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...have been there since the center opened on May 3. Arkansas' Fort Chaffee remains filled with 18,800, Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pa., holds 15,000, and the just opened Camp McCoy near Sparta, Wis., has 172. "The boredom is overwhelming," complained Luis Martinez, an engineering technician who has been at Eglin for more than two weeks. "All you can do is worry, worry, worry...
...Navy's problem may be the most severe of all: it is short 21,000 experienced petty officers. In particular, the Navy needs good men for key supervisory jobs, such as boiler technician, machinist's mate and aviation bosun's mate. Notes a senior Navy official: "We're hurting for the kind of people we need most: aviators and nuclear-trained officers. They're bright and have had rigorous training. The civilian nuclear industry just gobbles them up, along with other engineering types, as fast as we can manufacture them." Example: last year the Navy had 138 nuclear-qualified petty...
...flames broke out, Hostage Simeon Harris, 33, a British Broadcasting Corp. technician, ran onto the front balcony and waved, but a commando outside the window shouted to him, "Get down, get down!" When Harris replied, "I'm going to burn to death," another commando ordered, "Come here, come here," and helped the technician to the adjoining town house. Said Harris, who re-entered the embassy through another room: "They didn't lead us out, they threw us out, tossing us from one commando to another in a chain." The S.A.S. also took the precaution of tying the hostages...
What do you think of our Four Modernizations?" The young factory technician looked at me expectantly over his cup of tea, and then answered his own question. "They are fine in theory," he said; "the problem is implementation. The factories are still in the hands of retired soldiers who don't know anything about running a factory. If you want to do something new, it's like hitting your head against a steel wall...
...system allows a technician, sitting behind a computer console, to switch heaters or fans on or off if a room temperature deviates from the 65-degree winter temperature recommended by the federal government...