Remarks in Paramus, New Jersey
10/12/1976
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Cash awards totaling $1,442,536 were paid for these adopted suggestions, based not only on the tangible first-year benefits of $74,347,607.9...
Of those suggestions submitted, more than 275,000 have been adopted with resultant tangible first-year benefits in excess of $873,000,000.
Enlisted personnel received $1,175,908.50 in awards, which represents 81 percent of the total cash awards paid.
Of the 119,256 suggestions which were submitted by military personnel during Fiscal Year 1976, 19,375 were adopted.