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Show HILL TOP TIMES Page 4 December 18, 1981 ws Early release of employees ALCM Test The Air Force Maj, Gen. Leo Marquez, the Ogden Air Logistics Center commander, is the only one with exclusive authority to grant early release of employees due to air-launch- Flight Recruiting, F-1-19 cruise missile ed development test program passed the point Monday, chalking up another successful mission test flight, 15th in the series, began with extreme weather conditions or when normal operations The four-hobomber high above Neliis AFB are Interrupted by events beyond the control of a launch from a a management or employees, such, as equipment Range in southeastern Nevada5. After completing breakdown or power outage. However individuals series of programmed course changes and maneuvers adversely affected by temperature extremes to the using its terrain contour matching guidance system, extent that tUey are incapacitated for duty, may be the missile then swung northeast and entered the Utah granted annual or rick leave. Prior to releasing Test and Training Range. After some additional flight employees contact the Civilian Personnel Office, Ext. time it arrived over its programmed target and 76148, who will then apprise General Marquez of the simulated detonation, then pitched up, deployed a parachute and was recovered in situation, He will then make the decision whether to large, donut-shape- d authorize early release and request the Civilian mid-a- ir by a helicopter from the 6514th Test Squadron Personnel Office to notify the appropriate based here. (AFNS organizations. (Ogden ASLC Letter, Nov. 24) Official business parking permit " Effective Dec. 7, mission essential decals have not Officers can earn engineering degree been recognized as valid parking permits. Instead the through AFIT Officer volunteers can earn undergraduate new official business parking permit, the laminated control number, engineering degrees through an 4 month Air Force decal, color coded, containing a ' Institute For more authenticating signature, organization symbol and of Technology program. information write to Hq AFMPC MPCR0S5B , building number will be used. It will be prominently side of the user's Randolph AFB, Texas 78150, or call Capt. Jim Dill or displayed on the dash, driver's (AFNS) vehicle. The new decal can be used in car pool spaces, Capt. Al Joseph at Autovon but is not authorized in parking spaces reserved for government vehicles. For further information on these Dobbins to change aircraft decals, call the Security Police Squadron, Ext. 77975. Two Dobbins AFB, Ga., units will change to (2849CC Letter, Dec, 1) different aircraft. An Air National Guard squadron will convert to and a Reserve squadron to Name change for AFEES (AFNS) Armed forces examining and entrance stations are now called Military Entrance Processing Stations. Top chief visits AFLC Military Entrance "We re never going to be in parity with the civilian Headquarters are at Western Calif. (AFNS) worker when it comes to pay, and if you think we are, Processing Command, Oakland, then you're in the wrong business. . . military service) USAF missile launch is not a job It s a calling," That's how CMSAF Arthur An Air Force Minuteman III intercontinental L. Bud" Andrews said he feels about military pay. He expressed his views on pay and other subjects, such as ballistic missile was successfully launched on Dec. 9 readiness discipline and morale during a recent visit to from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., by missile combat Air Force Logistics Command Headquarters, Wright-Patterso- n crews from the 321st Strategic Missile Wing, Grand AFB, Ohio. During his visit he was Forks AFB, N.D. It was one in a series of operational interviewed by the AFLC newspaper staff test launches directed by Headquarters Strategic Air (Skywrighter) and responded to questions submitted Command to test the total reliability of the Minuteman from the enlisted personnel. (LOGNEWS) Weapon System. 4 AFNS) three-quart- er ur B-52- 487-383464- F-4- Fiscal 1981 was one of the best recruiting and reenlistment years since the beginning of the force in 1974, said Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger, IAFNS) all-volunt- eer G 18-2- 05. Eleven Air Force civilians receive presidential awards Eleven senior Air Force civilian employees, career members of the senior executive service received presidential awards. Three received presidential rank awards which included a $20,000 bonus, and eight were honored as Meritorious Senior Executives. This award included a $10,000 stipend. (AFNS1 Herbicide Orange physicals to begin 'KcooDch Heainidr crews Physical examinations of aircrews involved in the Ranch Hand Herbicide-sprayin- g Operation in Vietnam between 1962 and 1970 and a matching control group will be conducted by a Houston Clinic under an Air Force contract. Air Force officials said the examinations will be part of an ongoing ranch hand study of possible long-terhealth effects of exposure to a defoliant known as Herbicide Orange. Ranch Hand crews are the most likely m spraying to have had significant exposure, Air Force officials Vietnam veterans said. Up to 2,400 physical examinations of tav-fre- e certificates is now interest on issued based on a provision in the administration's tax package. The new law excludes up to $1000 ($2,000 on certificates issued a joint return) of interest on one-yebetween Oct. 1, 1981 and Dec. 31, 1982. The amount excluded is cumulative not annual. Interest rates on these certificates will be 70 percent of the yield on Treasury bills. (AFNS) Tax-fre- e all-save- rs ar 52-we- ek Langley AFB first stateside base to get the Air Force's newest model of the The first 5 Eagle, to be assigned to a stateside operational base have arrived at Langley AFB, Va. (AFNS) F-I5- C F-15- F-1- Student loans available through Air Force Aid Society The Air Force Aid Society offers two ways to help finance an education, the Gen. Henry H. Arnold and the Gen. George S Brown senior student-loa- n Force Aid programs. For information call the Air " Society Office, Ext. 63411. (AFNS) Air Force earns Safety award The National Safety Council presented the Outstanding Effort in Occupant Protection Award to the Air Force in recognition of the "Make It Click" seat-be- lt campaign. The Air Force was overall top supporter of the safety campaign, with more buckle-u- p pledges during the Labor Day weekend than any other organization in the country. (AFNS) t be studied irstf the 1,264 Ranch Hand members and a control group, matched to the Ranch ratio by Hand group on a age, occupational category and race, will be conducted. All physicals will be complete by Sept. 30, 1982, according to one-to-o- An Air Force proposal for the study was approved by the White House in September 1980, following extensive scientific review. It consists of three parts: A mortality study, a morbidity study, including a study of birth defects in offspring, and follow-up- . certificates interest is All-save- r's C-130- Ds up in Fiscal 1981 nts ne officials. The mortality study, matching the Ranch Hand group with a control group on a ratio, is underway. A detailed questionnaire survey to one-to-o- ne obtain ' information on the health, social and of the Ranch conditions psychological Hand group and control group is also underway for the morbidity study. The survey will be complete by April 1982, Air Force officials said. Conclusions reached from the survey and first physicals will be the basis for the remainder of the overall study. Follow-u- p examinations are planned at three, five, 10, 15 and 20 years. (AFNS) medical, demographic, Lieutenants should be treated as future AF leaders By Lt. Col. Jacobs MAC Del. 7, 24 WS CC How many lieutenants does it take to change a light bulb? If this question amuses you, read on and rethink. Last week I had the watch a second lieutenant at a meeting become justly upset at a discussion that occasion to demeaned lieutenants as a class and stereotyped them as the cause of all that went wrong in the speaker's unit. How many of us are guilty of abetting, by silence, statements that erode the respect due our fellow, albeit new to the corps, officers? Statements like: "They don't know anything." (come on, these college in graduates come intelligent and eager); "They young and are inexperienced." colonels were lieutenants); "I (even once eat lieutenants for breakfast." (this was actually said last week! ); "Lieutenants are every officer great should own some.'" and on and on. me Let try to reconstruct what: an exasperated chief master sergeant told me last year. It went something like, "I don't understand you officers the way you eat your young. Why do you publicly and continually hold up your lieutenants to ridicule?" "NCOs never joke and demean the airmen in this manner. How do you expect your lieutenants to gain the respect of our airmen and NCOs if they are the butt of all your jokes?" To gain the respect of others, an individual must have and the confidence that goes with it. Anything that tears at this fabric of also rends future growth. The second and first lieutenants of the Air Force have been called on at this time of personnel shortages to perform in self-respe- ct . self-wor- th positions of great responsibility. They are doing the job and doing it well. Let us be proud of them and proud that our country does still produce men and women of this caliber. How many lieutenants does it take to change a . light bulb? One. . . only-one- (LOGNEWS from the TIG Brief) V; |