[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 84 (Friday, May 19, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7021-S7022]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                  NATIONAL DEFENSE TRANSPORTATION DAY

 Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, today, as we celebrate National 
Defense Transportation Day, I rise to recognize the important 
contributions that the people who serve in military transportation 
specialties, as well as those who work in the U.S. civil transportation 
industry, have made to the security of our Nation.
  As our military increasingly becomes a U.S.-based, power projection 
force, our transportation assets become an even more crucial element of 
the national defense. Without possessing the ability to rapidly and 
efficiently move our service personnel and their equipment into an 
overseas theater of operations, all of the money we have spent and all 
of the effort we have put into building the strongest armed force in 
the world would be for naught.
  I am sure that we all can vividly recall the Herculean effort our 
military and civilian transporters made during Operation Desert Shield 
in moving large numbers of people and massive amounts of materiel from 
two continents into the Persian Gulf region, in record time. As our 
military leaders can attest, that transportation capability served as a 
combat multiplier, and played a significant role in our decisive 
victory.
  Today, the many people involved in U.S. defense transportation 
continue the long tradition of excellence in service to the Nation. 
Whether military or civilian; manufacturers or operators; air 
transporters, sea transporters, or ground transporters; these Americans 
represent the very best our Nation has to offer. I commend them for 
their hard work and their many contributions to national security.
  I would also like to take this opportunity to recognize the National 
Defense Transportation Association [NDTA], headquartered in Alexandria, 
VA. Within a membership of over 8,000 people, configured into 70 
chapters within the United States and overseas, the NDTA has served as 
a catalyst in building the critically important military-private sector 
partnership for defense transportation. In this, its 51st year, NDTA 
continues to play a vital role in keeping the American defense 
transportation capability the best in the world. [[Page S7022]] 
  Mr. President, I trust my colleagues will join me today in saluting 
the NDTA, and all Americans working in defense transportation, on 
National Defense Transportation Day.


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