The White Falcon - 13.08.1965, Blaðsíða 2

WHITE FALCON
Friday, August 13, 1965
YVHEW—Starting home, which is still a long way off. are the per-
sonnel of the Marine Barracks. AH available men were turned out for
the 15-mile forced march, each toting weapon, cartridge belt and
helmet. The trek took the Marines out to the Grenade Range and up
Cinder Mountain, which so many sailors who are members of the
Ground Defensd Force are so familiar with. Including breaks and
chowing down C-Rations, the march took approximately five hours.
EDITORIAL
Big Part Of Pay Issue
Service Recognition
It’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy
that an’
“Chuck ’im out, the brute!”
But it’s “Savior of ’is country,”
when
The guns begin to shoot.
Rudyard Kipling, with an insight into the life of the serviceman
wrote these lines many years ago and, looking at today, these words
still hold so much bitter truth.
Even today, like the British foot-soldier in Kipling’s era, the low-
ranking U.S. serviceman may feel themselves neglected.
This low-ranking military man has reason to feel the pinch. Not
since 1952 has the man with less than two years in service had a
vote by Congress to raise his pay scale. Higher ranking servicemen,
though not wallowing in coin of the realm, have at least, had three
pay raises since then.
L. Mendel Rivers has been a modern knight in the battle to bring
the military pay scale a little closer toward the reality of today’s
economy. It’s been a Quixotic effort against the windmill of public
apathy and the shield of administrative purse strings.
Why is such a tremendous effort required by such men to remedy
a situation which should be readily apparent to all
The minimum wage scale is supposed to be $1.25 an hour. The
typical serviceman must be at least a third-class petty officer or
his equivalent to reach this level. And this is just the minimum
pay scale. Wiiat do the lower grades live on?
They don’t, in many cases. A recent Air Force survey revealed
that 55,000 of its 719,000 enlisted men and women are technically
eligible for relief payments. This is a whopping 7% per cent plus.
Five thousand of these are already receiving such aid. In addition,
a growing number of servicemen are taking part-time jobs to sup-
plement their incomes.
There is an ever-present campaign on to keep the serviceman from
getting into debt over his head. This is all well and good, but how
does a recruit making $78 a month ($18 per week) keep himself
financially solvent?
It has been contended that the military man is so swamped with
fringe benefits that his current pay gives him a life of ease. How
many men in service have their own home, car and can still send
their children to college
In a country in which it is the norm to enjoy these advantages,
why is the serviceman, who protects these advantages, one of its
least rewarded citizens?
In most instances the public does not even have a conception of
the plight of the military man. While papers such as “Stars and
Stripes” and “Navy Times” are headlining the pay bill issue, it is
virtually ignored by much of the civilian press.
You, as a citizen, have a vote. You, as a serviceman, have a
just cause. Through your state, as well as national elections, you
can keep in office just men who will recognize your cause. It is only
through neglect, neglect in the use of the vote, that men can be
placed in office who will ignore the justice of this long needed
pay raise.
The current administration has proposed a 2.7 per cent pay raise
for those under-two men. This proposal was demolished in the House
by a 410 to 0 vote that would raise the pay by an average 10.7 per
cent. Even this unanimous vote was arrived at reluctantly. It came
only after much debate and a number of House members recognized
the futility of combating the bill.
Let’s face it, a serviceman cannot go on strike for more pay; he
has no union working for him; he cannot offer his services to a
competitor. His only means of anything near an equitable pay scale
is through the conscience of his representatives.
In the very near future it will be seen how well this conscience is
functioning.
Gl Home Loan
Gives Veterans
Added Benefits
Another popular form of home-
buying for former and present
members of the armed forces is
the “GI Home Loan,” obtained
from lending firms with a guar-
antee from the Veterans Admini-
stration (VA).
The maximum entitlement (en-
titlement means the guaranty or
insurance benefits available from
the VA) a veteran may receive is
$7,500 for home loans; $4,000 for
other real estate loans and,
$2,000 for non-real estate loans.
To be eligible for a GI loan,
veterans must have been on act-
ive duty on or after Sept. 16,
1940, and prior to July 26, 1947
WWII); on or after June 27,
1950, and prior to Feb. 1, 1955
(Korea); received a discharge or
separation under other than dis-
honorable conditions and have at
least 90 days total service unless
discharged earlier for service-con-
nected disabilities.
WWII Or Korean Conflict
An eligible WWII or Korean
veteran’s entitlement expires 10
years from the date of discharge
or release from last period of act-
ive duty, any part of which oc-
curred in WWII or the Korean
conflict, plus an additional period
equal to one year for each three
months of active duty in the two
conflicts. However, in no case will
the entitlement of an eligible
WWII veteran extend beyond
July 25, 1967. The cut-off date for
Korean veterans is Jan. 31, 1975.
Some veterans who have their
entitlement recomputed or were
discharged for service-connected
disabilities, and unremarried wid-
ows of servicemen, are eligible for
entitlement until the 1975.
Entitlement derived from ser-
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Chaplain J
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Cdr Alfred R. Saeger, Jr., CIIC, USN
“THE PROBLEM OF UNLEARNING”
Have you ever tried to “unlearn” something which by nature or
by scholarly pursuits you have well-learned? If you have, you know
it to be an exceedingly difficult task. What can be more exasperating
and difficult than to try to drop a way of thinking, or to alter a
manner of speaking, or to change a way of acting? How hard it is
to change our habits. Getting out of a groove is not easy. When we
have learned the wrong way of doing a thing, it takes a lot of
character to unlearn it.
How difficult it is for the bowler to correct his stance and delivery
if he has learned incorrectly. The same is true in handling a golf
club, or in using correct grammar and diction.
But the difficulty becomes enormously greater when the false thing
is mental, emotional, spiritual, a perversity of mind or mood. For-
saking a false habit in bowling, golf or grammar is child’s play com-
pared to forsaking a false habit of the soul. But because it is so
difficult to contribute to health and strength. It makes moral muscle
and dresses our spirits with Godly vigor.
To “unlearn” certain soul injurious habits is fine indication of
the progress of the soul. To unlearn contempt is a moral exercise
which reveals itself as an emancipating influence over the entire
life of a person. Unlearning the habit of being censorious, critical,
judging everybody as if from a throne.... yes, it is difficult, as
difficult as taking a closely woven fabric and unravelling it to pick
out only the rotten threads, and yet to have some semblance of fabric
left out of which to make a garmet. UNLEARNING IS THE MOST
DIFFICULT OF ALL LEARNING PROCESSES.
The apostle Paul has this in mind when he offers us the counsel,
“Put ye off all these.” The figure is that of the removal of a gar-
met. If that garmet were as loose fitting as the Oriental robe, there
would be little difficulty. But in life the garmets of the soul have
the intimacy and tenacity and close-fittedness of the skin, and to
remove them is like peeling off that very vital texture, certainly
not an easy or inviting task.
But, by the wondeful love of God, this putting off of deadly things,
habits that are mortal to the soul, is not an altogether negative act,
like the taking off a garmet. It follows that which is positive in
nature, and here it is: “Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ.” By faith
we can “put on Christ” so that our whole life, every sphere of our
activity is covered by Him. His grace, His love, His strength. Our
Lord gives completeness and finality to life. “He hath covered me
with the robe of righteousness and with the garmet of salvation.”
It is when we have begun to learn of Him that we can begin to
unlearn the things we ought to have learned.

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