European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday january to 1beb the stars and stripes Paga 3 army evaluating no rating system team says resistance to plan fading by Crystal Laureano stuff writer Darmstadt Germany Skepi cism about the new no evaluation re port is waning As soldiers receive More details about inc symme. A total army personnel Agency spokesman said it s Only human 10 resist some degree of change said maj. William Taylor. But i think thai Overall it is a Good system. And in time once the system is in place and the raters and senior raters have had some zip Crince with ii they Wilt also find that ii is a great system. Taylor ii part of a two Man learn from the Agency s evaluation systems office that is briefing soldiers throughout Europe this month in he new no evaluation report there has been no big Issue of com Mon concern among the groups he Lias addressed Taylor said. Most key in a inc non rated time which will occur when the current enlisted evaluation report system stops and the new no evaluation report system he said i Don t know Why be cause it won t be a problem. Almost everyone will have Inge non rated time with the he said the non rated Lime the time lapse Between the phasing out of the old system and the initiation of the new will not Hurt any no s career. I was sceptical at first said Sec. Kenton Murray 30lh postal Del. Bui Murray also Fen thai a new system was needed. The old report system is too opinionated. Sometimes it can come Down to if a decision you made is the same As your Rater would make not whether or not it is right he said. Start sgt. Gloria Cave also was reluctant to accept the new evaluation report. My first reaction was Why do we need a change i thought the old system worked Well the he Del personnel services no said. Maybe it just seems More Complex because it is new. And we Are used to the old the major difference in the new sys tem is that narratives and numerical scoring Are eliminated. In place of the one a Haugh five scor ing will be the Choice of excellence Success and needs Success is intended to equal a 12 rating on the old system enlisted evaluation report Taylor said. Taylor said it my take some adjust ment for Many cos to equal the Suc Cess rating to the maximum ruling on the Eer. When a Soldier is doing a Good Job it is kind of instinctual to give the highest rating available but excellence is in tended to recognize the truly outstanding Soldier Taylor said. Most cos agree that the Eer system has become inflated any time you re juggling numbers you can inflate and pad to Fil your needs said Darmstadt s he Del is sgt. Howard Austin taking the numbers out is a step in the right in the areas where a written justification is mandatory or optional Only Brief Bullet comments Are acceptable. The promotion Board members won t have to read through All of that to Sec what your qualifications Are and they usually Don t have the Lime Tor that anyway Taylor said. He said selection boards were consulted on the readability of the new reports and they liked inc new formal. Another major change in the system is the requirement of quarterly counselling the dates of which must be entered on the no cd aftalion report. A checklist standardizes and simplifies counselling. Counselling is mandatory for corporals through sergeants first class although corporals will not receive an evaluation report. The mandatory counselling is really Good Cave said. It s something which should be happening anyway but this provides a system of checks and bal the new system will be phased in tic curing to rank. Sergeants major first sergeants and master surge hints can receive the old ears through feb. 29. Counselling under the new system begins in March and april and inc first no evaluations May be Given to Early As june i. Sergeants first close staff sergeants and sergeants in pm movable status can receive an Eer through May 31. Coun seling under the new system begins in june und july and they can receive their first no evaluation report As Early As sept. on a promotion list can receive an Eer until aug. 21. Counselling begins in september and october. Those cos could receive their fint evaluations under the new system dec. I. Counselling Tor corporals begins in de Cember two men help one of in injured Attr a dragster crushed Inlo will at Anaheim stadium in California. 12 Hurt As dragster crashes Anaheim Calif. A a High Speed dragster roared out of control and crashed saturday night in Juring at lean ii people at the motor sports Eslava Gan Ashow at Anaheim stadium the dragster sped Down a dirt strip but was unable to Stop and crashed into a 5-fool-High Field Wall authorities and witnesses said. When the dragster got 10 the end of the track the vehicle just kind of exploded like a grenade said witness Dennis Slagle. The dragster clipped Casey Gill a worker handing on the Field before its rear Axle and wheels flipped Over sending in flying into the grandstand officials said. The dragster driven by George Scoll of san Bernar Dino was supposed to make Only a 20-foot demonstration ran said Penny Nicolai of so Page promotions management producer of the show. At Lent five people were taken 19 Western medical Center where All were listed in serious condition according to nursing supervisor Corinne Adams two More people were taken to the University of California. Irvine. Medical Center. Their injuries Are fairly minor said nursing supervisor Sharon Lyons. The conditions of Gill Scott and other injured per sons were unknown. The stadium holds about 56,000 people and wit Nesses Laid it was about a third full when the Accident occurred a wheel flew up into the audience maybe 20 raws into the audience said Peter Macgil Ivray. A Pasadena resident who was taking photographs when the crash occurred. There must be been other stuff that flew up there because the injuries were sort of spread out in the stadium. Although Anaheim police were notified no information was immediately available said police sgt. Gor Don Blair. The dragster was t associated with saturday night s show and was intended As a promotion for drag races scheduled at the stadium next weekend Nicolai said. Soviets to place fighter controls on pollution Moscow the government has declared Ami pollution practices woefully inadequate and it has announced plans for a Radical change in Environ mental Protection that would include greater citizen official Tass news Agency on saturday said an environmental Protection Law will be drafted next year and Cili Zeni environmental groups will be allowed to unite under an officially sanctioned umbrella Organiza also said a related publishing House would be created the Agency gave few details of what kind or changes Are in store and did not specify Ciao plus of Environ mental than 10 percent of soviet families own cars and City streets even in Moscow where about 9 million people live carry far fewer automobiles than those in Western air pollution is so bad in Moscow thai sunsets illuminate a Brownish purple Haze Over the City. Thick Black smoke Pilurs from the exhaust pipes of virtually every truck and bus on the Road. Factories churn out Darla plumes in All Industrial areas scattering soot and chemical residue on build Ings and sidewalks. Tass said the environmental situation has improved since Mikhail s. Gorbachev s Rise to leadership in 1985, bul at the same time there Art serious Short comings in environmental Protection activities the Agency said saturday s decision by the government and communist party gives the soviet stale committee for environmental Protection the Job of coordinating Conser vation efforts and deciding the most rational use of natural also establishes an umbrella organization for the unofficial citizens groups that have been speaking out against the abuse of the environment and lobbying for the cleanup of badly polluted areas. The decision supported the proposals of the Public to set up a Union of environmental Protection societies of the . As Well As to found a s Lishing House Tass said.,.the Agency gave no Ciao plus of the societies to do brought under the official Union. One of the More vocal and effective societies has been a group of siberian writers and Artisti which has fought for Protection of Southern Siberia s Lake Baikal which holds one fifth of the world s fresh water
