[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 150 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 150

   Expressing the sense of the Congress that the President, with the 
  advice and consent of the Senate, should posthumously advance Rear 
 Admiral Husband E. Kimmel to the grade of admiral on the retired list 
     of the Navy and Major General Walter C. Short to the grade of 
          lieutenant general on the retired list of the Army.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 22, 1993

  Mrs. Bentley (for herself, Mr. Spratt, Mr. Bonilla, Mr. Skeen, Mr. 
 Stump, and Mr. Weldon) submitted the following concurrent resolution; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
   Expressing the sense of the Congress that the President, with the 
  advice and consent of the Senate, should posthumously advance Rear 
 Admiral Husband E. Kimmel to the grade of admiral on the retired list 
     of the Navy and Major General Walter C. Short to the grade of 
          lieutenant general on the retired list of the Army.

Whereas Husband E. Kimmel was commander in chief of the United States Pacific 
        Fleet and Walter C. Short was commander of the United States Army's 
        Hawaiian Department at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 
        on December 7, 1941;
Whereas, at the time of the attack, Admiral Kimmel held the grade of admiral 
        pursuant to a temporary designation, but following the attack was 
        retired in his permanent grade of rear admiral;
Whereas, at the time of the attack, General Short held the grade of lieutenant 
        general pursuant to a temporary designation, but following the attack 
        was retired in his permanent grade of major general;
Whereas a naval court of inquiry found that, before and during the attack, no 
        individual in the naval service committed any offense or incurred 
        serious blame;
Whereas the naval court of inquiry specifically approved the judgments and 
        actions of Rear Admiral Kimmel under the circumstances before and during 
        the attack;
Whereas in 1946 a Joint Committee of the Congress specifically found that 
        neither officer had been derelict in his duty;
Whereas the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 permits the President, in his 
        discretion and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to 
        advance certain naval and army officers to the highest grade in which 
        they served while on active duty;
Whereas Rear Admiral Kimmel and Major General Short are both eligible for such 
        advancement;
Whereas, when the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 was implemented, Rear Admiral 
        Kimmel's name and Major General Short's name were not submitted by the 
        Departments of the Navy and Army, respectively, for such advancement;
Whereas in November 1991 an Army Board for the Correction of Military Records 
        recommended that Major General Short be posthumously advanced to the 
        rank of lieutenant general; and
Whereas under the Act such advancement of Rear Admiral Kimmel and Major General 
        Short is at the discretion of the President: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that the President, by and with the 
advice and consent of the Senate, should posthumously advance Rear 
Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, United States Navy, to the grade of admiral 
on the retired list of the Navy and should posthumously advance Major 
General Walter C. Short, United States Army, to the grade of lieutenant 
general on the retired list of the Army.

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