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22 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesday, March 28, 1967 FLASHY NEW 'MOBILE COMMAND' Decline In Army Strength Poses Unification Mystery By DAVE McINTOSH single service will had faintly jsame Ryd spn ot rein a ; rmy. And Mobile|vear. In the s. : ry ft tai 'yao Be! evened # te given new recruiting increased to 556 from nal < imap paple fighter - bombers, transport 737 and the air force to 888 from fae tinification, officials say.|Planes, helicopters and some sea 491.° is that manpower strength of transport as well. BATTALIONS WEAKER the army is falling off while the MORE PROMOTIONS Efforts to increase the other two services are £ainIN8) phe yarch issue of Sentinel. |strength of the army's under- slightly in personnel. monthly magazine of the armed|manned 13 infantry battalions Authorities say the army will forces, lists 448 promotions for|have not been successful so far, reap most of the benefits of uni-|non - commissioned soldiers injinformants say. Strength of fication, It has already been|the army compared with 208 in these battalions at Dec. 31 was given'a flashy new name--MoO-|the gir force, biggest of the 8.709 or nine fewer than at the hile Command--with appropri-|three services, and 101 in the/end of last April ately colorful shoulder patches. navy, Informants said Canada's Identity of regiments will be) But the army at the end of standby battalion for United Na maintained. February was down to 42.429\tions peacekeeping and the air The new rank structure of the|men or 31 fewer than at last!borne battalion group which is Sept. 30 before the i3.8-per-cent: part of NATO's mobile force are armed forces pay increase was'both seriously under strength announced. Army strength last The army took in 4,870 re |Nov. 30 was 43.059 ruits last vear but 6.472 trained During the same Sept. 30 to soldiers returned to civyy street Feb. 28 period, manpowe Ove roth of the armed strength of the navy rose to 18.- forces *h. 28 was 104,957, 236 from 17.826 and of the airjan inere of 15 men in two 'force to 44,3037 from 44.163 months get streneth is a In January and February. re- minimum of 109 Five vears lcruiting for the army totalled/aco. the forces numbered 126,-| 752, only one more than in the 474 Direct Control Envisaged Soon Of Warship by Captain OTTAWA (CP)--The captain| Seven experienced captains of a Canadian warship will, be-|took only two to three hours ifore jong, have as direct control/each to become acquainted with over the manoeuvres of his ship|the direct control system. as a pilot has over those of his} Tests showed that manoeuvres! jPlane. such as approaches to the jetty, A team of defence research)zig-zagging and circling were |board scientists and experienced |performed more than twice as sailors has demonstrated suc-lefficiently and accurately as cessfully direct control] of ship's|those undér the voice control engines and helm by means of|system. Performance was throttled and a small wheel|checked by photographs taken operated by one man at the from a helicopter ifront of the bridge. The research team also used A paper summing up the re-|closed circuit television jsults of the tests at sea with the |mounted on the foremast and destroyer Saskatchewan say s|mainmast of the Canadian Coast the voice orders from, bridge to|Guard ship Simcoe. ine i > "gone for- over" oe |USED TV DISPLAY Voice orders have long re-| With direct control and all ee 9 sulted in errors, some of them |bridge windows blacked out, the THE GENT S leading to collisions. The paper|ship carried out accurate along- says that even the Saskatche-|sides using only the TV display. wan's experience crew made a, The team asks: Who should eile ifew errors although it knew itj}handle the direct -controls, an was being comparison . tested officer or man? with the direct-control system. It suggests that a seaman Direct control of the engines;could handle the controls in a by one man comprised twojroutine situation. But the officer throttles worked by the right of the watch, another officer or hand and the wheel, worked by|the captain himself would prob- the left hand. ably prefer to drive in the more It has been estimated that this! difficult situation. one-man operation could permit) But 'gone forever will be the a destroyer to be handled by 21|fear that the voice-ordered en- fewer men--a personnel saving|gine response may be in the of 420 men in Canada's present|wrong direction," the team re- \fleet of 20 destroyers. 'ports. Enroll now for 4 Ottawa Wants To 'Carry Ball' exciting evenings! 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