European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. December 28, 19bb the stars and stripes Page 3 troops Cut but Quality of life improves Vince lawmakers thai weight limits for household goods needed to be upgraded separate household goods weight tables for married and single personnel. Along with a general increase in weight limits for Many pay grades will go into effect in 1989. We were Able to Shew that in Many cases people were bearing significant costs Oul of their own pockets Luke Man said Congress was never really against the idea of increasing those Lim its we just had to show that there was a compelling reason for doing  As for the congressionally mandated drop in Force size More than 60 percent of the 33.000 reduction was achieved. Through extensive Early separation pro Grams in the army and air Force during Spring and summer Lukeman said. Other trimming methods included lowering recruiting goals Light eng re enlistments and deliberately keeping some units at less than full strength. Whether Force size will continue to be reduced is unclear Lukeman said. Penta gon officials said the tentative plan is to keep personnel strength at fiscal 1988 Levels although there was a further drop of almost 8,000 in october the first month of fiscal 1989,. One official said that drop was Proba Bly the Tail end effect of previous person Nel actions such As the Early outs. We Don t expect personnel strength to drop much further the official said. We d like a level program from 1 988 to 1 989." a lingering Issue not resolved in 1988is inc number of officers on Active duly. The Pentagon got Congress to repeal about hair of a multiyear 6 percent Cut in officer strength by offering to make certain reductions at the Headquarters level of venous unified and specified commands. 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