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Show HILL TOP TIMES A10 November AFLC Is the 'Go Com The Ogden Air Materiel Area, at Hill AFB, is one of the Air Materiel Loistics Command (AFLC) . AFLC is the GO COMMAND of the mission is to keep the Air Force's amum.lj AS 5 iW the MtfZ at GO! It must perform this mission . BOMBING MISSION Lighting its jet engines with black powder starter cartridges, mem bers of the 4677th Defense Systems Evaluation Squadron at Hill AFB ready a 7 for a friendly bombing misson against U. S. missile bases. B-5- 4677th OSES Tests U. S. Air Defense System crews head completed, the B-home toward Hill AFB with the knowledge that they would have been shot down hundreds of miles from their target had they ac tually been enemy intruders. This highly refined game of Hide and Seek to catch any ex isting weaknesses in the U. S. air defense system is played conthe act regardless of their stantly over our northern skies .best evasion tactics by alert and requires skilled crews on radar crews, interceptor jets, both the "friendly" and "enemy" side. missiles. and ground-to-ai- r To keep in shape for the Before actual firing against the "enemy" bombers can begin, rigors of the usual four-da- y the attack is called off by the mission, the 4677th stages Air Defense Command. training missions with six twice a week. of mission With their primary targets in the United crews to keep the Maintenance detection U.S. capabilities testing To pose as unidentified enemy aircraft, slip through the radar screen surrounding the United States, then strike and destroy U. S. installations and missile bases is the friendly but enemy-inspire- d role of 300 Air Force personnel of the 4677th Defense Systems Evaluation Squadron at Hill Air Force Base. With their mission known only tto a few Air Defense Command officials, from 10 to 15 7 jet bombers leave Hill AFB each week, fly north around the ADC radar screen guarding the na tion's skies to staging bases in Canada, then turn back toward Using evasive flying tactics and every known device to jam U. S. radar defenses, the friendly bombers fly in from different points of the compass trying to penetrate U.S. skies and hit their target before being detected by ground crews who know nothing about the 4677th's mission. They are always caught in 57 B-5- pre-destin- ed States. l I B-5- 7's . J TO HILL AIR FORCE BASE lK ON THEIR 25th ANNIVERSARY A SMALLBANK l.jf'FROM I . im iim which is constantly orrowinir in size and complexity at the lowest possible cost to the taxpayers. AFLC must do more with less resources. Its vital task makes certain that the combat commands have the logistics management and support needed to keep their air craft, missiles, and electronic devices constantly at peak effi ciency. Deterrence of aggression depends upon any potential attacker knowing that our weapons are ready to strike back instantly at any time. As of October 1, 1965, AFLC had an authorized strength of some 144,000 people, of whom nine out of ten were civilians. n With headquarters at AFB, Ohio, it is commanded by General Kenneth B. Hobson. Lt. General Lewis L. Mundell is vice commander. General Hobson was as signed as the Ogden AMA commander from August 1959 to July 1961. Wright-Patterso- B-5- 7's twin-engin- ed and their electronic jamming equipment in top condition are marshaled not only at Hill AFB, but also dispatched to the Canadian staging base the day before each mission. The 4677th is the only jet tactical squadron based at Hill AFB and can be identified by its insignia, a black raven balancing a menancng thunderbolt. cftf dU fSw Wfolftfo Ulv. I1' For. it, 'JPonysW. i pfc r- -t Gen. K. B. Hobson The big industrial-typ- e W tics centers which carry out most uie command's operational luucuuns are Known as Ait Materiel Areas (AMAs). Then are nine such facilities in the United States, the largest fan up to employing eacn. iwery 20,000 weapon system people in TaJWWM vm 7 Afl vW U BOULEVARD 2144 WASHINGTON 394 -- 4 531 the Air Force inventory there an MS types has a "home" AMA, which acts as its System Support Manager. Each AMA has prime responsi bility for the worldwide logistics management of the weapons sys tems assigned to it The four main activities of AFLC are procurement, supply, depot maintenance and trans portation. j ' |