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Show $MlL Editorials . . . 1V2P J77MM . . Comments Rapping About People The weighted QUESTION: in time for factors grade and time in service favor the more senior personnel. Is the weighted airman promotion system intended to promote the "old timers" over the younger and possibly more qualified junior airmen? ANSWER: The weights and factors in WAPS are designed as a weighted composite to select the best Facing the Challenge (AFPS Editorial by Col. Keith L. Christensen, USAF) It seems that every periodical we pick up these days contains hundreds or thousands of words directed at the inadequate way our society has dealt with race relations. There is a very valid reason for that, I think. It i3 the most serious problem our generation will ever confront. The tenets of our republic, the very basic freedoms upon which this country is founded are being tested by the issues involved in our admixture of blacks and whites. We must learn how all can be afforded the equalities guaranteed us without violation of those equalities to any. It is a challenge which each of us should consciously face in all of our activities. The many failures which have marred our progress in recent years must teach us to do better in the months and years immediately ahead. I think all of us in uniform can be justly proud that our military forces have led the way in American society in guaranteeing equality of treatment to all our citizens. Despite that, we are painfully aware that we must continue to make progress that despite the great strides which have been taken, we must quicken our efforts that much remains we can do. Perhaps some wonder what, how, where? And, of course, that's the guts of the problem. I have enough faith in our society to believe that if a majority in this country had recognized inequality of opportunity for what it was, restitution would have begun sooner and without violence. We have just now reached the threshold of understanding that inequality has, in fact, existed. 'We have just now reached the point where public admissions are made that elements of our society have not always enjoyed all the freedoms they were guaranteed. And all we need to continue our progress is communication. There are better solutions to problems than those which are reached through violence. It is important to all of us that we collectively seek those solutions. CURRENT m qualified airmen for promotion. The composite was not developed to favor a particular group of airmen. It is possible to compensate for low points in one or more factors by scoring high in others; therefore, there is an infinite number of possible combinations of point scores which result in the final score. A junior airman who scores high on his specialty knowledge test and promotion fitness examination may overcome his low points for seniority. (AFNS) QUESTION: How do you qualify for an advanced aeronautical rating? ANSWER: A recent change to Air Force policy permits the award of advanced aeronautical ratings to rated officers who are otherwise qualified and perform primary duty at a remote location or are attending school. Pilots may be awarded the senior and command ratings even though they do not possess a currently effective instrument rating and navigators may be awarded senior and master ratings without having a current annual written and flight examination. Heretofore, personnel who had been rated for sufficient years and who had flown the specified minimum number of flying hours could not be awarded advanced ratings until the instrument annual written flight examination requirement had been fulfilled (AFNS) ucy U Air Force.Department of Defense and national policies and concepts - and facts affecting them. For details see AF Policy Letter for Commanders. AFRP 190-- 1 (An AFNS Feature) The Strategic Air Command established in August a program to deal with drug abuse, race relations, equal opportunity and dissident problems having racial overtones. The program is managed by a Contemporary Actions Office at the headquarters, with field offices at each SAC base. information symposium The program was initiated with a three-phas- e and workshop at Vandenberg AFB, Calif. A drug abuse and race relations symposium, the first phase of the program, ended in September. It was attended by SAC base commanders, Personnel directors, Staff Judge Advocates, hospital commanders, chaplains and vice wing commanders for SAC units located on bases of other commands. The Comtemporary Actions Office at SAC headquarters coordinates and develops plans and policies to maintain the program. It will serve also as a point of contact with the air staff to assure continuity of SAC programs within Air Force policies in the areas of race relations, equal opportunity, drug abuse and contemporary problems. Each SAC Base Office for Co ntemporary Actions will be staffed with two officers and two noncommissioned officers who will have attended courses on drug abuse, race relations and equal opportunity. k workshops at Vandenberg They also are scheduled to attend second The the AFB. phase of the information workshops constitute symposium and workshop. The final phase will be a seminar for selected squadron commanders and first sergeants. one-wee- ... A nnrm 3 lid ri. Maybe you're one of them. Are you one of thnso i call me on the telephone or write me a letter to tell me ml troopers are stopping motorists and giving them tickets for V reason at all?" I wouldn't know you never eave J nr uuiuCi o,i 11 . , ,,l V,, me a ten iuu fume gouu eiuzen ana a sate driver just usine the Interstate for what it was intended speed. And that "dumb cup gave you a ueKei. You break my heart! I hope the next time you're tearinirdown . A 1. OC (U mic iuau as, oo in.jj.u. iL.l mat Airooper catcnes you again. I hope he gives you another ticket and the traffic judge takes your license away. I hone he catches vou before vou smash abutment he has to pry your lifeless body out of at 85 m.p.h. and I t maii. crusnea speed macnine. I hope we can teach you a lesson with a ticket so maybe you won't cause a wreck and kill somebody else. You really break my heart telling me you don't have time to go to court about that ticket. I wish you could come with me to the scene of a wreck sometime. I wish I could make you stand and watch a man writhe in the gravel on the shoulder of a highway while he waits for an ambulance that will be there too late to do anything but carry him to the morgue! I wish I could make you help scrape the bits of bone and flesh of a whole family off the asphalt and into baskets. You'd vomit just like my troopers do; but then you'd think differently the next time you climbed into that car of yours. You said you were driving safely when the trooper stopped you. The road was clear and there was no harm in edging over the speed limit a few miles per hour you said. I'm really impressed with your ability to judj?e road conditions. I'm only sorry that a trooper wasn't at that place a few months ago when a man with a wife and four children had a blowout at over 80 m.p.h. He might have slowed him down, and his children would still have a father and his wife a husband. Oh, am I getting you mad again ? That man might have been mad if the trooper had stopped him. He might have written me a letter. But he'd be alive. Yoar letter doesn't bother me, friend. What bothers me is that you apparently haven't learned your lesson. You're probably going to get back behind the wheel of your car thinking you own the road and nothing can happen to you. You don't think about the other people on the road who want to go on living. And you gave your kid driving lessons? You? Then he's probably eotten a counle of tickets too. It's no wonder he weaves in and out of traffic, speeds, and leaves strips of burning rubber at stop lights. I hope we can catch him too, mister, before we have to call.you and your wife to come identify his body at the morgue. I dont want to watch you crying and wishing you hadn t let him nae me car until he learned to drive maturely. And you say you want my troopers to let you oft with a warning. What you really want is for us to stop doing our jobs! You want us to let you go until you meet another guy just like yourself head on! I wish you could come with me to a wreck and see the seared . I 100 01 I e t,.a j no" finiaheri ltl - n victim Hiier me tnre aepan-meniuuuy ui n .j.n witn could go wish you extinguishing 15 gallons of gasoline. I tn her hnma anA k1r tti her husband that his Wife ISn I coming home because some idiot ran her off the road while try" to pass her. I want you to help him explain why mommy wont be home. time You're mad because you got the ticket, and have to take off from work to go to court. - S 1 - -- . You break my heart, mister! Quote of Noteeach year hi the SHE DIDNT bring you any toys because she's not SsnU Claus. But she has some good drice for holiday drivers on Ion trips: Stop periodically for coffee. It will help you keep alert and arrive safely. ..J i The Air Force needs about 100.000 new people ranks. About 7,500 of these will be people with prior minw , PV coming back in. The others will be non prior service our on thousand of them a year, depending most of of the nature technical of .Because the yeaf requirements.. ' , these airmen need training before they go to their fi around 82 per cent of the airmen we enlist will go to tecra persoml OX. Gen Itobert J. Dixon, Air Force deputy chief of stan, Washington, D.C., Sept. 21, ATNS) ! ;rce en .. |