To measure the effectiveness of the Basic Skills Education Program (BSEP) reading curriculum--eight reading skill modules employing military job-specific reading materials and used by the U.S. Army in Europe (USAREUR)--and to provide information for improving it, a study examined 183 soldiers from 38 European posts who were enrolled in the BSEP reading program from September 1986 through March 1987. Pretest/posttest measurements were taken, using the Tests of Adult Basic Education (TABE) and General Technical (GT) Predictor Test (a section of the Armed Forces Classification Test). Pre-class and post-class surveys gathered demographic data and other relevant information, including possible reading problems, course expectations, and program and instructor effectiveness. Results indicated that problems with soldiers' job-reading tasks were being addressed by the military job-reading program. Soldiers and teachers judged the curriculum to be both relevant and useful to soldiers' occupational needs, and improvement on reported individual pre/post module tests indicated the effectiveness of curriculum materials in addressing job-reading competencies. (Two figures and 12 tables of data are included, and a sample set of evaluation forms is appended.) (MM)