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Show Vol. 48 No. 31 B Hill AFB, Utah B Aug. 4, 1994 Perfect! Maj. Neil Wilson, Ogden Air Logistics Center flight test pilot, gives a "thumbs up" after the last functional check flight of an Phantom at Hill AFB July 20. F-- 4 Photo by Gregg Wixom People from all over Utah federal and state officials, base employees, retirees and others from the local community gathered at Hill AFB Monday to say goodbye to the F--4 Phantom. The F-- a part of Hill's culture for 29 years, has provided a stable workload for two generations of Hill employees. The public was invited to attend the ceremony commemorating the end of the F--4 Phantom programmed depot maintenance era, with an estimated 1,000 attending. At the ceremony Maj. Gen. Lester L. Lyles, Ogden Air Logistics Center commander, and Peter J. Von Minden, vice president of McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Division, the manufacturer of the F-- ex changed plaques honoring workers on both sides who provided programmed depot maintenance support for the F-Then, Lyles presented the official log transfer book for the last F--4 to have maintenance done at Hill to CoL Chuck Chinnoock, commander of the 151st Reconnaissance Group Squadron of the Nevada Air National Guard. was then presented to John Aircraft 9 of the Hill Aerospace Museum, director McCleary, to be displayed as a lasting tribute to the men and women of Hill AFB who did their jobs on thousands of F--4 Phantoms during Hill's maintenance tenure. from McDonnell Douglas produced 5,057 s 1959 to 1979, with the first two arriving at Hill for 4. 4, 66-046- F-4- 4, Funding OK'd for Phase family housing at - Hill which was a critical step in the project receiving the appropriation. While the funding, contained in the Military Ap- WASHINGTON, D.C. The House Armed Services Committee announced Tuesday that a House and Senate conference committee on military construction appropriations has approved a request for $11.4 million for 138 new family housing units at Hill AFB. Earlier this year, authorization was secured for the project in the National Defense Authorization Act of 1995, propriations Conference Report to accompany H.R. the 4453, Military Construction Ap- (Report 103-62- 4) propriations Act of 1995, still requires the formal vote of both the House and Senate prior to final approval by the president, that approval is virtually 4 F-4- s, assured and is expected to take place as early as this week. "This funding is for Phase III of an ambitious family housing replacement program. These homes will replace those which were built in the 1950s and '60s, which are substandard, and some of which are a safety hazard being located too close to the runway," said Utah First District Congressman, Jim Hansen. "This project is yet another critical infrastructure improvement which will improve the quality of life for many of our military personnel and their families which are assigned to Hill. "These improvements should also 2 ceremony highlights 5 New corrosion control facility opens Civilian Transition Assistance Center open. ..7 15 Volunteens help out 19 Suggesters earn $$$ F-- PDM on April 5, 1965. In the intervening years, Ogden ALC has repaired more than 5,000 F--4 aircraft. An average of 11,000 hours was spent working on each aircraft at a cost of about $500,000 to $750,000 per aircraft, for a total of approximately $3.2 billion. Though the Phantom is being phased out of the U.S. inventory, 11 foreign countries have operated with eight still actively flying them. However, with Department of Defense consolidation efforts under way, F-- 4 maintenance will now be accomplished by the Navy at Cherry Point, N.C., and the system program director will remain with the Ogden ALC at Hill to provide technical and logistical support for the 1,000 foreign-owne- d See related photos, page 2. F-4- s. help make Hill Air Force Base more capable of receiving additional missions in the future," he said. In addition to the Hill project, the legislation also approved funding for: B $4 million for a carbon filtration system at Tooele Army Depot to increase safety of the Tooele Chemical Munitions Demilitarization plant. B $2.29 million for a Troop Issue Subsistence Support Facility at the Utah National Guard's Camp Williams near Draper, Utah. B $400 thousand for a new aircraft washing and facility for the Utah Air National Guard at the Salt Lake International Airport. de-icin- g |