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Show Nine from Hill reach top enlisted ranlc Their line numbers are Hill senior master This way Sgt. Charles Farrell, Army Reserve motions to a dump truck to back in and dump more dirt for the widening of a road near the Hill AFB flightline. Sergeant Farrell is with the Reserve's 321st Engineering Battalion C Company, load-maste- 5-to- n Og-de- n, Utah, which was training at Hill Saturday. The unit widened a road that will extend from the flightline to Main Street. The road will be used to transport museum aircraft from the flightline to the museum. " - i According to CMSgt. Thomas Some of those chosen at Hill could sew on their stripes starting Jan. 1, 1989. The sergeants selected for promotion to chief are: Larry L. Smith, 2849th Air Base Group, line number 283. John F. Collen, 2849th Security Police Squadron, line number 125. Stanley E. Preston, U.S. Air Force Hospital, Hill, line number 98. - Forcf Photo by SrA Joseph J. Wandasiewicz and Samuel E. Watson, 2952nd Combat Logistics Sup Jay Joersz C. Moeglein, Ogden Air Logistics Center senior enlisted adviser, each promotion within the enlisted grades is a significant step in every airman's climb to the top during their Air Force career. "Each step becomes more difficult. Only one out of every hundred hold the top enlisted grade in the Air Force," Chief Moeglein said. "That's why these nine men can be justifiably proud of their achievement. Everyone does not possess the essential attributes required to achieve this level of accomplishment and responsibility," he said. Texas. - U S. Air ORO 257 port Squadron. and 44, respectively. Timothy L. Byro, and Robert W. Thornburg, 388th Tactical Fighter Wing. Their line numbers are 22 and 203, respectively. David R. Bedard and Michael K. Downey, 388th Aircraft Generation Squadron. Their line numbers are 336 and 770 respectively. AFB Nine sergeants were chosen for promotion to chief master sergeant during Cycle 89S9, according to base military personnel officials. Hill's selection rate was 16.67 percent of the 54 eligible, which topped the Air Force and Air Force Logistics Command rates. Air Forcewide, the selection figures were lower, with 815 of 6,201 eligible chosen. In AFLC, 22 of 133 eligible were chosen for promotion, a 16.54 percent selection rate. The Air Force chief selection board convened Oct. 17 at the Air Force Manpower and Personnel Center, Randolph AFB, r, demands a lot of advance legjwork for success Conducting an operational readiness inspection is a big job. Just making the physical arrangements for the inspector general team to be at Hill AFB Nov. 3 has taken support from 11 major base units. Bill Maedgen, of the Ogden Air Logistics Center IG office, who has the task of coordinating this support, has been working final arrangements for almost six weeks. He said specific administrative tasks have been assigned to accounting and finance, the directorates of competition advocacy, distribution, maintenance, material management, contracting and communications-computer systems, 2849th Air Base Group and Communications the 1881st Squadron. "The effort equates to setting up a completely functional office for nearly 60 people and then tak-15-2- ing it all down again nine days later," Mr. Maedgen said. The first, and perhaps biggest challenge for an already crowded base, is to find office space for that many people. Fortunately, Bldg. 1255 was scheduled for renovation and could be emptied fairly easily. From Nov. it will be the ORI team's home. But a team this size with a big job to do obviously needs more than just a place to sit. Things like seven computers, computer operators, a copy machine, paper, audio visual equipment, temporary living quarters, cars, telephones, bus service, furniture, parking spaces and vending machines are all part of what's needed to make an operation like an ORI work. Arrangements must be made to provide service on the equipment the team is using. Someone has 15-2- 3, to provide janitorial service in the office space and arrangements have to be made to feed the team, sometimes at odd hours. "Someone even has to worry about getting some 140 or so bags from the flightline to billeting when the team arrives. There are even welcome kits to prepare for the team to help them find their way around base and locate the services they will need while they are here," Mr. Maedgen said. All these, and many other administrative tasks, are being pursued as Hill gears up for the first full scale ORI here. "Readiness is not easy and preparing for an ORI is not easy, but it is certainly worthwhile. At stake are the lives of American fighting men and women, our individual freedoms and, ultimately, the future of our nation," Mr. Maedgen said. ODUSpGG0Bn) D Continued from Page 1 ia they, also provide significant support to ALFC's Quality Program," he said. "The new criteria are process oriented. Instead of rating individual units and how well they accomplish their individual tasks, we now rate the center as a whole and how well it implements the processes used to support combat situations. This helps eliminate some of the artificial walls between units and promotes the goals of QP4," Colonel Schnee said. ORIs are also an important component of a balanced inspection program, according to the colonel. "The ORI looks at our ability to support the wartime mission. "The unit effectiveness inspection (or UEI) evaluates how we carry out our peacetime mission, and the functional management inspection (or look at specifFMI) takes an Schnee Colonel said. he ic processes," individual feels they each have their e to place and fit together needs. meet AFLC For those who were wondering how Ogden ALC was selected to be the in-dep- th hand-in-glov- O ! coc!d Ctemtf sfcuSlSb boo services Base shuttle bus service will be disrupted from "time to time" during the operational readiness inspection Hill AFB will undergo Tiiesday through Nov. 2$ According to T Neil Hansen, chief of the base vehicle transportation division disruptions will be caused by "massive taskings expected to support numerous ex-erase- s." Since what the Air Force Logistics Command Inspector General team has planned for the ORI is not known, "we cannot warn the base first center inspected under the new criteria, Colonel Schnee had a very simple answer. "Hill was next on the inspection schedule." Colonel Schnee acknowledged that the effort that will go into this first ORI might be greater since it is a first, but there really shouldn't be a great impact. "Flying commands such as TAC Combat ftrongth Through logistics Published by MorMedia, Inc., a private firm in no way connected with the U.S. Air Force, under exclusive written contract with Hill AFB. This commercial enterprise Air of Force newspaper is an authorized publication for members Times ate of the Hilltop the U.S. military services. Contents the U.S. not necessarily the official views of, or endorsed by, the or Defense Department government, the Department of said, "Delays are common but well do all we can to support those ple that rely on us." peo- and SAC have long had a motto that you should train the way you fight. The logistics business really shouldn't be that much different either," Colonel Schnee said. "If it takes too long, or requires too many changes to get ready for an ORI, then we ought to look at the way we are doing business. "Just try to put yourself in a frame of mind that a major conventional war in that perspective," he said. "That may not be an easy thing to visualize, but that's what ORIs are all about." As far as the ORI's impact on the individual worker is concerned, there just isn't any rule of thumb. Inspectors could show up anywhere and everywhere. But there will only be about 60 of them. They obviously can't talk to everyone on base. "If you're in a unit like security police, or if your position is tasked for mobilization, the ORI may have a big impact. But if you work in a big organization like MM or DS, the inspection may not be as noticeable," Colonel Schnee said. "Under the new criteria our objective is to get a maximum number of people involved. Not just to have the numbers, but because in a war we'll all be affected," he said. Given the new emphasis on logistics production and realism, Colonel Schnee thinks everyone will have the opportunity to see how their job contributes to the center's wartime mission. 3 T of the Air Force. Limes population exactly when the shut tie bus service will not be available' Mr, Hansen said. "Typically, we are able to maintain at least two of the four buses. However, if exercise demands require the service could be trrtunat-e-d totally for an unspecified period of time," he said. "When this occurs, we try to put a substitute vehicle on the route to service our customers' Mr. Hansen is about to start or has just started. As you receive tasks, approach them The appearance of advertisements in this publication, including inserts or supplements, does not constitute endorsement by the Department of the Air Force or MorMedia, Inc. of the products or services advertised. 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