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Sullivan explains Army's policy on sexual harassment
Separating soldiers receive extra permissive TDY
Awards program recognizes leaders in federal information systems
Army drafts new mass casualty response plan
Drawdown background -- chain teaching program updated
Washington, D.C., Hosts Army Ten-Miler
Talent search underway for Army Soldier Show
Update on warrant boards
Desert Storm hero wins Boy Scout award

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                *** US ARMY NEWS - 92 08 12 ***

Sullivan explains Army's policy on sexual harassment

      WASHINGTON (ARNEWS) -- Sexual harassment was the topic when the 
four service chiefs appeared before the House Armed Services 
Committee, July 30.

      Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan explained the steps being taken to 
minimize all forms of sexual harassment in the Army. He spoke of "a 
deep-seated commitment to an ideal known as equal treatment, 
regardless of race, ethnic origin, religion or gender."

      Stressing that this commitment applies to the Total Army, 
Sullivan said combat readiness is at stake.

      "One of the fundamental imperatives to producing a trained and 
ready Army is quality -- quality people, equipment and training," he 
told the committee. "The environment in which almost 2 million people 
live and work must be one characterized by dignity, respect and 
freedom from harassment or oppression. It must be an environment in 
which all can grow."

      Sullivan briefed the House committee on the Army's status. He 
said studies and surveys show improvement, while other data indicate 
that there's still much work to be done.

      The Army must address two areas to end sexual harassment -- 
behavior and attitudes, the chief said.

      "We have the means to control and...punish behavior. This only 
treats the symptoms," he said. "If we are to get at the cause, then we 
must...modify...attitudes."

      Attitude adjustment begins with the Army's basic leadership 
ethic. As soldiers progress through professional military education, 
they learn about sexual harassment "in terms of appropriate behavior, 
identification, prevention and correction," Sullivan said. "These 
programs stress the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that leaders at 
all levels should possess."

      The system is in place, with policies and procedures for 
recognizing and reporting harassment. "Where we have not been as 
successful as we must be, is in the execution of the program," the 
Army general admitted.

      However, he stressed his commitment to equal treatment.

      "We must be constantly vigilant," he said. "Sexual harassment 
will not go away simply because we emphasize new policies and stricter 
enforcement. Hoping that this behavior will disappear is not the 
answer; we must be action-oriented."

      As an example, he mentioned the human-relations consultants who 
will tour Army installations, talking to soldiers and equal-
opportunity personnel, to assess the success of EO programs. This is 
part of "the Army's ongoing process of self-appraisal," Sullivan said.

      "The Army is proud of its record of providing career opportunity 
based on merit and talent," he said. From past racial discrimination 
to alcohol and drug abuse, "America's Army has shown that it can deal 
satisfactorily with the concerns of its members and the American 
people.

      "The Army has a good record of concern, initiative and ef-
fectiveness that few institutions can match. However, we cannot and 
will not rest."

                             * * *

Separating soldiers receive extra permissive TDY

      WASHINGTON (ARNEWS) -- Many separating soldiers can now get up 
to 30 days permissive TDY, giving them more time to find a house and 
job.

      The Secretary of Defense has granted up to 30 days PTDY for 
soldiers stationed overseas who are voluntarily retiring, 
involuntarily separating, or taking the Voluntary Separation 
Incentive/Special Separation Bonus.

      PTDY was increased to a maximum of 20 days for such soldiers in 
the continental United States.

      The message specified who are involuntary separatees --

-- Officers and enlisted soldiers named by the Selective Early 
Release/Retirement Boards;

-- Officers identified for separation as a result of reduction in 
force;

-- Enlisted soldiers denied further service as a result of retention 
control points;

-- Enlisted soldiers identified for separation under the Qualitative 
Management Program, currently known as the Qualitative Early 
Separation Board.

      "This program is effective...for eligible officers and enlisted 
soldiers. (It) is expected to continue through fiscal 1995," the 
message reads.

      The program does not include soldiers separating under the 
Voluntary Early Release Program, Enlisted Voluntary Early Transition 
Program (Phase 1 and 2), or those normally separating at the end of 
their term of service or obligation.

      "The PTDY may be used in a series of trips or in one period, and 
could be added to transition leave," the message states. 

      However, commanders can reduce the amount of PTDY taken with 
terminal leave, due to the readiness and mission needs of the unit. 
Use of the increased PTDY cannot extend separation dates beyond Sept. 
30, for officers and enlisted soldiers required to separate in fiscal 
1992.

      Command-sponsored family members of the above overseas soldiers 
can now have one space-available round trip, unaccompanied by the 
sponsor, from the overseas base or terminal to a CONUS port of entry. 
Family members are not eligible for "Space-A" within CONUS, according 
to the message.

      "Members with a home of record in an overseas location different 
from their duty locations are authorized one unaccompanied, space-
available round trip to their home of record overseas location," the 
message says.

      For more information on requesting PTDY and transition leave, 
soldiers should visit their personnel actions center.

                             * * *

Awards program recognizes leaders in federal information systems

      WASHINGTON (ARNEWS) -- A newly created awards program seeks to 
recognize exceptional information-systems projects undertaken by 
federal agencies.

      In a recent announcement from the 1992 Federal Leadership Awards 
program's co-sponsors -- "Federal Computer Week" and Open Systems 
Conference Board -- federal agencies are invited to submit nominations 
for the 30 federal information-systems projects that have --

-- "Made a measurable, positive impact on the ability of the 
organization to accomplish its mission;

-- "Improved the quality of service provided to the public; and

-- "Decreased costs of government operations without harming mission 
effectiveness."

      Award recipients will be invited to share the lessons they've 
learned with their peers throughout the government community at the 
Federal Leadership Conference, scheduled for the convention center in 
Washington, D.C., Dec. 1-2. Winning organizations will be notified by 
September, according to the announcement.

      Nominators must complete a three-page form by Aug. 20. Copies of 
the form are available from program headquarters at 4610 Tournay Rd., 
Bethesda, Md., 20816; telephone: (301) 229-1062.

                             * * *

Army drafts new mass casualty response plan

      WASHINGTON (ARNEWS) -- A plane has crashed. Now the process 
begins to recover and identify the casualties.

      To make this more efficient, the Army has drafted a new system 
called the Peacetime Mass Casualty Response Plan.

      The plan details the Army's response after major accidents. 
Actions include search and recovery efforts, coordination for moving 
remains to an identification facility, support for identification and 
mortuary affairs, and notification and support of the next-of-kin.

      The new plan combines past crisis after-action reports into a 
detailed method for handling a mass casualty incident, said Col. James 
Witter, of the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel. 
Although the plan applies to any mass casualty incident, it stresses 
response to aircraft crashes because of the difficulty in recovering 
and identifying remains.

      The plan is designed to support the Casualty Area Commands, 
which have programs for mass accidents in their areas of 
responsibility.

                             * * *

Drawdown background -- chain teaching program updated

      WASHINGTON (ARNEWS) -- The Army's "chain teaching" program on 
the personnel implications of the drawdown not only is working as 
planned but also is receiving high praise from the Army's personnel 
chief.

      Upon distribution of the second update of the chain-teaching 
briefing packet, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel Lt. Gen. Thomas 
P. Carney said, "Field input has been extremely valuable in preparing 
the update. Input from commanders, the program's hotline, and soldier 
test surveys prompted us to develop Update No. 2. That feedback also 
was the main reason for the update's high level of detail."

      Carney explained that the program's original message remains the 
same: "to provide the chain of command the most up-to-date information 
on the drawdown."

      It was in the spring of 1990 that the original briefing gave an 
overview of the reduction strategy and its tools. The first update, 
published in January, explained the drawdown plan for fiscal year 
1992, looking ahead for the next three years.

      "The one we've just published reviews the plan in Update No. 1, 
gives detailed results of all the FY 92 reduction methods used, and 
lays out the drawdown and reshaping plan for fiscal '93," Carney said. 
"Even though the message remains the same for all the briefings, each 
one has evolved to provide the best information we have to date."

      He said the personnel-support hotline "has proved to be an 
invaluable tool in supporting commanders. For the purposes of Update 
No. 2, the hotline was activated on July 1 -- and will stay 'hot` 
until Sept. 11.

      "If you measure the program's success by the number of soldiers 
and civilians who've received the briefing, by how it's been accepted 
by commanders presenting it, and by the soldiers and civilians 
receiving it, then I'd give it a 9, on a scale of 1 to 10," he said.

      As with any such program, part of its success might be measured 
in terms of cost-effectiveness. "It's been very economical," he said, 
"when you consider what it has done for the Army."

      The program's basic costs included the man-hours used in 
developing, presenting and receiving the briefing; the reproduction 
costs; and the costs associated with commanders' modifying their 
training schedules to give the briefing.

      "If you compare these costs with the benefits of having the 
entire Army, military and civilian, informed of our drawdown plans -- 
as well as with the added benefit this knowledge gives us by way of 
helping to reduce personnel anxiety for those affected and those 
staying in the Army -- then you should have no doubt the Army is 
getting an excellent 'return on investment,'" he said.

      Such a testimonial from Army headquarters has its echoes in the 
field. There, personnel officers say they like having commanders be 
responsible for presenting the briefing, "because commanders provide 
the needed priority and emphasis," Carney said. "This demonstrates 
that the Army is putting high priority on keeping people informed."

      He cited two other program elements favored by personnel of-
ficers. "They like the fact that chain teaching draws on a single-
source document for specific reduction methods planned for use during 
the drawdown, and that the eligibility criteria for each are spelled 
out pretty straightforward in the briefing. 

      "And they appreciate the 24-hour hotline's ability to provide 
immediate response to their questions on not just the chain teaching 
briefing packet but also on other matters related to the drawdown," he 
said.

      Will there be a third update for the packet? Carney expects so -
- especially with the passage of legislation on military 
appropriations for fiscal 1993, "which might lead to a need for minor 
modifications in our plan. Update No. 3 will be used to explain the 
modifications, if necessary, and to outline our drawdown plans for 
fiscal '94."

                             * * *

Washington, D.C., Hosts Army Ten-Miler

      WASHINGTON (ARNEWS) -- Troops will be advancing on Washington, 
D.C., soon. But instead of clutching machine guns and dressed in BDUs, 
they'll be squeezing water bottles and wearing shorts when the eighth 
annual Army Ten-Miler is run Oct. 11.

      The Ten-Miler, ranked for the third year in a row by the 
Athletic Congress as the largest 10-mile road race in the United 
States, will involve military and civilian athletes from around the 
world. 

      More than 5,600 people competed for trophies in last year's 
race. Traditionally called the "Run the River Bridges," the flat 
course begins and ends at the Pentagon, taking runners through 
Washington, D.C.

      A revolving Commander's Cup trophy will be awarded to the top 
military team. Last year's trophy was won by "Follow Me," an Army team 
from Fort Benning, Ga., with a winning time of 3:25:42.

       Awards also go to teams in the categories of open men and 
women, masters open men and women, active-duty military open men and 
women, Army Reserve, National Guard, government agencies, 
corporations, military academies and Reserve Officers' Training Corps.

      Each team must have a designated captain, with each team having 
four to six runners. The team score is made up of the top four 
runners' times.

      The top male and female finishers overall will each receive a 
Director's Cup, while other awards are given to the top three men and 
women in each age category, the top three teams in each category and 
the top wheelchair racers.

      All finishers will receive certificates, and the first 7,000 
entrants will each receive a long-sleeved T-shirt.

      Registration for the Army Ten-Miler begins now; forms are 
available through most Army recreation centers. You can also write to: 
The Army Ten-Miler, P.O. Box 46594, Washington, D.C., 20050-6594. 
Phone: (703) 614-1551 or DSN 224-1551.

      The entry fee is $12 per person if received before Sept. 25, and 
$20 per person after that date.

      For anyone traveling to Washington for the race, the Doubletree 
Hotel and the Arlington Days Inn, both in Arlington, Va., will provide 
special rates for runners competing in the Army Ten-Miler. For more 
information, call the Doubletree Hotel toll free at 1-800-848-7000 or 
Days Inn (collect) at 1-703-525-0300. Say "Army Ten-Miler" to receive 
the special rates.

      Both hotels will provide transportation to and from Washington 
National Airport.

      Also scheduled for that weekend are a pre-race pasta dinner, 
continental breakfast and sports exposition with registration forms 
providing more information about the race, accommodations or other 
events.

      The Army Ten-Miler is sponsored by the U.S. Army Military 
District of Washington; Headquarters, Army Recreation Services; and 
the Association of the U.S. Army, George Washington and Fairfax-Lee 
chapters.

                             * * *

Talent search underway for Army Soldier Show

      WASHINGTON (ARNEWS) -- The Army's looking for stars with energy 

-- not celestial stars, but soldier stars. Recruiting for the 1993 
Army Soldier Show is underway, according to officials at the Army's 
Community and Family Support Center in Alexandria, Va.

      Active-duty officer and enlisted soldiers who sing, dance, play 
an instrument, perform a specialty act, or have experience in lighting 
and audio are needed to make up the show's cast and crew.

      The Army Soldier Show is the brainchild of the late Sgt. Irving 
Berlin. Established during World War I, it has kept a tradition of 
providing entertainment "for the soldier, by the soldier."

      Soldiers wanting to take part in the next show should send their 
nomination packets to the Army Soldier Show office by Oct. 30.

      "We're looking for soldiers who love to perform, are talented, 
have lots of energy, and will work hard," said the show's artistic 
director, Edwin Ridenour. "The soldiers we choose have to be tops in 
their units as well as tops in talent because they represent the 
Army's finest." 

      Selectees will be attached to CFSC for 179 days, which include 
intensive rehearsals, a rigorous production schedule and a four-month, 
50,000-mile road tour.

      Nominees must send a VHS videotape of themselves performing 
their specialties. Technician nominees must submit a full-length 
photograph, a resume of experience and training, and a recommendation 
from a local representative of Morale, Welfare and Recreation.

      Judging and selection will take place during November. Soldiers 
selected will be notified in mid-December. Commanders must confirm 
soldiers' availability by the end of January 1993.

      Mail nomination packets to: Army Soldier Show, P.O. Box 439, 
Fort Belvoir, Va., 22060. For more information, call DSN 656-6393/6394 
or (703) 806-6393.
  
                             * * *

Update on warrant boards

      WASHINGTON (ARNEWS) -- Army drawdown efforts reached another 
milestone recently with the scheduling, in fiscal 1993, of certain 
boards for warrant officers' retirement or release from active duty.

      A message from the U.S. Total Army Personnel Command set the 
approximate date of Oct. 27 to convene selective retirement boards, or 
SRBs, for Regular Army warrant officers. The boards will also serve as 
release-from-active-duty boards for retirement-eligible "other than 
Regular Army" warrant officers.

      The boards will consider chief and master warrant officers, 
regular and OTRA, who -- 

-- are not on a promotion list;

-- don't have an approved voluntary or mandatory retirement date in 
fiscal 1993 or 1994; and

-- as of the convene date, are retirement-eligible, with 20 years' 
active federal service.

      Warrants within the SRB or release from active duty (REFRAD) 
zone of consideration who are designated MW4 "will be considered in 
their active-duty-list grade of CW4," the message states. "Warrant 
officers who are within the SRB or REFRAD zone will not be excluded 
from the zone because they are on a previous master warrant officer 
selection list."

      "This is the first time that a board will have considered 
warrant officers for involuntary retirement," said CW4 Curt Oldroyd, 
of the Army's Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel.

      "Right now," he added, "we calculate that 500 to 600 warrants 
will need to be selected to meet fiscal 1993 end-strength require-
ments. Those numbers will be adjusted as necessary to compensate for 
voluntary losses that help reduce the fiscal 1993 WO end strength."

      There will not be a warrant reduction-in-force in fiscal 1993. 
But RIF and selective retirement boards are expected in the following 
two years, to meet drawdown requirements, Oldroyd said.

      He added that the SRB/REFRAD board process requires that 
selected warrants separate no later than July 1, 1993.

      The PERSCOM message includes such other information as the 
procedure and deadline for applying for normal voluntary retirement, 
instead of board consideration. Oldroyd said that copies of the 
message should be available at local personnel service centers.

                             * * *

Desert Storm hero wins Boy Scout award

      WASHINGTON (ARNEWS)-- Operation Desert Storm will forever be 
remembered as a time when acts of heroism and courage were the norm, 
not the exception. Spec. Frank Bradish is one soldier whose actions 
were honored recently with the Young American Award from the National 
Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

      Bradish arrived in Saudi Arabia in December 1990 with the 1st 
Brigade, 3rd Armored Division out of Germany. He was assigned to a 
scout platoon on a Bradley fighting vehicle as a dismount -- an 
infantryman who secures the area for a vehicle. He didn't see action 
until his unit attacked the flank of a Republican Guard element during 
the ground war.

      On the night of Feb. 27, by then in Iraqi territory, his Bradley 
engaged a Soviet-made T-72 battle tank. The tank was hit but returned 
fire on the Americans.

      "I felt our vehicle rock back really hard; and then the Halon 
went off, which is a fire extinguishing device," Bradish said. "I 
thought, 'I gotta get out of here.' So I opened up the door and got 
shot."

      Bradish and the other dismount were about to exit through the 
back ramp when another Iraqi tank came to the rear and opened fire 
with a .50-caliber machine gun.

      "A body won't stop a .50-caliber round at all. It went all the 
way through the vehicle's ramp, which is six inches thick with layered 
steel. It just blew right through that like nothing, then hit us," 
Bradish said. "The same rounds that hit me hit the other soldier."

      The rounds then exploded through the ready box in the turret, 
where ammunition was stored, setting off rounds popping like 
firecrackers.

      Unaware of the injuries to his hand, thighs and groin, Bradish 
grabbed the other dismount, whose legs and one arm had been blown off, 
and dragged him about 12 feet away from the vehicle.

      As Iraqi fire continued, he returned to the vehicle, pulling out 
the .50-caliber machine gun and radio from the wrecked tank, so he 
wouldn't be defenseless if the Bradley exploded.

      Returning again, Bradish checked to see if anyone else survived 
the attack. Climbing on top of the vehicle, he saw that the Bradley 
commander was dead from the initial shot.

      Grabbing a box of flares, Bradish jumped off the Bradley and was 
looking around when he heard moaning about 50 feet away. The turret 
gunner had been blown from the vehicle and suffered from a chest 
wound. Bradish dragged him back to where the other survivor lay and 
set up a defensive perimeter that he would defend for almost 30 
minutes.

      He tried to contact the platoon leader on the radio, but there 
was too much traffic, and his radio was weak. Bradish pulled out a 
white star cluster to signal emergency; then realized one hand was 
mangled and he couldn't open the flare. Holding the flare with his 
teeth, he pulled off the top and fired into the sky.

      As soon as the star cluster burst, Bradish's lieutenant knew a 
unit needed help. Clearing the radio of all other traffic, the 
lieutenant got Bradish's distress signal and immediately sent 
assistance to his location. 

      Two minutes later, another crew member joined Bradish without 
any injuries but suffering from shell-shock. Bradish and the new 
arrival began firing at the Iraqi tank and dismounts still attacking 
them.

      The platoon leader arrived soon after, bringing the medics. 
Bradish refused to leave the machine gun, insisting the other soldiers 
be treated first.

      "We got these two dudes here that are hurt worse than I am," 
Bradish told the medics. "Get them on the vehicle and get them out of 
here."

      The medics loaded all of them and transported them to Battalion 
Aid, where Bradish first began to feel pain as his adrenaline surge 
wore off.

      "I didn't even know I had shrapnel in my back until I had an 
itch and I reached back there to scratch it, and my finger went into 
the hole to the first joint," Bradish said.

      Bradish's injuries included a .50-caliber wound that pierced 
both thighs, a damaged hand and a groin injury. After being treated at 
battalion, he was transported to Germany for stitches, then to Fort 
Lewis, Wash., for skin grafts. 

      For his gallantry in action and his courage, Bradish was awarded 
the Silver Star, the Army's third highest award. In addition, he 
received the Purple Heart, the National Defense Medal and the 
Southwest Asia Service Medal.

      Bradish received his Boy Scout Award on May 15, 1992. He was one 
of only nine people selected for this honor.

      The Young American Awards, first presented in 1968, are given to 
youths between the ages of 15 and 25 who have achieved exceptional 
service through science, religion, service, government, business, 
athletics, art, music and literature.

      Rae Bradish, the soldier's mother, is an ecologist for the Idaho 
Fish and Game Department. She isn't surprised by her son's efforts.

      "All of my kids learned that when someone's in trouble, they 
should help," his mom said.

      While recovering in Germany, she called from his home town of 
Pocatello, Idaho to say that people there considered him a hero.

      "I never looked at what I did as bravery or valor or anything," 
Bradish said. "I looked at it as part of the job, something I had to 
do."

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