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Show Asian-Pacif- ill ic American Heritage Month Vol. 50 No. 18 Hill AFB, Utah 84056-582- 14 Outstanding Airmen of the Quarter TRICARE 8 12 388th Fighter Wing's Fighter Country Mother's Day messages .................... 1 5 Savings Plan open season...! 6-- 1 T Center pullout Thrift May?, 1996 L--J 4 airman to carry Hill Things are looking up! DAir Force increases WAPS feedback For RANDOLPH AFB,: Texas (AFNS) years the Air Force's enlisted corps looked at their promotion test scores and compared how While they did against others Air Force-widthe information was useful, say officials at the Air Force Personnel Center here, it didn't give individuals a "good feel" for where they stood among their peers m their own specialties. The Air Force looks to improve its feedback beginning with the technical sergeants who tested for promotion under the Weighted Airman Promotion System. They will receive an enhanced score notice in late June, allowing them to see just how they stacked up against their coun terparts. "This is the first major change to the score notice in more than 20 years," said CMSgt. Constantino Sgagias of AFPC s branch. "The feedback we provide through the score sheets is the cornerstone ef WAPS. It makes WAPS a visible promotion system. clearer through the vTne .visibility, becomes 'r . J new score sneets mati win provide il uie muiviuual with numbers detailing how they scored within their Air Force Specialty. In addition to listing points awarded for enlisted performance reporter decorations, time in grade, and time in service, servicemembers will see. how their professional fitness examination and skills knowledge test scores rank against tnose thev re directlv competing against tor promo tion others within their AFSC. There is an added bonus with the new score notice for master and senior master sergeants..- Senior NCOs will now be able to see how then- board score compared with all the eligibles. "You'll see the range of scores from a perfect 450 down to 270 and the exact number of selects and non-selects are listed," Sgagias said. Because test scores play such an important part in the promotion process, the new score notice, Sgagias said, gives people "more meaningful information concerning their test scores and could become a motivator for those testing." report card...., Olympic Torch e. by TSgt. Barbara Fisher Ogden ALC Public Affairs This year is one that SrA. Jodi Memery says she'll remember for the rest of her life. -- enlisted-promotio- n's V r 1 - 1 11 1 1 - - . . .:. - A handRANDOLPH AFB, Texas (AFNS) ful of Air Force officers are among 35 service mem-spprtbv NASA to narticiDate the shuttle in the space agency's Among program. . 1 11 . 35 astronaut candidates wno wui train to oecome pilots or mission specialists are five Air Force Capt. James M. Kelly joins Majs. Duane G.Paul Tjnrkhart for NASA's soace shutflantn. Edward M. Fincke and Rex J. Walheim were selected for the mission d specialists program. They competed a process before being selected by NASA. Rnnrd mpr. at TVn . .AafmnuitA UC iook J. l v.iuuv NnminiMnn the Air Force Personnel Center here in May 1995 to consider 193 oincer ana enustea applications. The Knnnl fnrwBrripH 101 amilications (11 for Di- lot only, 31 for pilot or mission specialist, and 59 for mission specialist only). Of the 101, 16 were Air Force applicants interviewed by NASA, said personnel officials. Astronaut candidates report to Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, some- r candidacy Drotime in Alienist, tsi he tHn a rrram f Tnnn rnmnlptinn of the basic astronaut program, designed to develop background knowledge and skills for future space flights, the oaniHatAQ are certified bv NASA as shuttle crew members. The future astronauts then begin a five-yea-r tour of duty with NASA. (Courtesy AFPC two-tiere- - one-vea- Mor brief t on page 6, 7 and 1 COPY LeMons-Uddl- e Chief, Community Relations Sixty-tw- o m A officers.. Inn asked serve as torchbearers for the. 1996 Olympic Torch See Torch, page 5. Photo by Bill Omdorff by Sylvia civic leaders became honorary commanders at the 8th annu-- ' al LOGSTAR ceremony . held recently at the Officers Club. The program brings together senior ranking military members and community leaders to en- ' hance the community's knowledge and understanding of the mission of Ogden Air Logistics Center and Hill AFB. "LOGSTAR continues to be an outstanding success as it's one of many efforts to reach out to the Northern Utah community and keep open those lines of communication we enjoy with our community leaders," Maj. Gen. Pat Condon, Ogden ALC commander said. "We want to be good neighbors; therefore, you have been chosen to be paired with pur base lead- ' ers s5 you can become bet- - ' LOGSTAR program welcomes new members - Condon said. Newly inducted LOG- - program," STAR members were selected from a broad spectrum of local community leaders who have shown an interest in the area's economic and business development. Chambers of Commerce, financial institutions, public educators, elected officials, business owners, media, church officials, medical and legal professions were some of the Phots bv Graaa Wixom lines of work represented (Center) Sandy Havas, Eccles Community Art Center at the event. bewho leaders one 62 of was community director, The annual LOGSTAR came honorary commanders in the Hill AFB includes a ceremony STAR program. Her Air Force counterpart, Betty dinner and an Division Personnel Civilian director, Maddox (right), induction informal Hill AFB. Maj. will help her understand the mission of where each new Gen. Pat Condon (left), Ogden Air Logistics Center ceremony LOGSTAR is given a cercommander, presented each inductee with a certif- tificate and charter nam. 7 icate and charter. iiilfI ing also encouraged base ter acquainted, both personally and professionally." Condon wished each of them a year of good camaraderie, t friendship ' and personal growth. He LOGSTARs 1 ); Wl,,VAfts,sj,J-WW- to plan ac- tivities that will frequent new interaction with their new LOGSTAR partners. "That will determine the success of the LOGSTAR - ' . Memery to run as Hill's.. and their representative in : relay. Holiday Inn Worldwide is one of the providers of "the 1996 Olympic Torch Relay. - Memery joins more than 10,000 people from across the U.S. who will have the opportunity to officers have the right stuff ' . Holiday - II Five AF morning, Friday Memery will be the third person in Utah to carry the Olympic Torch on its way to Atlanta, Ga., for the 1996 Summer Olym" pics. The running of the torch through Utah starts at 8:30 a.m. Friday from Ogden's Union Station train depot. Memery, with the 75th Air Base Wing's Supply Division, will run the torch from three- quarters of a mile north of the Holiday Inn in Ogden, to the hotel; where she'll . pass the flame on to another runner. them honorary commanders. The term LOGSTAR is derived from "logistics," which is the thrust of Hill's mission and "star," the symbol of the highest military rank. -- |