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...number in New York City. As he chatted on and on, the telephone rang near by in Manhattan Beach police headquarters. The Brooklyn district attorney's office was calling to ask that the man on the phone in the coffee shop be arrested. The police hustled over, and Sergeant Jack Mair approached the caller from behind. "I tapped him on the shoulder and asked him to identify himself," says Mair. "He looked at me, saw my uniform and my shotgun, and said, 'Howard Buddy Jacobson...
...sniper in the Old Westwood Apartments, Norwood--the place is crawling with cops." And he's off, travelling fast down the deserted Southeast Expressway towards Norwood. A few wrong turns, but still there in twenty minutes--just in time to see the policemen return to the station. The desk sergeant says come back tomorrow, no information available, still in booking process, details in the morning, can't help you. But two officers who had just been shot at watch the reporter as he comes out; "want a scoop?" they asked, "Get in the back...
...gulf between draftee and officer is enormous. NCOs live with their families in relatively comfortable housing either on or off base, shop in commissaries carrying special food and goods and have one month of vacation each year. They earn comparatively high wages; the Soviet equivalent of a staff sergeant with ten years of experience makes 60 rubles ($90) a month?roughly what a high school teacher is paid...
...Force is losing too many skilled mechanics too fast, thereby burdening those who remain with the task of instructing trainees. The prescription for the whole problem, says Loman, is better pay. "They could cure the retention difficulty and be tougher on whom they let in." And maybe keep Sergeant Loman in a job he is not anxious to give...
Nunn: One important factor is the pay ratio between the sergeants and the people at the beginning levels. It used to be that a top sergeant made two or three times as much as the lowest ranks. Now he makes only about 50% or 60% more. That has eroded the rewards for a military career and the sense of authority of your sergeants and chief petty officers...