The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 05, 1983, Image 7

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    Wednesday, October 5,1983/The Battalion/Page 7
Officer recruitments
reach Air Force goal
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United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — For the
first time since the draft ended
in 1973, the U.S. Air Force met
100 percent of its officer recruit
ing goals this year, officials said
Tuesday.
Charles Chandler, a spokes
man at the Air Force Recruiting
Service headquarters at Ran
dolph Air Force Base, credited
military incentive programs for
the success in recruiting en
gineers and medical personnel.
College graduates entering
Officer Training School at Lack-
land Air Force Base numbered
3,161, while an additional 812
health care professionals re
ceived direct commissions into
the Air Force Medical Service,
for a total of 3,973 officer re
cruits, he said.
“We got as many as the Air
Force needed,” Chandler said,
adding that officer recruiting
goals had not been met since the
all-volunteer force began 10
years ago.
Traditionally, the military
has had difficulty in recruiting
physicians and engineers as
officers, but little difficulty in re
cruiting enlisted personnel.
“These particular specialists
are highly paid professionals
and we have not been competi
tive enough to recruit these indi
viduals,” Chandler said.
But this year, sufficient num
bers were attracted to the Air
Force by several incentive prog
rams, including the enlistment
of college engineering seniors,
sending engineering graduates
back to school for advanced de
grees, and sponsoring graduates
with math and science back
grounds for additional study to
earn engineering degrees.
Other programs for physi
cians have allowed the Air Force
to “grow our own doctors,”
Chandler said.
In all, almost 68,000 people
joined the Air Force in 1983, in
cluding 60,500 enlisted with no
prior military service, and about
3,000 enlisted with prior milit
ary service.
Only in 1979 did the Air
Force fail to recruit its desired
goal of enlisted personnel, he
said.
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EL PASO — Continental Air-
nes Flight 57 from Houston to
,os Angeles was forced to make
n unscheduled landing in El
aso late Tuesday because of a
omb threat, an airline spokes-
aan said.
Continental spokesman
ruce Hicks in Houston con-
irmed that the Boeing 727
S < anded at El Paso for a bomb
earch after ground control re-
^ jyed notice of a telephone
(treat to the pilot by radio.
The plane, which took off
rom Houston about 3:20, land-
daway from the terminal at El
aso International Airport ab
ut 5 p.m.
The 111 passengers were
urried off the airplane
tildhood hrough the rear exit and taken
lism aildMothe terminal in cars and vans.
Passenger Kevin Narrow-
nore said the flight crew told
lassengers to identify their lug-
age and said dogs were being
irought aboard to sniff for
childraMombs.
"The minute I saw the men in
stry lia sbestos suits helping us off the
W irplane, I knew it was a bomb
care,” said Narrowmore, a film
nes andj roducer who has been through
crash and a bomb scare aboard
irplanes before.
“They got all the passengers
ff and about 200 feet away
rom the plane. Then the cap-
in came out and talked to the
passengers. The pilot said the
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FBI had been called and FBI
bomb dogs would be called in to
try to sniff out the bomb,’’Nar
rowmore said.
Continental has been in
volved in a labor dispute with
pilots, flight attendants and
mechanics and recently filed for
bankruptcy reorganization to
cut labor costs, but officials dis
counted the possibility of any
connection.
“We have no reason to believe
it has any connection with the
strike,” Hicks said.
Narrowmore said the crew
handled the situation smoothly.
“They handled it well,” Nar
rowmore said. “The whole crew
was grumpy to begin with, bags
under their eyes, the whole bit,
but they handled it well.”
said there was a bomb on flight
57.” The calls were made to Los
Angeles Air Traffic Control and
to Continental reservations,
Hicks said.
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Hicks said two calls were
made by a male voice who “just
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