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[[underlined]] 36 AIR FORCE TIMES OCTOBER 30, 1954 [[/underlined]] Air University Student Quality Up - Kuter MAXWELL AFB, Ala.- Selections for Air University schools are getting tougher and the quality of officer students attending is increasing, AU commander Lt. Gen. Laurence S. Kuter said here late last week. At a special news briefing, Gen. Kuter also said that on Nov. 1 the Air Command and Staff School will assume "college" status It will be known as Air Command and Staff College. Similarly, the two big AC&S courses will assume "school" status. The old field officers' course will become the Command and Staff School and the old squadron officers' course will be known as Squadron Officers School. Garnering more prestige is the intent. * * * PROFESSIONAL education at the University is now provided for about one in every seven Air Force officers. Gen. Kuter said he personally wished that all career officers could receive squadron level training and at least half could receive schooling at the command and staff level. But substantial school expansion is not in the cards, he said. Such things as facilities limitations, drain on operating units, and uncertainty of future Air Force strength prevent any significant expansion of the Air University. The Air University chief said he was pleased with the new system of selecting officers for Command and Staff School (commands pick men and a headquarters board passes on the nominations). Better quality material is the result. About 8500 officers graduated from Air University schools last year. Some increase in student population is coming, however, Gen. Kuter said. This year there are approximately 556 majors and lieutenant colonels enrolled in the new nine-month long Command and Staff School. Next year the number will be doubled. Nominations for the 1006 officers to enter next September are due at Hq. USAF, Dec. 1. Construction of 10 permanent academic buildings and bachelor officers' quarters will enable the Command and Staff School to double its enrollment. The buildings are going up now. When completed, the Command and Staff School will move to them. The expansion will permit a very slight increase in Squadron Officers School enrollment, now about 750 for each 14-week class. And it will enable AFROTC headquarters, now situated in downtown Montgomery, to move on base. This move is scheduled in mid-1955, officials said. A new Air University library is planned. Construction is expected to start next year. * * * GENERAL KUTER also said: 1. Recent changes in the AFROTC curriculum - from specialized to generalized training - should result in more AFROTC graduates staying on active service. He thinks the new curriculum will help persuade these young officers to remain in service longer. 2. He expects the special orientation course for Air University wives will continue indefinitely. Nearly 1000 wives "of future Air Force commanders" are enrolled in the current (third installment) of the course. 3. No groups or persons have objected to the Air University's including in the curriculum a study of Communism. He said there seemed to be general agreement that in order to combat Communism, personnel should thoroughly understand it. Air University officers read Karl Marx as part of their studies, Gen. Kuter said. 80 Generals' Appointments Announced by White House (Continued from Page 1) F. Wright, Frederick J. [[??]], Samuel H. Harris, Jr., John T. Sprague, Barton M. Hever, Frank A. Bogart. Boyden B. Beebe, Jr., John B. Ackerman, William H. Powell, Jr., Albert M. Kuhfeld, Kenneth P. Berquist and James C. Sylver, Jr. Brigadier General, Temporary John C. H. Elliott, Hoyt L. Prindle, R. Loyd Elston, Emmett F. Yost, Hollingsworth F. Gregory, Tom W. Scott, Harold L. Smith, Wendell W. Bogman, Milton P. Sammarfelt, Charles H. Pottenger, Clinton W. Davies. John M. Bred, Richard T. King, Jr., Daniel E. Hicks, Moody H. Tidwell, Jr., Donald D. Flickinger, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Charles B. Root, Victor R. Haugen, Sam W. Agee, Edwin B. Broadhurst, Kenneth O. Sanborn, Don R. Ostrander. Fred M. Dean, Walter E. Arnold, Arthur J. Pierce, Marcus P. Cooper, Cecil H. Childre, Henry H. Sullivan, Jr., William E. Eubank, Jr., Beverly H. Warren and James F. Whisenand. Major General, Regular George R. Acheson, Samuel R. Brentnall, William R. Tanner, William F. Hall, Donald L. Putt, Norris R. Harold, Albert Boyd, Manuel J. Asensio, and John S. Mills. Brigadier General, Regular William T. Hefley, Howard B. Bunker, Frederic E. Glantzberg, Dudley D. Hale, Jack R. Wood, Harold H. Bassett, Roger J. Browne, Marshall S. Roth, Harlan C. Parks, George E. Price, Floyd B. Wood, Hugh A. Parker, Stuart P. Wright, Richard A. Grussendorf. Thomas C. Odom, Millard Lewis, Sory Smith, Lee B. Washbourne, and Frederick J. Dau. Group Keeps Students in Touch MAXWELL AFB, Ala. - Air Force officers at 23 non-AF service schools stand little chance of remaining uninformed on up-to-the-minute Air Force policy, concepts, and approved doctrine. An unheralded unit at Air University headquarters here - the 3394th School Group - sees to that. It also provides administration for the officer instructors and students at the scattered non-AF schools which have Air Force representation. The 3394th, in short, is "home" to over 480 key officers now in the non-AF school system. And when it is time to replace officers in the system, this home unit recommends new officers to be assigned. * * * ONLY TOP OFFICERS are selected for non-AF schools, officials here stated. The reasons are obvious: those selected represent the Air Force amidst hundreds of senior officers of the other services. Tact, diplomacy, and a high degree of intelligence are basic requirements of one service's viewpoint to high officials of sister services. To keep these 100-plus officers current on what's going on in the Air Force in a multitude of matters, the 3394th here fires out a steady stream of information. Most important, information farmed out, of course, is the latest doctrine. The 3394th assures that the same USAF thinking in new policy and story - the party line - goes to AF representatives at each non-AF school. The unit keeps Form [[??]], cuts transfer and assignment orders, reports on regulation changes, provides instructional advice and assistance in many ways, etc. Col. Charles W. Johnson commands the unit. He has a staff of 13, to help with the heavy routine here as well as to make frequent trips to the 23 schools. Only Air Force representation at many of the schools (listed below) are faculty and staff members. They instruct -- and explain the Air Force to the officer student of the other service (or services). * * * THE FULL list of schools served by the 3394th School Group follows: Antiaircraft & Guided Mission Branch, Ft. Bliss, Tex., Army General School, Ft. Riley, Kans.; The Armored School, Ft. Knox, Ky.; The Artillery School, Ft. Sill, Okla.; Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pa.; Command & General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, Kans.; The Chemical Corps School, Ft. McClellan, Ala.; The Engineer School, Ft. Belvoir, Va. The Infantry School, Ft. Benning, Ga.; Medical Field Service School, Ft. Sam Houston, Tex.; Amphibious Training Command, Little Creek, Va.; U. S. Naval Amphibious Training Unit, Coronado, Calif.; Naval War College, Newport, R. I.; The Quartermaster School, Ft. Lee, Va.; The Signal School, Ft. Monmouth, N. Jer.; The Transportation School, Ft. Eustis, Va. Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va.; Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Ft. McNair, Washington, D. C.; The National War College, Washington, D. C.; Strategic Intelligence School (Navy), Washington, D. C.; U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y.; U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.; and Senior School, Marine Corps School, Quantico, Va. Defense Gets Pay Proposal WASHINGTON - The military pay raise recommendations of a joint service committee are in the office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for personnel, Carter L. Burgess. The special [[??]] committee recommended selective increases to base pay, with longevity assuming more importance. Pay rates would not be changed for men with less than two years service. The committee recommended dislocation pay, increases in hazard and flight pays, and reportedly asked for a sizeable increase in per diem and travel allowances. In office only a few weeks, Mr. Burgess has been giving primary attention to the Reserve program, which President Eisenhower has named as priority legislation next year. But the new Defense personnel chief told Air Force TIMES he will examine the "important" pay question very soon. He declined to comment on military pay in general, but indicated he would announce his views when he has had sufficient time to acquaint himself with the proposals. Next step in the pay timetable, a Department spokesman said, will be a formal presentation of the committee's recommendation to Mr. Burgess. A date for that meeting has not been set, an official said at midweek. Dr. John A. Hannah, Mr. Burgess' predecessor in the top Pentagon personnel post, stood foresquare for a military pay raise. Other high officials on the pay hike bandwagon are Air Force Secretary Harold E. Talbott and Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens. Management Programs Field Tested at Robins ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. - A five-week test run of revised Air Force management training procedures has been completed at Robins Air Force Base, it was announced this week. Warner Robins Air Materiel Area was selected by the Air Force to conduct a final test of revised management training materials to determine their [[??]] for Air Force-wide use. Miss Billie Opie, training officer from Air Force headquarters in Washington, served as Project Director for the top priority project. Revised management training materials will be taken to USAF for coordination and printing. They will then be distributed Air Force wide, both in this country and overseas, for use at base level in training military and civilian supervisors. Some 15 military and civilian supervisors at Robins AFB, representing different activities on the base, will receive certificates for having satisfactorily completed the USAF Management Course for Air Force Supervisors. The course consisted of two-hour conferences held daily over a five-week period. * * * THOSE COMPLETING the course are T/Sgt John Raupp, 6th Weather Group; William A. Dodson, Maintenance; James W. Hinson, Maintenance; P. H. Benton, Supply; S/Sgt. Raymond S. Powell, 1803d Airways and Air Communications Services; Robert I. White, Supply; S/Sgt. Patrick J. Hurley, 729th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron; T/Sgt. Henry F. Henley, 729th [[??]] Sq.; S/Sgt. Beanie Alston, 4th Communications Construction Sq. Also S/Sgt. Douglas S. Wheeling, $th Com. Const. Sq.; Fred D. Lister, Air Installations; Robert J. Sherman, Civilian Personnel; S/Sgt. Langford E. Moore, 1025-6 AACS Detachment; Joseph F. Long, Maintenance; Thomas C. Sheffield, Supply; and S/Sgt. Marian R. Padgett, 1393d AACS Group. Cooperating with Miss Opie in conducting the test run was Karl McPherson, the WRAMA Civilian Personnel Officer. Members of the Civilian Training Office who participated in finalizing the development work resulting from the test run were W. E. Roach, Chief of Training; M. M. Grubbs, Chief, Management Development Section; W. M. Burwell, T. W. McDonald, C. R. Free, W. R. Honey, Joseph J. Tabb, and William A. Miner. Also assisting were William A. Merrill, [[Manpower??]] and Organization, Headquarters USAF, Washington, D. C.; and Henry A. Duel from the Training Command, Scott AFB, Ill. Instructional materials now completed include: A Management Trainer's Guide designed to assist conference leaders in establishing, coordinating and evaluating the management training program; a Supervisor's Guide designed to assist supervisors in applying good management principles and techniquest to his daily work. * * * OTHER MATERIAL includes 24 two-hour conferences covering the six major areas of the supervisor's job as follows: (1) Supervisor's Job; (2) How to improve the Work Situation; (3) how to Get the Work Out; (4) How to Train Workers; (5) How to Work With People; (6) Self-Development. Military and civilian personnel at Headquarters, USAF, have worked since September of last year with personnel of the commands on the total revision of the Air Force primary management course. Work on the project reached the phase where the materials were ready for a test run to determine the adequacy and practicality of the course before the materials were released throughout the Air Force. Film to Feature Alaska Command WASHINGTON - Hollywood's Landmark Studios will start production next month on a film of the Alaskan Air Command and weather stations in the polar regions, Pentagon officials here said this week. Scheduled for the lead rolls are Dale Robertson, Evelyn Keys and Frank Lovejoy. Air Weather Service is to act in an advisory capacity. Much of the footage was shot some time ago by Warner Brothers in Alaska. Remainder of the show will be filmed in this country, probably at the company's studios or at a west coast Air Force base, officials said. [[end page]] [[start page]] Air Force Times VOL XV - NO. 12 OCTOBER 30, 1954 $8 per year by subscription FIFTEEN CENTS Forecast Revised For Foreign Duty By BRUCE CALLANDER WASHINGTON - The foreign service selection dates (FSSDs) which headquarters will consider in assigning seven (skill) level airmen overseas from April thru June were published this week. The list, which appears in full at the end of this story, will give seven level airmen a fair idea of their vulnerability for overseas duty according to (1) their utilization Air Force specialty codes (UAFSC) and (2) the date of their last return to the zone of interior (ZI). Headquarters will consider all the airmen whose last return was during or before the years [[??]] for their AFSCs but the number actually selected from these will depend on the number of other airmen who volunteer. Unlike previous FSSD lists, this one give only the [[??]] being considered for each UAFSC. Listing the dates by both month and year (See FORECAST, PAGE 8) 80 Officers Win Stars WASHINGTON - The White House this week announced 80 general officer appointments in the Air Force. The big list includes 20 officers pinning on major general's stars for the first time and 32 colonels promoted to temporary brigadier general. All are recess appointments. The other 28 promotions are in the Regular Air Force and do not result in insignia changes because the officers already hold equal or higher temporary rank. Five officers making temporary major general were advanced to Regular brigadier general at the same time. It is the biggest Air Force star appointment list in memory. Air Force active duty general officer strength now totals 409, very close to the legal ceiling of approximately 425. The Senate Armed Services Committee maintains its own brake on general officer strength and in recent years it has not allowed full strength to be reached. A late September Pentagon board picked the officers promoted this week. Spokesmen declined to state whether or not this week's appointments exhaust the selections made by the board. Selectees from last year's board were promoted in increments throughout the year. The new appointments follow: Major General, Temporary Matthew K. Deichelmann, Merrill D. Burnside, Daniel F. Callahan, William T. Hefley, Jack W. Wood, Harold H. [[??]], Marshall S. Roth, George E. Price, Stuart (See 80, Back Page) 12,000 Eye Regular WO By ED GATES WASHINGTON - Warrant officer procurement officials, anticipating as many as 12,000 applications for Regular warrant status, this week announced that applications for the 1700 positions open would be accepted until Feb. 15. Liberal testing cut-off dates have been established to accommodated all master sergeants and non-regular warrants interested in applying. These are to be the first Regular WO appointments since 1948. * * * THE FULL STORY on all phases of the appointment program is en-route to the field in a directive, AFL 204. The letter explains what is [[??]] and how to go about doing it. Also provided is a lengthy explanation of the responsibilities of commanders of persons who apply. Assembling a complete application for Regular warrant officer status is a complicated business, and commanders are to play a key role in [[??]] each applicant. Officials here ask each applicant (See 12,000, Page 3) Fluoridation of Ramey Drinking Water Hailed as Aid in War on Tooth Decay WASHINGTON - Fluoridation of drinking water at Air Force bases, to reduce tooth decay, has gotten started at Ramey AFB, P. R., and Alaskan Air Command bases. Officials said they expect water systems at various [[??]] of interior bases will be fluoridated later on. It is not planned to inaugurate the process at all installations, however. Each request is evaluated separately. The military services [[??]] the fluoridation process last year. Numerous civilian communities have adopted it, but in others it has become a controversial issue. Many local citizen groups are violently opposed to tampering with their water systems. Fluoridation of water at Ramey began Sept. 28, the Air Surgeon said last week. He called it a historic event. The Alaskan Air Command will complete fluoridation projects at each of the bases soon, the Surgeon states. The project at Elmendorf AFB, Ala., is in conjunction with Ft. Richardson, the adjoining Army post. Dental officials could not say which 21 stations would get fluoridation, but they said several bases "are evaluating the desirability . . ." The AF's dental surgeon, Maj. Gen. Martin E. [[??]], said "fluoridation will provide a valuable weapon in the ceaseless fight . . . against the high incidence of dental caries (decay). Fluoridation offers potential benefits in terms of better health for individuals and savings to the government through reductions in oral treatment needs and conservation of manhours, facilities and equipment." Some AF statoins already are backed up with civilian water systems where fluoridation has been instituted. Base Movies Under Fire WASHINGTON - The Defense Department is "taking a look" at a new request by American's theatre owners to change the method of distributing movies to base theatres. Some officials believe that if the Pentagon agrees to the proposal, it will result in only second run movies being shown at the bases and will [[??]] the current base theatre program. Representatives of the theatre owners, speaking for 80 percent of the industry, late last week formally asked the Defense Department to change the present (See SECOND RUN, Page 7) A Pushover, This Game [[images - series of three photos of a young girl at a chessboard]] [[caption]] IT TOOK A MINUTE, but Nancy Nicoise, all of four, got her man. To quote Nancy, (top to bottom) ". . . how'd I get into . . . God, girl, open your eyes . . . wait'll he gets a load o' this." The photos, in AFTimes Photography contest, earned special $5 award for Nancy's dad, Capt. Frank F. Nicoise, the Pentagon. (Other winners Page 13) [[/caption]] Effectiveness Reports To Rate Skill in Flying WASHINGTON - Officers with primary duty as aircrew members will be compared with other aircrew members of the same grade on effectiveness reports and will be rated on their flying skill, it was reported this week. This separation of rated from nonrated officers appears in a new regulation (AFR 3610) of effectiveness and training reports. It also requires that rated officers be identified on the reports by their currently effective aeronautical ratings (pilot, senior pilot etc.) and that nonrated officers be carried as "nonrated." The comments column of the [[?R]] will also carry a notation of an officer who "possesses outstanding potential as a tactical operational commander or when his primary duty is that of an aircrew member." When the rated officer [[?? ??]] primary duty not involving flying, "comment will be made as to his interest in and maintenance of flying proficiency." The flying skills of a rated officer will not be evaluated when the reporting officer is not rated, is rated in a different capacity or is permanently suspended from flying, the regulation says. * * * THE EMPHASIS on flight ratings follow the Air Force's general drive to tighten the pool of flyers and identify those who can be called on for cockpit jobs or more (See SUPERVISORS, Page 8)
