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Show :ywv:: v . ioivAVoww - " ....... ........ v sAW'y-'-x- Page 27 HILL TOP TIMES Friday, April 29, 1983 rr,. - .. , ..,, ... ... iipii IffM vwvx::-x-- rx : .. II ' u " vV'V" . f III ' : . jj H r E&M1? - i f wmmsssm mBm Iff . x I v- f - rV II - o-- x I j .... s .. , V Ogden ALC Public Affairs How would you like to be in a contest where the worst you could finish was second? Such is the case with the 2849th Security Police Squadron of Hill AFB and the Security Police Squdron of Templehof Air Base, Germany, as they enter the final phase of competition for the Air Force's Outstanding Security Police Small Unit Award for POLICE HILL AFB, P $ Street. III i - . I JMf l-- i II ? ill u s. Air Force Photo By MSgt. Mike Griffin) Not hardly, when you consider that it to the final two in Air Force all Air Force Security Police competition. According to almost everyone in the Squadrons with less than 200 uniformed officers were originally in squadron, the secret to the squadron's the running. First the large field was success is its people. Lt. Col. Dennis narrowed to 10 by the major com- ' G. Prescott, commander, summed it mands. Then Headquarters Air Force up best when he said, "This is one of Office of Security Police (AFPSP), the finest groups of people I have ever Kirtland AFB, N.M., whittled the worked with. Everyone is really comcommand nominations to the two mitted to getting the job done. finalists. "They are really taxed sometimes," The last step in the contest will be he added. "We are a small unit serve evaluations of each remaining ing one of the largest bases in the states." squadron. Colonel Prescott thinks there are Col. Nicholas A. Keck, Lt. Col. Kenother factors that should help in the neth R. Anderson and CMSgt. Robert competition. "Our outstanding perforC. Agee from AFOSP will be here Tuesday through May 6 to check out mance in the 1982 Peacekeeper Hill's police. They are at Templehof Challenge and our accomplishments relative to the Hill AFB mobility comnow. They should make their selection mitment are prime factors," he said. by the end of May. Backing all of Colonel Prescott's The team will be looking at every are the results of an AFLC comments aspect of Security Police operations to Management Effectiveness Inspecinclude personal appearance, adtion held earlier this year. His unit ministrative procedures, law enforceearned the highest rating of any ment, security and mobility. AFLC unit since 1976 and during a Hill's squadron earned the right to more recent Mission Capability Inenter the Air Force competition when spection they repeated that they captured the Air Force Logistics performance. . CoL Command Outstanding Unit Award Joseph H. Battaglia, Hill AFB earlier this year. commander, said of the squadron, "I This is the third consecutive year have never bee:, associated with a that the squadron won the AFLC finer Security Police outfit. Based on Outstanding Unit Award, but this will their accomplishments, I have a lot of be only the second time that any confidence in their winning the Air AFLC Security Police unit has made Force award." . 1982. "What? Only two contestants? That sounds like an easy contest," you say. on-sit- E on Second il. If t award By MSgt. Mike Griffin D J w; GOTCHA: Officer Thomas Bowman of the Law Enforcement Section checks for speeders For Air Force ftl If ; 4 X ' I ART M ffcJs&SLj. UrbF E Wi, . |