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Show f February HILL TOP TIMES Page 28 $15 MILLION ANNUAL INVENTORY RMairoa m Mi flF Pboto Equipment Manag si, M The average camera which spends its life snapping famwould ily reunions, Christmas morning and the baby's antics Force pop its lenses in envy over the exciting life of an Air camera. The sophisticated photographic equipment of the Air at Ogden Air Force is managed and repaired world-wid- e Ma.fiftriAl Arpfl. camera The $82,000 infra-re- d at which snaps photos night, through clouds and haze, requires testing equipment valued at $1.25 Air Force cameras fly with super-soni- c jets on strike missions in Vietnam, map countries from border to border, track satellites into space and record the results of pic-torial- million. Bomb assessment cameras ly Mapping cameras are automatically run by computers which time, overlap and mark each exposure. To repair and manage the Air Force photographic equipment which adds up to 14,932 separate stock items and an inventory worth $15 million annually takes the coordination of two Ogden AM A directorates, Materiel Management headed by Col. J. A. Hewitt and Maintenance under photography in support of the nation's defenses that cameras hav become "specialists" and eaci. amera requires its own in- dividual testing equipment. j j which figures gle and height and trips the best moment bomb run. the speed, of the aircraft camera at the to record the 0 the Ogden AMA in August, 1965. in The Photo Equipment Inven tory Management Division headed by Col. Myhre E. Paulson repair, manages the world-wid- e and technical engirequirements, and distribution neering changes of photographic, testing and processing equipment for the Air " 31 i ' John L. Williams. mission was The world-wid- e to Olmassigned previously sted Air Force Base, Pennsylvania but was transferred to and actuating equipment an- So diversified is the use of y. m Col. require motorized mounting bombing missions. 11, 19 " M i FOUR HEADS BETTER THAN ONE Meeting at the production chart to solve a common problem relating to the mission of the Photo Equipment IM Division are members of each of the division's four branches, (left to right) Franklin M. Royer, Production Management; Sheryl R. Porter, Operations; Lillian M. Brown, Requirements and Distribution; and Sheldon G. Jenkins, Technical Service. Force. The division recently acquired the responsibility of a new and interpretation is a group of six which., system vans containing specialized equipment capable of processing colored film from gun or recon-- : naissance cameras. The vans can be airliftted to any place in the fill-proces- sing llUi ff iff '- - ! ; 1 , 1' - world. In the Instrument RePHOTOGRAPHERS pair Section, photographic equipment repairers (left to right) Fred C. Blass, Charles R. Everett and Mary H. the trouble in a panoramic camera which is used in the nose of Voodoo jets on reconnaissance flights. The camera, which costs over $27,000, is tested on a $80,000 console which is also repaired and calibrated in the section. INSIDE-OU- T Slade-localiz- low-altitu- WSm 01 SWEEB SMUS Our Cltan Swep Sales continues with stortwid bargains and savings on naw and slightly utad marchandise. Bring your own up to 80 truck and sava still mora on deliveries. 8 GUITARS FENDER I e de F-1- When connected by covered walkways, the six units become a large building. Films from reconnaissance missions are processed, enlarged then turned into recognizable land features by photo interpreter who hand the finished product to intelligence experts. From these films the next air mission is plotted. The physical repair of all Ai Force cameras, testing and processing equipment is the job of the Instrument Repair Section under Oral.C. Lee in Mainte, nance. Although some of the "Tii is modiequipment A viewflnder which shows an EAGLE EYE repaired or fied by private contractors, the the is he terrain pilot photographing on a reconnaissance bulk of repairing is done by the mission is calibrated in the Instrument Repair Section by section personnel. Darwin E. Edward and Roy H. Taylor, (left to right) photographic equipment repairers. The Photographic Equipment Branch of Materiel Management under Lamar F. Moore handles feet above the jungle on a strike graphic equipment repair and the research and development mission. management is now in high gear Under end are of the the and Ogden AMA has also remission. engineering investigation possibilities of using special ceived custody of the 'lens bank", The branch is currently workchemicals on the lens or of in- a special stock of more than 2,500 ing on a problem just as unique stalling small heaters around pieces of optical quality glass. as the cameras. Photo distortion the lens which would keep it The bank is designed as a back'sometimes results from vapor as warm at high altitudes as up supply source from which any 'condensation on the lenses of on the ground. Defense Department agency may strike cameras installed in The new mission of photo draw upon. 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WKiySIC 2450 Waibinctor GLEN Phone 1 30O-379- 1 The condensation is caused by Crews the initial heating of the lens while on the ground, the subse WASHINGTON (AFNS) Manning of Minuteman IIM climbs intercontinental ballistic quent cold as the missiles will require assignment of a into higher altitudes and the third man to Strategic Air Command Misstfle combat crews. final rush of hot air as the air Ufficials said the advanced f craft swoops down a few hundred Minuteman will be be responsible for a flight of system equipped with more sophisticated 10 Minuteman IIIH missiles. computer and console equipment The Air Force has 800 Miand require substantially more nuteman I missiles at SAC bases 24th STREET crew actions than earlier ver- throughout the western part 01 sions of the missile. CITY MOTEL the United States. All are In view of these to be replaced by the imincreased AND APARTMENTS crew demands, officials ex- proved Minuteman IIIH. plained, the third man will perThe more advanced missiles mit each crew Attractive, newly furnished, member to receive have improved targeting capabi1, 2, kitchenettes in some rest during the greater payload capacity heart of OGDEN. 10 minutes alert duty period. His presence lities, and longer range. from Hill Air Force Day, will insure alertness and fast reThey will retain the rapid Week, Month. Low Winter mental and physical response by sponse capability of Minuteman Rates. all crew members. I which can be launched in lew Third Man Assigned Minuteman F-1- 01 sched-ule- d 24-ho- ur |