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Show - - r Ul Vol. 39 No. 27 ALC Public Affairs Office trip overseas won a round of thanks for four airmen assigned to the 2952nd Combat Logistics Support Squadron here. A 65-da- y The team traveled to bases in Korea and the Philippine Islands in to replace brackets holding Electronic Control Measure pods to F-- 4 mid-Apr- il aircraft. Although this kind of work is part 'of the job, the classified mission had some twists for team chief TSgt. Daniel R. Rackliff, Sgt. Daniel A. Fernandez, SSgt. John D. Seltz and SrA. Thomas S. Neil. '' Capt. Roger. P. Austiff , chief of maintenance for the squadron, explained that the men were heading overseas two weeks after the emergency request was received at Hill AFB. "They collected parts, tooling and everything else they needed in a' ' lot less time thanwe generally have, he said7"Usually we have at least- - two months, if not more, reaction time." Short notice also caused problems in handling supplies. p - : "All the tool boxes were hand carried," said Sergeant Seltz. "We just didn't have time to have them shipped." Once there, a trip whieh was to last 30 days at the most escalated into 65 not-so-routi- ne ets on 45 flew home in mm It m 4 7 e, miim$mm W. llli'Slil ' v f '" ';''' A,, , 'f '$'', , f '''''' mww 'A ''"'"' v' ,f f , ' '''" jt,, WM. F-4- k .A'- - : . Jt....s J' m . -- - ' .' :. F-4- crises 1111 (U.S. Air Force Photo by Gregg Wixom) 100-degr- ee estemporary power outage from Utah Power and Light substations outside v Salt Lake County. "We have several power feeds coming onto the base," Colonel Judd explained. "Power, for the most part, was continued throughout most of the base by switching services to other substations." : Critical areas, such as the base hospital and aircraft runway, have emergency generators which automatically kick on following an outage. The hospital was also one of the last buildings on base to" have its commercial power restored due to generator to Utah problems with switching from the " Power and Light feeders: Other areas affected included the maintenance, industrial and distribution,areas, with time of restoration varying from 9 p.m. Saturday to 1 a.m. Sunday. Residents in Thunderbird Park lost ener gy for about half a minute, while those living in Patriot Hills were able to view the entire storm in ed Colonel . DniiEdiDDg comfort. Judd said many of the effects were off- shoots of the outage, rather than directly caused by circuit the thunderbolt that struck the 138,000-vol- t breaker at Terminal Substation around 5000 W. Seventh South in Salt Lake City at 7 p.m. Saturday. "An outage like that causes kickoffs all through said. "ThenTare always the system," ColonelJudd ' r Rescue crew here cassosfs - related effects." Among these were the transformer which burned out in Bldg. 1265 and the air conditioning problems in the computer rooms of Bldg. 100. Power in the former facility was restored by 11 a.m. Monday. Security Police reported no problems related to Saturday's storm. accident vidtfim pared for hoisting into the helicopter. The aircraft crew returned to a hover over the site and raised the victim and Sergeant Meade up to the aircraft. off to 4 a.m. The aircraft then flew to the airport at Jackson and flew Det. personnel took at 5:06 situa-tioon the Hole, Wyo., where an ambulance was standing by Jenny Lake where they were briefed - to take the victim to the hospital. The .helicopter by park rangers. the crew decided they crew then returned to Hill AFB. After arriving at site, the For their part in the successful rescue, Det. 4 crew could not land and would have to do a hoist recovmembers feet 115 were credited with saving a life.. Other hovered site above JiVhile the the pilots ery of members the the the crew were: Capt. Donald Dunn, airmountainside, flight engineer against lowered pararescue specialist SSgt. Barry Meade craft commander; 1st Lt. Scott Kimball, down to the victim. Sergeant Meade checked the inand MSgt. Albert Cochran, flight engineer. Ground for the mission was SrA. Floyd McCloud and crew Reich had and Ms. determined that multiple juries Mike AB Maass. was and treated She fractures. pre compound leg July 1 and prepared to launch the mission. At 4:55 a.m. the aircrew received the mission authorization from the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center. By 2nd Lt. Gene' Vey ARRS A rescue crew from Detachment 4, - Taking a break from temperatures, Courtney Wixom chews on Hill AFB July 4 festivities sponsored by Morale, Welice during the annual fare and Recreation here (Story and more photos on page 3) at " to- mmwmmm " : explained..' s While stateside do not carry the pods, overseas aircraft do because of the high-threenvironment. The aircraft are used there almost daily for training and reconnaissance missions. : 40th Aero- space Rescue and Recovery Squadron, flew a mis- c sion July 1 to the Grand Tetons National Park and saved an injured hiker. cliff Margaret Reich, 38, had fallen from a at approximately,. ,p.m. 'June30. Park 'rangers reached her about two-thirup the mountainside at 1 p.m. Monday. The rangers treated Ms. Reich and determined they were unable to transport her v 30-fo- ot ds Det. 4 m Bill . " because of injuries. wm itll Bazley, commander in chief of Pacific Air Forces, Hickam AFB, Hawaii. "We often hear thanks for our work, but not as many from that high of level," Captain Austiff said. The mission had been classified because of the severity of the problem. At first request, the brackets of five s at Osan AB, Korea, needed replacement. The number grew to 45 following inspections of the same aircraft at Taegu AB, Korea, and Clark AB, Philippine Islands. Captain Austiff explained that the brackets holding the pods to the air: craft had developed cracks after nearly two decades of use. The pod contains electronic gear used for jamming missiles possibily launched ' brackets " ..aglaittstthtraireraft.. Faulty, . could result in'thel'oss"6f thfc pocbr "Without the deterrent, the craft is . vulnerable to attack," Captain Austiff Power outages of from 30 seconds to several hours put Hill AFB among those statewide feeling the effects of last weekend's thunderstorm. , But, it wasn't until Monday that most of the problems were discovered. ''Because it happened on the weekend, we didn't know the extent of what happened until people came back to work," said CoL Thayne Judd, Hill AFB civil engineer. "We had crews come on Saturday night and they were stiU'workmg Monday to ' T pick up on everything." Hardest hit was the base's southern end since the heart of the outage occurred south from Salt Lake City, toward Provo, and north to the southern tip of Davis County. Most of Hill AFB is located in northern Davis County, which receives its power Det. 40, 40th '"'S'Z 1 ill where awaiting them was a thank you note from Gen. Robert I by nder$? . mid-Jun- Friday, July 12, 1985 ' days with the addition of repair work needed at other Air Force bases. When it was all over, the four men had removed and replaced the brack- By Chris Moenich Ogden ICQ I OGDEN, UTAH Sauodron detachment earns well done' y SPECI AL was notified of the situation at 3:15 a.m. 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 of Air Force Logistics Command. It is published by MorMedia Sales, a private firm in no way connected with .the Depart- -' ment of the Air Force. Opinions expressed by the publisher and writers n . co-pilo- t; are their own and are not to be considered an official expression of the Department of the Air Force. The appearance of advertisements, including supplements and inserts, in this publication does not constitute an endorsement by the Department of the Air Force of products or services advertised. . |