European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 of widening opportunities for women services decision Means 800 new positions available by Clint Swift Washington Bureau chief Washington the decision that air Force women can serve at Forward air control posts and munitions storage in base hopping c23 Sherpa Supply planes and in certain c130s Doest open More Job just More service spokesmen the change Means that women will be Able to serve in about 800 More a spokesman spokesmen at the Pentagon and at the air Force manpower and personnel Center at Randolph made a distinction Between positions and they said the change is a reevaluation of positions within Job positions in individual units were the Pentagon spokesman there were some in c130s in Europe that we rent opened to women because of the possibility of other c130 jobs like at Little Rock could be members of the 16th tac Airlift so at Little Rock train the air forces c130 he said that at some positions with the surveillance or communications Jammer models of the c 130 were but were not for in some administrative positions at munitions Sites had been restricted because service members at such Sites had to be Able to fill in As Security after Security police positions were opened to women last the reason for that restriction the air Force determined during a study of How it recruits women and assigns them jobs that the jobs could be opened to the study said that quotas setting minimum percentages of recruits who must be women could Force the service to accept less qualified reducing in announcing the results of the air Force Secretary Verne Orr asked that the quotas be the quotas were imposed last year by the defense authorization and in its report on the 1986 authorization the House armed services which had called for the said removal of the quotas would be the committee said in its report that the study had been delivered three months late and could not be evaluated fully in time for action with the authorization for next the committee said it had asked the air Force to determine How Many women it could actually Given the combat exclusion and to develop a recruiting method based on that it said it was not satisfied that the air Force had the air Force used to gauge How Many of its recruits should be women by considering women willingness to serve in the the air Force said men Are More Likely to be willing to serve by a ratio of More than 2to now the service proposes to set recruiting ranges with the help of an interest in the air Force the committee which also has the effect of reducing the projected number of female a service spokesman said the air Force complied with the committees request but also looked at recruiting including factors such As women interest in joining the and especially the air the committee instituted the quotas because of con Cerns about the dwindling Pool of men who will be Eligi ble for recruitment the end of the it believed the services should evaluate greater use of women and reserves before a crunch the study said research by an Independent California the service proposes to set recruiting ranges with the help of an interest in the air Force group showed that increasing numbers of women and immigrants entering the work Force will help assure a flow of male recruits for All the services in any the committee replied that it would examine that claim care the quotas require the air Force to enlist 19 percent women in 1987 and 22 percent in women now Are about 17 percent of the to people the air Force brings into its ranks each under the new recruiting the air Force expects to recruit 16 percent to 20 percent women in the next few including 18 percent next a spokesman the plan named three factors that would determine the recruiting mix the kinds of Job skills the air Force needs that the study found that men score higher on the mechanical and electrical composites of the armed serv ices vocational aptitude while women score better on the administrative the study said that when the air Force needs More people in sortie generating mechanical and electrical it will seek to recruit More the abilities and interests of Young people eligible for the study said men were More Likely to be interested in military service by a ratio of better than 2tol and the male female recruiting mix would reflect Force management concerns that might crop up As a result of growing percentages of women in the the study said that More women in the ranks would mean More More single More Mili tary couples and More military couples with Young Chil it found that women were for two Days a month less available for work than men and said women reported they would not be Able to deploy As quickly As their male but the report called such considerations challenges and concluded that at the female Levels the effects of these factors do not appear the committee said one of the questions that remained about the air forces new recruiting methodology is at what level of women recruits those factors might become constraining and what the air Force planned to do about them representatives of women groups have said that More women would be willing to enlist in the air Force if the service would aim More of its advertising at an air Force official said the advertising is aimed about 5050 at men and women groups also say that vocational aptitude Bat Tery scores measure the skills women bring to the recruiting not their ability to do the Job after train the air Force official said that if some recruits take less time and Money to train that is something the service should the spokesman said service policy and title 10 of the code now bar women from Only about 5 or about air Force the jobs Are combat tactical air communications and Aerial gunner on the ac130 gunship and b52 and no officer career Fields Are closed to although some positions in some Fields Are closed because of the likelihood of Orr said the air forces removal of restrictions on women in minutemen missile launch control roles and in Security police positions testified to the services commitment to provide full career opportunities for this was demonstrated by the opening of the air borne warning and control system in the kc10 in 1984 and the Security specially in he women Are about or 11 of the air forces defense department figures about Are women have been about 10 percent of the army and 9 percent of the Consumers warned of confusion Auto accuracy in dispute by Allen Cowan staff writer an Auto advertisement in the May 27 Issue of shop pers biweekly news May be steering car buying serv ice members in the wrong the run by Volkswagen military said that service members cant order american specification vows from a German part of the and Flash vow of Germany takes no new orders for specification vows from their you can Only order for immediate delivery specification Volkswagen through 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