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Show GIs "Unavailable," So Civilians Sail Home on Carriers Hit following clipping, taken from a phillpine newspaper under date of November 20th. was rent to us by a local high point service man "waiting for a boat" in the Pacific area: . 1 j HONOLULU-Stars and Stripes. ' the Army newspaper, yesterday i ' quoted the Navy as sa; ing that ' 1300 civilian Navy yard workers I were being taken to the mainland ' aboard the carriers Homet and j Monterey because no Army or Navy 'personnel qualified for discharge In I this are are available for shipment. Next to that explanation Is an official of-ficial mainland-bound box score re porting that 804 Army enllrted men, 4.244 from the Navy, and 479 Marines Ma-rines are waiting at a personnel center in Honolulu for transportation transporta-tion home. The newspaper said that the record of the Central Pacific Army command In completing demobilization demobiliza-tion of high-point troops ahead of schedule is the exception not ' the lure in the Pacific theatre. - . , ' A War Department. chart which the paper publlfhed . with ? oflloiaj ipproval shows more " than 540,000 Army enlisted men with more than 60 points approximately ten per cent of them have more than 85 still were In the Pacific Oct. 15.' Stars and Stripes raid the chart explains why it continues to receive letters from Korea, Okinawa, Guam and I wo asking why high-pointers i are not en route home for discharge along with the Central Pacific's 60-polnters 60-polnters and troops on the mainland main-land being discharged with as few as 40 points. |