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          United States General Accounting Office     01     6q
                  Washington, D.C. 20548

                                        FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                        Expected at 10:00 a.m. EST
                                        Wednesday, March 17, 1976

                        Statement of

ELMER B. STAATS, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES

                        BEFORE THE

    SUBCOMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION AND NATIONAL SECURITY  xIJb

         HOUSE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

         CONCERNING THELIEDEPAL SERVICE ACADEMIES7


Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

     We appreciate the opportunity to discuss our reviews of the

Federal service academies. These academies comprise an important

national resource which supplies many career officers to the

Department of Defense, the Coast Guard, and the maritime industry.

Graduates have distinguished themselves in civilian life as

Presidents of the United States, Members of Congress, business

leaders, historians, and a Nobel prizewinner. The academies have

served the Nation well during their nearly 175-year history.

     Notwithstanding its past successes, every institution

must, from time to time, critically examine its policies and

practices and their continuing contribution to its goals.

We live in a dynamic world, and what was once sound may no

longer be appropriate. To use tradition as the basis for

a practice or policy is to ignore the inevitability of


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