European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes monday.augusl31.1987 recruiters keep Busy filling quotas by Rob Levin Cox news service Atlanta Eric tuck a senior at North Gwin net High school Uncertain of his future after wad. Calion stares at the Ideo screen in the army s Law rence Ille a. P recruiting station. The screen displays a photograph of it pile of paper Money. The photograph s caption makes it Clear what his future holds should he join the army. It reads Simone Jwj. Beside him sol. Sieve Harwig one of the army s top recruiters explains Cash Enlis Melit bonuses to the lanky teen Ager. At the mention of to enlisting Bonus of$b,000 for language skills training tuck s head Perks up. \ in downtown Atlanta a Marine corps recruiting sergeant treats applicants to movies and lunch it invites them to picnics and chats with their parents. " at the Navy s recruiting station an applicant question sends the Recruiter scrambling for the phone to gel an answer. Is this How rambo got i Start does it Lake pampering and coddling to staff our aimed services with fighters since Jan. 1, 1973, who the so vol in Lear services replaced the draft it definitely helps. Throughout the country smiling military recruiters Are pursuing eligible applicants in their Homes shop Ping malls Gas stations annd pick Only those soldiers who ranked in tha of 10 percent of their specially Field Alinous Tuftin Force Recruiter Volunteer for the Post if recruiting school Ilieff de pending on he Servia rats from four to six weeks. It was 244 of Jyce Meane hours i be Ever spent in any Das room Yea Lis staff so William Brill an air Force  subject you to extremely hostile  try to hit youth every bad Situa Tion any objection from Parent and mends. At Uff army s recruiting school sed at fort a Jarm n Harrison lad., the  veered rain administrative details and now conf curates on the Manship with doses of psychology anal Narket analysis thrown in says maj. Douglas  recruiting school instructor. The number of new recruits needed each year to replenish inc armed services keeps recruiters Busy. For example the marines plan to enlist 44,323 Menand women this year and the air Force 55,000. As enlistment requirements toughen Recruiter must work harder to maintain monthly quotas usually about four new recruits per month. Formerly the  congratulated them selves if 50  soldiers Neld High school degrees recruit Euray now 97 percent to 99 per cent of the enlist arc High school  intelligence and aptitude tests Are Given. Thorough Nysia s Are mandatory and applicants Jamesjr run through nationwide crime computers to Fra Sny potential Security  become adept at sizing up applicant try on. Does he look physically fit docs he have a sense of direction about what he wants in life is he or Bright enough to pass the written test a Navy Recruiter Tom Richard looks askance at someone who has dropped out of High school. If you quit once you May quit again he surmise. We need to know everything including speeding tickets says sol. Edward a Barnes a Marine Recruiter. Recruiters also want to know about personal problems and whether the applicant pays his Bills online. He could be a Superman in physical fitness andean Einstein in mental capacities. But i might Termi Nate the interview and Tell him he needs to do a few things to straighten himself out Barnes  re not lying when we say we re looking for a Lew Good men. We Don t want trash ii used to be numbers army Recruiter Harwig says. You needed to put so Many in per month Ana it did t matter who it was. Was , it not Only matters who but How the applicant is recruited. Recruiter say they Ere Loath tomake promises that can t be backed up in writing. Legally binding contract signed by the Recruiter include such guarantees As what training will be offered where inc applicant will be stationed what College benefits will be offered and what the pay will be. The enlisted s signature guarantee his appear Ance at Boot Camp. Educational benefits attract Many recruits by Connie Dickey staff writer / Frankfurt recruiters a Germany say the military Sells itself when it Comet to gelling folks to sign on the dotted line. / the recruiters who target it to 21-year-old males said a mixture of educational benefits patriotism and Job training Ana skills is drawing enlistees. The Veteran  they Don t have to cod dle or pamper anyone to get them to enlist although they May Spring open occasional lunch for prospective recruits. / the educational benefits arc the big draw said Sec. Roger a flt Oll an army Recruiter when your dad is an b-7 or an e-8, you just Don t have the Money to tend the kids to College. So the Arm College fund is drawing Many people into the army Birt he said patriotism and Job training and skills Arp disc behind the educational benefits. / dad is in the service so there is thai link Al though if dad is in the army and goes to the Field a lot they Don t want to go into the same specially. Some even will go into another military  chief Petty officer Sieve Young said Young peo ple coining into the Navy want the training that the Navy gives and he has no problem filling he monthly goals. Master gunnery sgt. . Goebl said 90 percent of those inter Leo in joining the Marine corps do so because they want to be  corps Sells itself. They want 10 be part of the few the proud what we re looting  he said what surprises him is thai within the past few years recruits Are saying they want to join the corps for the technical skills available. Air Force master sol. Richard Arambula said he has seen a resurgence of patriotism among recruits in the past five years. It has to do with dad being in the military an they want to do something for their country  but he said educational benefits Are the main reason Many give him for enlisting. Arambula who is stationed it Rhea main and and the other recruiters in Frankfurt said former service members Are always coming in to talk. Werbel a lot of soldiers who took european outland can tend jobs who come in to talk and re lift or they Wib talk to another  Stoll said. The recruiters said their main problems Are Logis tical became of the Large area. The two Manns recruiters in Frankfurt Are responsible for All of Europe except the United kingdom. The two Navy recruiters in Frank flirt Are responsible for the entire continent the near Bat and Pic Mediterranean. The air Force with two recruiters at Rhein main a and the United kingdom and one each in Stull Gart and Vogel Weh cover of Safe. The two army recruiters in Frankfurt arc responsible for Germany North of Mannheim and Luxem Bourg Belgium the Netherlands Norway and Den Mark so far during this fiscal year the recruiters in Frankfurt have enlisted 36 people in the Marine corps Iso in the Navy and 96 in the army. The six air Force recruiters have enlisted 216 people. The army also has two recruiters stationed in England Kaiser Lautem and Nuernberg and one in Stuttgart and Vicenza Italy. Tourists irk spaniards poll says Madrid Spain a despite encouragement from officials to smile and be Nite to help bolster the country s leading Industry spaniards Are gelling fed up with mass tourism according to a radio Survey conducted on Friday. The results of the informal Survey that was taken by the private Antenna 3 nationwide radio network indicated that its listeners think spaniards already treat tourists better than they deserve and that the major Ity of foreign visitors Are poor noisy and ill Man  officials say about so million foreign tourists will visit Spain this year spending an estimated st5 Bil lion. Those figures make the country the world s Lead ing tourist nation. But the radio listeners said the tourists they knew about spent Tittle Money washed their feel in Public fountains parked their camper vans wherever they pleased and screamed at each other in foreign languages. According to the popular British press even Spain s King Juan Carlos has expressed reservations about mass tourism in remarks reportedly made to the head of the autonomous government of the Balearic islands. The remarks were later passed on to local journalists. Antenna 3 listeners were of the opinion that the real beneficiaries from tourism in Spain Are the middlemen such As tourist agencies hotel chains and foreign tour operators. And according to a Survey conducted in july for elfa is Spain s leading newspaper the majority of the nation s 38,8 million inhabitants do not Lake any Vaca Tion at All. The Antenna 3 listeners said that if they would be asked to choose hey would prefer tourists from Scandinavia and then germans and then the English. A number of listeners characterized the French who rank first in number of tourists to Spain As dirty and  world today . Ambassador to Syria will return to his Post Washington