European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                With the end of the War in Europe and the beginning of the Point system of discharge for the men of the Navy Are wondering what is being planned for vice Randall the chief of naval summed it up in a recent radio talk when he said when Japan is Defeated and naval demobilization can it will be done along the lines announced by the War like the the Navy is establishing priority for release on a basis of length of service outside the Continental United combat service and we shall watch the partial demobilization of the army after Germany defeat and profit by their experience when a final and pre Cise blueprint for naval demobilization is drawn not until the defeat of Japan is at the army Point system was the result of some suggestions from the gis Long before in a poll to determine the fairest possible order of Simi Lar poll of Navy personnel would produce the same results would be difficult to say because of differences Between army service and Navy but it would probably be essentially the same in priority for a combination of factors rather than for a preponderance of the intention is clearly not to adopt the army system in its but to modify it to fit the Navy and to improve on it and Correct mistakes As they Are brought out in the plans actual some controversial Points Are already showing at least in the opinion of those to whom they work to in the Points Are awarded for four and at present 85 is in the first one Point is Given for each month of total this seems reasonable and fair to All an additional Point is earned for each month of overseas service and there is no argument about that it is the third class that will Likely require some modification or change when applied to the in the third five Points Are Given for each Battle purple or other Decora Tion of a designated in these Days of submarine and air All sea duty sailors Are on the front most of them under the same danger As the decorated and if sea duty becomes the what of the Seabee parked on a Rock in the aleutians or buried in the Snow of Iceland for three years there Are also combat sailors and Seabee who have seen Little sea such As the ones who accompanied the army across France and ferried troops Over the five Points for each Deco ration might leave Many a deserving Sailor woe fully behind in his the fourth source of army Points is dependents 12 Points Are awarded for each child under the age of though Only three children May be the army gives no credit for other de whether or not the Navy will consider age is another except for eligibility for Dis charge Over the army allows no Points for men Over 30 generally have been considered less adaptable than younger men and the draft age has been lowered to under 30 whenever the needs of selective service have it often has been suggested that if these older men do not get some head Start on postwar jobs they May find themselves behind the 8ball in Competition with the younger men when they do get the average age of enlisted personnel in be of the bes known showgirls on Broad Way disappeared last year and nobody hear much about her until she popped up suddenly in Hollywood and became an immediate her name is Adele she is 5 feet 62 inches has blonde hair and Brown her new picture for co Lumbia is a thousand and one the Navy on april 1 was 23 vie for officers it was the Point when applied to the will probably have to be set up either within Fleet units or within each rating throughout the inasmuch As the trained complement of a ship with a High Point score would obviously not be replaced wholesale by untrained a Shore based and yeomen and storekeepers could not replace Shopfitters and meanwhile the total authorized strength of for the combined naval forces is at with in the in the marines and in the coast hereafter draft quotas will be Only for which Are now running at about per the navys june draft Call was for the a and the coast none at although the discharge slip is not available with or without the Bureau of personnel has announced that the enlisted per sonnet situation has improved to such an extent that certain already eligible for Dis charge on a limited will now be released to inactive duty or discharged As rapidly As they can be there Are some enlisted men on the re tired list who will be released to inactive duty or discharged before except for those few in key All enlisted men Over 42 have been eligible for discharge since september 1944 if they were dispensable or could be re it will now become easier for them to attain those classified for limited duty As a result of a medical Survey will also be How special assignment personnel those slightly under Par in sight or hearing Are being retained and made available for even More Active the situation in the Waves is a bit Are Over now on Active duty but its still not the greatest need is in the Hospital where Are already on Active the Waves recruiting quota has been increased to per hair for the North Africa May be the Shangrila of the Bald headed men if there is any truth in the legend of the 120th Seabee Bat Talion which was stationed the 120th int there any More but it was the outfit claimed that All Bald headed members mysteriously sprouted hair As a result of the tonic effects of the North african Sunshine or Huie picked up the Story in his can do the Story of the and started a flurry of applications for North african but the buyers information bulletin said no More North Africa or words to that then Milton Gauch who with Arrell Gibson y2c was the original source of the turned up at the Seabee Camp Davis Endicott the inter viewed Gauch and asked him to account for the Power of North african Sunshine to defy men dels Laws of who is this Guy Mendel asked if he want a member of the he  when told that Mendel was an austrian botanist who died in remained said he Mendel or no scientific facts or no scientific i spent month after month doing except sit around and watch the hair All kinds of hair straight and half the customers of the Barber shop were Guys who were 100 percent Bald headed when they first arrived those Guys Heads were so Bald and Tough and shiny on top they looked like continued you  have scratched them with a Diamond but after they been there a couple of there they standing in getting How do i account for it i but its too bad Mendels dead he Coul Dve joined the Seabee and gotten an just before he stalked Gauch added in his Huie says it was at Arrew where baldness bit the it hair sprouts All Over North or or Richard Allen Yle Mues in Hie some time ago this depart ment printed sketches of a new uniform for Navy enlisted men As proposed in the news paper of the naval repair new and we asked for we got and when we had about we printed a few of the letters and revised the sketches Accord ing to the majority Over Navy men have Al though the first letters to arrive bore mostly stateside the majority Are now from the South Pacific or Fpo new York and san they Are from men on All types of the proposed uniform consisted of a jacket similar to the Eisenhower Battle to be worn with a Gray Ordinary pants with a and an overseas this outfit could be made up in different suitable for win summer or so exactly 90 percent of the men Are in favor of a mostly along the lines of the although Many would prefer something similar to a chiefs they All realize the impossibility of refitting a Navy of Over 3 million men overnight but Many believe that a suitable uniform could be As it is in the coast and purchased Only by those who need instead of the tailor Mades that they buy the reasons most often Given for their wanting a change Are that the present blues Are foppish and untidy on most men that the uni forms of stewards and of All the other services have been modernized while sailors Are held to an eighteenth Century tradition that the discomforts of the Long the Small the tight jumper and the 14 pants buttons Are not necessary to the performance of any of their duties that they Are forced to carry and Wash too Many uniforms with Whites which Are unsuited for work or action in the they buy tailor made Serge suits the 10 percent who want no change in the uniform make up for their numbers by the in Tensity of their feelings and they Damn Well dont want anyone tampering with that they feel that the present uniform is distinctly Navy while the proposed one looks like a Gas station attend ants suit that the girls go for the Navy uni form in a big that nothing else could be stowed and that they like the feel of it and Are proud of its but it is almost always their tailor Mades that they Admire and would like to see author Donald Nugent m the Soldier Speaks department of yank is inviting letters from sailors to make up a guest artist Page for one we will Call it the Sailor Speaks and the ques Tion for discussion will be should the Navy have the same discharge plan As the army if you have any ideas on the subject Send them to the Soldier Speaks the army 205 East 42d new York h i