European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Of hoping Early outs trim 600 officers Friday february 22, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 9 by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau a Washington a the air Force is seeking to trim about 600 officers from its Active duty Rolls under an Early out program announced last week. The air Force is offering a variety of waivers for f?n5ce commit rents so that officers in non critical. Skills can separate or retire Early said officials with the personnel Center at Randolph fab Texas. Eligible officers can ask for a Date of separation through sept. 29, whereas officers who already have More than 20 years of service can retire through sept. 1. The air Force has placed several restrictions on the program. For example pilots in the ranks of lieutenant colonel and below Are ineligible. Medical officers air Force Academy graduates with less than five years of Active duty officers in formal training or professional military education courses and those who came on Active duty on or after Jan. 1,1989, Are also ineligible. Officers who Are being kept on Active duty by the services Stop loss program can apply for an Early out but they will not be allowed to leave until the Stop loss restrictions Are lifted or an exemption is approved a personnel official said. A Liberal waivers for most Active duty service commit ment Sare being considered to encourage officers to participate in the Early out program the official said. They include waivers of up to 12 months for those who attended the air Force Institute of technology up to 18 months for promotions up to 24 months for professional military education and other types of educational assistance and up to 36 months for navigator flying training. In addition waivers for service commitments incurred for various reassignment moves Are also available they include waivers of up to 18 months for moves within the Continental United states up to six months for moves from overseas to stateside and up to 12 months for moves from stateside to overseas. Unlike previous Early release programs sonic officers who waive a commitment to take an Early out will have to serve for a time in the individual ready Reserve. That policy affects Reserve officers who have be to Yeen eight and 20 years of service and regular officers \ with Between eight and 18 years of service. The air Force announced plans feb. 4 to Cut at least 14,000,officer positions during the next three years to meet reduced personnel Levels mandated by Congress. The Navy and army have no plans for similar voluntary a Early out programs for officers. However the Navy recently convened its first selective Early retirement Board to trim about 450 captains and lieutenant commander. The army which has used selective Early retirement boards regularly in recent years has however put All future plans for such boards on hold until after operation desert storm ends an army personnel official said. Wall lookalike a Uta ural examines a Book entitled a Oberlin 13 August 1990,�?� which has been designed to resemble a piece of the Berlin Wall. The Book presently on exhibit at the Frankfurt Germany City Library will ultimately be on display at 25 other i rfcs. Gao says Dod not meeting reduction goals by Janet Howells Tierney Washington Bureau Washington a the army and air Force consistently miss Pentagon targets for reducing the number of career serv ice members in uniform then adjust their assigned goals to meet actual strengths according to a just released Gao report. The Quot practice Cost taxpayers an extra $73.9 million in fiscal 1989, the report a says. A a a a a. During that year the army exceeded the Pentagon a enlisted planning targets by 18,071 career soldiers a those with More than four years of service. The air Force also kept on 4,369 More career airmen than had been planned that year the report said. Pay and benefits for enlisted person Nel who make up More than 85 percent of the armed forces account for one sixth of the annual defense budget Gao investigators calculated. To meet budget limits the Pentagon has in recent years sought to reduce the number of senior enlisted people in uniform. However the Pentagon never enforced those goals. In the four years covered by the investigation fiscal years 1986 through 1989, total end strengths for the services decreased while the number of career enlisted personnel increased. For example the number of airmen with four or More years of service went from 289,841, or 58.6 percent of the air Force in 1986, to 297,246, or 64.2 per cent in 1989. During the same time the services total enlisted Force dropped by 32,413, the report said. To accommodate the larger than expected number of career personnel both services Cut the number of new recruits to reach mandated Force Levels the report said. Reducing Only new recruits can Lead to future shortages of experienced personnel and raise retirement costs investigators warned. I the report faulted the Pentagon for no establishing criteria on what level of seniority is needed by the services. It recommended that objectives be set and enforced. The defense department agreed with investigators that solid in Jority objectives for each service Are needed but it said the goals must remain flexible. A even if an Ideal steady ,. Objective could be developed it could Richcr be achieved unless nothing changed for 30 years a Christopher Jehn the Pentagon a manpower chief said it a letter in response to the report. However a revised directive on in listed Force management will be staffed in May and it will require each service to establish firm annual objectives Jehn wrote. In the past year the air Force has also shortened the maximum career lengths for non commissioned officers and raised re enlistment standards in an Effort to reduce the number of senior enlisted Mem bars. A a a police believe 4 people attacked . Embassy Karlsruhe Germany a amps a police investigators now believe four people were involved in last weeks shooting attack on the . Embassy in Bonn a spokesman for the state prosecutor in Karlsruhe said wednesday. A after comparing eyewitness accounts we concluded that three persons fired the weapons while a. Fourth waited in the Volkswagen passant that served As a getaway car a the spokesman said. It was believed earlier that Only three people took part in the feb. 13 shooting. The German terrorist red army faction claimed responsibility for the attack in a letter left at the scene. 19 injured in German accidents unified Germany sets first budget Bonn Germany up a Germany a first budget since its october unification will amount to More than $265 billion including More than $7 billion for the persian Gulf War officials said wednesday. Finance minister Theo Taigel presented the 1991 budget proposal tothe Cabinet wednesday but did not include estimates on How much would be raised in planned tax hikes. A tax increases were not discussed so far a government spokesman Dieter Vogel said. A but there was agreement on the total budget and on the individual budgets a he said. Detmold Germany apr a Chain reaction crash of 50 vehicles on a foggy ice Cov Rcd Highway in North Central Germany Early thursday seriously injured 11 people and closed the Road for hours police said. A. A a a a a meanwhile police in the Wurzburg area East of Frankfurt reported More than 80 vehicles were damaged and at least eight people injured three seriously in numerous accidents caused by fog and ice police said the biggest pile ii thursday which included 45 cars and five trucks occurred on a 10-Milc stretch of the autobahn Between Rheda Wiede Briick and Goelde about 30 Miles North of Dortmund. Thick fog and ice on the Highway combined with speeding Drivers were the main cause of the pileup Detmold police said. Besides the 11 injuries some l,3pq Gallons of heating Oil and 6,500 Gallons of tar spilled onto the Road from trucks involved in the crash police said. The four Lane autobahn was closed to traffic Between Dortmund and Hanover until Early afternoon to allow Rescue and cleanup teams to Clear away the wreckage Oil and tar police said. A the Accident comes just two Days after five people were killed in a similar Chain reaction pileup on the same Highway where patches of fog and ice also caught speeding Drivers off guard. A police in the bavarian City of Wurzburg about 60 Miles East of Frankfurt said fog ice and speeding Drivers combined to cause More than 15 multiple car crashes. On a stretch of Road leading North from Wurzburg 60 cars crashed in More than a dozen accidents police a said. A Quot. A. Quot a. A a. A. On another Road cast of Wurzburg 20 cars crashed in eight separate accidents resulting from the dense fog and Slick conditions according to the police. Sentenced for Selling mines to Iraq Brescia Italy apr seven Empl Moyees of an italian arms company were sentenced wednesday to prison terms of up to 22 months for Selling millions of antitank mines to Iraq during its War with Iran according to a news  the italian company Valse la  sold about 9 million mines to Iraq for $180 million Between 1982 and 1985 without proper Export licenses the prosecution said during the trial that began a week ago. The italian government did not decree a formal arms i. 7.�? embargo those years but discouraged Export licenses for arms sales to either country. The prosecution said Valse la  formed a new company in Singapore to avoid the italian government in its dealings with Iraq. The defendants employees or sales people affiliated with the firm contended the government was aware of the arms sales. They received sentences ranging from 18 months to 22 months in prison