Crossword-Solution: OSD 3 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

While the JCS or OSD or CINCs may have genuine need for jointly packaged forces that are rapidly deployable irrespective of Army, Navy, Marine, or Air Force labels, the services cannot be expected to reverse the years of viewing the world through service- specific arguments and doctrine.

Riley, USN, OSD, for SecDef, 6 Dec 48, sub: Comment on the Secretary of the Army's Proposal Concerning Experimental Non-Segregated Units in the Armed Forces, CD 30-1-2, SecDef files.] [Illustration: SECRETARY FORRESTAL, _accompanied by General Huebner, inspects the 427th Army Band and the 7777th EUCOM Honor Guard, Heidelberg, Germany, November 1948_.] The decisive opposition of the Navy and Air Force convinced Forrestal that interservice integration was unworkable.

Dalfiume, 12 Feb 65, copy in CMH.] [Footnote 14-3: Min, Cmte of Four Secretaries Mtg, 26 Oct 48, Office of OSD Historian.

Dickinson, Asst to Joint Secys, OSD, for SA et al., 17 Jan 51, OSD files.] There was some justification for the Defense Department's position.

Reid for Najeeb Halaby, Dir, Office of Foreign Military Affairs, OSD, 7 Jul 49, sub: Foreign Assignments of Negro Personnel, PPB 291.2 (7 Jul 49).] The interservice and departmental aspects of the problem involved Secretary of Defense Johnson.