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Show HILLTOP TIMES Training videos filmed at Air Force Personnel Center TIMES April 3, 2008 Force Services Agency in San Antonio. Smullian was the director for the project, and the filming was done by Fred Chapa. ANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas — "Roll They arrived at AFPC on March 19 and spent an after'em!" the director yelled. The clapboard was noon snooting employees of the Airman, Family and Comsnapped and the film crew jumped into action. munity Operations Branch Air Force Wounded Warrior ; Although this is a common occurrence in Hollywood, if s an unusual one at the Air Force Personnel Center here. program in actual work situations. The crew filmed at three homes of local Wounded The filming was part of two 15-minute videos that will be used for training Air Force family liaison officers Warriors. These men and women have all suffered major injuries, from missing limbs to loss of sight and severe and commanders. The shoot, arranged by the Air Force Survivor Assistance Program Office in the Pentagon and burns. They told their stories of how the family liaison officers provided necessary assistance to them in their time contracted to HLS Productions in Baltimore, took four of need. The crew also filmed at the physical therapy unit days in March and turned AFPC employees into tempoat Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio and at the rary actors. home of one of the local family liaison officers. 'We're using real people in real situations," said John "They filmed us at our desks assessing the AFW2 daBeckett, representing the Air Force Survivor Assistance tabase on our computers and speaking to AFW2 customProgram. "We want the (family liaison officers) and the commanders who see these films to see the actual people ers on the phone," said Brian Churchill, a member of the doing the job, not actors. If s more realistic and the names branch. 'Then five of us sat down at our briefing table and and faces are ones the (family liaison officers) will actu- they filmed us discussing a PowerPoint presentation. It was something we do every day and we know the footage ally work with." will help our (family liaison officers) and our commanders Once the script had been written and the shooting learn what we do and how we do it." schedule finalized, Harold Smullian and Tim Kennedy from HLS Productions flew to San Antonio. The actual They also filmed Ray Ramos, a community readiness filming was done by the audiovisual branch from the Air consultant, as he provided assistance to Wounded Warrior Air Force Print News R Airman 1st Class Faith Harris at the Airman and Family Readiness Center at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. These centers provide hands-on professional services such as transition assistance, employment assistance, moving assistance, financial counseling, information and referral, and emergency financial assistance to Wounded Warriors. A family liaison officer is assigned to each Wounded Warrior, whether the airman is being medivaced from an area of responsibility or another overseas locatioa Family liaison officers are the individuals who help the Wounded Warriors and their families in all aspects of their move from the point of departure to the hospital in the United States. They arrange local transportation, work with the casualty branch on travel requests and emergency family travel orders. They are the warrior's lifeline in a time of crisis. The AFW2 team begins providing assistance and services for five full years after separation or retirement. One of the videos, scheduled to be released in June, will be used to train family liaison officers. The other will be used to brief commanders and other interested parties. These actors may not ever get stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but to those airmen and families who require the personal attention of a family liaison officer, they're big stars just the same. Large — very large — microscope cuts costs as it works piece stays still," said Scot Roswurm, senior materials engineer and acting Tinker Public Affairs chief of the 76th Maintenance Support INKER AIR FORCE BASE, Squadron's Metallurgical Analysis SecOkla. — Since receiving the tion. "In addition we have detectors, largest-known scanning elecinstruments that gather the electron tron microscope in the world in data to provide an image, which are September 2007, officials here say also moveable. So we can look at very the documented savings to date on complex geometries and even down less than eight components exceeds into some internal cavities and resolve $70,000. Officials project annual savimages. ings to the Air Force of as much as "(The microscope) is an integration $1 million, plus the incalculable benof the best elements and components efits of mishap avoidance. from manufacturers of microscopes from all over the world," Roswurm Within a 9-foot-by-10-foot-by-12foot vacuum chamber, the microscope said. "In this case, for instance, the col— Germany's VisiTec Microtechnik umn is actually produced by (The Carl GmbH MIRA X — has a 5-foot by 5-footZeiss Corp.), one of the finest optic and by 5-foot operating volume. It is capa- imaging companies in the world." ble of examining objects 60 inches and The MIRA X analyzes maintenance larger. The Oklahoma City Air Logistics wing engine and aircraft components Center Metallurgical Analysis Labora- including compressor rotors, damaged tory's MIRA X can magnify an object fan blades, shafts, spacers and air seals, more than 100,000 times and its stage fan frames, nozzle segments and thercan rotate 360 degrees. mal sprayed parts. Engineers and tech"All the angular manipulations used nicians recently inspected a sheath off to view an object are accomplished by of a boom which was 7 feet long with a moving or rotating the column, so the fracture of nearly the same length. BY BRANDICE ARMSTRONG T www.HilltopTimes.com What are you missing? On average it takes about eight hours to complete a component interrogation, which does not include part cleaning, part set up, chamber pump down or other preliminary procedures. According to Russell Howard, OCALC Engineering director, the MIRA X provides exciting opportunities. Previously, the lab could only magnify features of a large, intact object 70 to 80 times its original size. Also, prior to the arrival of the MIRA X, lab technicians had to cut parts to approximately 6 inches or less to fit into its largest standard SEM. Propulsion components were often destroyed before final investigative or interrogative results were determined. "If I can evaluate a large component without cutting it up, I save the time and cost of cutting it," Roswurm said. "I can also keep the features of interest of components in their proper context, meaning that I don't have to reassemble the pieces after the fact in order recall the position of a crack with respect to its assembly or to accomplish subsequent dimensional analyses." MARGO WRIGHT/U.S. Air Force Judith Freer, a materials engineering technician with 30 years experience, positions the MIRA X scanning electron microscope for an F108 stage four vane ; assembly at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. 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