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Show " 0 ti AWARD SUPPLEMENT TO THE HILLTOP TIMES THURSDAY, June 14, 2012 7 Hill's fighter wings name year's best maintenance professionals MOF) 419th Fighter Wing staff report category (388th AMXS) Tech. Sgt. James Hill, NCO category (419th AMXS) Master Sgt. Kyle Bogue, SNCO category (388th MOS) Master Sgt. Curtis Thompson, SNCO category (419th MXS) Capt. Shannon Laubenthal, company grade office category (388th AMXS) Capt. Nancy Immormino, company grade office category (419th AMXS) Company Grade Officer Support Professional of the Year: T he 419th and 388th Fighter Wings honored the year's best maintenance personnel at the Maintenance Professional of the Year Awards on June 9 at Hill Air Force Base. With about 500 people in attendance, this year marks the first time the two wings have held a combined ceremony to recognize outstanding Airmen in the active duty and Reserve. The wings announced winners in the following categories: 1st Lt. Joshua Conder (388th Equipment Maintenance Squadron) Knucklebuster of the Year: Airman 1st Class Emmanuel Ramirez (388th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron) Senior Airman Elisa Alvarez (419th AMXS) Support Section of the Year: NCO Knucklebuster of the Year: Support Professional of the Year: Staff Sgt. Hermarys Smith (388th Maintenance Operations Squadron) NCO Support Professional of the Year: Tech. Sgt. William Helton (388th MOS) Tech. Sgt. Tabitha Grahn (419th Maintenance Operations Flights) SNCO Support Professional of the Year: Master Sgt. Jonathan Pichot (388th MOS) Master Sgt. Kylee Munn (419th Maintenance Flight Support Section (388th EMS) Plans, Scheduling and Documentation (419th MOF) Tech. Sgt. Michael McClellan (388th MOS) Staff Sgt. Clifford Calhoun (419th AMXS) Maintenance Section of the Year: Maj. Gen. Jerry Rogers Maintenance Professional of the Year: Senior Airman Jared Rice, active duty Airman category (388th EMS) Senior Airman Matthew Lotz, traditional reservist Airman category (419th AMXS) Senior Airman Cade Andersen, Air Reserve Technician Airman category (419th Maintenance Squadron) Staff Sgt. Joshua Patterson, NCO Quality Assurance (388th Maintenance Group) Specialist Flight (419th AMXS) Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Thomas N. Barnes Award: Tech. Sgt. Brandon Fenner (388th AMXS) Tech. Sgt. David Sudak (419th AMXS) Lieutenant General Leo Marquez Award: Senior Airman John Riggs, technician category (388th EMS) Staff Sgt. Richard Nelson, technician supervisor category (388th EMS) Senior Master Sgt. Brian Henn, supervisor manager category (388th AMXS) Capt. Christinia Rettenmier, company grade manager category (388th EMS) Outstanding Aircraft Maintenance Person of the Year: Senior Airman Jared Rice, technician category (388th EMS) Staff Sgt. Michael Quinby, technician supervisor category (388th MOS) Master Sgt. Charles Dettlinger, supervisor manager category (388th EMS) Capt. Lucas Buckley, company grade manager category (388th AMXS) John Tramutolo, civilian manager category (388th MXG) Maintenance Squadron of the Year: 388th EMS 419th AMXS CAREER INTEREST 11 1= . 111= ¯ " NM Courtesy image, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Utah Operation Bigs offered through the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Utah, will match a volunteer with a military child for activities, support and friendship. Operation Bigs offers support to military youth BY MARY KIM COOK/U.S. Air Force Rich Essary, 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs media relations, confers with Cadets Chavez and Cole-Fletcher, about his career field, June 11, in his office. Eleven cadets from the U.S. Air Force Academy are visiting Hill Air Force Base for three weeks and get the opportunity to learn about a wide variety of fields of expertise they can indicate as preferences as they serve in the Air Force. Fake IDs — a license to terrorize BY STAFF SGT. JEFF CAVALLERO Installation Antiterroism manager S ince the 9/11 attacks, the Department of Defense has spent millions of dollars hardening facilities and upgrading detection equipment to prevent unauthorized entry onto military installations both inside and outside the continental U.S. However, despite having made great strides in applying multilayered physical security measures to protect our personnel it has been determined that most of these security measures can be circumvented by something as simple as a good fake ID. Good fake IDs, including very detailed DoD Common Access Cards (CACs), can now be easily acquired with the click of the mouse and a simple transfer of funds. Currently there are a handful of companies overseas willing to make and sell these fake IDs for the low cost of $200 to anyone willing to upload a photo and wire money. These companies have used the latest technologies available to make these fakes indistinguishable from the real thing, including stateof-the-art holograms and bar codes; making it easier for unauthorized personnel, including terrorists, to avoid detection at our installation entry points. A good example of the very real threat this poses was seen prior to the events of 9/11 when terrorists used fake IDs, including 26 different drivers' licenses to bypass airport security, conduct preoperational surveillance of travel routes and travel about the country undetected. Since that time, the number of individuals trying to cause harm within the homeland has not decreased. To counter this threat the DoD has recently undergone the adoption of the Defense Biometrics Identification System (DBIDS). The DBIDS system is a force protection multiplier providing Installation Entry Controllers with hard-to-defeat real time information needed to distinguish those who are authorized to access the installation from those who are not. The simple process is implemented by using a hand-held scanner to read the barcode on each DoD CAC to obtain the card holder's See DBIDS I page 8 Lou GORNY Hilltop Times editor 4 4c hildren in military families experience unique challenges that other children may never face, such as dealing with their deployed parents' extended absence and anxiety over their safe return," said Jeff Slowikowski, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) acting administrator, when his office distributed funds to nine organizations to support military children in Fiscal Year 2011. The Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Utah, along with its national organization, was among those selected and is currently launching "Operation Bigs" for children of military parents. Any child 9 years old or older who just needs someone else in their lives to provide some support and a friendship is eligible to participate as long as they have a parent who is active military, said Pam Sanders, CEO of the Utah organization. The child meets with the same volunteer two to four times a month doing things like visiting the library and participating in community events over the course of a year. A year commitment is required from the volunteers working with children because that is when the most significant changes for participating children is evident in such things as trust issues, attendance at school and higher grades are evident. "What sets us apart from other mentoring programs is that we follow up every month. We check with the child, the parent and the person who is the matchup for the child to see how things are going," said Sanders. With a maintenance or improvement of 60.55 percent in grades and educational expectations at 74.35 percent in combined reports from community and school sources for outcomes, it's easy to see why a Big Brother or Big Sister might come in handy. Similar improvements are seen in parental trust relationships as reported by the Utah organization. The Youth Outcome Survey the organization uses charts 8 categories: social See BIGS I page 8 |