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Show 3S2Bi MGicaay For Elf AFB.0nNov.7 i HILL AFB - Hill AFB will observe its 39th birthday on Nov. 7 without fanfare. No i special activities are planned at the Utah air base as it goes about its business of the nation's na-tion's defense. DURING THE past 39 years the base has grown into Utah's largest industry with more than 19,000 civilian and military mili-tary personnel assigned. Payroll during the year 1978 exceeded $331 million. Value of real estate, buildings, j equipment and inventories I comes to more than $3.4 billion. Major world wide assignments assign-ments carried on by the Ogden i Air Logistics Center at Hill the base's largest organiza tion include support of the ! F-16 and F-4 fighter aircraft, j Minuteman, and Titan ICBM's, Bomarc and Maverick missiles, training devices, aircraft landing gear and airmunitions. MAJOR GEN. John J. Murphy is commander of the Ogden Air Logistics Center. The past 12 months have been a beehive of activity at Hill AFB with more than $31 million in construction in progress with another $11.2 programmed during the Fiscal Fis-cal Years 1979-80. THE 7,000 acre base had its origins back in Dec. 1939 when the War Department designated desig-nated a desolate strip of land as the site of a government base. Groundbreaking ceremonies in the snow a month later on Jan. 12, 1940 were attended by local dignitaries. digni-taries. On Nov. 7, 1940 Lt. Col. (later Brig. Gen.) Morris Berman was assigned as the first commanding com-manding officer. The base began counting its birthdays on that date. OVER THE years 62 types of aircraft have been processed at Hill AFB with the F-16s the latest. Many of the greats and near-greats in a long line of American produced aircraft, including the B-17, B-29 and B-24 World War II era bombers, the F-84 and F-4 jet fighters were repaired at Hill AFB. The impact of Hill AFB and Ogden ALC reaches far beyond be-yond the physical boundaries of Utah. Fifty-six Air Force activities in a foup-million square mile area look to Ogden Og-den ALC for backup support. This includes Colorado, Montana, Mon-tana, Idaho, Wyoming, South and North Dakota, New Mexico, Arizona, Nebraska, Alaska, and the western two-thirds two-thirds of Canada. ANY AIR Force installations installa-tions in those areas which encounter en-counter problems it cannot handle with its own resources turn to Ogden ALC for assistance. |
