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Show Ik Play ball! HHIAFB weather outlook 5-d- ay www.airfield-ops- j' r"f l i i tj . hill.af.mlloswweather rt 1 Photo by Airman 1st CUm Cory McCutchin Gen. Scott Bergren. Ma). Ogden Air Logistic Center commander, throws out the first pitch during Military Appreciation Night at the Ogden Raptors baseball game Aug. 16. The Raptors scored a 6 victory over the Great Falls Dodgers. i " 11 9-- 81 High 57 Low Mostly sunny 1- Closures affect base Routes listed for North Davis JHS -15 will Bridge repair and ramp closures on affect the West and Roy Gates for the next few weeks. The M5 southbound at Exit 338 leading to the West Gate will close at 7:30 p.m. today and reopen at approximately 5 a.m. Friday. Southbound M5 traffic will be restricted to one lane for approximately a half-milnorth of Exit 338 during the closure. The Utah Department of Transportation on- has already closed the southbound off-ram- p e 79 High 58 Low Partly cloudy 01-0- 2 80 High 57 Low Sunny amy Group commander and 75th Support Group commander, will conduct the briefing. The deployment will involve nearly 300 personnel from the 75th Air Base Wing and the 388th Fighter Wing. The first wave of deploy Mostly sunny m 83 High 60 Low Partly cloudy Report Date of last DUI: July 11 Days since last DUI: 41 Always designate a driver if you plan on drinking. Failure to do so could be deadly. Current as of Aug. 21, 2001 Airmen Against Drinking and Driving (586-223- 3) e 2 the first day of school buses will Starting Monday pick up students in the morning at the times and locations shown. At the end of each school day (2:45 p.m. 2 p.m. on Fridays) , buses will run the routes shown in reverse. Parents may address questions to Lt Col. Barry Williams, 75th Support Group deputy commander, at Ext. Monday-Thursda- ments will leave in early September, and the second wave in early October. The entire deployment period will be approximately 90 days. The commander's call will begin with an exercise overview, and discuss the countries involved, deployment processing requirements and force protection requirements. Deploying personnel are asked to attend the briefing in desert camouflage uniforms. Spouses, commanders, supervisors and other interested personnel are invited to attend this unclassified briefing. Bus 1: y, 7:30 a.m., Charlestown Street and Charlestown Loop (north end) 7:32 a.m., Charlestown Street and 6th Street 7:35 a.m., Princeton Drive and Liberty Way 7:37 a.m., Minuteman Way and Lexington Way (north end) Bus 2: 7:33 a.m., Yorktown Way (north end) and Liberty Way 7:40 a.m., 6th Street and Liberty Way (north side at Youth Center) 7:45 a.m., North Liberty Way and Bull Run Circle 7:46 a.m., North Liberty Way and Gettysburg Cir- Guard, reserve troops help suppress Western wildfires Air and Army ARLINGTON, Va. (AFPN) National Guard and Air Force Reserve people and aircraft continue to battle Western wildfires. More than 1,300 Air and Army National Guard men and women, including nearly 600 in Oregon, were assisting weary civilian firefighters across seven Western states. The number increased significantly Aug. 18 and 19 because Washington State officials called up 300 more including Air Guard civil engineers, to support the fight against the West's fires. All told, the Guard troops joined a force of 26,000 firefighters who were battling more than 30 major fires that had scorched more than 500,000 acres, according to reports from the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho. Oregon firefighters were battling 12 major wildfires, including two new ones, vhich had burned 232,000 acres by Aug. 18. Four Air Guard Hercules equipped with Mobile Airborne Fire Fighting Systems two from California and two more from were sent to an Air Guard base Wyoming at Klamath Falls in southern Oregon to dump tons of chemicals on fires in the citizen-soldier- s, C-1- nt Base residents and employees have the opportunity to put their green thumbs to work during the annual landscaping program sponsored by the Self Help Center. From Sept. residents, commanders, first sergeants, dormitory managers and facility managers can go to Self Help, Bldg. 820, Bay C, and select from a list of flowers, shrubs and other materials to improve their building. Each base facility is authorized up to $500 worth of landscaping materials and base housing residents are authorized up to $100 each. Selections will be listed on an invoice, then 1, each from the North Carolina Air Guard's 145th Airlift Wing and the Air Force Reserve's 302nd Airlift Wing in Colorado, were dispatched to Boise. Aircraft from California's 146th Airlift Wing, and Wyoming's 153rd Airlift Wing, dropped 63 loads of chemical retardant on fires between 50 and 150 miles away during the first five days of flying. Each plane can dump up to 2,600 gallons in just a few seconds to prevent flames from spreading and help firefighters on the ground. The flight crews achieved a mission success rate of 63 drops for all 63 flights, officials said. Meanwhile, Army Guard troops worked with civilians on the fire lines, flying helicopters, driving trucks and maintaining equipment. One team of soldiers was busy flying four helicopters with water buckets and shuttling civilian firefighters from base camps to fire lines and back in 15 trucks, said a Washington Guard spokesman. More people were being mustered and trained to support efforts, and 75 Air Guard people were called to duty including civil engineers from the 141st Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild AFB, Wash., who were tasked to set up two base camps. 100-perce- fire-fightin- g picked up at J&J Nursery, 1815 W. Gentile, Layton. Units that have exhausted their accounts will be given commercial discounts for items they purchase on their own from the nursery. In addition, the Self Help Center has purchased six professional weed and grass trimmers that can be signed out for two days at a time during the regular operating hours of Monday, Wednesday or Friday from 9 a.m.-- 3 p.m. For more details, contact Master Sgt. Fred Lee, Self Help manager, at Ext. Balloon important to detonations from page cle 7:47 a.m., . 1 call. But, with Dickson's four years Air Force and seven years range experience, VanHouten trusts her judge- ment "I don't mess with experience," VanHouten said. "It's not smart" After the "go" decision is made the detonation must be made within three hours. It typically takes an hour and a half to set up and blow a motor piece. We've had 16 detonations in July alone thaf s really Street North Liberty Way and Independence .,, ,. , rt ,M , , Bus 3: 7:18 a.m., 1122 Georgia Street (between Ogden ALC ...... headquarters and Hobson House),.., 7:27 a.m., Harrington Loop (south end) and Cam- ,' Northwest region. Four more similarly equipped planes, two Landscaping program starts Sept. 4 Hill AFB DUIDWI on-bas- . National Guard Bureau 82 High 60 Low 586-AAD- D 441. Maj. Gen. Scott Bergren, Ogden ALC commander, will make opening remarks, and Col. J.C. Dodson, deployed 75th Air Expeditionary by Master Sgt. Bob Haskell J Hill AFB has contracted bus services for residents who will attend North Davis Junior High School during the 2001-0school year. Affected students live in base housing at the southwest corner of the base and in senior officer housing near the Ogden ALC headquarters building, Bldg. 1 102. Bright Star briefing Friday A commander's call to discuss the upcomwill be ing deployment for Bright Star held Friday at 9 a.m. in the Base Theater, Bldg. Jt ramp at 5600 South in Roy for approximately four to six weeks while crews repair the bridge. The intersection leads to the Roy Gate near the Hill Aerospace Museum. Southbound vehicles wanting to use the freeway will be detoured to 1900 West and the Clearfield 338 interchange near Hill's West Gate. Motorists will still be able to exit at the Roy Gate from during the closure. The work is part of a larger project that will replace shoulders and repair bridges on through summer 2002. bridge Street 7:32 a.m., Liber ty Way and Saratoga Way 7:34 a.m., Minuteman Way and Constitution Way (north end) Alcohol video auditions today by Brad Dallof 3S7th Training Support Squadron Auditions are today for roles in a 367th Media Production Flight video about acute alcohol poisoning. The video will be distributed to Grand Forks AFB and every classroom in North Dakota, and may be distributed Air Force-wid- e and to other educational systems. The program tells three stories, based on actual events, of people who have died by consuming more alcohol than their bodies could handle. Auditions will be from 0 p.m. in Bldg. 1269. Those auditioning should be prepared to read lines, supplied by the 367th, in the television studio for the producer-directoThe auditions will be taped. Most filming will be from 8 a.m.-- 5 p.m., Sept. and Sept. with the exception of one or two night shoots. Some shooting will take place in the 367th studio, but most of the production will be taped on location with multiple cameras. Most actors cast will have speaking roles. Acting experience, including school drama classes, is a plus. Scenes and actors needed are: The Slumber Party," six 14 year-ol-d girls, three with speaking parts; one male and one female, late 30s, to play parents, both speaking parts; one speaking male, early 20s; and several males and females, early 20s to late 50s. The College Student," two speaking females, ages one speaking male, age several males and females, ages The Air Force Hunter," three speaking males, ages to play staff sergeants actual staff sergeants that are hunters are a plus; and one speaking female, age Two production hosts, one male and one female, age 18 and high school seniors, will tie the segments together. The roles are the biggest in the production. ATelePrompTer will be used so not much memorization will be required. 1:30-6:3- r. 17-2- 1 24-2- 8, non-speaki- amazing," Dickson said. "We have never come close to anything like that. In the past, we've had a very high cancellation rate, but as the years go by you learn more. Nobody really knew what to expect from the size of these detonations." A single detonation could equal 10,000 pounds of TNT. "It's fun," Dickson said. "I feel very maternal toward this aspect. I've been with it since the beginning, and I certainly try very hard to keep the noise down. But, you also try to keep production going. Sometime it's between a rock and a hard spot. "People get so frustrated because it's a beautiful day, but if s whafs going on aloft that determines it Inevitably, 19-2- 2; 19-2- non-speaki- 19-2- 3. 26-2- 24-2- 6. well have a storm coming in or an inversion that will get you every time." All the way around, the project has been good. Millions of taxpayers' money is saved by not storing the motors, and environmentally, it's very clean to blow them up, she said. The emission from the plume is very clean and it mainly just kicks up a little dust" Dickson said. "It just works out well for everybody." Detonations are made twice daily from to depending on the weather. "Last year we had a year," Dickson said. "Well probably have 6065 detonations this year so we want to take advantage of every good day." mid-Marc- mid-Octobe- r, record-breakin- g h |