Word: reenlistment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reductions would be both too small (military outlays would still rise by more than 14% above the current fiscal year) and wrongly focused. Hawks and doves joined in the worry that scrapping the pay increase would endanger the ability of the military forces to persuade skilled people to reenlist. They contended that the Administration might do better to cancel or delay some expensive weapons-buying programs. Even the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who were not consulted on the reductions, took that line. Air Force Chief of Staff General Charles Gabriel grumbled to reporters that the Chiefs would prefer...
...additional 13 weeks of benefits, but kept the individual state triggers intact. It is estimated that 640,000 workers will not get such payments during fiscal year 1982, for a savings to the Government of $690 million. Also stopped were unemployment benefits for servicemen who choose not to reenlist. The rationale was that military service during peacetime is an occupation, and those who leave voluntarily are in effect quitting their jobs. Finally, the budget cuts virtually eliminated the extra benefits paid under the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program. In December 1980, some 233,000 jobless were given such aid. Only...
...surprisingly, Robinson has found it harder and harder to persuade others to reenlist. Says the departing staff sergeant: "The job has become much more difficult in the last year...
...Barns quit at the end of his enlistment in 1974 to study electronics in his native Dallas. Two years later, he decided to give the Navy a second try and was assigned to a nuclear at tack submarine, the U.S.S. Pintado. But when it came time last week to reenlist, Barns decided to return ashore and begin a civilian career as a digital equipment repair man. Says Barns: "It wasn't worth ten more years of my life for what I was getting...
Nunn: The authority of the sergeants and chief petty officers is being eroded. Officers today are charged with getting people to reenlist. Because of this, the officers are not backing up their top noncoms when they crack down on the troops -because the crackdowns hurt re-enlistment rates. When you talk to sergeants out there, the lack of discipline and the lack of being backed up when they try to instill discipline are things they bring up repeatedly...