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Show Page May 25, 1973 HILL TOP TIMES 6 pa jj jjjj Why do we have standards and discipline in the Air Force? Are we trying to make life miserable for you? Maj. Gen. Charles W. Carson Jr., who, as the Air Force Military Training Center, commander, has the overall responsibility of training all new Air Force enlisted people and many officers, explains why we have standards and why they must be and will be maintained. "It's a responsibility of command not only to direct what we want done, but also to explain it sufficiently that people understand why we want it done. The first step is setting the standards that will govern what we must do. AFR 30--1 , and others outline AFM is what expected of Air exactly Force personnel. Yet, I find that many of the people in the Air Force 35-1- 0, dlSscip c this area? I seriously doubt that any man of integrity would. "There is no such thing as second-bes- t Air Force either you or are first you are not effective. the Air Force if you were not assured equal opportunity and treatment, as specified in Air Force standards? Would anyone stand for selective compliance in today seem to be missing the point. "It is not a question of simply complying with Air Force standards. It is a fact that these standards exist and that they exist for a reason. They are the framework on which we build and they must be obeyed. "What is disturbing is that people seem to think that they can comply with the standards they approve of, and not comply with the ones with which they disapprove. This is an inconsistency which cannot be tolerated because its end result is complete chaos. "How many of you would driye your cars if you knew that there were no traffic regulations, or that no one obeyed the existing traffic laws? "More importantly, how many of you would even want to remain in handling, testing and disposal of missiles and munitions. And all this just covers safety "for the job." What we might call formal safety. The kind that can be planned for us in advance by engineers and technicians. Unfortunately, much of our time at Ogden AMA is spent in less controlled environments where no one can force us to be safe and we must depend on ourselves. This is where the safety business can easily get out of hand. Few of us seem to realize that, as we go through our daily routine, we are the potential victims in scores of accidents. Someday, some of us may find that we don't know how to drive, even though we've been doing it for years. Or that we're not as skilled with power tools as we had thought. Or that our great little production shortcut wasn't so great after all. Or that we can't even put one foot in front of the other on a trip to the washroom. These are the areas where the vast majority of our accidents occur. If you were to investigate any of them, you would find some amusing, some tragic, and many unbelieveable. But they all have one thing in common: they happen because we fail to organize safety in our personal activities. Don't leave safety to the specialists. Start thinking safety for yourself. Extend safety planning from your formal world at OOAMA into your private life. Obviously, you don't need an "operating instruction" for you do. But a little everything almost 900 pounds of pollution for sober reflection on the connection every person each year. One between full-timsafety and million acres of land is paved for never hurt personal highways each year, and there is anyone. Make yourself an exnow a mile of road for each square tension of the Office and mile of land. The concrete used in find out from Safety personal experience our interstate highway system. the Safety Office exists. why Commissioner Johnson claims, Capt. Clary W. Blome, Ogden would build six sidewalks to the AMA Safety Office moon. But cars are clearly here to stay, Day (leaning up car exhaust w ill Ik one of the activities during Cleaner Air (from pae 1) Week, the last week in October. at this time and at this Across the country, tuberculosis their and d'sease place country needed them. respiratory Our wartime heroes are many. associations will participate in the week's events Efforts will lie They were Americans who valued made to have drivers test car freedom more than life emissions and check air pollution Americans who remained true to devices. Midtown areas in some the ideals which are the foundation cities will lie cloy to all polluting of this nation We salu'e these men and women. vehicles for at least a part of each da y The Memorial Day observance Cleaning up car exhaust is a may be as personal as a private matlerof life and breath prayer. II may be shared with others in traditional ceremonies. It may be httle more than a recurring released during the heating concepts and facts affecting them. For more details see Air Force Policy Letter for Commanders, AFRP 190-1- ) Developments supporting this SCAD, objective include the Trident, and the submarine-launchecruise missile. (SCAD is a Subsonic-Cruis- e Armed Decoy for use by bombers in penetrating area defenses. Trident is a follow-o- n submarine and missile system. (2) We must maintain a posture with respect to deployed and developing forces that will allow us to negotiate successfully for more extensive agreements - and to bargain from a position of strength. The four strategic-systemI just mentioned can also do this. (3) We must maintain a timely and credible hedge against the abrogation of the treaty or interim agreement and against failure to conclude a final agreement on offensive weapons. For this reason, site defense is essential as a future potential defender of our in Minuteman missile. technological superiority "We then-forurge your condeployed systems, the Nueenienl of these develop tinued support '.! does not freezes launchers ments: frecve the Soviets' abdity to imWe need to develop the 11 prove the 'a hnical qi: .lity of th ',i lccauso it will be less vulnerable to deplu d f"l i rs ' "Athe United attack on the ground by sub a onsef missiles and Sta'es must ake actions that are marine-launcheit will Ik- better able to a sufficient maintain necessary Tietr.'ite air defenses than the technological lead to presere an In current "sture fact, adequate strategic fx cause the United States had such t We nee to develop the Trident missile and submarine actions in progress and fully ex they will reduce the threat of an pec ted to continue them, the Administration felt that the terms of tisubmarine warfare by enabling the Interim Agreement were operation over larger patrol areas and by reducing the submarine's mutually satisfactory.... "We haw three major objective noise level: they will an for and in research eventually replace aging fleet development can spend that In with submarines forces our strategic essence, to more assure intended of time each these is productively at sea. of our because they will lessen our the survival and penetration SALT dependence on overseas bases strategic forces, whether the We need to develop the Site agreements are continued, or Defense system because it will be enlarged, or reduced: more efficient than (1) Wc must le prepared to much and more capable of forces Safeguard permitted deploy strategic under the current agreement that defending Minuteman and because it will be the focus of ABM systems we might need as the Soviets or defenses offenses their engineering." upgrade B-- l, d (an-tiballist- s e 1 - e B-"i- J e L 7OP TlMBS x ttiz Monday is tho deadline for copy - manufacturing mission keep our explosives, missile, and ground safety experts on the go. The continuous development and can come up with a few reasons, of Ogden AMA prime modification obvious from and the ranging - "to out in conacis carried systems prevent uncomplicated to the cynical and junction with comprehensive cidents" low accident rate safety engineering and contractual "a complex reviews. makes the boss look good." The manufacturing methods There are plenty of reasons for used to translate designs and plans In a Office. maintaining Safety 27 to into fact, enough keep personnel reality are subjected to all the time. frequent safety inspections. busy The requirements of Ogden Finally, attention must be given AMA's engineering, supply, and to special problems of storage, Ever wonder why Ogden AMA has a Safety Office? Press people a little and most (Air Force,Department of Defense and national policies and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks? Dr. John S. Foster, Jr., director of and Defense Research Engineering, in giving his annual statement to the Defense Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, recently said: "The U.S. - USSR ABM missile) Treaty and Interim Offensive Agreement on Arms Limitation affect the fundamental direction of the fiscal year 1974 Defense programs in two important ways. First, the United States must maintain such a posture that the Soviets will always perceive that it is in their interest to abide by the agreements. Second, although the Interim Agreement on offensive arms is currently balanced, the Soviet lead in missile numbers and throw weight being offset by US And we cannot be effective if we do not have discipline. It's as simple as that. We have standards which all of must be complied with them by all of us." (AFNS) - CURRENT POLICY DBSBSDDir What do you know about the in Every little breeze cartoon shows a downcast couple sitting on their elegant apartment terrace surrounded by skyscrapers . The source of their melancholy is made clear by the man. who moans to his wife. "Every little breeze seems to whisper emphysema." Air pollution pervades the lives and invades the lungs of people of all ages and incomes - in the city as well as the country. Everyone has to breathe to live. Car exhaust is the chief cause of air pollution. Pollution is one of the concerns of Nicholas Johnson, an FCC commissioner, who extols the virtue of bicycles in a recent issue Review. "By of the Saturday comparison, the bicycle is a model citizen. "he savs "It does not kill or maim: it does not pollute: it does not deplete natural resources: it makes no noise; and it takes up a great deal less space." Car exhaust, he says, creates A e well-bein- Memorial -- e Warning thought that enters our transferred the poisonous Cadmium and the cadmium Audiovisual Service Branch or oher Air Lore poisoning resulted Do nct use any metal shelving for eookouts unless it is approved for that purpose. d ( . source unless noted. Editorial Office Office of Information, BIdg lfn2. 202 Ext. 7.121. .12ol AFLCNS) dertising office- - MorMedia Sales. Inc. 315 North Main. Iiyfon. Utah IT'r.Vd?,. Salt lake. con- sciousness throughout the day. However you observe this day. let each of us keep faith with those who died by doing our part to assure that Americans in generations to come w ill live as we ... in freedom. AKLCNS fumes to the cooked meat. Several deaths have occurred from barbecuing on refrigerator shelves. 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