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Show Page 3 THE DESERET SAMPLER, Friday, June 27, 1980 As the Army looks to the 1980s, the number one challenge is to adequately man the force. Although the ability to recruit volunteers to meet authorized strength levels is of tremendous importance, it is only one element in sustaining the force. We must also retain sufficient numbers of highly qualified soldiers who are already in the force to support our growing enlisted career force needs. THE ACTIVE Army reenlistment program ws highly successful in FY 79 with 103.4 percent of the total objective achieved. Although career reenlistment achievement was only 98 percent of the objective, the first term reenlistment rate of 39.8 percent was the highest ever achieved and the 80,732 soldiers who reenlisted consti Army introduces initiatives re-u- p CUAR Aum center: almost ML-O- The computer room is manned by Allen experts, at Clar's Auto Production jobs Center check It over for you before you go. . . Wa work on foreign care, too! You'll like our work and prices! U 1 they are processed. he 4th of July weekend Is coming, and you've probably got your vacation all planned. But It's no fun If your ear breaks down!! Let the WF Continued from page Remington, Sharon Dunyon, Karen Steed, Evelyn Cambell, Doreen Strasberg, Marsha Price and John Castagno. Shift work is required here. The day shift operates from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. while the night shift comes on at 4:30 p.m. and leaves at midnight. ' The computer operators handle two types of jobs: production work (i.e. supply and clothing sales reports) which involve punched cards and scientific and engineering work which is generated by DMIS programmers through CRTs, or computer terminals. VACATION! . . the career force. The reinstatement of tary service. This should increase lump sum reenlistment bonus pay- reenlistments by as much as 25 perments in April 1979 has improved the cent in the 21 skills where retention is attractiveness of this program. The now a problem. program will be expanded in FY 80 - Authority to raise the maximum and 81. The Army will receive a total bonus amount from reenlistment To meet our increasing reenlistment of $1072 million in FY 80 as comto $20,000. (The $15,000 is requirements, the following initiapared to $86.8 million in FY 79 and $15,00 currently paid to Navy nuclear only tives are planned or underway: has requested $117.$ million in the The CONUS to CONUS Station of FY 81 Budget for reenlistment bonus trained specialists. The maximum Choice Option was initiated on 1 payments. FY 81 resources include reenlistment bonus available in all November 1979 for first term soldiers support for the following proposed other skills is $12,000. Should enwho wish to reenlist for another state- legislation which should. help to rebe approved, the side post which has a vacancy in their tain career soldiers in combat arms abling legislation and military intelligence skills: specialty and grade. This option is exArmy maximum bonus is expected to reenlistments to increase at be at least $15,000.) This would im- AUTHORITY to pected by permit payment least 3,000 in FY 80. of reenlistment bonuses to enlisted prove retention in those military skills The SRB is a valuable means to pro- personnel in critical rililitary skills where training time often exceeds one vide the type of flexible incentive who have served more than ten but year. (Reprinted from all Volunteer needed to retain soldiers essential to less than fourteen years of active mili magazine, April 1980.) DPD is computer perfect RON WANTS YOU TO HAVE A WORRY I IQ Dl 'LUO. tute the largest number of reenlistments in the Volunteer Army era. The objectives for FY 80 and 81 are more challenging since the Army must retain a higher percentage of these soldiers who will be eligible to reenlist. - OFFER THESE MAJOR SERVICES lx NeeW- u XJ . ' " w The first thing we do with all jobs is to give the computer instructions on how to handle it, explains computer operator Allen Remington. When this is finished, we run the cards through a reader which sends the information down our microwave line to , .. , ' '' . V ' ,r t- -' ' ' y White Sands Missile Range. At White Sands, the computer computes the job. When it is ready to send the information back up to Dugway, the operator gives an order to White Sands computer and the data is forwarded here. As the information comes back, it is gathered on disc packs, or spools, and stored until the operator lstk v .. v gives the command to have the information put on Allen Remington, computer operator, works at the console terminal inside DMISs computer room. print --out sheets. From here it is is delivered to the office which requested it. the tape drive and, with the use of the computers machines, the DMIS computer room also has units which sort cards numerically, check card sequence memory, prints out the chart on the tape. Scientific and Engineering jobs The plotter reads the tape and prints out the and reproduce blank cards. , . .With all these expensive machines, careful atteninformation. These jobs are handled by the Hewlett-Packar- d deals with tion is paid them to make sure breakdowns are a selMost of the work done by the dayshift 3000 located in the computer room here. the scientific and engineering jobs, says Remington, dom occurrence. DMIS programmers generate these jobs. When a while the nightshift takes care of the majority The temperature in here is kept below 85 deprogrammer wants certain information from the concerning production work. and calls CRT hit on the her or he job computer, up When these three operations are taking place, the grees, says Remington, because anything above asks the operator to run a certain tape which has the can monitor the progress of these-job- s that could damage; the equipment. (i operator computer we shut he continued, thunderstorms, During necessary information. with a machine that is tied into the computer The operator then puts the requested tape on the down voluntarily because just one second of power operations here and at White Sands. machine. drive tape The operator is also responsible for monitoring fluctuation can cause the computer to fail. The computer picks up the information, com -- the number of people which use the computer via If this happens, he asserts, the information on putes the job and then stores it on the disc packs. CRTs and has the authority to discontinue any unthe disc packs will probably be mixed together, and When the operator gives the command, the finished authorized use of the 1 computer. a hard job to get things straightened out. is job again printed out on paper. We have a great deal of control over what hap- its (Next issue we will take a look at the ADP Systems Occasionally, a programmer requests to have a pens in this room, Remington asserts. Besides graph, or chart, printed out by the plotter, a monitoring the number of people who use the Division headed by Roy Keeling.) machine which can read a tape and print this type of machine, we also can change the priority on jobs material. when one is needed before another, or we can temIn this instance, the operator puts a blank tape on porarily suspend jobs if the computer is bogging down because of excessive workload. Operators must also know what types of jobs require certain forms so that printed information is recorded correctly. SEMI-AN- N EXECUTIVE ilase&sSf . of-jo- bs . Where Quality Is Not Expensive! BESTFORM Carefull attention given .MEN'S SHOP . Aside IIP 3000, which is boltered by an HP 1000 computer, and the reader and print out form-th- -- Reg. PANTSUITS BLOUSES Reg. 21.99- - ... Reg. 27.99- - .... ........ ......... TOPS Reg. JR. TOPS PANTS - Gaberdine MRS. JR . OWLV Sale $10.89 $19.59 $6.89 $7.69 $4.19 9.99- - Reg. 10.99- - . . 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