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Show - -- ' w ! j ; fcr yin M' 'f i, ' h 4 -- Published in the interest of the personnel of Dugway Proving Ground Dugway Proving Ground, Utah Friday March 14, 1980 Quality Assurance Office News Briefs School pictures taken The National School Studios will be at the Dugway Elementary School taking Dual Memory photos March 18 between the times of 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. All students will have to the opportunity to be photographed, and interested persons will be able to see the pictures before making a purchase. The exact times are listed below. children 8:30 - 9:30 9:30 - 12:30 Elementary School students 1:00-1:5- 0 High School students 1:50-3:0- 0 School students Elementary Pre-scho- ol TOPS needs members Want to lose pounds sensibly? Heres how. The Dugway TOPS Club is meeting every Wednesday night in the elementary schools teachers lounge at 7 p.m. in an effort to shed a few of those extra pounds. The meetings combine regular business duties along with special things such as naming a Queen of CPT Edward Fisher, Activity Chief and Surety Officer. the Week and awarding prizes for individual ' accomplishments. Membership fees, which go to the National organization, are $9.00 with monthly fees of $1.50. Is it worth it? Members tell us theyve shed 95 ' pounds total in the. last year - a bit of news you should be happy to sink you teeth into. . Parents offered tutoring course in reading Edward A. Fisher. which is directed Quality Assurance cal Surety, headed material and personnel. Chemical surety materiel is all chemical agents and munitions approved by DA or still in the developmental research phase. Fisher must insure that anyone working with or around these mater-iel- s meet the high standards required by regulations. In order for an indivi- dual to be' enrolled in the Chemical Reliability Program (CPRP) he must go through a screening process. This process entails a review of personnel files (military and civilian), medical records, security investigations, and check of military records if they have ever served in the military. All of this screening is done. by civilian and military personnel offices, the security office, Defense Investigative Service, ' changes need to be made he contacts the project officer and makes his recommendations, in turn the project officer usually incorporates the needed alterations. sure that Dugway s Chemical Control teams are ade-quately trained in order to contain or clean-u- p any accident or incident that occur. may Periodically QA will stage ' chemical accident or incident - for a a example spill in a laboratory, intru-- . ders or terrorists taking hostages, at- tacking a convoy, or putting explosives mi storage igloos. After the scenario is set up, QA monitors how first aid is administered to victims, how quickly they are evacuated, how the intruders are apprehended, they inspect how the fire department and de- -' contamination teams respond, how well the area is secured by security and how the CAIC officers react and control the situation. All of the CAIC officers have received specialized training in controlling chemical accidents or incidents at Red Stone Arsenal. The officers then return to Dugway and train various response teams. Dugway Acci-dentIncide- working with or around chemical agents and munitions. They dont want someone with an unfavorable background put into a compromising position that could force him, througjh blackmail or other measures, to provide information to anyone that could jeopardize the security of agents- munitions Dugway has stored or jeopardize materiels that may be transported. The surety program also covers individuals that are already in the CPRP to guarantee that they keep up the standards expected of them. THE Calibration Laboratory, at Ditto, works on and insures that test, measurement, and diagnostic equipment runs properly and gives accurate test results. A very simple lo-cat- ; QA has the responsibility of making ed example of what calibration does is taking a piece of equipment, plugging it in, turning it on, and checking the information given against sa known standard to see if they read the same. .' Before any test is conducted (regard- less of whether agents are used) the in- G. Lew Choules and A. Paul Adams - -- The OPEC dominated oil market has prompted the industrialized free world nations to attempt to develop The Dugway High School Junior Prom will be ' held March 29 from 6:30 p.m. to midnight. Dinner will be served in the schools library from 6:30 to 8 p.m. with the dance beginning soon after and winding up at 12 p.m. Invited guests and parents of juniors and seniors are feked to please RSVP by the end of school on March 17. Tickets for the Prom are on sale by the junior alternate petroleum sources. One such alternate is the tar sand deposits of Utah which are the largest in this nation! An estimated 30 billion barrels of bitumen lay in these Utah tar sand deposits. Extraction of the most .. readily available portion (10 of re-serves) of these tar sands could serve as an excellent intermediate solution to our energy problem. Die Canadians with a trillion barrel reserve have developed a method using caustic in hot water to free the oil from the tar sand in the Athabascan deposits in Northern Alberta. Their process has been commercially profitable for at least the past two years and has attracted world wide attention. Their production rate is now 50 to 100 thousands barrels of syn . , Bus service continues Liberty buses will be dispatched to Salt Lake City and Hill Air Force Base On March 15 with buses going into Salt Lake City on the 22nd and 29th of this month. This service is free and will depart Headquarters Co. (Ware Barracks) at 9 a.m. each Saturday. Persons interested may Call the English Village Motor Pool for reservations, ext. 3341. As an added note, be aware that military personnel have priority seating, however, military dependents and civilians may also use this service. This year sections of land have been designated as individual family garden areas. They are as fol-- : lows: a. Northwest area behind family quarters from On March 9, the Mountain Bell Telephone Company connected the Dugway circuits to an electronic 0. . from the surrounding tar. .Consequently, the tar does not actually adhere to the sand and may be extracted with a simple dilutehot caustic solu- tion.. The Utah sand on the other hand, has no such water film and the tar adheres tightly to the sand and will not yield to hot caustic extraction alone. Organic solvents such as kerosene or chlorinated hydrocarbons are effective extractants but have not been thus far cost effective because of the inability to recover enough of the solvent after extraction. Researchers at the University have deve of-Uta- . teams, technical escort teams, a meteorology team for on site weather forecasts, a safety team and an aviation team whose primary, responsibility is evacuating casualties and serving as a command post. Fisher monitors these teams and officers during a CAIC exercise looking for weak spots and making sure that deficiencies are eliminated. FISHER is also responsible for the conduct of Operational Readiness Inspections anytime a test is to be conducted using chemical agents. This entails setting up a team with a chief from QA, a member of the Safety Office and a disinterested technical ad-- . visor. This team will inspect a test that is conducted with simulants but $ Continued on page 2 loped a electrical shearing method for. improving the performance of the hot caustic. They are optimistic about the beyond research expectations. The Choules-Adams-Garb- ett (CAG) tar sand extractant has several valuable characteristics. It is inexpensive, readily available, can be reused, requires low energy input and poses little or no environmental or health hazard problems. The CAG extractant is a water base extractant and should enable the use of much of the existing Canadian commercial application of their method but obviously there will be formidable problems from wear caused by the sharp silica sand grains. Mr. Max Garbett of Life Sciences Division and the authors have been interested in tar sand for several I technology thus reducing time of years. Time spent in car pooling was used by the authors to discuss and study in depth the problems of tar sand extraction. One of us. Dr. Adams, had a good understanding of the present petroleum chemistry and Dr. Choules had considerable experience with water baked solvents when working at the U of U previous to Dugway. As a result of these discus- commercial applications. In laboratory experiments 78 of the bitumen was extracted after only 5 minutes boiling of the mixture' and no stirring or other shear action was required. The extra extractant also possesses properties which hold considerable promise of being applicable to in an process. The authors are now negotiating with business interests who would have the capability to assist in the incorporation of the extractant into a viable business enterprise. in-si- tu sions formulas were hypothesized for a water based inorganic laboratory at Dr. Adams home. The first extraction mixture tried, worked and succeeded . Free operator service lias been discontinued Garden Areas designated West Knight Avenue to West School Avenue -Plots numbered b. Northeast area behind family quarters from' East School Avenue to east Knight Avenue - Plots " numbered 21-4- 0. These areas will be offered on a first come, first serve basis with one plot going to one family. Those individuals or families desiring a garden area can telephone or write the Director of Logis-- . tries, US Army Dugway Proving Ground, ATTN: STEDP-LDugway, UT 84022, or call ext. 2161 and reserve your area by number. . - struments have to be calibrated. crude per day and new plants should soon triple or double this amount. Un-- . fortunately we are not at present able to profit from the Canadian technology because of a fundamental difference between the tar sands of Athabasca and Of Utah. The Athabascan tar sands have a thick film of water around each sand grain separating it nt has crashrescue and firefighting teams trained at the Ditto fire station, a special trained medical team at the Ditto aid station. Decontamination New tar sand extractant Junior Prom scheduled . Quality Assurance by Dennis Fuller, Specialist; Chemiby Fisher, and the test plan and procedures and if The commissary conducted a survey, of preferred hours for shopping during the months of December and January, and found that 54 percent of the res- ponding 95 patrons wanted no change whatsoever. Thirty-si- x percent (or 35 patrons) asked that the store be open mi Saturday while eight store users requested late hours for Thursday only. Because of this response, ho changes will be made! . Surety Program. The different aspects of this program involve safety, security and reliability of chemical surety Donald C. Heebner. QUALITY Assurance is just what the name implies. Fuller reviews test plans from Material Test to insure that test data is accurate and that the information they are gathering will yield good test results. He makes sure the test is worthwhile and that the customer or project officers are not wasting money. Fuller examines the Commissary survey results tallied class. The chemical surety function of QA is responsible for implementing Department of the Armys Chemical Calibration Laboratory headed by BYU is offering a course for parents which teaches them a successful way to tutor their own children in reading skills at home. The cost is $19.50. If you are interested in the course, which is recommended by the school and the PTA, contact the elementary school for details. ! Die Quality Assurance Office, located in the headquarters building has three main functions, according to the Acting Chief and Surety Officer, CPT In addition to these three functions and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Of course it depends on what sort of security clearance you are requesting as to how thoroughly you are screened. The results of the screening process are sent back to the Surety Office, he reviews them and if there is no derogatory information, the individual is enrolled in the CPRP. However if there is questionable information in ones records his files must be examined very closely. There are about thirteen disqualifying factors such as medical, financial, social problems, and police records, to things like not being able to handle normal duty assignments or the inability to handle crisis or emergency situations. If any of these kinds of derogatory information are found Fisher can not allow the individual to be enrolled in the surety program. The purpose of this intensive screening is to insure that only people of the highest caliber are , phone number making a long distance toll call, but the equipment was not ready for installation here when Mountain Bell, made her change. It will be put in as soon as possible. Due to the change, the cost of long ' switching exchange. Because of this, .free operator service where by the operator asked you what number you were calling from has been discontinued. THE ARMY currently has a program which would identify the tele distance toll calls will increase. How much the increase will be depends on where the call is made, when you make it and how long you talk. . HERE ARE the new dialing procedures while this new (temporary) system is in effect: Dial 9 for a Salt Lake City dial tone, then dial O, the area code (if To reduce the impact of the change. Post Communications suggests you avoid calls less than three minutes long because the new rate is based on a minimum of three minutes. Also try tomaximize calls between 1 1 p.m. on Friday and 5 p.m. Sunday because this will exploit the 60 cost reduction on the amount of time in excess of three minutes. . needed) and then the seven digit number. When the Salt Lake City operator comes on the line, tell her. This is Dugway - bill this call to 801-522-xxx- x. D, INSCOM reup option opens Soldiers in grades of . can now through reenlist for a guaranteed assignment to the US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), DA officials announced recently. A change to AR 601-20- 8 (Army Reenlistment Program) includes the revised INSCOM and electronic warfarecrudptologic units and training activities reenlistment option. E--1 PuUbbel by the Transcript-BuIM- n E--6 al release of some Census forms. Census The Sampler met with Census Officials from the Census Bureaus mystery unraveled Publldiing Compuiy, " As reported in last weeks Sampler, there was a mixup and accident- print, film in Opfaeipf'Mdbr ' Ogden Office, and we got a few answers for you. Only about a third of the residents at DPG got the forms, and those of you who did can go ahead and complete the forms and mail them back in IF you know for sure the status of your home on April 1, . m 1980. If youre not sure who or how many will be there wait and mail them back on April 1. ' All military on active duty will be asked to fill but other census forms which will be distributed toward the rod of the month. This is in addition to the ones which will come automatically to your quarters ss, both forms are to be .filled but for quarters occupants, for Barracks and BOQ personnel, special enumerators will be appointed to you. and an not to be confiderad anoffidal eiptw- their wrften hereto don by the Department of the Army. Tlie appearance of adveTtUementi in in ad-dre- has been CPT Gilmore of PT-Fcoordinator the designated military for Dugway and will be in charge of those people. The Toll Free 800 number for assistance should be operational around the 29th of March if you have any questions concerning the Census. Agafti, we ask you to fully cooperate with the census people to help make this vital ten year count of Americans be a viable one, many programs depend oo Census data D , . thh publication doe, not constitute an endonenrcnt bythe Department of the Army o the product, or n" - 'in "f r I |
