. For a discussion of the
composition and activities of these
command-community relations committees and a
critical analysis of the command initiatives in the
local community in general, see David Sutton, "The
Military Mission Against Off-Base Discrimination,"
_Public Opinion and the Military Establishment_,
ed. Charles C. Moskos, Jr. (Beverly Hills,
California: Sage Publications, 1971), pp. 149-83.]

[Illustration: FIGHTER PILOTS ON THE LINE. _Col. Daniel (Chappie)
James, Jr., commander of an F-4 jet, and his pilot readying for
takeoff from a field in Thailand._]

Perhaps the most important, certainly most controversial, of Fitt's
moves[23-7] was the establishment of a system to measure the local
commanders' progress against off-base discrimination. His vehicle was
a series of off-base equal opportunity inventories, the first
comprehensive, statistical record of discrimination affecting
servicemen in the United States. Based on detailed reports from every
military installation to which 500 or more servicemen were (p. 584)
assigned, the first inventory covered some 305 bases in forty-eight
states and the District of Columbia and nearly 80 percent of the total
military population stationed in the United States. Along with
detailed surveys of public transportation, education, public
accommodations, and housing, the inventory reported on local racial
laws and customs, police treatment of black servicemen, the existence
of state and local agencies concerned with equal opportunity
enforcement, and the base commander's use of command-community
relations committees.[23-8]

[Footnote 23-7: See especially UPI Press Release,
October 4, 1963; New York _Times_, October 3, 1963;
Memo, Robert E. Jordan III, Staff Asst, ODASD (CR),
for ASD (M), 2 Oct 63, sub: Status of Defense
Department Implementation of DOD Directive 5120.36
("Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces," July 26,
1963), ASD (M) 291.2 (14 Jul 63).]

[Footnote 23-8: Memo, ASD (M) for Under SA et al., 24
Sep 63, sub: Off-Base Equal Opportunity Inventory,
ASD (M) 291.2 (14 Jul 63); DASD (CR) "Summary of
Off-