European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Sunday october 29, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 7 Here sailing a. Long 9 with grinning shark Teeth painted on its Bow one of three armed and armoured patrol air Cushion vehicles pack skims Over the san fran Cisco Bay during advanced training missions for its . Navy Crews. Text Ron s Bell Aero systems co. Modified and overhauled the three High Speed amphibious Craft following eight months of duty in Vietnam. The modifications included installing auxiliary fuel tanks additional communication equipment new skirts for improved performance and ease of maintenance and puff ports for improved directional control. The Craft weighs in excess of 8 tons and is 39 feet Long. The vehicle were overhauled at the Oakland Airport. Of honors Cost reduction winners Colorado Springs Colo special sixteen individuals and 14 units were honoured at the annual air Force Cost reduction awards ceremony at the air Force Academy. Awards were presented by Leonard Marks  Secretary of the air Force and Gen. Bruce k. Hol Loway air Force vice chief of staff. Holloway reported that idea Sand efforts from thousands of military and civilian air Force people produced $464 million in savings during by 1967. This exceeded the goal by $132 million. Encouraging continued participation in the program Holloway said i firmly believe that everyone in the air Force could think of a better Way to perform some function for which he is responsible if he s Given the right kind of enthusiastic encourage ment and  the awards ceremony was Fol Lowed by a two Day workshop for key Cost reduction  awards a committee individual an were chosen by chaired by air Force representatives with membership furnished by major commands. It. Gen. R. G. Ruegg air Force Deputy chief of staff for systems and logistics is the air Force Cost reduction program Man  award winners and their by 1967 savings were capt. John r. Harty air Force Academy $31,000 savings in re surfacing running track at the Academy airman 1. C. Robertl. Frazier Bergstrom fab tex., $5,200 savings in removing modules from rf4c radar units s. M. Sgt. George a. Humphrey san Antonio $55,015, utilization of surplus transportable recon Naissance system t. Sgt. Rich Ard e. Thurston White Manab mo., $4,170, refurbishing missile guidance and control Gyro Power Supply. Herman l. Green and cd Abraham Hajjar Amarillo fab tex., $24,059, substitution of seals for j57 Jet engines Charles a. Srogus Mcclellan ,calif., $457,970, elimination of bomb shielding shroud Arthurn. Heyl St. Louis $59,400, elimination of strips and tapes forf106 automatic navigation sys tem 1st it. Chesley s. Piero Way Norton fab calif., $4,413 000, additional cold water storage capability for minuteman launch control . Sgt. Quintin l. Scott Sault St. Marie ass mich., $191,970,repair of search radar system facilities doubled enrolment up for rangers it. Benning a. Special Ranger course facilities Here Are being nearly doubled to make room for increasing numbers of Junior officers and  expansion which Means an increase from 1,600 to 3,080spaces in the course is in part a result of a recent require Mentor All newly commissioned Reg ular army officers to attend the eight week Ranger course after Basic  enlarged program is also designed to provide for an in flux of enlisted men who have Learned that graduation from the Ranger course can bring immedi ate promotion. An e4 who received his Ranger Tab automatic ally becomes an e5 an e5 who gets his Ranger Tab makes e6. Since july when the program was stepped up the course at it. Benning has been graduating220-Man classes at the rate of 14 a year. Three classes can society reports on Aid Washington special Theair Force Aid society provided air Force personnel and their dependents with 6,723 no interest bearing Loans totalling $936,142from dec. 1, 1966 through aug. 3d. During this same period the society awarded 2,043 Grants amounting to $321,407. Total assistance was 8,776 cases for $1,257,549. There were 568 Loans declared a collectible for $57,133.educational assistance under operation Bootstrap was provided 161 air Force members totalling $70,335. The society assisted 1,748 children in the Chap program for $283,021. Go through at one  training is conducted at three different locations the Mountain Ranger Camp at Dahl Onega ga., the swamp training enter near Eglin air Force base fla., and it. Benning a. New officer or designed for selection units Washington special anew officer efficiency report has been approved by the depart ment of the army for use begin Ning april 1, 1968. The new form is designed to permit selection boards and assignment officers to determine More accurately an officer s True performance. It will include specific evaluations not included in the current form such As performance of duty factors promotion school ing assignment potential an Overall value to the service. Other1 changes eliminate the letter report and prescribe 90 Days As the minimum rated per Iod for Field Grade officers in the same principal assign Tail. The current report form has been in use since sept. 30, 1961. Assembly Russell l. Massey Harlan w. Kline and Donald l. Stonger Hill fab Utah $260,-515, fabricating test cartridges from Standard shells Herbert , Elmendorf fab Alaska $5,210, prevention of wind dam age to Metal radome Tower. Also honoured were Paul , air Force logistics come and Alvin h. Snyder Kelly ,tex., for outstanding audit sup port. Unit awards went to United states air forces in Europe and air forces Southern come outstanding program management by major commands air Force accounting and finance Center outstanding pro Gram management by a Separ ate operating Agency air train ing come sustained program excellence and outstanding pro Gram contributions air defense omd and air Force Academy outstanding information support of the program. Fifth air Force outstanding program management by a numbered air Force 81st tactical fighter Wing Ben Waters a England 6100th support Wing Tachikawa a Japan 60th Mil itary Airlift Wing Travis ,calif., and 507th fighter Wing Kincheloe fab mich., outstand ing unit program management. Aeronautical systems division Wright Patterson fab Ohio outstanding program manage ment by a major component of air Force systems come War Ner Robins air Materiel area ga., outstanding program management by a major component of air Force logistics come and Chanute fab 111., outstand ing base program management. Or flights for Hawaii show Rise Schofield Barracks Hawaii special flights for soldiers on rest and recuperation or from Vietnam have in creased to a Busy 45 a month. The or program which be  with a single flight per week in August 1966, is already t h Elargest single group travel source of Hawaii visitors according tothe Hawaii visitors Bureau. By May 1967, the number of flights per month was 42. Approximately 7,290 service men will come to Hawaii each month once the new schedule takes effect. The Hawaii visitors Bureau estimates that 82,040servicemen will visit Hawaii Dur ing fiscal year 1968. Along with the thousands of servicemen will be almost an equally Large number of dependents to join them during their stay in the islands. An expected 61,530 wives another relatives will meet service men in Hawaii during this fiscal year making a total of 143,570 military men and dependent during this period. Since the beginning of october there have been two flights a Day on even numbered Days Andone flight on other Days. All flights originate in Saigon Cam Ranh Bay or Danang. Army using magnetic tape typewriters it. Belvoir a. Is a new High Speed typing service employing magnetic tape Type writers is now being used by the army s combat developments omd Here to write future  system cuts hundreds of typing hours off production of lengthy studies Field manuals and Industrial specifications according to it. Col. Clarence s. Weaver administrative support manager. With the new equipment Manu scripts need Only be typed manually one time. A magnetic tape memory Cartridge capable of accepting individual corrections produces error free copies automatically at the rate of 150words a minute. The revolutionary typewriter automatically adjusts line lengths adds or drops hyphens and can merge information from two separate tapes into a single document. Cd is responsible for pre paring doctrine Field manuals and tables of organization. I addition Many studies involving equipment tactics and doctrine Are constantly under Way. The biggest savings of the new system will be the time of the action officers weave said. Action officers need Only proofread the changes since the remaining text is printed error free from the  i a stateside service