European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday. June 16. 1980 More americans calling on recruiters by Yardon a Arar los Angeles a the recruit ment ads say the army. Navy. Air Force and marines Don t ask for experience they give it. In los Angeles Young men and women arc taking the bail. A year ago army recruiters were 10 percent behind in reaching recruitment goals for los Angeles but today they re going Over target 106 percent for the eight months ending May 31. The reasons say recruiters arc often traditional a Young Man or woman s desire to face a Challenge to serve the countr Trade. Country to Sec the � silence world and to learn a these traditional reasons for joining the military look better they say As inflation gobbles up More and More of an unskilled worker s paycheck and makes it More expensive to acquire a civilian skill. We Don t get a lot of people just Oul of High  said army capt. John Allen. We get a number of people who have been out working for a year or two and have found out just How Tough it  he adds  crisis in Iran and the Sovi hosing Down volcanic Ash a Sailor uses a i huh pressure Hose to hush Down the deck of the re ird mis Sile Cruiser a Halscy at Portland ore., after in Lucanic Ash fell on the is Sci from another eruption of mount St. Helens. The has Down had to he carried out on Many is. And Canadian ships in port after he Ash drifted Over Vancouver wash., and Portland. Dpi photo step closer to launch next year space shuttle passes critical heat test Cape canaveral. Fla. A heat resistant tiles on the space shuttle co Lumbia survived a critical lest without dam age bringing the Craft a step closer to launch next year officials at the Kennedy space Center said sunday. Engineers went Over the tiny tiles for 10 hours after a lest saturday night that Simu lated the separation of the shuttle s giant fuel tank. They reported no damage what Soever said spokesman Hugh Harris. They re All pretty ecstatic said Harris of the National aeronautics and space administration officials working on the first 8 aboard Navy copter missing in sea plunge Frederiksted. . Virgin islands up a Navy helicopter carrying eight crewmen on a routine logistics Mission plunged into the Caribbean sea off the is land of St. Croix sunday. There was no sign of survivors coast guard and Navy officials said. The helicopter an he sea King be longed to flight composite so no. 8 at inc Roosevelt roads naval station at the East Ern tip of puerto Rico. The Navy started an incs ligation into inc crash but no cause was immediate pinpointed. The identities of the  were with held until their families could be notified. The crash occurred Al 7 30 . About 3 Miles off the Western lip of St. Croix. Two Navy helicopters and a coast guard helicopter went to the scene to search for the copter and its occupants and All three reported sighting a lot of debris but no sign of survivors. The coast guard Husli copter was gelling Low on fuel by midday and was about to suspend its search but two Navy choppers one from the Roosevelt roads base and an other off the aircraft Carrier John f. Kennedy pressed in search in the Waters of the Caribbean. Lest of the shut la s flight hardware. Harris said the pyrotechnic Shack test on saturday brought the shuttle a step closer 10 launch next year. Engineers will spend the next few Days Cal Ealing results before 11 is declared a Complete Success he said. Astronauts John Young and Robert Crippin the first string Crew for the Maiden shuttle voyage were at the shuttle s controls saturday night for the test. They re ported no problems with flight instruments avionics or computers. Harris said. Tested were explosive bolts attaching the pipes holding the 15-l-Luut fuel tank to the Columbia s belly. When the 500.000 Gal Lons of fuel Are used up after la coff. Inc kills Are to explode allowing the tank to fall into the Ocean. The tank was not in  the test. Or. Robert Gray manager of the shuttle projects office said previous simulations damaged Cal prune chive lilacs on the Shui the. 16 s. African soldiers die Pretoria South Africa a six teen South african soldiers were killed in action against Black nationalist guerrillas in Namibia the South african defense head quarters announced. It occupation of Afghanistan have in creased Public awareness of military serv the Post Vietnam military stripped of the draft since 1971, has had trouble attracting enough volunteers to meet established quotas. The Senate approved legis lation last week providing for registration of a and 20-year-old men. Los Angeles Wilh an unemployment Rale of 7.1 percent in May. Is faring better than most of the nation during the current eco nomic slump. Nationwide the in employ Mcnol Rale is 7.8 percent. However the recruitment pattern Here is Akin to that elsewhere. The defense department in .1 manpower or porn issued in May. Said the armed forces enrolled 94, 100 men and women or 102 percent of their goal in the year s first three months. That was 20.000 More than in the same period a year earlier. The army later said that it made 124 percent of its goal in april by signing up More than 10,000 new recruits. A major Factor apart from joblessness in the civilian Market has been a wide variety of programs Slart cd by the army Over the last year including wider opportunities More attractive educational Bene fits and some two year enlistment options that Cut the required minimum hitches officials say. For example. Marine sgt. Julie Elkin said Hal under the Veteran s education assistance program the government will contribute i for every is a recruit lays away for his education. Most of the Young people clutching their application papers and test results and watching television while waiting to speak to enlisting officers Here on a recent weekday were not actually unemployed. Silling in groups of three or four with fellow recruits they told of quilting Low paying jobs to join the service in Hopes of improving themselves. Some like army recruit Mike Hale of Pomona had been trying to go to school at night while work ing during the Day. Hale a husky 18-year-old, said the Dou ble Load of finishing High school and being a Security guard was too taxing. In the army he said he could get his diploma and train As a military policeman. Tom Gipson 18, said he had moved to Santa Barbara from Maine last fall and had tried without Success to get into a nursing program while working As a substitute orderly in local hospitals. I figure there s got to be a really bad recession coming he said. My Job was in  in the army he Hopes to become a medical specialist. Meanwhile some recruits who said they had no Job also said they could find work but age and inexperience limited their options. I could gel a Job at $3.10 an hour said Gordon Williams a 17-year-old can Yon country resident. But with a wife and child to support the High school dropout and former factory worker said. $3 10 an hour simply in t enough. So Williams sat in the Marine recruit ing office along with about two dozen other Young men. He said he Hopes to be trained in electronics. Best Sellers by uni let Preiti International fiction random Airai big Plain in a " Biol in Falner. Holch no love Lou Helen Van Slerk  bks Pic nor fiction to. Nobori we _ a t a. 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