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...billion in pay hikes right now to "reestablish the relative positions which existed at the end of 1971 between the military and the civilian power to purchase goods and services." The raise endorsed by Carter last week is not that ambitious. Sponsored in the Senate by Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn and Virginia Republican John Warner, the proposal would provide a relatively modest $3.5 billion over five years to alleviate some of the AVF'S most serious problems, although it would not give everyone a raise across the board. To retain pilots, for example, flight pay, which currently ranges from...
...beguiling and less radical proposal than conscription for the active armed forces would be to draft only for the reserves. At the TIME seminar, Senator Nunn suggested "a flexible system of drafting for the reserves in which youngsters would be eligible from ages 18 through 25 and would serve for six months at a time generally convenient for them...
...military as a distinct group within society; Melvin Laird, 57, who as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 led the fight for the all-volunteer force, and is now the Washington-based senior counsellor on national and international affairs for the Reader's Digest; Senator Sam Nunn, 41, the Georgia Democrat who is chairman of the Committee on Armed Services' Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel and has become widely respected as one of Capitol Hill's most articulate defense analysts; Lieutenant General Glenn Otis, 51, the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations...
...Nunn: If you talk to the chief petty officers and sergeants and ask them about quality, they will tell you very quickly, Mel, that the quality deterioration is so severe that their ability to discipline, their ability to train, are greatly eroded...
...Nunn: Although it wasn't picked up by the media, our military commanders both in NATO and in Korea have testified this year on the record before the Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel that they are noticing a definite inability of an increasing number of their people to retain their training. This means that you must retrain often, which has a huge impact on costs and readiness. We are losing the confidence of our allies. Talk to some West Germans off the record and ask them what they think of the U.S. ability to fight...