft Board and the Lampert Committee. President's Aircraft Board Lampert Committee (Numbers refer to the recommendation number in the printed reports.) (4) "We recommend that Congress be asked to provide two more places for brigadier generals in the Air Corps (Air Service) to be detailed by the Secretary of War for the usual four-year period upon recommendation of the Chief of the Air Corps; one such officer to be placed in charge of procurement, with a view to its eventual separation from operation, if later found desirable; another (3) "That procurement be separated from operation in all Government Air Services."