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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."