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Show Ill 1 r 1 1 I 1 r i I f i 1 i p Vol. 37 No. 8 --v SPECIAL " n. f OGDEN, UTAH 25, 1983 Friday, February foV By Freida Sickinger Public Affairs Office The main event banquet for Black History Week at Hill AFB will be held tonight in the Officers' Club. Activities get underwayat 6 p.m. in the Red Room with a social hour. Dinner will be served at 7 p.m. in the Heritage Room. Cost of banquet tickets is $6.50 per person. Ann Felter will be on hand to interpret for the hearing impaired who wish to attend the banquet. Featured .speaker during the banquet will be Maj. Gen. Bernard P. Randolph, director, Space Systems and Command Control and Communications, Office of the Deputy launch and orbital operations and was responsible for all payload operations. In late 1969, he served a tour in the Republic of Vietnam where he was an airlift operations officer at Chu Lai and an airlift coordinator at Tan Son Nhut AB. He was responsible for the total operation of about 50 C-- 7 and airlift sorties daily from Chu Lai and later coordinated operations of all airlift control elements throughout the Republic of Vietnam. When he returned to the U.S. in October 1970, General Randolph was assigned to Headquarters Air Force Systems Command, Andrews AFB, Md., as chief, command plans in test evaluation, then as executive officer to the deputy chief of staff for operations. Following graduation from the Air War College in June 1974, he returned to Los Angeles AFS as director, space systems planning for the Space and Missile Systems Organization. In April 1975, he became deputy program director and later program director for the Air Force Satellite Communications System and assumed responsibility for space defense systems, Space Division, headquarters Los Angeles AFS in March 1978. In this capacity, he managed a program to design and develop the U.S. system with its sup- C-1- 23 Chief of.Staff, Research, Development and Acquisition, Headquarters U.S. Air Force in Washington, D.C. The general has had a distinguished Air Force career. He completed Squadron Officer School in 1959 and was assigned to Strategic Air Command where he instructed and evaluated flight crews on KC-9- 7 and 7 aircraft and served as a member of a select crew. t; He was later assigned to Los Angeles Air Force Station, Calif., where he served as chief, operations, Space Systems Division. He managed activities of up to 10 VELA spacecraft at any given time. He was later assigned as assis-;- . tant deputy program director for B-4- on-orb- on-orb- it it " FY-84-bud- te p)B"lpseiIs gef a 's -- 10-ye- ar ,' v 1974. ,:;.-- - '' 222..jl....l.:LDil.l.LL.II..IlWlM ? Atf4s V. (U.S.. Air Force Photo) Maj. Gen. Bernard P. Randolph Tickets for tonight's banquet can still be obtained from the following of- fices or people: 1 245, Ext. or 77887 Leola Beal, Directorate of Distribution, Ext. 77744 Sgt. Edwin Hernandez, 388th Tactical Fighter Wing Equal Employment Opportunity Office, Bldg. 75731 ". " . Ext. 62640 , 1 st Lt. Oscar Mack, Directorate of Materiel Management, Ext. 77072 X v r-- V Udell Foster, Directorate of Maintenance, Ext. 62442 ' Ellen Head, Directorate of Materiel Management, Ext ' 76611 Delores Hill, 2849th Air Base Group, Ext. 77418 SMSgt. Robert G. Moore Jr., USAF Hospital, Hill, Ext V 74551 Joan M. Thomas, Directorate of Materiel Management Ext. 74671 Beulah Campbell, Comptroller, Ext. 75341 Chaplain (Maj.) Crazier K. Fitzgerald, Chaplain's Office Ext. 62677 Beverly Hammonds, Directorate of Materiel Manage ment, Ext. 77618 '.'All proceeds from the AFAF CamHill AFB joins the entire Air Force Air off this in paign will benefit the three Air year's Monday kicking to the Air Force Fund Force Assistance campaign assure the official theme of "We'll Village, Air Force Enlisted Men's keep helping as long as you do," Widows and Dependents Home Founbecomes a reality. dation, Inc., and the Air Force Aid An audience : of campaign key Society. "These worthy affiliates receive no workers and base officials will attend a 7 a.m. breakfast in the NCO Club to taxpayer support and rely primarily contributions from this camstart the drive. Speaker will be Hill on the to finance their outstanding AFB Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Patrick F. paign on our work behalf," the memoranFeely. Tickets are now on sale for dum said. $2.80 per person and can be obtained Gen. James P. Mullins, commander, within individual organizations or by Force Logistics Command, said, Air calling Marlene Parkinson, campaign "This fund drive is one of our most immanager, Ext. 74007. portant people programs. It is our oncamGoal of this year's base-wid- e ly campaign dedicated solely to helppaign is $30,000. Total Air Force goal ing Air Force members, their is $3.8 million. Last year, Hill's camdependents and widows. paign raised more than $51,000. "The Air Force Aid Society has In a joint memorandum signed by been most responsive to the needs of Gen. Charles A. Gabriel, chief of staff our people," he continued. "Expandand Verne Orr, secretary of the Air ed emergency assistance and educaForce, the two said, "The campaign tional loans benefit all of us. In addiwill afford each member of the Air tion, . retired members and their Force family, active, retired and dependents or widows, many of whom members of the Air National Guard live on limited incomes, are afforded and Reserve, the opportunity to help a chance to maintain a reasonable 'our own.' (Continued on page 3) Force-connected-affiliat- es, 1985. . fa ft Air Force Assis! co Dice Fund g Increased employer contributions for retirement. Employer contributions for retirement would also, increase to match the increase in employee deductions described above. This would include the U.S. Postal Service and the District of Columbia government. Annuity calculations to be based on the highest five years of earnings. The current calculation base is the highest three years. Employees within three years of retirement eligibility would not be affected. (AFNS) : n Monday breakfast kicks off drive cost-of-livin- -- V The Hill AFB celebration of Black History Week will end Sunday with a religious service at the base chapel at 3:30 p.m. Speaker will be U.S. Army Sergeant Major Wmie Dunn, Jr., U.S. Army Readiness and Mobilization Region VIII, Readiness Group, Fort Douglas. adjustments. The g adjustment would be eliminated for 1984. Further, current law limits COLA adjustments to half of the consumer price index for retirees under age 62 through 1985. This change would be permanent. Increased employee deductions for retirement. Employer retirement deductions would increase to nine percent in 1984 from the present seven percent and to 11 percent in Cost-of-livin- The Hill Top Times is an unofficial newspaper published every Friday under exclusive written agreement with the Hill AFB Commander in the interest of personnel of. Hill AFB, Air Force Logistics Command. It is published by MorMedia Sales, a private firm in no way connected by, the, PpWQns, expressed. 6?.PPe0..r.A.-,!,9T??-V.."" V.V ,Y Y ,". Y .V.V, Y.. ,.VV.Y Y.Y. VV 'v.yy,V ", control and survivability aspects. In July 1980, he became vice commander, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Robins AFB, Ga., then assumed his present duties in September 1981. General Randolph's military decorations and awards include the Legion of Merit with one oak leaf cluster, Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal and the Presidential Unit Citation emblem. The general was born in New Orleans, received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans in 1954, earned bachelor (magna cum laude) and master of science degrees in electrical engineering from the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, through the Air Force Institute of Technology program in 1964 and 1965; completed Air Command and Staff College as a distinguished graduate while concurrently earning a master's degree in business administration from Auburn University, Ala. in 1969 and was a distinguished graduate of the Air War College in pecsooDinieD til VOID A number of proposals affecting government employees are in the president's fiscal 1984 budget. . According to the budget analysis published by the Office of Management and Budget in the executive office of the president, the budget assumes no October 1983 pay increase for federal white and blue collar workers and military personnel. OMB says that the final decision on the level of the fiscal 1984 pay increase will be made in the late summer. As the law provides, the decision will follow presidential review of the recommendations of the presi-dentpay agent, the Federal Employees Pay Council and the Advisory Committee on Federal Pay, and after a review of the economic conditions prevailing then. The 1984 budget for the civil service retirement system is based on legislative proposals which would amend certain aspects of the system. The proposals include: Annuity adjustment for retirement prior to age 65. It will be period. phased in during a enactment older or 55 at Employees would not be affected. , . , , anti-satelli- porting surveillance, command and . publisher and writers in this publication are their own and are not to be considered an official expression of the Department of the Air Force. 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