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501 records in 1977
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Permits review of cases in the United States Court of Military Appeals by the Supreme Court by writ of certiorari.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Grants the consent of Congress to retired members of the uniformed services, members of Reserve components of the armed forces, and members of the Public Health Reserve Service Corps to accept employment with foreign governments with the approval of the Secretary concerned and the Secretary of State.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Increases the number of students enrolled in the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs at specified educational institutions who may receive financial assistance from the military department concerned.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Includes veterans of World War I who have a service-connected disability among those disabled veterans eligible for an automobile assistance allowance and for automobile adaptive equipment.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to assign and pay the applicable rate of compensation for full-service connected disability to a veteran who has suffered the loss or loss of use of one limb as a result of a service-connected disability, and has suffered the loss or loss of use of the other limb such as to cause total disability, as a result of a non-service-connected disability not the result of his own willful misconduct.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Veterans' Administration Administrative Procedure and Judicial Review Act - Provides that the decisions of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs on any question of law or fact under any law administered by the Veterans' Administration providing benefits for veterans and their dependents or survivors shall be subject to judicial review. Subjects all rules regulations, orders and any other determination of any kind made by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. Repeals the requirement that the Administrator determine and pay fees to agents or attorneys in allowed claims for monetary benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Increases from 10 to 12 years the delimiting period for a veteran to complete a program of education.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Prohibits the closure or realignment of military bases involving reductions in personnel positions below a specified level or construction or conversion at military installations made necessary by the relocation of such civilian personnel unless: (1) the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the military department concerned notifies Congress that such installation is a candidate for closure or realignment; (2) the appropriate Secretary complies with the appropriate Secretary requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; (3) the appropriate Secretary notifies the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives of a final decision regarding such closure or realignment and a detailed justification for such decision; and (4) a period of at least 60 days elapses between such notification and the implementation of such decisions.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Repeals the Military Selective Service Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Increases from 10 to 12 years the delimiting period for a veteran to complete a program of education.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Reduces by 50 percent the premiums for United States Government Life Insurance or National Service Life Insurance charged to persons who have attained age 65 and whose annual income does not exceed $10,000. Excludes from the determination of such insured's annual income 100 percent of the amount of payments to such insured under public or private retirement, annuity, endowment, or similar plans or programs.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay a pension to each veteran who served in the active military, naval, or air service at any time during World War I and who is not eligible for a non-service connected disability pension. Directs the Administrator to pay medical services costs required outside Veterans' Administration facilities if travel to such facilities would be a burden for the veteran. Provides for survivor pensions for the widows of such veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Permits certain veterans with a service-connected disability (totally disabling), who are retired members of the uniformed services, to receive compensation concurrently with retired pay, without deduction from either.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Department of the Army funds should not be used to promote President Carter's program to upgrade less than honorable military discharges from the Vietnam era.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1977
Authorizes the issuance of immigration visas to aliens who are natives of the Philippines who served for at least three years in any United States Armed force during World War II and who were separated from such service under honorable conditions. Exempts such individuals from paying fees for such visas.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1977
Stipulates that a National Guard technician who: (1) has completed ten years of service in a position in which Guard membership was required; (2) is involuntarily separated from the Guard under honorable technicians; and (3) who continues to meet specified physical fitness standards shall not be required to be a member of the Guard as a condition of employment.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1977
Prohibits disclosure of information identifying or tending to identify a person as a present or former participant in United States foreign intelligence operations if (1) the information has been designated by statute or Executive order as requiring some degree of protection or (2) the person disclosing the information knows or has reason to believe that such disclosure may prejudice the safety or well-being of the person identified.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1977
Designates service as a Member of the Women's Air Forces Service Pilots as active duty for the purposes of all laws administered by the Veterans' Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1977
Requires that all Federal, and ten percent of all non-Federal public or private, retirement or annuity payments be disregarded in determining annual income under the veterans' pension laws.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1977
Makes permanent the special pay provisions for enlistment and reenlistment bonuses in the uniformed services. Stipulates that under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard the entitlement of an individual to such a bonus shall terminate when the individual is no longer technically qualified in the skill for which the bonus was given or fails to complete the term of enlistment, reenlistment or extension period for which the bonus was paid.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1977
Denies veterans' benefits to an individual whose discharge from military service during the Vietnam era under less than honorable conditions is administratively upgraded, under temporarily revised standards, to discharge under honorable conditions; but only when such veteran's claim for benefits is based solely on such upgraded discharge. Requires the Secretary of the Army to supply a complete list of individuals receiving an upgraded discharge to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1977
Denies veterans' benefits to an individual whose discharge from military service during the Vietnam era under less than honorable conditions is administratively upgraded, under temporarily revised standards, to discharge under honorable conditions; but only when such veteran's claim for benefits is based solely on such upgraded discharge.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1977
Provides that recipients of veterans' pensions and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of increases in social security benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1977
Denies veterans' benefits to an individual whose discharge from military service during the Vietnam era under less than honorable conditions is administratively upgraded, under temporarily revised standards, to discharge under honorable conditions; but only when such veteran's claim for benefits is based solely on such upgraded discharge.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1977
Entitles members of the uniformed services in pay grades E-4 or below to travel and transportation allowances and dislocation allowances.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1977
Provides that the fees payable to agents or attorneys who represent veterans in allowed claims under the veterans laws shall be paid by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs rather than deducted from amounts awarded under the claims.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1977
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 5970 (Armed Forces appropriations authorization).
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1977
Terminates the authority of Members of Congress and Delegates to Congress from the various territories to make appointments to the various service academies. Terminates the authority of the Secretaries of the military departments to appoint members of the reserve components of the armed forces to the academies except under certain circumstances. Directs the Board of Visitors of the Military, Naval, and Air Force academies to inquire into the admission policy and procedure of these academies on their annual visit and to send their annual report to the Congress as well as the President. Directs the Board of Visitors of the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine academies to inquire into specified subject areas including admission policies and procedures on their annual visit and to report to the Congress as well as the President regarding their findings. Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to accomplish the purposes of this Act with respect to the Merchant Marine Academy.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1977
Veterans Disability Compensation and Survivor Benefits Act - Title I: Veterans Disability Compensation - Increases the rates of disability compensation for disabled veterans. Title II: Survivors Dependency and Indemnity Compensation - Increases the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of disabled veterans. Title III: Effective Date - Declares that the provisions of this Act shall become effective on October 1, 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1977
Eliminates specified restrictions regarding the transportation of house trailers or mobile dwellings by members of the uniformed services.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1977
Excludes industrially funded personnel from the computation of the end strength for civilian personnel within the Department of Defense for any fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1977
Exempts courses which lead to a standard college degree from the "85-15" rule whereby the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is required to disapprove enrollment of any eligible veteran, not already enrolled, in any course offered by a proprietary profit or proprietary nonprofit educational institution where more than 85 percent of the students enrolled have their fees paid by either the Veterans' Administration or the institution itself. Revises the application of rules governing the two-year period a course must be in operation before enrollment of eligible veterans or persons can be approved.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1977
Prohibits disclosure of information identifying or tending to identify a person as a present or former participant in United States foreign intelligence operations if (1) the information has been designated by statute or Executive Order as requiring some degree of protection or (2) the person disclosing the information knows or has reason to believe that such disclosure may prejudice the safety or well-being of the person identified.
Germany · German Bundestag · 15 April 1977
Germany · German Bundestag · 15 April 1977
Germany · German Bundestag · 15 April 1977
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1977
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to budget funds for certain specified purposes to assist the Civil Air Patrol. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to give, sell, or lend to the Civil Air Patrol excess property acquired by the Air Force under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1977
Designates service as a Member of the Women's Air Forces Service Pilots as active duty for the purposes of all laws administered by the Veterans' Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1977
Provides that recipients of veterans' pensions and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of increases in social security benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1977
Requires the Secretary of Defense, before entering into any contract for more than $100,000 for the performance of any commercial or industrial activity of the Department, to conduct a cost effectiveness review of such activity to determine whether it should be done by contract or by Government personnel. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such review under specified circumstances. Directs the Secretary to conduct random audits of such contracts.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1977
Eliminates the provision in the Veterans' Assistance and Employment Act of 1976 which prohibits colleges and universities from receiving Veterans' Administration educational benefits for classes in which more than 85 percent of the enrollment is composed of students having their fees paid either by the Federal Government or the institutions themselves.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1977
Amends the National Security Act of 1947 by adding: Title V: Classification, Declassification, and Safeguarding of National Security Information and Material . Sets forth the three categories of "Top Secret," "Secret," and "Confidential" as the classifications by which national security information may be designated. States that no other categories may be used. Promulgates standards defining each category. Grants authority to originate the classification of material only to such officials as the President may designate. Lists those classes of officials who shall have authority to downgrade the classification of such information. Prohibits the classification of information in order to conceal incompetence, inefficiency, wrongdoing, or administrative error, to avoid embarrassment to any individual or agency, to restrain competition or independent initiative, or to prevent for any reason the release of information the dissemination of which will not damage the national security. Sets forth regulations governing the identification of an item of classified material. Sets forth procedures to be followed by a holder of classified material who does not believe that such material has been properly classified. Sets forth a general declassification schedule. Provides for exemptions from the automatic declassification required under such schedule. Establishes a separate set of regulations governing the declassification of material which is 25 years old or more. Sets forth regulations by which the provisions of this Act shall be implemented. Establishes, in the Executive Office of the President, the Interagency Classification Review Committee. Requires the Committee to monitor actions taken by agencies handling classified information and material in order to ensure compliance with this Act. States that the Committee is to place particular emphasis on preventive overclassification and facilitating access to declassified information. Requires the Committee to report annually to Congress on the administration of this Act. Sets forth criminal penalties for the knowing disclosure of classified information or material to a foreign government or any officer or agent thereof not authorized to receive such information or material. Establishes a penalty consisting of a fine of up to $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than one year, or both, for the classification of material to conceal incompetence, inefficiency, wrongdoing, or administrative error, to avoid embarrassment, to restrain competition or independent initiative or to prevent or delay the release of information which should not have been classified.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1977
Intelligence Management Reform Act - Title I: Intelligence Management Reorganization and Reform - Redesignates the Director of Central Intelligence as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Establishes within the Executive Office of the President an Office of National Intelligence Management headed by a Director of Central Intelligence (hereinafter the Director). States that the Director shall be the principal foreign intelligence advisor to the President and shall have exclusive responsibility for producing national intelligence for the President and Congress, shall prepare the national intelligence budget, and manage all funds appropriated for use by the intelligence community. Places each national intelligence agency under the direction of the Secretary of Defense in time of War. Establishes a National Intelligence Board within the Office consisting of seven civilians outside Government service appointed by the Director to advise the Director. Establishes in the Office an Inspector General of the Intelligence Community to review all activities of each national intelligence agency and to report violations of the law to the Attorney General, the Director, and to the head of the agency involved. Establishes, within the National Security Council, the Operations Advisory Group composed of the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, the Director, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. States that the function of the Group is to advise the President with respect to sensitive intelligence collection activities and intelligence activities in foreign countries conducted for reasons other than for the collection of intelligence, including covert military assistance programs. Prohibits under any circumstances any activity conducted for the purpose of subverting a foreign democracy. Prohibits other nonintelligence gathering operations in foreign countries unless approved by the President as required to deal with a grave threat to the National Security of the United States. Establishes, within the National Security Council, a Counter-Intelligence Committee to coordinate and review counter-intelligence activities of the United States. Requires the Committee to report to Congress any counter-intelligence activity not being conducted within the law. Establishes within the Council the Committee on Foreign Intelligence to assist the Director in carrying out his functions. Requires the Director to report annually with respect to any commercial organization of which any national intelligence agency owns more than 50 percent. Requires excess funds from the operation and sale of such organizations to be remitted to the United States Treasury. Prohibits the sale of such organization to any former officer or employee of any national intelligence agency. Prohibits payments to specified individuals to engage in intelligence activities including clergy, persons paid by the United States to promote education, the arts, humanities or cultural affairs, and journalists. Prohibits the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense from holding any other position in which they may be called upon to advise the President. Requires the President's annual budget to include the total amounts budgeted for specified intelligence agencies. Title II: Central Intelligence Agency Reforms - Limits the terms of the Director and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to eight years. Specifies the duties of the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency with respect to the security of Agency installations inside the United States. Authorizes the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to gather specified information concerning Agency employees and United States citizens overseas. Establishes within the Central Intelligence Agency the Office of General Counsel. Requires such General Counsel to annually review the activities of the Agency to determine whether their operations are within the law. Prohibits assassinations in connection with intelligence duties on behalf of the United States. Prohibits the experimental dispensation of drugs by an officer or employee of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, or of the Armed Forces of the United States without prior written consent of the recipient of such drug.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1977
Provides that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of increases in monthly social security benefits. Applies these amendments to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1972. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 415(g), adds 38 U.S.C. 503(d))
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1977
Denies veterans' benefits to an individual whose discharge from military service during the Vietnam era under less than honorable conditions is administratively upgraded, under temporarily revised standards, to discharge under honorable conditions; but only when such veteran's claim for benefits is based solely on such upgraded discharge.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1977
Guarantees automatically any loan to a qualified veteran for the purchase and installation of solar heating and/or cooling in a dwelling which he owns and occupies. Exempts such loans from the existing $17,500 maximum amount of guaranty entitlement, and sets the amount of such entitlement at either: (1) the reasonable total cost of such purchase and installation, or (2) 20 percent of the value of the structure in which such system is to be installed, whichever is less. States that the original principal amount of such a loan shall not exceed the amount of guaranty entitlement so set.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1977
Declares that Congress (1) would support a Presidential declaration of policy against the United States manufacture of lethal chemical weapons, and (2) urges a treaty banning the manufacture and possession of such weapons by any nation.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1977
Entitles members of the armed forces and their dependents to legal assistance in connection with their personal affairs, under such regulations as the appropriate Secretary may prescribe. Places responsibility for the establishment and supervision of legal assistance programs with the judge advocate generals.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1977
Comprehensive Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act - Title I: Educational Assistance Program Amendments - Redefines the qualifying service period of an "eligible veteran" to be the period from August 4, 1964 to January 1, 1977; and redesignates as an "eligible peacetime post-Korean veteran" anyone whose qualifying service period fell between January 31, 1955, and August 5, 1964; and entitles both "eligible veterans" and "eligible peacetime post-Korean veterans" to all benefits, services and loans available under the educational assistance program. Extends from 36 to 45 months the period of eligibility for receiving educational assistance (this provision currently exist, 38 U.S.C. 1661 (a)). Sets conditions for extending the ten-year delimiting period for receipt of assistance up to a maximum of two additional years. Provides that counseling offered by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to veterans eligible for educational assistance may include assisting any veteran: (1) to select the occupation or training objective suitable to personal circumstances, characteristics, financial resources, dependent responsibilities and other relevant factors; (2) to select the occupation or training objective which will provide reasonable opportunities for employment and with job satisfaction after development of the required job skills; (3) to select the educational institution that will effectively assist in attaining educational or vocational objectives; and (4) to develop a program of education that will lead to a recognized and predetermined educational, vocational, technical, or professional objective within the veteran's period of entitlement. Directs the Administrator to take such measures as may be necessary, including denial of applications or disapproval of courses, to insure that no aspect of the educational assistance program is used for the purpose of income supplementation, unemployment compensation, or adjusted compensation. Allows continued payments to veterans enrolled in institutions not complying with provisions of the Act if such veterans are not at fault for the noncompliance. Provides an accelerated educational assistance allowance, not to exceed twice the ordinary monthly amount, to be granted, after appropriate counseling, to an eligible veteran or person who demonstrates need for the acceleration. Stipulates the categories of persons most likely to need a program of acceleration. Limits any program of accelerated assistance allowances to five years. Title II: War Orphans' and Widows' Educational Assistance Program Amendments - Allows the ten-year period of eligibility for educational assistance for the spouse of a veteran with a service-connected disability to run from the wedding date of the spouse and such veteran. Entitles eligible war orphans and widows to accelerated educational assistance allowances. Title III: Administration of Educational Benefits - Extends the coverage of existing administrative provisions of the educational assistance program to all branches and extensions of an educational institution. Directs the Administrator to establish between the Administration, the State approving agencies and nationally recognized accrediting agencies and associations, an exchange of information pertaining to activities of educational institutions, especially to the enforcement of approval standard and enrollment restrictions and fraudulent and other criminal activities on the part of persons connected with the institution; and directs the Administrator to furnish the U.S. Attorney General, the Department of Defense, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission and other Federal, State and local agencies such information and assistance as may be necessary to preclude abuses or enhance the effectiveness of the programs established hereunder. Requires educational institutions to transmit to State approving agencies catalogs or bulletins certified as true, current and correct both in content and policy by an authorized school official. Requires the State approving agencies to find as a condition of approval, adequate standards of progress established and clearly defined, and to find that an institution and its programs of education are in every aspect, portion, element, and division in full compliance with the law. Revises the criteria for approval of nonaccredited courses. Requires all advertising, promotion, sales techniques, claims and personnel employed by or representing the institution and branches or extensions offering nonaccredited courses to be in compliance with all applicable State and Federal licensing regulations and laws. Permits the Administrator to disapprove any institution of program of education approved as accredited if it fails to comply with any of specified provisions of law. Makes any advance payment of initial educational assistance or subsistence allowance conditional, and denies such advance payments to those entitled to receive accelerated payments. Requires the application for conditional advance payments to indicate that the eligible veteran or person had requested such, that it is necessary and appropriated to meet specific expenses, and that such expenses shall reasonably equal or exceed the amount of conditional advance payment. Requires the Administrator to set up an appeals procedure for administrative proceedings involving property loss resulting from a decision to terminate or modify an eligible veteran's or person's educational benefits. Increases from $3 and $4 to $8 and $10 respectively the fees paid to educational institutions in reimbursement for reports and certifications. Directs the Administrator to refer to the U.S. Attorney General any deliberate, premeditated, or willful misconduct or illegal action of a significant nature or involving a significant sum of money stemming from overpayments occasioned by a false or misleading report by an educational institution. Sets new conditions for the enrollment of an eligible veteran or person in a program of correspondence or residence-correspondence. Denies approval of enrollment in an institution in any way affiliated with a proprietary institution or profitmaking operation which affects any program of education provided eligible veterans and persons unless such program meets all the requirements of the law. Requires the Administrator to notify any eligible veteran or eligible person of any available vocational assistance alternatives and of any legal recourse when it disapproves an institution or discontinues anyone's educational assistance. Requires the Administrator, upon determination that the interruption of failure of a person's program was due in whole or in part to problems of personal adjustment, to advise such person of available counseling services and vocational, educational and psychological assistance. Establishes with the Veterans Administration an Interagency Veterans' Advisory Task Force to advise and assist the Administrator, among other things, in: (1) the review of the effectiveness and coordination of all rights and services authorized for veterans; (2) the development and implementation of studies of the effectiveness of laws applicable to veterans and eligible persons; (3) the monitoring and evaluation and preclusion of abuses of veterans' adjustment assistance programs; (4) the investigation of allegations indicating that veterans are being denied rights, benefit,or assistance; and (5) the appraisal of Federal laws, appropriations, and policies meeting the readjustment needs of veterans. Directs the Task Force to serve as a national clearinghouse for information and assistance relating to the needs of veterans, and to serve as an advocate for the correction of problems and the preclusion of abuses. Establishes within the Task Force a section on enforcement and implementation of laws, a section on the evaluation and accreditation of military experience, and an Advisory Committee to take over the duties and responsibilities of the current advisory committee, with special emphasis on the inclusion and participation of veterans receiving or requiring readjustment assistance. Empowers the Task Force and its sections to issue subpenas. Requires the Task Force to report to Congress within one year of enactment its findings and recommendations for post-Vietnam era readjustment assistance programs. Sets maximum aggregate education loan amounts for eligible persons with no, one, two, or more dependents. Title IV: Miscellaneous Veterans Program Amendments - Requires the Veterans' Administration to adjust its adjudication criteria and under no circumstances to determine eligibility for veterans' benefits for ex-servicemen with other than honorable discharges with either less lenient or more restrictive criteria and procedures that those used by the various military departments in the review and upgrading of other than honorable discharges. Title V: Employment and Training of Disabled and Vietnam-era Veterans - Creates within the Department of Labor a separate agency to be known as the Veterans' Employment Service which shall be headed by an Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment. Title VI: Veterans' Administration: Miscellaneous Amendments - Directs the Administrator to initiate a comprehensive outreach and information program to inform veterans of the programs and services made available by this Act. Directs the veterans' representatives to carry out such outreach and information assistance services. Requires both the Administrator and the veterans' representatives especially to assist veterans whose educational benefits have ended because of the expiration of their delimiting period to obtain alternative means of completing their education and training.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1977
Establishes within the Department of Defense a Weapons and Munitions Security Office to be headed by an Assistant Secretary of Defense which shall be responsible for formulating, coordinating, and supervising a continuing program of security and accountability for weapons and munitions of the Department of Defense. Requires the Assistant Secretary heading such Office to review existing accountability and security procedures, to modify such procedures or institute new ones as may be necessary, and to conduct periodic inspections to insure that such procedures are being followed. Requires the military departments to conduct investigations whenever suffering a loss of weapons or munitions. Requires each military department to submit quarterly reports to the Office regarding security and accountability of all weapons and munitions under its jurisdiction. Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit an annual report to Congress summarizing weapons and munitions losses and recoveries by each military department.