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Show SPECIAL COLLECTIONS cinnes Vol. 40 No. 10 Hill AFB, Utah Friday, March 14, 1986 Wing Jesfs '.cbmbat dep loym enf capability By A1C Brandy Joersz 388th Tactical Fighter Wing The 388th Tactical Fighter Wing exercise Rainbow , held March "ran smoothly," said Lt. Col. James A. Machos, 388th Tactical Fighter Wing chief, Wing Inspections. For this quarterly, mobility exercise, wing personnel were recalled at 5:15 a.m. March 3, to test their ability to deploy and the wing's capability to defend the United States and its allies anywhere in the world. "Overall, the wing did very well," Colonel Machos said. "The aircraft generated, deployed and regenerated on time." "The 388th TFW can't do the job alone," said Lt. Col. Don J. Deritis, assistant Resource Manae-er"It takes a team effort and a very important part of the team is its Air, Force Logistics Command members who meld with our wing people to make the effort successful." During the first 24 hours, the 4th Aircraft Maintenance Unit prepared and simulated a flight of its Starlifters and C-- Galaxies and personnel in headed toward their deployment site. The 421st AMU, with some help from the 16th AMU, worked on the generation of 4th and 34th Tactical Fighter Squadrons' Fighting Falcons. The 4th TFS simulated a deployment of their pilots March 4. The 34th AMU simulated setting out on its mission to a different area in and s to pre5. for 34th arrival on March TFS's pare The exercise ended after the 4 th TFS was regenerated and practice missions were flown. 86-4- 1. S 3-- 6, no-noti- iS 4i ' ce . C-1- 5 F-1- C-14- 1s (U S Air Force Photo by A1C Brandy Joersz) Amn. Donald J. Kidder Jr., of the 421st Weapons Flight, moved this power unit perform a ettison check. 388th schedules mini open house By TSgt. Terry Walker in preparation to March 21, with displays, birthday cake and a mini . open house. The wing Aircraft Maintenance Division is planhouse for base personnel only in ning a mini-openoon from to 3:45 p.m. March 21. On dis25 Hangar will an be play Fighting Falcon with full munitions and various equipment demonstrations from maintenance sections such as survival, corrosion control and inspections and aerospace ground equipment. Visitors to the area are asked to park their cars in Parking Lot l and walk to the area. n F-1- 6 non-destructi- 388th TFW Public Affairs Office The 388th Tactical Fighter Wing is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Tactical Air Command 6 C-5- items will be disthe in in case of the base exfront played glass from March The exhibition includes change aircraft models, helmets, photographs, wing patches and hats and a flight suit. A birthday cake will be served in the airmen's dining hall at the noon meal March 21. Wing members will be conducting a formal retreat ceremony in front of base headquarters at 4 p.m. that day. An flyover is planned for the ceremony. A special display of TAC-relate- d 19-2- 4. F-1- 6 Recognition banquet set for top enlisted The "best of the best"- enlisted force will be honored March 21 at the annual Enlisted Recognition Banquet at the NCO Club. . The event will begin with a social hour at 6 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:45. Tickets are SI 2 per person and are available through all unit first sergeants. It is being sponsored by the Hill AFB First Sergeants and all military personnel are invited. Speaker for the evening will be the Hill AFB Commander, Col. John W. Wolfe. Honored will be the Hill AFB Outstanding Airmen and Reservists of the year. Representing, Hill AFB will be MSgt. Richard C. Alexander, USAF Hospital, outstanding senior NCO; outstanding NCO, SSgt. Roy E. Merritt; and outstanding airman, SrA. Donald M. Currie, both of the 388th Component Repair Squadron, 388th Tactical Fighter Wing. Outstanding Reservists honored will be MSgt. Marvin L. Zaugg, senior NCO; SSgt. Ross P. Childs, outstanding NCO; and A1C Christy L. Edwards, outstanding airman. Sergeant Zaugg is a member of the 419th Tactical Fighter Wing. Sergeant Childs is a member of the 68th Aerial Port Squadron, and Airman Edwards is a member of the 419th Civil Engineer - ., ing Sauadron. Sergeant Alexander was recently named the top senior noncommissioned officer for Air Force Logistics Command and Sergeant Merritt was chosen one of seven for Tactical Air Command. Both are now competing for the best in their category at Air Force level. To be recognized as the Hill AFB Senior Noncommissioned Officer, Sergeant Alexander was cited for his duties at the Hill AFB Hospital's Optometry Clinic. He organized a vision program which reduced appointment times by 25 percent and saw the same amount of increase in practitioner transducer which allowed the system to operate correctly on five volts. During a recent rash of disk drive failures, he determined that the field test unit for them was defective and outdated. He then initiated a loan of a suitable unit from another base. Operating without benefit of the unit, he troubleshot and completely repaired the faulty drives. When the unit did arrive, he trained himself on its use, aligned the heads of the repaired disk drives, then trained five other airmen on the new test equipment in two davs. 15B configuration took the contractor almost six months to install and four days trying to realign the heads-udisplay. Airman Currie asked to assist and had the item aligned in under seven minutes. Last year, he spent four hours with a disk drive repairman learning everything he could about their operation and maintenance. This year, he found a power supply on one of the Development Engineering Prototype Site's disk drives had been raised from five to over six volts to extend the readwrite heads to the correct channel. He cleaned the velocity p productivity. Honored as the Hill AFB Outstanding Noncommissioned Officer, Sergeant Merritt provides technical expertise for the U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Warfare Center, Eglin AFB, Fla. As Hill AFB Outstanding Airman, Airman Currie will be recognized for his duties as a digital navigationtactics training devices specialist. His motivation, mastery of new skills and adaptability are especially noteworthy. Of particular significance was the fact that a modification upgrading the trainer, flight simulator to Block F.-1- 6 MSgt. Richard Alexander SSgt. Roy E. Merritt SrA. Donald M. Currie |