European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                D Safe releases 87 Accident figures Page 2 g Schmidt takes measure of leaders in new Book Page 9 q Sampson traded to warriors sports Page 21 the stars and stripes Lut hazed unofficial publication Foo the vol 46.no 240 monday. December lit 1987 a q 8693 a air Force May create Pilot career specially by nor Man Black Al military writer Washington the air Force has agreed to study the idea of creating a Hying career path for its pilots a move that would break sharply with the tradition that pilots Are first and Foremost officers and not just Jet jockeys while it May defy common perception air Force pilots tend to do most of their lying during the Early stages of their careers according to a new general accounting office report Hal disclosed the service s plans to conduct the study. By the time a Pilot has served 12 years in the service and sometimes much earlier he is being pushed into supervisory and staff positions whether he wants id move or not the Gao noted. The air Force has not undertaken an Overall study in the past to examine the advantages and disadvantages of offering pilots an alternative career path with a greater focus on the Pilot As a specialist rather than the total officer the Gao said. In an Era of declining budgets and concerns about tailing re enlistment rates such a study could deter mine whether More pilots would remain in the service if they had the Opportunity to keep flying longer the Gao suggested. The Pentagon responded in a letter dated nov. 13, advising the Gao that the air Force had agreed to launch the study the air Force will evaluate the Cost Benefit of creating a 20-year career path that places a Pilot in a flying Billet for Solo 100 percent of his or her career wrote David j. Armor the principal Deputy assistant defense Secretary for manpower he said the analysis win be completed by january 1988. Armor went on to note however the air Force Hod already spotted some problems with developing a Pilot specially. The service has Only so much Money to buy air planes and pay the Cost of flying them he said. The result is that pilots already have a hard time flying enough to maintain proficiency allocating these air plane assets to a Pilot career specialist Field would further limit the flying experience needed for those pilots who will form the future leadership of air Force operations he said. The 29-Page Gao study requested by rep. Bill Chappell d-fla., the chairman of the House appropriations defense subcommittee was released last week. It focuses broadly on what the military Calls the rated management process the personnel policies that govern men and women who have earned the rating of Pilot. The defense department s position is that All Mili tary pilots Are primarily officers and secondarily pilots they should therefore be trained to be total officers and to be competitive in their careers with other non Pilot officers the Gao  air farce believes thai intense specialization May limit an officer s usefulness. Training pilots to be total officers however has increased requirements for pilots because hey Are often assigned to professional see Pilot on Page 28 is hold by l explosion damage a table in the Mac up Stenger terminal employee break room Al Rhein main a shows the effect of a training device explosion that injured Ihrie German employers sunday the device blew a 4 Inch Hole in the table. Story on papa 28. Belgium s coalition faces loss of a or by Belgo prime minister Vilfried Martens cuts Bis ballot in Ghent an sunday. Brussels a Early return from National elections sunday indicated prime minister Wilfric Martens Cen Ter right government would lose its majority in parliament. With 16.4 percent of the vote counted. The Interior ministry projected that the governing four party coalition would lose nine seats and retain 106, or exactly half of the 212-scat legislature. The opposition socialists were projected to Post Large gains possibly enough to return them to the govern ment after a six year absence. The governing coalition is made up of Christian democrats and conservatives each split into dutch speaking and French speaking parties. It is a Clear disappointment said Martens Leader of the dutch speaking Christian democrats. The elections have made political life much More com  polls were open from b . To i . About 7 million people had been expected to vote in this bilingual nation of 10 million where balloting is mandatory. Eleven of the 29 parties in the elections held scats in the previous parliament. In Belgium nil political parties arc split into a French speaking party and a dutch speaking party. Martens 51, called the i Clinus on oct. 19. The Day his coalition collapsed in a linguistic dispute. I re Clellion polls Hud  Hal the four parly coalition the seventh Martens has headed since l 79, would lose i majority. The polls predicted gains for the socialists the dutch speaking socialists Are led by Kan a Van Mien. In \s.allnnia, the francophone socialist part 1 is k d by Guy spi lads. In the Lasi election in i9ks. Martens coalition got 50.2 percent of the Vole and won is of the 212 k i Lamo scats a gain of two Over the i my i elections the socialists got 28.4 percent of the Vine or 67 scats in 19tis. Whatever coalition emerges from the see Belgium on Page 26 Congress to get Case by Case ski requests Oslo Norway a the while House will no longer argue with con Gress for a Broad interpretation of the 1972 anti Ball Islic missile treaty but will make Casc by Case funding requests for Star wars programs. Secretary of state George Shu it Saij sunday. Shultz on a three Day trip to Ameri Ca s northernmost allies in Europe also made a plea for their Solidarity with nato s defense plans and ridiculed proposals for a nuclear free zone in the bal tic. Sulu arrived in Norway for two Days of talks after a Day of discussions in Copenhagen Denmark with prime min Osier Poul sch cuter and members of the conserva ivc a Mif a d danish govern ment. He has been briefing the nato allies on the Washington Summit including the decisions of the United Stales and soviet unman to follow i hair us a interpretations of the 172  treaty president Reagan s administration in Lori u the i Rity broadly to permit lie it Ming and  m of Sajiv hissed see ski on Page 28