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FPCD-79-94 1 (1979-09-26)

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COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
         WASHINGTON D C 2054B


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B-157905


September 26, 1979


The Honorable Donald W. Stewart
United States Senate

Dear Senator Stewart:


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      In accordance with your written request, dated
 September 25, 1979, we are providing you the information
eveloped during our recent review of theLproposed
0onsolidation of undergraduate helicopter pilot training
  t Fort Rucker, Alabama.


PROPOSED CONSOLIDATION


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There are now two UHPT programs:

--An Army program at Fort Rucker, Alabama, which
  trains Army and Air Force students and which uses
  an all rotary-wing syllabus.


--A Navy program at Whiting Field near Pensacola,
  Florida, which trains Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast
  Guard students and which uses a combination fixed-
  wina/rotarv-w~na svllabus.


DOD proposes to consolidate these two programs/ into an all
rotary-wing program at Fort Rucker, Alabama. This training
would consist of a common core curriculum supplemented by
service-unique segments. Existing service-unique follow-on
training for UHPT graduates would remain essentially the same.

     DOD forecasts approximately $100 million in savings
over the next 5 years and believes a consolidated program
will offer training as good as or better than that Navy's
students now receive. )  , >

     The proposal is necessarily predicated on future events
and involves variables associated with the assumptions chosen.
Therefore, we must emphasize that we are dealing with esti-
mates and that true economies depend upon actual operation of
a consolidated program. What we have done in our review is
to test the validity of the cost estimates and related savings.

     Our findings on issues related to this proposal are
discussed below.


FPCD-79-94


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