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Show '"" - ' ' ' C3C3r!7r5 April 1, 1988 3 Hilltop Times gOgDc Hill AFB leaders treated a Utah state delegation, including Governor Norm Bangerter, to a peek at the future Air Force March 24. State officials are visiting Utah educational institutions, private enterprise and federal facilities and offering mutually beneficial assistance. At Hill, the assistance they offered includes ways to maintain Hill's healthy impact on Utah's economy. However, the response Governor Bangerter received carried a mixed bag of messages. "We want to cooperate with the state any way we can within the limitations we have," said Maj. Gen. Robert P. McCoy, commander, Ogden Air Logistics Center. "We presented this so state officials would better understand our needs and so we might benefit one another." The hour-lon- g briefing by several Hill officials portrayed an Air Force burgeoning with technoloe workforce gy and changing from a to one highly trained in "systems." It could also mean, according to Lt. Col. Leo Jacobs of the Directorate of Plans and Programs, a smaller workforce-j- ust labor-intensiv- the thing that concerns Governor Bangerter. Still, General McCoy emphasized the speculative nature of predicting future employment at Hill and instead lauded Utah officials for wanting to work with Hill. He and other Air Force officials pointed out the importance of quality education in the tech fields and how Utah colleges could augment Hill's civilian population with well-traine- d graduates. ' Another subject that did awaken interest in the Utah delegation is the potential establishment of an electronic battlefield at the Utah Test and Training Range. The facility, which would electronically simulate foreign battlefields on the UTTR. would also bring a substantial number of jobs to the state. Pentagon officials are looking favorably at the UTTR for the battlefield, although a final decision is yet to be made. Commander seeks better dorms in effort to improve quality of life t tbaarir The commander of Air Force Logis- nut tics Command said one of the H What com- AFB? will be dene al Hill Read next week's issue. mand's most important quality of life programs is the improvement of airsioned officers. men's dormitory living conditions. "In addition, our bases are completGen. Alfred G. Hansen, in a memorandum sent to the command ing new bachelor housing surveys to March 10, said several actions have let us know what our dormitory space been taken, or are now being planned, requirements really are. I intend to develop new construction and alteration to improve dormitory life. projects to eliminate any deficiencies, According to the general, military and give full support to those already construction projects have been validated at $35 million to modernize in the system," General Hansen said. "Also," he said, "I have set lip a eight existing dormitories and build nine new ones. "We're accelerating dormitory self-hel-p incentive awards these efforts, but the benefits are still program that will be funded out of several years away. In the meantime, quality-of-lif- e funds." This program, which is now being implemented we're sending many suggested ininitiastresses terim 'fixes' to AFLC bases for their . tives to improve the dormitory living action. environment. "At the minimum," said the gener"Given those declining budgets al, "these should do much to improve are now a fact of life, improving that and the of overall quality privacy the living environment will not always life." The general said the command's be easy," said General Hansen. "But model installation program initiative people are my top priority and I can was approved, giving E-- 4 sergeants assure you AFLC's dormitory prothe same size dormitory rooms once gram will continue to receive priority reserved for more senior noncommis- - attention." com-mandwid- e, self-hel- p inSf ' ate. it s too this . JR. TTgOgipCuqduq home all the time.'" With such solid evidence, Ms. Jacobs turned the information over to 2849th Security Police Squadron officials who, by the way, also had an employee participating in the scheme. She said they are conducting their own investigation now. "We know who most of the people are," she said. But in getting support from commanders and supervisors in cracking down on phone abuse, she finds another disturbing problem. "People just aren't interested in stopping unofficial phone calls," she said. "I've had first sergeants express little if any interest in stopping the problem and some com Continued from Page 1 her in her search for the abusers. "Printouts from AT&T told me where each unofficial call was made to and where it originated." To further cement her evidence, Ms. Jacobs called many of the destination numbers and literally asked the resident or business person if such a call had been made. "I would simply tell the person to whom the unofficial call was made that I was doing a monthly survey to be sure the calls for which AT&T was charging us were actually made," she said. "In most cases the person turned out to be a friend or parent and they would say, 'Sure, that's my son.. .he calls . manders wiil do no more than tell their people, 'Now don't you do that again.' " The problem demands more, she said, because the Air Force loses hundreds of dollars in manhours spent investigating the unofficial use on top of the price of the call. A small amount for some, but in a period of very tight budgets, every lost dollar hurts. "If there's one message I want out, it's that people can't get away with unofficial calls. I will find them out and they will pay. "People think it's a big joke. But it's not, action will be taken," said Ms. Jacobs GDH0Gt? Continued from Page anodize monorail system. 1 structures. "Brick and mortar are the basic tenants of the future," said Maj. Gen. Robert P. McCoy, commander, Ogden Air Logistics Center. "I'm proud to be here and watch this project grow... proud to be part of Hill and the Air Force as projects like these improve our performance." Performance improvements include an automated plastic bead blast stripping line, an automated paint line and a computer controlled phosphoric acid CewdMrt 7 gtrewcai U It will also include a deriveting robot for automatic fastener removal, an automated guided vehicle system for parts delivery, an automated storage and retrieval system and a computer sys-- ' tern for scheduling ease and efficiency. "Our number one concern is. that of the security of the United States," said Utah Congressman James V. Hansen. "We hear talk of closing old bases when in reality we are now modernizing with technology. I can Threap Legistlcs les Published by MorMedia, Inc., a private firm in no way connected with the U.S. Air Force, under exclusive written contract with Hill AFB. 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