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Show J) Vol. 34 No. 28 OGDEN. UTAH July ....... Seise umiift receives miew semiioir emilisiredl eadlvisoir The 388th Tactical Fighter Wing has a new senior enlisted advisor. CMSgt. Thomas M. McLaughlin conies to Hill AFB from Ariz., where he was the office manager for the staff judge advocate. Davis-Monthan'AF- related. "I said yes, and Colonel Tolbert said, 'Good, because that's what you'll be wearing.' "It really excites me to get a job where I B, Col. Troy Tolbert, wing commander, interviewed the chief for the job before the MPC (Manpower and Personnel Center) assignment was made. "Even though he has never been a senior enlisted advisor before, I was impressed with his sincerity, maturity and desire to help people," Colonel Tolbert ; said. "These qualities will make him the kind of guy we need in this very important job. We in the 388th, and I in particular, are looking forward to Chief McLaughlin's arrival and getting him to work," the colonel said. Being a senior enlisted advisor was a goal Chief McLaughlin had upon making the E--9 grade: , "One question that I was asked by my new boss was whether I had fatigues," the chief ' can be actively involved with the people who make the Air Force move. And that is what I will be doing at Hill, working on the flightline," said the chief. Chief McLaughlin believes that the commander's enlisted adyisor needs to have mobfle off ice - his feet to get around to those who do the mission. The chiefs old boss, Lt. Col. Franklin Luna, staff judge advocate at sent him to Utah with high praise. ' The NCOIC of a base legal office is always looked upon as a community leader, and Chief McLaughlin filled the role naturally and enthusiastically. His innate sense of fairness and protection of individual rights is rare, I have no doubt that he even in attorneys. will become a future chief master sergeant of the Air Force," Colonel Luna said. The veteran has primarily spent his Air Force career in office administration. Davis-Montha- & ,w..mm,jmm - ft O dH n, 25-ye- ar J 18, 1980 j -- , Fighter Wing senior enlisted advisor (j, lisfens while A1C Kayle Jones (center) and Amn. Lynn Jewett explain servicing muf techniques on the nose gear of the fighter. (U.S. Air Force Photo) CMSgt. Thomas M. McLaughlin, 388fh Tactical F-T- 6 Price paid by prisoner Painamountf-- fee of liberty Of all the national days of observance and holidays, perhaps the most difficult to observe is POW-MIday. What we recognize on this day is a dedication beyond what most of us had to give. The price paid by the prisoner of war or the serviceman missing in action is the paramount fee of liberty. From our earliest POWs to the more than 55,000 POWs who died in Andersonville, Elmira and other infamous Civil War prisons, to the years in chains spent by Maj. Gen. A nr , u xw n v rum iiiv Jonathan Wainwright and the soldiers on Bataan, to the trials of Lt. Gen., then Colonel, John Flynn and our airmen in the "Hanoi Hilton," our glorious history as a democratic nation has been tinted with the sweat and blood of military people who gave everything they had, in many cases their lives, to preserve that democracy. Perhaps the most agonizing of all categories in this dubious category of war is "missing in action," not prisoner, not declared dead, yet not accounted for. Everyone can sympathize with the residual terror mixed with hope that torments every MIA's family. Today we face a distressingly new situation under the heading of ,4POW." The 52 Americans in Iran, though technically not "prisoners of war," certainly qualify for our sympathy and prayers as any other victims terror and fanaticism. They are certainly as imprisoned as any prisoner of war ever of was. Today, as we pause to remember the distinguished roster of Americans who gave all they had for America, remember those newly elected members to this select organization. Their' suffering and pain is surely as severe and intense as any endured by our people on Bataan, in Korea, or in North Vietnam. Our hope and prayers go with them. May they endure and survive this awesome torment and return safely to us. (LOGNEWS) GEN. BRYCE POE II AFLC Commander a special observance in honor of the prisoners of war and servicemen missing in action, a Catholic Mass will be held in the base As July 18, 1980 The Hill Top Times is an unofficial newspaper published every Friday in the interest of personnel at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, of Air Force Logistics Command. It is published by Moi Media Sales. Inc., 1152 West Kiverdale Road, Ogden, Utah 84403, a private firm in no way connected with the Department of the Air Force. Opinions expressed by publisher and writers chapel at 11:30 a.m. today. Also, all services held Sunday will include special prayers for the POW-MIA- s. 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