European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 27. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 Dod weeding out recruitment abuses cheating salesmen not tolerated by Norman Black a military writer Washington the Pentagon says in finally has handle on an old and stubborn problem recruiters who break the rules id sign up volunteers who can t meet the military s standards. We be always had recruiters who think they have to cheat to succeed says army it. Col. John  try to impose integrity in the system but some times you get salesmen who fed it s Loo Lough to make their Mission quota without  we re gelling Good people and a Good Cross Section of people and mat s really testimony to the Quality of the recruiters in the Field adds i. Cmdr. Bill Clyde a spokesman for the Navy recruiting command. But it s a Tough Job. It s a business just like any commercial sales  Early this year the army relieved or reprimanded More than 30 of its recruiters in Minnesota and wis Consin after concluding that criminal records of re croats had been concealed and High school diploma forged. An army investigation in new Jersey ended with 14 recruiters disciplined including a unit com Mander. Four Marine corps recruiters assigned to Detroit were ordered court Martiale on charges of recruiting improprieties. Two were acquitted however and the charges against the other two were dropped. And last month six army recruiters at Long Beach calif., were temporarily suspended pending an investigation of allegations that an applicant s nigh school diploma had been falsified. However the four military services determined to avoid he scandals that surrounded recruiting in the Early years of the All Volunteer military insist the maintain extensive checks and controls Over their recruiters. Any allegation of wrongdoing is investigated. The army opens More than 1,000 investigations in the course of a year More than 2 so Are now under Way. We react to Recruiter impropriety quite strongly says Cullen. An army unfairly recruited is not an army that we want to defend us. If you have a Guy in the foxhole next to you who had a ringer Lake a test for him that s not going to make you fed very  All four services Point to statistics indicating the incidence of Recruiter malpractice has declined in the Case of the army for example 10b recruiters have been relieved for malpractice so far this fiscal year. By comparison 131 were relieved in fiscal 1�86 and 106 in 1985. In its worst year fiscal 1980. 44d recruiters were relieved following a nationwide crack Down the Navy says it has relieved 19 recruiters from an army unfairly recruited is not an army that we want to defend us it. Col. John Cullen duty this fiscal year for recruiting malpractice. There were 15 cases in fiscal 1986 and 2 tin fiscal 1985. For the Marine corps the statistics show 16 recruit ers have been relieved in fiscal 1987, compared to 19in fiscal 1986 and 25 in fiscal 1985. Only one air Force Recruiter has been relieved for malpractice this fiscal year compared to five in 1986and five in 1985. The four services disagree about whether the pres sures on their recruiters arc increasing As the number of teen agers coming of age each year particularly males declines. In what some demographers Call the great baby bust the number of is to-24-year-old males available in 1996 is expected to be 20 percent below 1979 s total. The air Force says it has t noticed any change in recent years. The Marine corps says recruiting is Al ways difficult but its recruiters Are under less pres sure than in past years because of current  but the Navy and army say things Are getting Lough . Company bears ouf French in contract to launch satellites san Diego up general dynamics scoring Amajor Victory for an american rocket Industry competing to orbit satellites in the Wake of the challenger disaster was chosen Over the French to launch up to three european satellites. The agreement with the european telecommunications satellite organization announced Friday cover the launch of an Eutelsat-2 communications satellite in Early 1990 from Cape canaveral fla., with options for up to two additional launches. The satellites will he used for Telephone telex and data trans missions across Europe. In the past Eutel sat has used the French built ariane rocket America s major Competition in the unmanned launch Market to carry its satellites. Bui Andrea Caruso director general of the 26-na Tion consortium said the Atlas Centaur built by Gen eral dynamics was a ejected because of Cost schedule flexibility and reliability according to a general dynamics statement. The value of the contract which includes the rocket and All launch services was not revealed but a company official said the typical sticker Price for an Atlas Centaur and launch services a about j59 million. The contract is the Elm for general dynamics since announcing plans earlier this year to build 18 at a centaurs in a commercial venture to tap the unmanned launch Market. Alan Lovelace general manager of the general dynamics space division said the contract which will be formally signed in Geneva next month is a significant action that reinforces our commitment to be a Leader in the commercial launch services  two other american companies. Martin Marietta of Bethesda md., and Mcdonnell Douglas corp. Of , also Are marketing unmanned rockets. Both have signed firm launch contracts with More expected. Following last year s challenger disaster. President Reagan banned most commercial satellites from future shuttle flights to encourage development of a private sector launch Industry forcing owners of dozens of satellites o find new launchers. The Eutel sat contract Marks the first Sale in the program although company officials said other reservations have been booked. Mcdonnell Douglas which is building Delta rockets for the air Force has signed contracts to launch a pair of British communications satellites for 1100 million along with a communications station owned by India. Martin Marietta builder of the Titan 3 rocket has signed two contracts to launch Intelsat 6 satellites in Adeal valued at $220 million. We have less Money for the army College fund this year notes Cullen. We got Cut Back on our Bonus Money. We have less Money this year to do our Adver Tising. And there Are 10 percent fewer Young my age 18 to 24 out there right now than in 1979. So yes in is tougher. And it s also tougher because we re not lowering our standards. We had an army of lower Quality recruits not so Long ago and it was t a very Good  All told the four services have 14,054 men an women assigned to Active recruiting in the Field 5.2cm for the army 4,660 for the Navy 2,445 for the Marine corps and 1,745 for the air Force. Every Day of the year weekends included Hose recruiters must collectively sign up an average of More than 900 men and women or about 333,000 for the year. All four recruiting commands say the Job would Beeves More daunting had not the Reagan administration succeeded in the Early 1980s in persuading con Gress to boost military pay Levels. The pay hikes and such initiatives As offering Money to recruits for College when combined with a recession and a surge in patriotism persuaded More people Al ready in the service to re enlist. That allowed the serv ices to lower their quotas for new recruits and become More selective. The results record recruits with army recruiters no longer get credit for signing up individuals who Don t fit assigned Mission categories for instance & qualified female can t count toward the month s quota for male High school graduates who score at a certain level on the armed Force qualification test. Nonetheless Pentagon officials worry about the future of the 14-year-old All Volunteer military. Pilots and nuclear Power specialists Are leaving the services for jobs in Industry. Congress once again appears in Chi on capping annual salary increases and All four services Are having difficulty recruiting doctors and other health professionals. Lulls percentages in the number of it High school diplomas. White wonder an Albino hedgehog is displayed in London by sue Stacker. She and her husband Les run what they claim if the Only hedgehog Hospital in the world. The in creature is one of two albinos that were found in my  litter of life. Try fined $ 100,000 for fraud on defense work Denver a a . District judge ordered try to pay s 100,000 in Tumi Fri Day after the company pleaded guilty to defrauding the government on defense work. The Tine wis the maximum Penally Al Lowed 110,000 for each of 10 counts of fraud. The company ranked no. 21 on the Pentagon s its of contractors with More than f 1 billion in contracts last year had pleaded guilty to the count sell. 3. William Lawrence try vice presi Dent and Legal counsel bad asked judge Zita Weinshienk to consider that the company itself had discovered the fraud acted to Correct it and had agreed to pay restitution to the Federal government. The judge responded that it was Admi Rable that the company moved quickly to solve the problem but that was the Only thing that could have been  the Cleveland based company agreed to pay 117 million in restitution when it pleaded guilty sept. 3. Try which makes electronic communications equipment for the government entered its plea in conjunction with a ease involving electronic products inc., a subsidiary based in Colorado Springs. The 10 count felony indictment charged that Epi submitted false labor Cost vouchers to the defense department Between april 1983and april 1984. The company dismissed four manag ers and disciplined others after disgruntled employees went Public with in formation about the fraud