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Show Hilltop TIMES U.& AIR FORMIC Weekly Since 1948 li.II.AFB, Utah 84056-5824 www.hilltoptimes.com hilltoptimes@standard.net Vol. 68 No. 44, Octob'gft IN THE KNOW ;' to vote Hill Trick or Treat hours announced Trick or Treat hours on base will be 6 p.m.-8 p.m. "Riose excused from the Operational Readiness Exercise per commander approval may leave from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. to take kids on Trick or Treat 10-digit/7-digit dialing mandate Beginning March 1, all telephone users at Hill Air Force Base, Uttie Mountain and the Utah Test and Training Range will be required to dial all seven digits to complete on-base calls and all 10 digits for any local outgoing calls. For example, instead of dialing 7-8324 on base, you will now have to dial 777-8324. For ofrbase local calls, you will have to dial the "99" access code followed by all 10 digits. For example, 99-801-940XXXX. All commercial calls coming onto the base will also require all 10 digits. Current long distance and DSN call patterns will remain the same. These changes are due to the overlay of the new 385 area code in Utah. The new 385 area code will cover the same geographic area as the existing 801 area code. The introduction of the 385 area code will affect the following counties: Davis, Morgan, Salt Lake, Weber and Utah. For more information you , may go to: http ://pu bi icutiltties. utah.gov/area-codeoveriay. html. Some rare excused absences may be granted BY LINDA TELFORD . Ogden Air Logistics Center/DPCE Lead Labor Relations specialist R polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. For early voting Voting early is another sites in Utah visit http:// option for voters: Conwww.leaveyourprint. tact your county clerk for corn. early voting times and locations. Early voting begins on the 14th day before the election and ends this Friday ' VOTING EARLYVOTING P°Usare°Penfrom7ai EARLY egarding leave and absence rules for voting: Where the voting polls are open either three hours before or three hours after an employee's regular duty hours on Nov. 4 excused absence is NOT granted. In Utah, the See POLICY I page 7 Revolutionary changes Meet candidates tonight at WSU A Weber State University communications class is sponsoring a "Meet The ; Candidate" Night 2008, for registered voters to meet the District 11 candidates for the Utah House of Representatives. District 11 includes Hill Air Force Base, Riverdale, Washington Terrace and : northern parts of Layton. Candidates who will be present will include Mark Openshaw (Democrat), Becky Maddox (Constitution) and Brad Dee (Republican). The event will . be at the Washington Terrace . Senior Center tonight at 7 p.m.,at460iS.300West,in Washington Terrace. Event information and biographies of the candidates are provided at http://meetthecandidate. blogspot.com. Spanish-speaking announcer sought Organizers of the Ogden Veterans Day Parade need a Spanish-speaking announcer for the parade. Contact Dan Gomez at 808-2984 or Juan Gutierrez at 777-5579. Concert to benefit deployed soldiers Operation Ensuring Christmas Concert with Diamond Rio, Dan Truman, . Gl Jill Miss Utah, Angela Winston and Angela Winston will be Nov. 5 at Studio 600, 26 E. 600 South, Salt Lake City. The fundraiser will help send Christmas to 1,500 soldiers. Advance tickets are $10 at www.letterstosoldiers.org. Military discount is $5 off. ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner Capt. Kerri "Polar" Fuhs/4th Fighter Squadron, climbs into an F-16 Fighting Falcon before a training mission at Hill Air Force Base on Oct. 21. Fuhs spent several months in Iraq and will deploy again in.early 2009. Women in military find acceptance, new roles personnel. That's a significant increase from 1.6 percent in 1973,8.5 percent in 1980, and Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau mishaw@standard.net even 10.8 percent in 1989. "The first thing I would say is there are a GDEN — A lot has changed in the lot more women in the military than when I military since Master Sgt. Joani first joined," Cornell said. "There are still a lot Cornell first joined up as an 18-yearmore men overall, but the number of women old, fresh out of high school. has gone up dramatically." Cornell, an Ogden resident, works as an adDoD numbers say of the nearly 1,500,000 ministration assistant for wing commander at active duty military members, 202,248 are the Utah Air National Guard. women. There are nearly 80,000 women ReThe now 45-year-old mother of two joined servists and 65,000 in the National Guard. The the Army in 1981. She said the transformation Army has the most active duty female members, with nearly 70,000. for women in the military since she entered the force more than 27 years ago has been "When I first got in, it was sort of a stigma nothing short of revolutionary. for women," Cornell said. "It was unheard "Wow! What's changed since I first joined?" of for a woman to join the military, at least among my peers. Now, it's not that way. Now, she said. "Let's see, where do I start?" it's seen as a viable career choice." Cornell, a woman in a traditionally maledominated line of work, said the biggest Today, there are 34,045 women officers in change might just be the sheer numbers. According to the Department of Defense, women make up 15 percent of all U.S. military See WOMEN I page 6 BY MITCH SHAW O New nuclear MAJCOM for Air Force BY FRED W. BAKER I American Forces Press Service W ASHINGTON —The Air Force will stand up a new major command specifically to manage its nuclear assets, the service's top official announced Oct. 24. ' Air Force Secretary Michael B. Donley said the new command will fold into its ranks thousands of Airmen and all of the Air Force's domestic nuclear capabilities in response to what he called "painful lessons learned" during a series of senior oversight reviews of the Air Force's nuclear program. This change is part of a broader sweep of changes Secretary Donley introduced Oct. 24 as a roadmap to improving the Air Force's stewardship of its nuclear program. "This is a critical milestone for us. It's a new starting point for reinvigoration of this enterprise," Secretary Donley said at a Pentagon media roundtable to introduce the plan. "The changes we make today will help us focus on this enterprise regardless of other changes in Air Force missions along the way, and regardless of how big or small the nuclear enterprise is," he said. The new command, called 'Global Strike Command, will include both the 8th and 20th Air Force. Eighth Air Force, currently within Air Combat Command, is made up of the Air Force's B-2 Spirit and B-52 Stratofortress bombers. The 20th Air Force, currently under Air Force Space Command, maintains and operates the service's arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Eighth Air Force's headquarters is at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., and 20th Air Force's headquarters is at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo. An additional squadron of • B-52s, mandated by Congress, also will fall within the new command. This change effectively splits the Air Force's bomber force, leaving its B-1B Lancer bombers with Air Combat Command. It also moves the cyber and intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance responsibilities out of 8th Air Force. "It was our conclusion that a major command that did space, cyber and nuclear perhaps was too much for a single organization to address with the necessary focus," Air Force Chief of See MAJCOM I page 7 Look inside this week's Hilltop Times for Base Theater Free Movies Friday, 7 p.m., and Saturday, 7 p.m. - "Swing Vote" (PG13) Saturday, noon, and Sunday, 1 p.m. - "Space Chimps "(G) For'review see page 7 Dog tales Around Hill On balance Local dog trainer rehabilitates shelter canines for EOD work See page 9 See what creative tun is in store for November See pages 8,10 Couple helps participants de-stress with stretching See page 9 |