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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday. January 12,1988 Carlucci arrives in Paris for conferences \ defense scr Relar Frank drilled right baud inc Dock Landing of Torch proposal but Mcgovern said  the airlines Are hiring 4,000 to 5,000 Pilot per year and it appears they la be doing that for the next10 Yean. So we really Don t have much Choice Mccoy pm said in an interview Friday. Until recently the air Force Wujs  at More than the Fiji full i1l a needed to j flying he said. Ulc Fly Jet a pfc aj3jrfcnt of the pilots have completed t Sive training he said. The theory is that it costs us about 16 million to train a Pilot. By the time he is combat ready which is roughly four or five years Mcgovey said. Prorated Over the Pilot s projected lying time he said the air Force is paying s4.000 to 16,000 per flight hour. Therefore the official said in � kind of silly to worry  Mehim Ktanis for a Guy million to train when for just two More flight hours you can gel him obligated to another  we re Irving to Appeal to the Guy in the Tii-Lo-11-year group Tje cause that s where our retention problem Are the  tar the pilots pass the 11-year service Mark putt look at that 20-year retirement to governs Nib pfc the air Force a8cv%gfcunect to keep All i pilots when their  Are up but to keep enough of them that Are Yno Livaie by that 20 years the undersecretary said. Pentagon from Page 1 the study finding until noon , the Washington Post reported the study s major findings in its sunday edition saying it obtained a copy of the report from sources who placed no embargo on its  As a result the embargo was lifted sunday maj Randal a Morger a Pentagon spokesman said. The report which defense depart ment officials said Cost si.6 million reaffirms much of current american strategy but it also Calls for major adjustments in Light of new technologies and shifts in political and Economico a in the world. The panel s recommendation that United slates nuclear strategy undergo reappraisal May be controversial Amon some european allies. The commission s belief that better nuclear and non nuclear option Are required to protect the United slates audits allies May be seen in same european nations As evidence that the Doit islam is de coupling its nuclear forces from the defense of Western Europe. A commission official denied this waste Case. He said the major nato allies have been kept informed of the commis Sion s Progress. To help defend our allies and to de exercise flee Tex gets under Way w Asb Fiton Iarj More than 40vs. And  in conducting a two week training Escom waiting this week in the Western Atlan lieu the Caribbean sea inc Navy annoy the exercise part of a continuing series has been dubbed flee Tex and will include two . Aircraft Carrier Bat ice groups assigned to the 2nd file clan Shore based aircraft Rine corps and Aires Mihalso will participate in ihejidjc7which will run from to Ujj Lutan. 26. In al17 . Warships will join the live foreign vessels during the course of the exercise. Leading the american ships will be the carriers Eisenhower and for Rosial and the nuclear powered guide wac Cruiser Virginia lulefflwij.,. A include the Iroquois Fonkim dub the de yer Darm from Germany ale Phoebe from Britain and the. Van  and i Heyn from the Netherlands. The american warships Are steaming from six ports along the East coast and More Shoji 25,000 american personnel will be involved in the test. The exercise which was scheduled i taking place Jan. 17 election in Haiti which has been wracked by Politi Cal violence. The United Stales nil off All but humanitarian Aid to Haiti last no vember when the military run govern ment cancelled an election. Though there have been no recent juries to americans on the. Tiff of a Large . Fier in nearby  in easy to mount an evacuation  Nec Essary. Fend our interest abroad we cannot re Lyon threats expected to provoke our own annihilation if carried out said i decommission report. The idea of stability through Mutual vulnerability has Long been assailed for in contradictions the report said yet such View shave incredibly ruined an extraordinary hold Over political and military elites in the Wen especially  the report warns that focusing one ireme situations where the threat of a furl scale nuclear Exchange become the ultimate leverage against attack divert defense planners from developing tute Gies to Cope with More plausible possibilities such As limited regional aggression by the soviet Union. The commission recommend a tale by based on both conventional and nuclear weapons with a mix of offensive and defensive systems. Ii does not address the pics Ideal t strategic defens initiative known As Star wan in any detail but Stales thai even partial anti missile defences in the United slates and in Europe can play an important pan Ina balanced strategy for the future. The report oils emerging technologies for precision weapons communication and intelligence critical 10 he strategy of relying on mix of nuclear and non nuclear weapons in the coming years  
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