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Reenlislmvnls DownWASHINGTON (AP) - Re enlistments in the armed forces have dropped to their lowest point in 15 years and there’s no sign the Pentagon has succeed j ed yet in reversing the trend.President Nixon stressed the importance he attaches to *e enlistments in his goal of achieving an ail volunteer service by presiding Wednesday at a special White House ceremony for five men signing on for more service.• • •Statistics show the re-enlist-j ment rate for the services as a whole fell to 30.5 per cent in the fiscal year which ended June 30.This was the lowest level sincea 27.2 per cent rate in fiscal* nrrStatistics show the re en list merit rate for the services as a whole fell to 30.5 per cent inthe fiscal year which ended. $0* ■•June 30. This was the lowest) level since a 27.2 per cent rate in fiscal 1955. IFigures for August, the most recent month available, show the over all re-enlistment rate for the services reached only 33.5 per cent. |Secretary of Defense MelvinR. Laird started a year ago to promise improvements that would make military life more attractive as a lure for re-enlistments.Spurred hy Laird, the chiefslt; rnmonv IIoihhItrlirifi SolthYi*sCANYON - Sgt. Maj. Dailey Drown Jr. of 2813 S. Nelson in) Amarillo is retiring after 20 years* service in the Army. He| was to be honored at ceremonies this afternoon at the ROTC Building on the West Texas State University campus.Brown, who came to WTSUj on July 30, 1967, serving as their chief enlisted instructor, is1 retiring to take a job in Odessa where he will be teaching junior ROTC in the high school. iHe has served three tours inGermany and one tour in Vietnam. Among the awards he holds are the NATO ribbbon, five awards of the good conduct medal, the Bronze Star and the first Oak Leaf Cluster to the National Defense Medal.of the Army and Navy in partic- rather than in actual numbers, ular have moved to make basic tell a different tale, changes in service life and clim The services’ re enlistmentinate old irritants. rate is about 20 per cent belowThe Air Force says it has had what it was in fiscal 1965, just the best service conditions for prjor \( v'.S. involvement in the years. The Marine Corps baa!Vietnam ground war. made plain it won't go along • • •with the lead of the other scrv-j The Army, biggest of the ices to any noticeable extent. (services and the one which• • • draws heavily on the draft, reSome critics have a 3U p,,r (.PI1, rr0Il|Mthe Nixon administration has mcnt r.,l(, jn fis(,al l!m).placed undue stress on proposed .. . .pav increases and 1,ottering the , ™e A«r Force which has thelot of first-term enlistees. bcst rate among the servicesThese critics argue not throughout the years, recordedenough inducements have been a 42.2 per cent re enlistmentoffered to keep seasoned non rate.commissioned officers and other The Navy registered a 26 7veteran servicemen, many withlper cent re enlistment rate last skills acquired while in uni form fisea, year and ,hr Marin(.Flic Pentagon figures indicate ;first enlistment totals are hold trailed he other services at 10*mg up well. |KT centIn the first II months of thiscalendar year, the Pentagon re HIGHWAY PLANports, more than 329,000 new en-jlistments were recorded—about LOS ANGFLFS ft PI)7,(MM) more than had been California’s Highway Masterplanned for. Plan calls for landscaped safetyLast year, enlistments j highway rests to be placed one-tot a ling 463,800 fell below the , * , ,objective by about 9,000. half haur 5 driving time apartBut the re enlistment statis on thlt;‘ states Interstat e lligh-tics, expressed in percentages way System.fl
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Amarillo Globe Times
Amarillo, Texas, US
Thu, Dec 10, 1970
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