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Show "VI S April 17, 2014 Pilot's group holds armed forces event 4th annual Veteran's Recognition Day at Morgan County airport Contributed story On Saturday, May 17, Armed Forces Day, the Morgan County Pilot's Association and the Airport Advisory Board will be sponsoring the 4th annual Veteran's Recognition Day beginning at 10 a.m. at the Morgan County Airport, 5000 Cottonwood Canyon Rd., Mountain Green to recognize and honor all veterans from all branches of service. The Pilot's Association invites all citizens and veterans from Morgan and nearby counties to come and mingle with one another, swap stories and view the static displays of various aircraft and military vehicles. Veterans from Morgan County's American Legion Post 67 and VFW Post 6154 will conduct a flag ceremony at 10 a.m. followed by a Stearman flyover. The event will include a patriotic talk at 11 a.m. and several veteran motivational speakers from noon to 2 p.m. will discuss flying dangerous combat missions during WWII, Korea, Vietnam and others, and to return from those missions to talk about them. All veterans are invited to bring personal stories and memorabilia, medals, etc. they would like to share. There will also be lunch available from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will also be precision flying demonstrations of radio controlled aircraft around midmorning. All these events will be held on the airport's new east side ramp and taxiways. Event parking will be availSee VETERANS I Page 10 Contributed photo A radio controlled plane is parked next to a full-sized bi-plane at the 2012 Veteran's Recognition Day at the Morgan County Airport. The next celebration, which recognizes and honor all veterans from all branches of service, will be Saturday, May 17. Ogden and employers brace for growth in customer service jobs Final wishes BY MITCH SHAW Hilltop Times staff R. NIAL BRADSHAW/U.S. Air Force photo Members from the Veterans of Foreign Wars from throughout the state of Utah stood in formation April 13 on the south end of the Hill Air Force Base runway to commemorate the life of Lt. Col. Edison Phillips Janney, a Utah native. Janney served 23 years as a bombardier with the 95th Bomb Group and, during his service, was captured by German forces on October 10, 1943, where he remained for nearly two years. His last wish was for his ashes to be spread across an Air Force runway. Remembering a true portrait of honor, courage in Lt. Col. Janney BY JENNICA SEMON 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs Early Sunday morning, as a brisk breeze flowed through Weber canyon, rifles fired and Taps sounded the empty Hill Air Force Base airfield, in honor of one our nation's heroes; Lt. Col. Edison Phillips Janney. The commemoration was held to grant Janney's last wish; for his ashes to be spread across an Air Force runway. A native of Salt Lake City, Janney served 23 years in the military. While serving as a bombardier with the 95th Bomb Group, he was shot down and captured by German forces on October 10, 1943, then sent to Stalag Luft I where he suffered a broken pelvis and lay unattended on a cement floor for days. Eventually, a German doctor placed blocks of wood on each side of his pelvis, creating a 'makeshift' vice, as treatment. Janney remained in these conditions for two years until he, and other POWs, were released from the compound when Russians invaded the prison camp on May 13, 1945. In his honor, members from the Veterans of Foreign Wars from throughout Utah stood in formation and gave the Airman a final salute on the south end of the Hill AFB runway; a moving and emotional farewell. A U.S. flag was presented to Janney's wife, Maureen Janney. In attendance at the event included Janney's fam- OGDEN — City officials here say a specific employment sector that has already created thousands of jobs in Ogden is set for another spike, but connecting job-seekers to those jobs will take a massive effort. Enter the "Customer Service Career Fair" which will be held later this month by Ogden city and a host of other community organizations. Several local employers — all advertising current job openings — involved in the customer service, e-commerce and sales sectors will be represented at the fair. Ogden City Business Recruitment and Relationship Manager Steve Fishburn said Citi Financial, Convergys, Esurance, Focus, HomeDepot.com , Rocket Lawyer, Teleperformance, Wayfair and MarketStar have all committed to the event. The fair will take place from 4-6:30 p.m. April 28 at Weber High School, 430 W. Weber High Drive, Pleasant View. Fishburn said there are already about 3,000 jobs in the Ogden area tied to the industry, but with HomeDepot.com and ESurance looking at major expansions and several other companies also looking to broaden their reach, more job openings are on the horizon. "In the next 18 months, there could realistically be 1,000 new jobs in this sector," he said. HomeDepot.com alone is hoping to increase its workforce of 900 to 1,250 in the next year-and-a-half. Even though the career fair features companies in one specific market segment, Fishburn said a wide variety of jobs will be advertised. "These won't all be just the entrylevel type jobs," he said. "There will be See HONOR I Page 10 See FAIR I Page 10 Move to help U.S. comply with agreement with Russia Hill Air Force Base to store unarmed ICBMs BY MITCH SHAW Hilltop Times staff HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The United States is planning to remove 50 missiles from its arsenal to comply with an arms treaty with Russia, but if those missiles ever need to be brought back into service, the Department of Defense will be able to find them at Hill Air Force Base. Earlier this week, the Pentagon announced it would keep its current stash of 450 land-based missiles, but remove 50 such missiles from launch silos — all part of a plan to bring the U.S. into compliance with a 2011 "New START" arms-control treaty with Russia. The resulting launch-ready total of 400 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles would be the lowest deployed ICBM total since the early 1960s. The decisions come after a strong push by members of Congress from states that host missile bases — North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana — to not eliminate any of the silos from which the missiles would be launched. Fifty silos at those bases will be kept in "warm" status, which means they are empty of mis- siles but are capable of returning to active use. The 50 unarmed ICBM Minutemen III missiles that will be taken from those silos will eventually be stored at Hill, said Air Force Materiel Command Chief of Media Relations Sue Murphy. "There are facilities specifically designed for storage of the missile motors which have been at Hill Air Force Base and nearby Oasis facility (at the Utah Test and Training Range) for many years," Murphy said in an email to the Standard-Examiner. "Storage of full-up missiles, or individual stages of missiles, is normal operations at Hill." Although the missiles will be unarmed while they are kept at Hill, Murphy said they will be "stored in such a way that they are reusable." The silos the missiles are removed from are planned to be kept in warm status to maintain weapon system integrity, Murphy said. The decision to put 50 missiles in storage, but not eliminate any of their launch silos is a departure from the practice followed throughout the 50-plusyear history of intercontinental ballistic missiles. A senior defense official who briefed reporters on the plan and its rationale said the Pentagon had never before structured its ICBM force with a substantial number of missiles in standby status. The official spoke under Pentagon ground rules that did not permit her name to be used. The Pentagon said it will cost $19.3 million over five years to keep the 50 launch silos and missiles in standby status. Hill is home to the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center ICBM Systems Directorate, which is responsible for inception-toretirement, integrated weapons system management of Minuteman weapon systems. |