European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Side stripes d Reagan Calls for farm policy d pro football preview a look at the pfc crash theory called premature 5 23 28 the 123 authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces August 1985 1se Dolly Ond sunday d 8693 a changes urged in officers corps problems include Early tour length Rii Axtt by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington an officers professionalism clashes with the reality that a military career is usually just a first and military Reform wont succeed until such Root problems Are a defense department consultant one solution is penalty backed minimum tour lengths for retirement eligible senior Grace commission deferred pensions for Early bonuses for late retirees and a ban on mandatory retirement before 35 except for poor that is the thesis of William a consultant on military career writing in an August backgrounder paper from the conservative heritage today american military an in de skilled bureaucracy is a prisoner of military his Hauser he says military reforms such As simpler Man Euver leading rather than managing troops and interservice cooperation Are bound to fail until the professionalism Issue is the sharpest criticism coming from the military re form movement is not so much with the administering of weapons programs As with the Art of visualizing the Battlefield where those weapons will be employed not so much with the design of forces As with each services seeming priority of boosting its own size and Bud he military it is Lack competence in tactics and traditionally the Core expertise of the Hauser contends today officers corps is designed to respond to a mobilization like that in world War when the Force grew from about to More than 8 million in three it meant recruiting vast numbers of Junior and mid degrade and Many prewar colonels and Gener als had to be shouldered aside to make Way for younger in the nation opted for a larger and younger officer after the War came Laws authorizing a generous 20 year retirement system and up or out the War see changes on Page 28 which Way to the junkyard a photo Alan of after barrelling Down Niagara Falls Niagara Canada up 22yearold american carrying a Banner supporting president Reagan because the Guys Coor went Over Niagara Falls in a barrel sunday and Steve a bartender and stuntman who lives in fort and bar was the first american to go Over the Falls in 28 years and Only the seventh person in history to survive the he suffered Only a scrape behind his left knee in the Rocky ride Over the swirling 178 foot High Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian Side of the but Niagara Parks police quickly charged him with performing a a criminal offence under the Canad an Niagara Parks he will appear in court police said Trotter made the trip in a 14 foot inflatable device made of reinforced Pickle barrels surrounded by inner tubes and lined with dense foam similar in design to a vehicle built by red Hill who died trying the same stunt in the late describing the stunt As being like an elevator ride without Trotter told reporters he and a group of supporters entered the Park from the american Side at Terrapin the group watched As he was swept Over the Falls and popped out of the he opened the waved to his group and was picked up by police in one of the maid of the Mist tour Trotter was taken to greater Niagara general where he was examined and Trotter told reporters he tried to ride the Falls last 14 from the Canadian but was stopped by police before he got in the he also ruled out another