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Show Orfen ALCPA H:3 AFB. UT .? tract coiat ritCT C7C7 PCI CI TKtojw ioc:me$ Feb. 18 I President's i Day LJ Federal holiday Vol. 45 No. 6 D Hill AFB, Utah B Fab. IS, 1991 o Mil 00 ALCPA n r (oD(og (o.Di by Debbie Christiansen Hilltop Times staff writer By the end of the day today, most of the 833 Hill AFB employees who received separation notices Feb. 8 will have been registered in tr.e Department of Defense Priority Placement Progrim. In addition, approximately 300 oth ?r employees who were given letters have exercised their option to register in the program, said Beth Corliss, chief of civilian personnel. In sessions held Monday at the base theater, employees receiving separation and notices were told how the program might help them find other positions within DOD. In addition, change-to-lower-gra- de change-to-lower-gra- vR Wr m -- Hill AFB, UT de Third Class 84056-599- 0 Serials Order Department University of Utah Libraries Salt Lake City, UT 84112 DOD will interface with other federal agencies in trying to locate suitable employment. "The key to success in PPP is how willing you are to actively participate in looking for jobs in the DOD," said Mike Retzer, deputy zone coordinator for Zone 4. According to a video shown at the briefings, PPP has an 86 percent success rate matching workers with available jobs. The automated computer program is managed in Dayton, Ohio, by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel. Once employees are registered in PPP, they are placed on a stopper list that is sent out to all DOD agencies. After clearing any other higher ly priorities, any agency with a vacancy that matches an employee's skills at an acceptable grade must offer the position to the employee on the stopper list. The employee then has 24 hours to accept or decline the position. Only one valid offer is made to each employee. If he or she declines the offer, it results in removal from PPP, the video explained. A valid job offer is defined as one that the emfor, is an acceptable grade, ployee is in an acceptable location and with acceptable working conditions. "You only get one offer, so use that one offer wisely," Mr. Retzer said. There are three important aspects employees well-qualifie- d B See Workers, Page 2, please. I ''.. V; i r Now you M J 1 4 s see 'em... , An 7 aircraft awaits refueling and weapons loading before takeoff for flight operations in the Middle East. U.S. Air Force Photo by TSgt. Hons Deffner Mi? woo3 cupied Kuwait, military officials feel the air campaign will continue as long as necessary to achieve their ob- No timetable set for launching ground offense - There of meetings in the Persian Gulf. WASHINGTON (AFNS) will be no stopping the air war just to "It's all one campaign," he said. start a ground offensive in order to "There are different phases to it. "We're in that phase now that fobreak the Iraqi stronghold on Kuwait, Secretary of Defense cuses on air power. At some point, we would expect to bring other elements Dick Cheney said. "I think the best way to describe it... of our forces to bear on the problem of is that we're not in the business of just getting him (Iraqi leader Saddam Husrunning an air campaign, stopping the sein) out of Kuwait. The question is air campaign, and then running a when and what's the most effective ground campaign," Secretary Cheney use of those additional forces." After 27 days of relentless allied told reporters Feb. 10 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, at the conclusion of two days bombing of targets in Iraq and oc jectives. No timetable has been set for the be- ginning of the allied ground offensive against almost 550,000 Iraqi troops in and around Kuwait. Operation Desert Storm began its fifth week Feb. 13, witness to almost 70,000 flying missions, half of them combat flights against strategic Iraqi targets. Approximately 900 missions were flown Feb. 12 alone, with 225 directed against Iraq's elite Republican Guard, six-month-o- ld Prayer Brockf ast Prayer still essential woQD eofflftDiTutyj Ofrcdorei budget DOD still needs high-tec- h entrenched along the border. "Some have suggested that we continue the air campaign for six to 12 months or indefinitely," Secretary Cheney said. "When you've struck all the targets you can strike from the air, when you've done all you can to limit the resupply, when you've destroyed all the armor and artillery that you can get out from the air, then you might have to use other forces in order to achieve your objectives." Yet, the successes of the O Special hardware Iraq-Kuwa- it See pyll-o- ul War, Page 2, please. section Tips make taxes less taxing |