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Show .srm.MitrR H, im Theres A Lot Going On At HAFB UylOM likt I J V HILL Af II ringlc employer IMI Al l! K Ulob'i largest I ighting Falcon, is another of the Ogden Air logistic Center's system management re- sponsibilities. I he Air Force will eventually uith a payroll ihiii lops ViM) buy 2.J33 of these sleek ships. Another ?4K million annually. Almost every person in are being by Belgium. northern Utah works at Hill, has worked there, Norway, the Netherlands, and the cenhas an application on file there, or has a family ter will provide limited support for these airmember who has. craft too. OTHER ALLIED nations that have purchSINCE IT is so much a part of this area. ased or want to buy the Fighting I alcon are Utahns tend to think they know what is going Israel, Egypt, Taiwan, Venezuela. Pakistan on at the base. With S2.6 million in construc- and South Korea. The center will probably tion going on there now and $4.51.7 million provide some support for these aircraft, staled in the next live years. Hill and its major although the exact amount will vary. at I iill AFB with the Center is the organization, Ogden Air Logistics Center are constantly changing. The Ogden ALC is one of 388th Tactical Fighter Wing. It is the first tacfive Air Force Logistics Command centers that tical fighter wing equipped with the Air Force's provide maintenance and logistics support to newest fighter. Another wing at Hill is the the Air Force's fighting commands. 419th Tactical Fighter Wing (Reserve). It will The five centers are logistics bases and they be the first reserve unit to have the next equip, maintain and store all Air Force weapon year. systems in the highest possible state of readiness. LOCATING the 6 wings with the Air Force system manager makes for timely reTHE OGDEN center is commanded by Masponse to the unit's maintenance and logistics jor General Leo Marquez who sees that the requirements. center docs it jobs in three major areas. They The backbone of the nations strategic misare system management, item management sile force is the Minutcman missile. The center and geographic support. is also the system manager for the Minutcman The center has worldwide logistics responsisystem. That system began its life cycle here in 1961. The first Minuteman missiles were bility for more than ,700 Air Force 4 Phantoms. Most of them belong to the Tactical Air assembled at the Hoeing Aircraft Company Command. Pacific Air Forces and Air Forces Plant 77 at Hill AFB. Then they were put in in Europe. Ogden ALC also supports the Phansilos at six Air Force wings in the United toms belonging to the Alaskan Air Command, States. WHEN DEPOT maintenance is needed, the the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Minuteman missiles are returned to Ogden and those of Systems Command. ALC. They are disassembled into their three THE CENTER supports another 1,200 stages and repaired or modified. Equipment structured difTerently for each of nine different used to do the job ranges from a common sockvolt et wrench to the sophisticated Allied nations, which makes this job chaly industrial machine. Varian lenging. Two ALC test facilities insure high quality The Air Force's newest fighter, the 6 F-1- 6 k. Co-locat- F-1- 6 F-1- 1 F-- F-- X-ra- F-1- engineering support for the missile. The Hill Engineering and Test Facility, includes two Minuteman launch control centers and two inert missiles that duplicate launch centers at operational wings. THE OGDEN' ALC also has logistics responsibility for support of the Titan II intercon- tinental baslistic missile. It remains the heavyweight of the Air Force's missile force, Ogden's newest strategic missile assignment is system management for the Peacekeeper program. The Peacekeeper, a larger missile than the Minuteman. can deliver a 7,5(X). pound payload more than 7,000 nautical miles. The center is charged with logistics responsibility for all Air Force flight simulators and flight training devices. That means the Ogden ALC participates in acquiring the devices, testing them, evaluating them and furnishing logistics support to them throughout their life cycle. These devices range in complexity from dollar simple training aids to flight simulators. multi-millio- n ALL AIR Force landing gears, photographic equipment, reconnaissance equipment and air munitions are the responsibility of the Ogden ALC. That is a worldwide responsibility. Landing gears include aircraft w heels, brakes and struts. They are modified, rebuilt and overhauled by people working at Ogden Air Logistics Center. In summary the center is one of five major Logistics Command centers that keep the fighting commands ready to go to war. The center here has system management responsibility for two of the top line fighters of the Air Force, for several major missile systems, for all Air Force landing gears and for aircraft training devices and simulators, for commodities and for geographic logistics support to more than 50 Air Force installations. Air-Forc- side in Davis County. Weber County comes in second with HILL AFB You can al- 38.6 percent. Only about of the bases employees ways tell who is a stranger and who is a resident in North are military personnel. Davis County. The stranger is BESIDES providing direct the one who is always looking skyward whenever one of the employment to nearly 15,000 Hill AFB jets passes overhead. civilians, it is estimated that .LONG TIME residents are the bases needs indirectly creused to the roar of the F-- 4 and ate and maintain about 22,000 6 engines and the pounding more jobs in Davis County drone of large cargo planes alone. k In a period, the passing overhead. Knowing what the presence of the base bases civilian employees will contributes to the state and be paid over $13 million. monthly wage at the their communities may somehow influence their noise toler- base is $ 193 1 .82 ; nearly double what it was ten years ago. ance levels. FROM THOSE monthly After all, of the nearly 21 ,000 employees who work at wages, state tax coffers bethe base, over 50 percent re come over half a million dol - one-four- th lars richer. Federal withholdings amount to over $2 million. The greatest economic contributions to the area, however, comes just from the day to day operations of the facility. Each day the base averages 201 payments totalling over $522,000 to vendors of everything from stationery to foodstuffs. F-1- two-wee- IN 1983 alone the base will shell out more than $6.6 million for electricity and $5. 1 million for natural gas. Added to sewer and secondary water costs, the total utility bill is over $12.1 million. Lumped all together, contributions by the base result in a larger than $1.1 billion dollar impact on the state of Utah. That figure includes salary and retirement incomes, construction, supplies and services, utilities and transportation and travel. THE BASE has also contributed over $280,000 to charitable agencies such as the United Way of Northern Utah and other nonaffiliated organizations. Considering all the benefits coming from the 6,666 acre facility, it seems likely that Hill Air Force Base is not only tolerated by residents, but quite often appreciated. OGDENS relatively mild weather and accompanying good visibility contribute to Hill's effectiveness as a staging base. The airfield is rarely closed and the control tower is manned at all times. Private aircraft occasionally k use Hill during hours to practice flying with the Precision Approach Radar and the Instrument Landing System off-pea- navigational aids available here. The field is always available for military, commercial or private aircraft emergencies. HILLS SINGLE runway does lead to some traffic jams when one of the infrequent but violent storms hits the area. The storms created by the land mass funnel occurring Mnj. Gen. Reynolds Major General Marc C. Reynold i commander of the Oeden Air Loi,'iiic Center, Hill Air I one ilac. Utah. AS COMMCMriK. he ha uorlJttidc reponibility for the logistic management of two major aircraft stem, the and the the entire fleet of Minuteman. lu.m 11. F-- F-1- 6 and Peacekeeper IC HM's and all ammunition, propellent and explosive used by the Air I orce. General Reynolds wa born June 2. 1928 in Chamberlain, South Dakota. I(e graduated from high school there in 194i and later from the University of Rhode Island, Kingston. He is a graduate of the Air Command and .Staff College at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, and the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. HE WAS commissioned a second lieutenant in 1952 after graduation from pilot training and served in various fighter assignments throughout the United States and in the Far EAst until 1961. He then was assigned to Europe as a member of the 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing serving in England and France. In 1966 he joined the 460 Tactical Reconnaissance Wing in Vietnam and while there flew 230 combat missions in the RF-A subsequent tour was in Japan as a member of the 5th Air Force staff. 4. AFTER attending the Naval War College in 1972, he was Half HAFB Employees From Davis By MARK FOTIiERINGHAM Introducing be- tween the Great Salt Lake and assigned to the Ogden Air Logistics Center where he joined the Air Force Logistics Command. While there he as the director of Distribution and later the Director of Maintenance. In 1976 he moved to the Sacramento Air Logistics Center as the Director of Materiel Management and later as the Centers Vice Commander. He became Commander of the Air Force Acquisition Logis-tic- s Division, Wright-Patterso- n AFB, Ohio, in 1981. GENERAL Reynolds is a Command Pilot with more than 5,200 hours flying time including 475 combat hours. His decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, and Distinguished Flying Cross. |