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Volume 6? Number 2
9 January 1961
NAVY RELEASES DEPENDENT REDUCTION
Quota: 17,56© (adak not affected)
WASHINGTON (AFPS ) The Navy has advised all commands that a reduction of
17,560 dependents must be made by fleet units in "highly industrial countries
with strong currencies."
This order excludes dependents in the fifty states, Canal Zone, Mariannas,
Marshalls, Midway, Puerto Rico, Samoa, Virgin Islands, Ryukyus, Guantanamo,
Azores, Mexico, Canada and Panama.
The Navy said the total amounts to about 14,000 Naval Military, 2,100 Marine
and 1,600 Naval civilian dependents.
Also excluded are certain dependent civilian employees, certain foreign, nat
ional dependents, and dependent.tourists in effected foreign countries at their
own expense, ..
Included in the Navy instructions are these specific pointss
1. Reduction of dependents will be effected impartially throughout the grad
es and ranks in so far as possible.
2. Generally, dependents will not be returned in advance of their sponsors.
3. Officers and enlisted men with dependents now on extended tours overseas
will be brought home promptly, or at the earliest time 'without undue hardship.
Personnel who have extended their active duty "obligation" to serve at present
station are excluded.
4. Hereafter, normal officer and enlisted overseas tours with dependents will
not be voluntarily extended.
5. Consideration will be,given to extending, on'request,.overseas tours, with
maximum numbers of officers and men without dependents.
The tours of officers and enlisted sponsors with dependents overseas will be
successively shortened up to six months in order to meet quotas.
.The Navy said that as exact numbers "later require" some fleet units with
home ports overseas may be switched to the continent of the United States.
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