Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                V 3 i str l  iter f t i it i or r of Arnot need for the time the discharge Point total will remain it 65 for enlisted men and 44 for enlisted exporting on the system As it nost he May 12 and july 31 the army has released Lon service soldiers under the Point the discharge of Veteran soldiers in this manner White a War is still in Progress i unprecedented 1 am sure that Only in a free country such overseas service credit to troops in As the United states would the army give such consideration to the individual and his welfare in time of the army is going to release men and women by june of be skilled to comb these men out of their a Large proportion of whom fill key and rebuild the with replacements of the particular skills these men have during the greatest troop move ment in history adds tremendously to the task of it can be done it can be done and still provide the army for the War against Jap an it can even be done and meet the demands of Macarthur s accelerated program against Jap but it has to be done on the basis that the first task of the army is winning the the operations of the Point system be subordinate to the fighting needs of that Means that Many High score men will have to wait for replacements in their that some men with scores Over 100 May be released after men with scores of barely Over that some men screened out of their units in Europe for discharge will reach the United states after their units have landed Here in route to the this will be carrying out the wishes of the soldiers by particular weight to Battle and overseas what Ever the new score May prove to it will not effect the right to discharge of those who have previously qualified under the May 1945 score of if not already been discharged when the new score goes into they will remain eligible for release at the earliest this will result in discharge by june 1946 of men under the Point these will be made up of men with 85 on May 1945 and another made eligible by a computation to allow credit for service after May was setup the same by the nature of the Point sys tem and the disposition of the a substantial part of this men will be men now in the Active Pacific included in the above total Fig ures Are enlisted members of the women army for whom the interim discharge score of 44 also will remain unchanged for the this score has made a total of members of the eligible in other the a Prece for release from the army by Jyh Ubl Jwa Vij dented of discharging 000 Lon service men while the War is still on has to be accomplished without interference with the main order not guaranteed we have promised that we will discharge Lon service men by june 1946 on a Merit scheme based on the soldiers own j that we will but the exact order of each mans going and the exact time of each mans discharge we cannot possibly Gua but he will be released Dur ing the next ten the original score of 85 announced on May 1945 was in tended to enable the men to begin demobilization before the depart ment had received a report of All mens we now have the actual facts concerning the Long service men in the these facts show that there Are about men with scores of 85 or of whom have been 4tha men Are All that military necessity and the exigencies of transportation Wall enable us to discharge for some to enable us to recompute the individual scores of All soldiers so that we can give credit for service after May the score will be left at 85 while the Are being later it will be revised to provide for the discharge of another men by june Pacific vets Benefit at the time of this revision a new computation of individual scores will be made to give soldiers credit for service after May 19145 this computation will allow some men who would not have had enough Points by the computation of to earn their discharge by their service Between and the time of recon this will obviously give the advantage of Battle credit arid v f tha toting Homer the of Baton left and commando idly of at Mcpherson in both men were utter a allowing holders of the Congre clonal medal of Honor to Rete ate from the aim carried out without endangering equal Point credits get their Dis their operations and risking an charges at different unnecessarily High rate of comes from the fact that us o s 8 from Eton f in common with All other enlisted their scores will he recomputed Early next year and additional credit Given for service since May up to the present approximately wac i have received discharges under the readjustment which includes the pro vision that married members of the women army corps and All other women services in the army Are also entitled to discharge on their own if their Hus bands have been returned to civil Ian it is estimated that approximately additional was will be released under this latter provision before june of next the total reduction in the wag will be in proportion to the rest of the officers system also included Are the army but in accordance with the policy announced at the time the Merit system was there will not be a critical score for although their individual scores will also be we will continue to give special consideration to highpoint officers with lengthy service overseas and Long and hazardous service in com but the element of military necessity will play a much greater role in the decision As to whether an officer must be retained than it does in the Case of enlisted despite the fact that this plan is tougher than the one for enlisted it is expected that approximately officers will be discharged during the year end ing june already about officers have been returned to civil Ian life since May the whole program has been gone Over in detail with Mac Arthur and his army and air Force it is the c9nsidered opinion of these responsible com Manders that this is the maximum rate of discharge which can be ties due to loss of experienced combat since May 12 we have Dischar ged highpoint men at a rate would reach men in its but in the ensuing three months there will be a temporary slowing up of this three maximum months that period is the Hump of redeployment into the Pacific Thea in that three months we have the largest logistic task of any three months of the War and the pressure on the army service forces in the United states will reach its their duties in connection with redeployment and discharge pre clude their Relief until replace ments Are that takes the greatest shipment of men and Materiel the world has Ever seen takes a great number of ser our first duty is to give Mac Arthur the men he needs to win the War with least loss of men and and while doing this to give All consideration we can to each individuals qualifications for Dis we shall not let any Man go whose going jeopardizes the life of the men who remain to we shall get every1 Man discharged As rapidly As his service under the Point the vital needs of the War and the complications of transportation and redeployment West More than eight Sions of men a grand total flown to states from the european and Mediterranean Heaters May l through Biily no revealed Cortland commander of of these deployed toy at a Artof Green project which preaching its goal of returnees org an additional returned under the White flying As Crew members or Passen Gers on tactical 7 v As of july heavy were flown to the from Eto and main termly tactical planes return eng White project Are Hunter i and by Windsor cow vice forces to prepare and do other necessary tasks in the embark debarkation and training Camps Here and abroad to recondition and repack for the Pacific Materiel on hand and handle the shipping of the old and new Materiel going to the Eastern front added to Are hundreds of thousands of men in transit and on there Are other hundreds of thousands being taken from one Branch of the service and trained for another for the com position of the army for the East is different from that of the army in least toss of life until this stage of redeploy ment is the rate of reduction in the size of the army must be when it is the rate will up so that two million will be released for All causes by june there will be some veterans of Europe and the Pacific assisting in the redeployment of troops through this some High score men Are still in Europe and in the Pacific awaiting their reliefs and in Manv cases men of Call for More was War revealed that it plans to recruit was within the next six officials report that the additional was Are needed to assist in redeploying army troops to the Pacific and to facilitate in the of Battle veterans with High Point Little Mick j Arof Ofria Copal airports for the Green pro across the continent not Only Are troops returning Home by air but the War has completed arrangements for commercial airlines to begin Al 4 redeployed troops across the scheduled to go into effect on August the plan is designed to relieve pressure on crowded in the largest single rail troop movement of this european veterans All bound for stations nearest their Homes de parted from Camp during a nine hour period last the army transportation corps stated that All soldiers scheduled to travel More than 12 hours had Pullman the troop move ment required 31 including 301 100 coaches and 41 Kitchen Mickey former Birmingham of if of Froum ing Onemo Thold Mickey tace is in Eto and Hast seen his but broadcaster to tace new f an Jet plane kills Pacific Ace a Richard 24yearold died tues Day in a crash of his army Jet fighter who led All pilots in the South Pacific area with a record of Downing 40 Jap anese was killed about four minutes leaving heed Ajr since the turn from the South had been serving As test Jet fighter ported bongos plane parts were hurled Over it at a spot within a few the apparently