Word: ncos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hunched down in concrete foxholes, the officers and NCOs fingered the triggers of their M-16s as instructors stood behind, monitoring the shooting exercise. Then came the command to fire: "Comienzen fuego...
Some 900 Salvadorans arrived last week at Fort Bragg's John F. Kennedy Center for Military Assistance, joining the 60 Salvadoran officers and NCOs who were already on the post. During the next three months, 185 Spanish-speaking U.S. Special Forces and 82nd Airborne Division instructors will teach them the light-infantry skills that an average G.I. might absorb in nearly a full year. The program includes everything from basic physical training to communications to the use of American weapons. Much of the emphasis will be on training the Salvadorans to operate as coordinated units on the squad, platoon...
...Army still has its 16 authorized divisions, but the ten based in the continental U.S. are understrength, and a confidential Army report rated six of them as "noncombat ready." Overall, the Navy is short 20,000 petty officers, the Army 7,000 NCOS. One of the most important military requirements is the capacity to airlift combat troops to a crisis area, but the Rapid Deployment Force established by President Carter last March cannot begin to deploy rapidly. It lacks airlift and sealift capability and even such basics as adequate communications gear. Its command function is mired in a jurisdictional dispute...
...living. By 1978, enlisted pay had declined 7.4% in real dollars, and the trend has continued since. Last year the Government provided an 11.7% military pay increase, but that was more than canceled by 12.4% inflation. All branches of the services are struggling to find ways to retain NCOs: bigger re-enlistment bonuses, better housing allowances, better discipline and esprit de corps. One attractive idea being discussed: permitting a career soldier to transfer his present education benefits to his own children or spouse. All told, the cost of needed pay increases and benefits is estimated at $4.4 billion for this...
...region has improved enormously. We had nothing five years ago, when the U.S. depended on the Shah to protect its interests." To carry out the new policy, the Joint Chiefs produced a new command: the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDF). It consists of 250 officers and senior NCOS at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., and 200,000 soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen who would come under their command in case of an emergency...