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.liintain quota (765JCC0 in the Army) and
,a condition of readiness" to defend the
ountry. "Duty, Honor, Country" reads
i poster in Goad office.
A recent 4.83 per cent pay raise effec
jve Oct. 1 sho may attract enlistees. An .
nlisted member starts out making $374 a
nonth on the new monthly basic pay rates
et by VS. Congress.
J I Iowever, portions of the G.I. bill (re
irement pay benefits) may become
ineffective after Nor. 1976, officers say.
j The VS. Navy offers 62 different jobs
aid maintains about 500JD00 men and
jromen.
j The Navy offers training in nuclear
power, lecfmology and electronics. The in
telligence specialist and the data processor
"ye two of varied jobs,
j The Navy offers a similar program to
Project AHEAD. It is the Navy Campus
for Achievement, which pays 75 per cent
of college tuition while a student is on ac- '
tiveduty..
I In both programs, credits are transferred
; to participating colleges.
"The big advantage of the military now
adays is the opportunity to see the world,
get your head together, decide what you .
'want to do, and get paid while doing it,"
; said Tim Scholting, electronics technician
land VS. Navy recruiter.
I He cited the Navy's nuclear power pro
gram as the "toughest job." The training
jwSI prepare esse to get an Atomic Energy
; Ccrnmsdca license later.
"CMlian companies are recruiting
people out cf the Navy," (especially those
who have worked with nuclear power), he
said.
SdscStirg joined became he wanted
the opportunity to viit other countries.
In one ei-!it-mcct!i cruise he saw Japan,
the Ippines,' Australia, New Zealand
and Nationalist China. t
In nine years in the Navy, Schcliing has
spent three in technical schools, four at
sea and two performing shore duty.
He has stayed in the Navy because of his
"excellent" salary ($12 a year includ
iag full medical and dental care for him
self, wife and child).
fcYou won't get rich," he said, but "I'd
be hard pressed to find a comparable job"
on tlse civilian market, he said.. .
Financial security and the retirement
program retiring with 50 per cent of bask
pay at age 40 appeals to him.
The Navy, as do the other services,
grants military men and families the right
to shop at commissaries with slashed prices.
They also give a pay allowance for moving..
Studies show technical training and
travel draw Navy recruits. The Navy wi3
need 1 20,000 new recruits in 1977. Scholt
ing recruits a quota of four a month.
According to Scholting, more prestige
comes with Navy advancement than ad
vancement in civilian life. ,
As other service men pointed out, a
man's life may depend on how well a ser
vice man does his job. So work quality is
high. A sense of accomplishment, leader
ship and discipline are said to be traits of
embassies, he said.
It offers a similar variety of jobs.
The rigid discipline of the Marine Corps
is still a reality, Ryan said. Cut the 'self
esteem and pride (gained) helps you."
Ryan could have played football at
college but decided instead to join the
Marines.
I felt I would be accomplishing some
thing "he said.
Promotion on ability makes for quick
advancement in the Marines.
"I would not have as much drive, self
confidence, my proficiency would be
Humping joe -
TWs artillery for loading the projectiles
bred from our 155mm howitzers and 8-inch
self propelled guns I You'd swear they
were tanks r
Artillery where they love the crack and
ring of the tube and the smell of burnt
powder in the air Where they'd rather be out
practicing live fare m the snow at Grafenwohr
(Graf is dose enough) than waiting around
the barracks for a nice day
Whether you're talking held artillery or
air defense artillery, jfs a real team effort
r-.,jfc- m with real espntde
T corps Each learn in
;J the battery has to
work as one, with
t '- forward observation
i the eyes, fere direc
w Hi-..' m ton control the
brains, arid the rockets and guns the guts
Whether you're a gunner, a surveyor,
a meteorotogjcal nun. or an assembly
specialist, you learn that others depend on
you to do your job right '
Each team will be damned i theyl let the
rest of the battery down
And then there are top NCOs, like the
Chief of Smoke, who provide their own
brands of incentive Professionals teaching
you how to be one. .
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Pfioto coorttsy of US. Army
Example freni the armed farces newest adver&zs drive
all armed service men and women.
In 1967 Scholting worked in a meat
packing plant for $5 an hour. He's 29 now
and says he's "freer since I joined the
Navy." '
A poster on Scholtmg's doon "Ve're
looking for all good men."
Marine Corps advertisements claim:
"We're looking for a few good men." The
selective marines maintains 196,000 people
one-fifth the size of most of the other ser
vices, said VS. Marine Sgt.JohnM. Ryan.
However, all the services can be more
selective during peacetime and screen ap
plicants for moral character and mental
and physical skills. ; .
"The Marines is the showpiece of the
Armed Services," Scholting said. They are
the only branch which guards American
down some". . -Ryan said. "No doubt I
could make a substantial living (elsewhere)
but assets received in the Marines have
doubled."
The Marines has changed, officers claim.
A recruit used to be "demoralized" or
called "sissy" if he couldn't do something.
Now the positive motivation of building
. on one's good qualities instead of com
pleately tearing him down to build him
up is the rule, they say.
-At 24, Ryan has had five years in the
Corps and looks to retirement at 39. He
plans to go into business for himself. : -
"American stalled labor is better than
ever," he said. "A lot (of workers) come
from the military."
The VS. Air Force also advertises some
thing for the future.
"Ninety per cent (of those inquiring)
are looking for training and job
experience," sail Don Jeffares, recruiter.
The Air Force offers 250 jobs including
radio and T.V. repair, medical, air craft
maintenance.
Research development and job Incen
tives such as being paid for a suggestion the
Air Force uses, may attract recruits. More
individual freedom and less parental pres
sure may be other reasons to join, Jeffares
Jeffares chose electronics as his Air
Force field.
In 16 years in the service he has accum
ulated 90 semester hours in ground radio
communication and 60 hours of college
history study through the Air Force's
community college program. I le has been
to 26 foreign countries.
"You can't stand still and do nothing in
the armed forces," Jeffares said.
Most service men agretd it is the recent
high school graduate who is interested in
joining. However, college experience does
not bar one from the military. College is
not for everyone and the services may be a
more meaningful route for training, the
men said. Most recruits are not signing
up for a lifetime career.
Reserve Officer Training Corps (R0TC)
programs are offered in all service
branches. They provide scholarships and
demand less time committment. Informa
tion on these is available at the Military
and Naval Science Eldg.
Dave Griffith, 25, who is in the Navy
enlistment Scientific Education Program
(going defunct at UNL), (NESFP) sums up
- young military thought on job benefits.
"Non-military students were laughing at
- me until last spring, after graduation, they
were sitting around worrying about getting
a job," he said. "They were forced to stay
in school" if no job were available in their
market..
Then they began to say, "Hey, the
. Navy,. . .they hadn't realized the oppor
tunities there. . .(that) it's not so bad after
all."
Griffith, an engineering and electronics
post graduate, figures the Navy has spent
S25,GC0 on him. He'll be making $927 a
month after graduation in December.
. The military, says VS. Marine Corps Lt.
Cd. Dwight Allen: "It's just liie the lire
men and policemen. You're training for a
job, (personal, technicd skill) but you
hope to God you never have to do the ul
timate job."
Contisned from p.8 ' 'r'iV'
Hertel said he usually has to turn away business.
"If somebody needs an engine overhaul and has to have
it dose in a couple cf days, I tell them I can't do it in
that short a time and direct them to someone who can."
Hertel plans to get a teaching certificate when he grad
uates and try high school teaching.
"The money isn't all that great, and the teaching job
market is very tight, but if a position opened I would like
to try it," he said. -
He also plans to continue the automotive repair
business with a friend.
"We would like to become the McDonald's of the
repair world," he said.
Loonie (he asked tht we give no last name) is a third
year pre-Iaw student and a tattooist. He runs "Palantir"
(another Tolkien name meaning "that which is far
away"), a tattoo business contactable through P.O.
Box 30251, Lincoln 68510. He said he first was exposed
to tattooing two years ago, but has been into it seriously
for about four months. Since he ordered the needed -equipment
he has been working on tattoos for friends and
friends of friends. -
"There is a kind of societal taboo against tattoos," he .
said. -I won't do the typical names Born to Lose J or
crap like that. The laws concerning the practice are vague,'
but some clearer laws wouhfhelp eliminate the tattoo
butchershops."
He said he can work from stencils or from designs
brought in by a prospective customer. .
"I am not an artist, but I consider tattooing a rt " he
said.-
Tattooing involves piercing the skin about l16th of an
inch and injecting ink under the skin.
"It involves a little pain," Lormie said.
A tattoo the size of a half dollar can take four hours
to complete. A scab forms over the tattoo, which must be
kept lubricated to avoid crackhgrit heals in 10 to 15
days.
Lonnie said he avoids the risk of infection by using
dean equipment and by not re-using ink..
"The most popular designs are small, colorful things,
like flowers cr butterflies," he said.
Tun Ixsaa, in his kit year in law school, owts a
retail hardware store-Tabor Hardware m Tabor, Iowa,
30 miles south cf Council DMfs. He had worked in it for
14 years and bought it two years ago. His wife, JoyceRae
does most of the management of the business, which has
one part-time and five full-time employes.
Inman lives in Lincoln during the week whue goffig to
dares. He handles prcbbms with the store via telephone.
On Fridays he drives back through Omaha and picks up
whdeela sl? and stock. Saturday and Sunday are
management days, when the couple go over problems and
plans. Monday he drives back to UNL.
"It's a very tricky schedule," Inrnan said, "and there
are lots of headaches.
"I would like to go into a legal-related job when I
finish here, but we would also Hke to stick with the bus
iness, he said. "We rnight hire a manager. We won't
throw it down the drain because it makes pretty good
money and it's fun."
CI1 Jackson, a senior in business administration here
on a tennis scholarship, runs and owns Strings and
Things, a tennis specialty shop, in a friend's basement.
(He can be reached at 432-7755.) Jackson said he started
stringing tennis rackets in San Diego, his hometown,
bought equipment to set up his own business, and started
doing business first with other members on the tennis
team, high school coaches and friends, and in the Lincoln
public schools. He said he sells gear to four or five people
a week. His inventory includes rackets, shoes and tennis
atothing.
"My tuition, books and fees are paid for but I still need
. money to go to bars and get gas for my car. ?
Jackson said he might someday enjoy running a sport
ing goods store or a chain, but added, "I'm not ready to
be that tied down yet."
Ron Jester, a junior in the business college, and Lee
Ahrens, a graduate student in economics, own jointly a
rock band named "Windsong", headquartered at 1530
S. 21st SU Apt. 4. Jester said they purchased the band
equipment and name from a former owner. The band
plays Top 40 and '50s songs, usually for high schools, fra
ternities and sororities. CID Productions is its booking
agent.. - ir
Jester and Ahrens made an origins! investment of
about $3,CCO in the band.
Tra learning a lot about taxes and accounting in an
applied situation and can apply stuff I've learned from my
business courses," he said. v
- Vkki Westphal, a sophomore in business adrninfstra- .
tion, works as a consultant for Mary Kay Cosmetics of
Ddhs, Texas. Vestphal, who lives at Abel 1213, said she
is an independent dealer who buys the cosmetics from
the company and can set her own prices, although the
company suggests prices. Working from 10 to 15 hours a
week, she does most of her business in the dormitories.
"I really enjoy the freedom that working for myself
brings " she said. "I can work when I want and slack off
when school tales up more time." : -
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