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B-146830 1 (1971-05-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaafkc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 9 UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 DEFENSE DIVISION MAY 2 7 1971 B-146830 \ \ Dear Mr. Secretary: 0 At the request of Congressman Fred Bo Rooney, the General Ac- counting Office has examined into the practices followed by the home- town news centers of the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air F;Z The ho metown news centers are arms of the public information o-hes of the three military departmentso They are responsible, in general, for the preparation and release to interested news media of stories concerning the accomplishments of individual servicemen. The Navy center is located at Great Lakes, Illinois, and the Army and Air Force centers are located in Kansas City, Missouri, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, respectively. Athough the Congressman's specific interest was in the news- release processing and mailing procedures of the three centers, we also examined into the services provided by, and the missions and the oper- ating procedures of, the three centers, We are writing to you because our findings indicated that economies could be realized if the three cen- ters were consolidated OBJECTIVES OF THE THREE CENTERS All three centers process and release for publication by the in- terested news media stories concerning individual servicemen from their geographic area The objectives are to increase the morale of in- dividual servicemen through public recognition of their accomplishments and those of their military units and, at the same time, to keep the Amer- ican public informed of the activities of American servicemen. The stories released by the centers are of a personal nature, deal- ing with such events as citations, promotions, training-school gradua- tions, and other achievements of individual members of the armed ser- vices. The centers normally are provided with stories, or story mate- rial, by public information officers of the various military commands, either in the form of a cover story about a military unit accompanied by biographical data on the members of that unit or in the form of a story concerning only one individual. Wo found the content of the stories released by each of the centers to be highly similar. :1 C 50TH ANNIVERSARY 1921-19711

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