European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 09, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse June 9, 1968 the stars and stripes Post 7 army now out piloting All other services by Marchueta is Washington Bureau Chat of is the army is turning out i i.0060" Awa sets now than All the other services com Moore pilots Nobe in far from its peak.hlnpn3uvl my ii. O ft4 Taa of Frau in o cer piss in a year. Today there Are Wair nth inf of them in Vietnam. Marts the Start of fiscal 1969, when the d buildup takes on More steam to reach where the army will be turning out nearly pills in a single month As it did in Alln ring the next 12 months the army will train 7 m fixed and rotary Wing pilots or More than j j the 13 317 new pilots for All the services at rate rung in August of 610 a month. This latest expansion was authorized 18 months ago bythe former defense Secretary Robert s. Mcnamara. The intervening time was spent in building up a training base of instructors and facilities. The increase Over the years has been put to immediate and effective use in Vietnam the Pentagon reports. Three years ago the army had about 1,200in Southeast Asia and within the next year this figure is expected to go to about 8,500. Early this year Mcnamara said the army Pilot training rate has been carefully designed both to provide for an increase. Commensurate with the build up in aircraft and to minimize the number who must return to Southeast Asia with less than two years Between Tours. However because of the need for senior experienced pilots in the deployed Force and the relatively Small number of such pilots in the rotation base it is unavoidable that some of them have to be setback for second combat Tours without an intervening 24 months of non combat assignments. As the build up continues the experienced Pilot base will increase thus alleviating the present prob achieve the new goal 3,560 officer volunteers and 5,898 warrant officer flight candidates will Star training. Most of the commissioned officers will be lieutenants coming from eight branches authorized pilots for aviation command staff and cockpit positions army wide. These Are Armor artillery infantry engineers medical service military intelligence signal and the Case of both officers and warrant officers most of them will become helicopter pilots. End of Trail Monument will Overlook grave of chief right last of the . Cavalry horses who died at is Grandy Ava iry Steed to end located at Benning Sill Knox f Trail it 36 no Academy grads doing Fine Job by George Eberl staff writer tit Riley Kan. Is f army has lost a grand old Rooper. I chief is dead. His passing late last months inevitable for 36 years in horse s life is roughly 108 years1 at of a Man. Ainu 9"ef Hall become some � Feln institution at fort Rende Redas the so Byj Heer longevity. A the sign out he Nau indicated chief waste Tot hymn h 01-se still carried Rolls thery Steed of a now dead t s Bluff neb chief joined. Going into nine years later. Another horse punt Jufith Ved tort p.re.8 ments the based he tonal 15 years durin he a v Day now. That a 2 the bitter cold of the past Winter the Bay gelding was rumoured to have died but again As on so Many occasions in the past the arthritic horse turned his swayed Back on death re covering to once More see Spring come to of a Symbol of a Horsey genre that had stepped aside As a victim of the modern mechanized age chief s death indirectly resulted in the pres ence at it. Riley of one of its More attractive monuments. In i960, plans were made to stuff chief As soon As he died. Money was collected for the Job by the it. Riley historical so Cit but chief did not die. Further More taxidermists said that be cause of the horse s advanced age stuffing would be neither possible nor feasible due to the deterioration of the Anatomy by loss of hair shrinkage and Dis coloration of , the Money was spent to create a life size Monument inspired by artist Frederic Remington s old Washington is a initial evaluation of infantry noncommissioned officer candidate school graduates show they Are doing a Fine Job the army has disclosed. Reports of the first 257 who went through the it. Benning a school give overwhelming support to the fact that these men can do the Job for which they have been trained to Lead an infantry Rifle squad or fire team the army per cent of the evaluations taken during the on the Job training phase confirmed this statement. Graduates will again be evaluated after four months of service with a unit in the far school began sept 5, 1%7 and so far 3,185 were graduated schools Are now also being Hel for Armor at it. Knox ky., and at it. Sill okla., for artillery men. Other somewhat similar skill development courses Are being conducted for other branches. In the new concept soldiers enter one of the three no schools As privates or privates first class and automatically become corporals e4s when training be gins. Twelve weeks Are devoted to academic instruction Fol Lowed by 8 or 9 weeks of on the Job training and then upon graduation they Are promoted to sergeant e5. The top 10 Pel cent become staff sergeant leg. Norfolk a. Special i. Gen. Baron Charles p. De Cumont belgian army chair stateside service Man of nato s military com Mittee in permanent session in Washington d.c., recently led representatives from 14 of the 15 nato countries on around of briefings and Tours of military installations hero. The visiting nato Clig Nilar ies were guests of darn. Eph Raim p. Holmes nato s supreme Allied commander at lactic Olio met them at nor Folk s naval air station Alouf with senior officers from his International staff. The military committee Isth senior military authority in nato. It is composed of a chief of staff of each Mem Ber country except France and meets at least twice a year. New superintendent named for West Point Washington up . Samuel w. Rosier was appointed by president Johnson Ashe new supt ring indent f military Academy at we a Point . Koster now in Vietnam i succeed maj. Jun. Donald v. Bennett who will in a wed Kostyr was a Rudval of tin. West Point class of
