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 PUBLIC LAW 101-510—NOV. 5, 1990 104 STAT. 1685 (4) Samuel S. Stratton played a major legislative and intellectual role in such diverse areas as strengthening the NATO alliance, modernization of Guard and Reserve forces, pursuit of verifiable arms control agreements, protection of the defense industrial base, development of missile and aviation programs, and improvement in the military medical care and military justice systems; (5) through his singular and distinctive efforts, Samuel S. Stratton was successful in seeing enacted into law the requirement that women be admitted to the Nation's service academies; and (6) Samuel S. Stratton's service to the Nation (including his wartime and reserve service as a naval officer and service as a Member of Congress) left an indelible mark on the history of the Nation and his unswerving goal of maintenance of a strong national defense knows no peer. (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS. — In light of the findings expressed in subsection (a), it is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Navy should name the next guided missile destroyer (DDG-51) to be named after enactment of this Act the U.S.S. Samuel S. Stratton. SEC. 1427. CLARIFICATION OF PROCEDURES FOR REVIEW OF CERTAIN VESSEL TRANSFERS Section 7308(c) of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) by inserting "and" at the end of paragraph (1); (2) by striking out "; and" at the end of paragraph (2) and inserting in lieu thereof a period; and (3) by striking out paragraph (3). PART C—GUARD AND RESERVE INITIATIVE SEC. 1431. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS ON GREATER USE OF THE RESERVE COMPONENTS OF THE ARMED FORCES (a) FINDINGS.— Congress makes the following findings: (1) The reserve components of the Armed Forces are an essential element of the national security establishment of the United States. (2) The overall reduction in the threat and the likelihood of continued fiscal constraints require the United States to increase use of the reserve components of the Armed Forces. (3) The Department of Defense has not adequately implemented the Total Force Policy since its inception in 1973. (4) The Department of Defense should shift a greater share of force structure and budgetary resources to the reserve components of the Armed Forces. (5) Expanding the reserve components is the most effective way to retain quality personnel as the force structure of the active components is reduced over the next five years. (6) The United States should recommit itself to the concept of the citizen soldier as a cornerstone of national defense policy for the future. (7) The President and the Secretary of Defense should take note of and be willing to exercise existing reserve call-up authority for the purpose of using reserve component forces to perform operational missions without the necessity for declaring a national emergency.

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