European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 03, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Frtd0y, May 3, 1961 the stars and stripes Page 3 i Hubbell plan would give gis spending Money by Marc ii ets a Washington Bureau chief Washington Fps the Hubbell report which criticizes the present military pay Struc Ture As confusing and misunderstood makes 31 somewhat complicated recommendations for changes in the system for compensating . Servicemen. The report prepared for the defense department after a two year study of military pay and allowances by a panel headed by rear adm. Lester e. Hub Bell is now before Congress for  asking Congress to put the i Hubbell committee recommendations into effect How Ever will come later defens officials maintain. Spending Money one of the innovations in the changes is a proposal to Paymen something entirely new spending  career irregular members of the armed forces meanwhile would receive straight salaries just As any other employee in government or Industry. To clarify the rather comp exchanges proposed in the ii b Bell report the 31 recommendations May Best be summarized As follows the first defines non career its As servicemen in pay Graesel through e3, plus  in e4 and e5 who have either Les than two years of completed service for pay or Between two and four years completed for pay and a total Active duty serv ice commitment including time served of less than six years. A Lothers enlisted and officers Are careerists. Two standards the second sets up two stand Ards for minimum residual in come spending Money for non careerists to insure that Satis factory service involves no net income penalty. Pay rate should be set up to see that regardless of Grade or longevity step a non careerist s spending Money at least equals the average of a single full time employed male civilian earning the Legal minimum wage. The other Standard is that spending Money should be at least equal to the average fora civilian counterpart single male High school graduate of the same age and fully employed. Should be promote fully qualified no careerists should be promoted to e2 no later than at the end of four months of Active service and toe3 no later than at the end of their first year of  Grade Al under four months should be eliminated according to the fourth recommendation since it would be superfluous while the fifth would officially establish personal Money pay spending Money the sixth Calls for adjust ments of spending Money each year to see that it docs not lag behind civilian income and for annual adjustments in the de Pendents assistance act allow ances to reflect changes in rent Al  compensation the seventh and eighth recommendations would set up a standardized definition and classification of exactly what is military compensation to include for careerists Basic pay quarters Cash allowances or furnished subsistence Cash allowances or furnished Federal income la advantage and the imputed retirement contribution based on pay Grade and years of  should be taken out of the full military salary for government quarters. The same thing should be done for subsistence for careerists according to the ninth and tenth recommendations. Subsistence would be at Cost when the Serviceman has no Choice in eating at Mili tary messes. At today s rate this would amount to $1.32 a Day for  Lith recommendation Calls for a 6.5 per cent contribution towards retirement. Retirement is now sometimes said to Befree although servicemen have also argued they pay for retire ment through a lower base pay. The 12th recommendation would set up a comparability Between military and civilian pay go servicemen could keep Pace with automatic Cost of Liv ing pay changes of  links would tie major generals 08 at the top with civilians in Grade gs18 second lieutenant gs7s and private first class e3 to gs3 and wb5 at the Bottom. All other military grades would fit into the civilian Grade  longevity Structure would be retained for in Grade salary increases but no new Cate Gories would be established according to the 13th and 14th recommendations while the 15thwould set up a one time save pay provision so no one would suffer a pay Cut in the processor going to a new and More modern pay system. The report also recommend continuing these special pays without change pending an evaluation of the salary system proficiency hazardous duty incentive diving duty physicians dentists and veterinarians sea and certain places and hostile fire. Obsolete glider pay would finally be abolished. Responsibility pay for officers authorized now but not in effect should be abolished with the 18threcommendation. Exchanges and commissaries in the . Should be removed from the elements of Bompensa circulation office phone numbers it Many Berlin Civ 738068 Uremko Thavon Civ 46341. Kill 7w4 Frankfurt Civ 00108-2047, Mil Offenbach to . 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Up the Iowa air National guard mostly made up of members fro Western Iowa Eastern Nebraska Southeast South Dakota an Southwest Minnesota has been designated for combat duty i Vietnam the Omaha world Herald  Silder the news paper s military writer said thursday that Many of the 850 members of the 185th tactical fighter group soon will leave Sioux City air Force base an will be assigned to an Airfield in Southeast  group s fighting Arm is a Squadron of some 25 super sonic fido fighter bombers of the Type used in Southeast Asia foreclose air forces. Support of ground Washington riot dead revised upward to nine Washington a an official summary of the racial Vio Lence that rocked the nation capital last month has fixed the toll at nine dead two More than originally reported. Officials said 1,202 person were injured in the fires and disorders that hit the City after the assassination of or Martin Luther King or. Smaller formations Washington a High ranking army officers said wednesday . Ground units i Vietnam have changed tactics to fight in smaller  in company rather than in battalion strength per mits covering More area while seeking Contact with enemy forces the officers said. This they explained is be cause four Rifle companies of about 200 men each can Range wider than a battalion operating As a , As one general put it the . Units can be a More pervasive presence in the country Side where Allied and communist forces Are contesting for control of the  adopt plan paralleling the . Changes officers said the South Viet namese army also has scale Down its operations from regi ment to battalion  change in tactical pattern obviously does not Rule out Large scale operations such As the one now being conducted by thou Sands of . And South Viet namese soldiers in the thinly potion and they should operate at no net Cost to the government except where support is required by special conditions. They Are now virtually self sup porting officials say. Discontinue payments the 20th proposal would Dis s continue paying a Serviceman Sofha mortgage insurance Premin urns and the 21st would end the reenlistment Bonus because it would no longer be needed. The 22nd affects the pay of service Academy cadets and mid Shipmen and the paid Drill for reserves and National guards men. The variable reenlistment Bon us would also be simplified in the 23rd suggested change and set the rate at one half of on month s salary a year of enlist ment or Extension. Existing multiples of one through four would be retained and either single Lump sum or annual instalment payments would be  should be payable without re Gard to years of service or enlistment period. Entitlement to payment for unused accrued leave should be Gin at the salary rate on the Date of conversion to the new system and dislocation and fam ily separation allowances should be set up As separate tables according to the 24th and 25th recommendations. Reservists pay the 26th covers the pay of enlisted reservists on Active duty for training while the 27th Deal with disability Severance and separation  Severance pay should be at the rate of on month s salary for each year of Active service to a limit of oneyear s salary. Separation pays should be computed according to the following formulae for those who must leave the serv i ice with four or More years of Active service for no promo j Tion and reduction in Force one has been used As an Avenue for \ month s salary for each year of Mer Sunshine on the Sand Hills at Crone Labeach in Sydney. A photo . Switches tactics to seek out Viet reds communist Supply an for Cement. Rein Active service up to a maximum of one year s salary for show operations like the one in the cause separations one half of a Shau Are called by such Terasas combat sweep they used to be referred to a search and destroy missions but this description is no longer one month s salary per year of Active service up to a maximum of one half of one year s salary. Benefit table when conversion to a salary heard possibly because critics i svs tera Gocs into effect Accord of . Policy in Vietnam have 0 the next Suee ested  the search and destroy j retirement annuities Mission on grounds it causes unnecessary loss of South Viet namese civilian lives. Johnson administration offi benefits and social survivor Security covered wages be computed Ina table of military Benefit base amounts Abba much like thecial speaking privately made  Basic pay tables it Clear that Field commanders j the next recommendation Are being left with discretion As Calls for a continued study onto when to conduct major the military estate program sweeps. The controlling Factor is the enemy s pattern of operations. The senior . Army officers based on the parity salary while the 30th would include the 6.5per cent retirement contribution in the full parity salaries paid said the change to smaller scale to careerists As Long As the . Formations is a direct re i Abba table and existing for suit of the breakup of enemy mule Are used. Units into smaller combat groups. He s hiding out in smaller formations a general said. Our breakup into smaller size operations gives us a greater plated a Shau Valley which capacity to find the  the 31st and last recommend Ion cull for converting the Ca reer compensation system to salary system in conjunction with the next general military pay raise. The earliest this could be done is mid-1969