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1111 D With the Government accepting in full this year's AFPRB recommendations, pay increases of, broadly, 15-17 per cent for ratings and 17-20 per cent for officers were announced to date from April 1. Total cost of the award represents an increase of 16.8 per cent, with net cost £2l million. In very general terms it means weekly increases of the following kind (before tax): ORD. LI)): AB. £12.50; leading rate, £15.5)): P0, £19: Cr0, £22.5)); FCPO, £25; sub-lieutenant, £18: lieutenant, £25: lieutenant-commander, £33; commander. £4: captain. £5l. In annual terms, examples of the new rates for officers ire: Captain (after six years). £18,250; captain (after four years), £16,151: commander (after four years), £13,750: lieuten:int-comiu:ijidr (alter
four years). LII .tK)l ; lieutenant (after three years). £8,501: sub-lieu t e na nt(SD) / lieutenant(SD £9,(K)5.1I0,720. Examples of the new annual figures for ratings (Career scale) include: Fleet chief ART, £9,289: ECPO. £8,654: CPO(B), £7,727: ART 111(1 Class). £7.545: P0(B). £6,989; leading ratc(B). £6,124; A13(13). £5,022. Rates of Submarine pay. ay. Dip money. SETT Instructors' pay. Hvdrographic Diving pay. Parachute and Parachute Instructors' paw have been increased by about 16 per cent.
Cards halve rail fares
Half-price rail travel for their Service personnel, wives, husbands and children aged 14-18 is due from July 1. l-l.M. Forces Railcards. with
passporl -type photographs. will allow 51) per cent reductions when making private journeys on ordinary and day return fares (first or second class). There are only it few mink); restrict ions on use of the ca r(]%, 1 which applications are being made through ships and establishments the scheme could prove extremely, popular. particularly Iii Service 'weekenders.' Initially, the scheme will run for an experimental period to December 31. 1982.
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Volunteers from H.M. ships Ashanti and Londonderry during the liferatt test in the ship tank at liaslar. If sailors are forced to use the Navy's 25-man general service liferaft in earnest, there should be little problem keeping warm. But how to stop them inhaling each other's breath set a problem. Survivors in cold climates face loss of body heat leading to hypothermia, but the Navy's 25-man raft is well insulated - so well that it is virtually airtight when all apertures are closed. Result is that carbon dioxide from survivors' breathing
quickly builds up to toxic levels. Investigating ways of ventilating the raft, the Survival Medicine Section of the Institute of Naval Medicine, Alverstoke, worked on keeping the carbon dioxide levels down without allowing too much heat to escape. THREE HOURS For three hours volunteers from H.M. ships Ashanti and Londonderry sat in a
raft as it bobbed about in the ship tank of the Admiralty Marine Technology Establishment at Haslar, as boffins sampled the air. The Institute of Naval Medicine highly grateful to the volunteers for enduring an uncomfortable stint report that the trial was successful. Firm advice can now be given on how to ventilate the raft without lowering the internal temperature to dangerous levels.