European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday August 13, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 of sleep it is a gentle thing beloved from pole to  no one could be More in tune with the poet Coleridge summer slumber than this Young Warrior caught by a roving Lens in the1988 Usa eur photography contest the photo titled tired and dirty won second place for sgt. Wil Liam h. Mcmichael jr., he co 1st army div Ansbach. Panels of second Chance go Bill sign ups by Chuck Vinc Washington Bureau Washington Over defense department objections two key House committees have voted to give service members a second Chance to sign up for the Montgomery i Bill. Under the provisions approve wednesday by the House armed serv ices and veterans affairs committees service members who enlisted Between june 1985 and july 1988 and did no sign up for the program would be Given four months to reconsider. About 300,000 recruits have enlisted Over the past three years. The congressional budget office estimates about 10percent of them would take advantage of the second Chance. The full House must now vote on the change. The Senate is scheduled to vote on a similar Bill of its own in  House and Senate then will go into conference to resolve any differences i their respective versions. A final Bill then will go to president Reagan for his Signa Ture. The 120-Day sign up window would begin one month after Reagan signs the legislation into Law. Under the new i Bill named i Honor of its sponsor rep. Sonny Mont Gomery d-miss., recruits agree to pay$100 a month during their first 12 months of service. In return the military pays them up to $10,800 toward College tuition and  decided on the second Chance to sign up after some military officials testified at hearings that they did t do enough to promote the new Gib ill when it was introduced. Service member generally must decide whether to enrol in the program within three weeks of  Pentagon opposes the provision because of its costs. David Armor the defense department s no. 2 manpower official testified last month that costs would Rise because service contributions to the program would have to be paid to More people. Supporters of the second Chance offer admit the i Bill eventually will Cost the government a lot of Money As increasing numbers of service members begin using their benefits but they say better educated veterans will land higher paying jobs and pay More taxes Back to the government than they would have without the additional education. House speaker Jim Wright a Texas has estimated that the ratio of tax dollars coming Back to the government  paid out in education benefits is 20tol. 30,000 Early outs saved army $110 million by Chuck Vinc Washington Bureau Washington the army Sepa rated about 30,000 soldiers 5,000 More than expected up to three months Earl under a recent budget cutting program that saved the service $110 Nutton the program under which Soldier scheduled to leave the service Between March 1 and sept. 30 separated up to three months Early unless they planned to re enlist was put into effect for the second  year to meet strains an army personnel the army had More soldiers separate under the program than planned because there were fewer requests for exemptions than officials anticipated. While there trill be an increase in Gram s unexpected Success the official said it will not be significant because about 6$ percent of the soldiers Sepa rated were in e-3 and e-4 grades. Since most of Hie people separated were in the Low grades it does t leave atom of room for promotions the official said. There were some e-5s who were separated but we Don t want to get All the promotable e-4s excited. We re no going to have any massive surge to �-5 for those people. Army promotion rates have been slowed because of budget constraints but generally Are expected to reverse their downward trend in the next few months the official said we be bottomed out he said. We be stopped decelerating like behave been recently so now we re Back to something that approaches  at the moment there Are no plans fora mandatory Early out program in fiscal 1989."but you never know the official said. With the recent veto of the de sense authorization Bill we re not sure what the numbers for next year will lookalike. A lot depends on what happens with the budget