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Show O . s--1 .-. s-, r- s-, II - '-, ._i H 1—. H AWARD SUPPLEMENT TO THE HILLTOP TIMES Ur it H T THURSDAY, May 31, 2012 9 A\ ilKlia H Climbing trainer takes time to recover, looks forward to future climbs 388th Component Maintenance Squadron: Senior Airman Brandon Zelfer 388th Maintenance Operations Group: A WALFORD I page 10 Senior Master Sgt. Kyle Perry, Master Sgt. Jeffrey Bressette Tech. Sgt. Jeremy Mason, Staff Sgt. Kirk Bryant, Senior Airman Matthew Belling, Senior Airman Gloria French, Senior Airman Daniel Pfanstiel, Senior Airman Shaneen Toole Standard-Examiner correspondent See U.S. Air Force 372nd Recruiting Group: 388th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: BY JAMIE LAMPROS n expert climbing trainer had just warned his wife to be careful on their icy driveway. Then he walked out and promptly slipped himself. After falling on the icy patch in February, Bill Walford found himself literally grounded. He couldn't stand up straight and could barely move his legs to walk. An administrator at Hill Air Force Base and former Marine. Walford had stayed in shape teaching wall climbing on base, climbing an average of 1,500 vertical feet per week. "A Special Forces friend of mine at Hill Air Force Base offered me the option to try climbing during one of our team work exercises on base," he said. "While failing miserably in the beginning, I still fell in love with the solo aspect of the climb. It's you and the wall. Quit your whining boy, shut up and climb." Walford said he began holding classes at the Warrior Fitness Center on base, training others to climb, prior to his Promotions Tech. Sgt. David Gill See PROMOTIONS I page 11 West/Hill AFB DAU Satellite graduates BY CHRISTI MOHLER West/Hill AFB DAU Office D Photo courtesy of Marc Curtis/Layton High School photography teacher Locally known as "Carl's Rock" Bill Walford climbs a rock crag located about 205 miles up Ward Canyon on the East Bench of Bountiful. Walford was helping with a climbing/ rappelling event for a youth group. — efense Acquisition University-West Region, Hill Air Force Base, announces graduates of the PMT 352B Session 12-702 class upon completion of their four week course. Twenty-seven attendees from various bases with career fields in program management, system engineering, production, quality, manufacturing and test and evaluation were given scenariobased practical exercises with topical themes such as interoperability, prototyping, and evolutionary acquisition in a classroom setting. The Program Management Office Course is the capstone course of the Level III certification in the program management career field. The course is intended to prepare the attendees for the challenges they will face in the program management office. Over the past four weeks, the PMT 352B class participated in a series of 10 interconnected exercises to deepen and broaden acquisition and sustainment knowledge, hone team See DAU I page 12 MEMORIAL AT THE MUSEUM CHAPEL MARY LOU GORNY/Hilltop Times Col. (Ret.) Pete Miner, Flight Captain, Order of Daedalians, recites a poem at a ceremony Memorial Day at Mazer Memorial Chapel, in honor of all the Warriors along the Wasatch who served and those who paid the ultimate sacrifice. Gary Thornley, Hill Aerospace Museum volunteer and trumpet player, prepares to play taps at the Memorial Service at the Mazer Memorial Chapel after a list of Utah's fallen military members were read out name by name and a bell was rung for each. The reading included Tech. Sgt. Kristopher Solesbee who died while serving in Afghanistan from Hill Air Force Base on May 27, 2011. The list had 40 names. |