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Show .HIldJHAHitt. discussion group for spouses of personnel deployed to Southwest Asia will meet at 10 a.m. Friday at the Family Support Center, Bldg. 308. Reservations are required. They can be made by calling Ext. The Hilltop Times A Vol. Utah Hill AFB, Fighter Country Center pullout the holiday. miMP 50 No. 25 388th Fighter Wing's will be published on July 3 due to June 27, 1996 84056-582- 4 in LmJ Terrorist bomb kills 23, injures more than 300 Southern Watch. No family members are allowed to accompany service personnel during their deployments to Saudi Arabia. by Frances Kosakowsky King Abdul Aziz AB serves as the Hilltop Times editor headquarters for the 4404th Wing , Tuesday at 1:45 p.m. MDT, a fuel (Provisional), Southwest Asia, which truck exploded near military housing is commanded by Brig. Gen. Terryl J. at King Abdul Aziz AB near Dhahran, Schwalier. A hot line has been set up to answer Saudi Arabia, killing 23 and 80 more were hospitalized. Additionally, 240 general questions from family memwere treated for injuries and released. bers of Air Force people who may have Two hundred seventy-ninmilitary been involved in the incident. The telmembers from Hill AFB were on a ephone number is temporary duty tour at the King Ab- Callers are asked to note that Air dul Aziz AB. More than 200 of those Force officials do not expect to have were from the 34th Fighter Squadron, detailed information on specific inh dividuals for some time. They will only who recently began a temporary duty tour and were living be able to answer general questions in the Khobar Towers facility. As of about the incident. The 4404th Wing (Provisional) is the press time all Hill personnel were acair component responsible for enforccounted for. Members from Hill AFB suffered ing the y zone over southern Iraq. some injuries. Most were superficial The wing is headquartered at and none of them appears to be life Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and is comprised of combat aircraft, including threatening. and The Department of the Air Force The wing is also responsible for operreleased a partial list of Air Force ations at other sites in the Arabian members killed in the bombing: Assigned to Patrick AFB, Fla.: Gulf region, including Riyadh, Saudi MSgt. Michael G. Heiser, hometown Arabia, and Kuwait. More than 5,000 Palm Coast, Fla., and SSgt. Kevin J. airmen make up the wing, which Johnson, hometown Shreveport, La. reports to Joint Task Assigned to Eglin AFB. Fla.: MSgt. Asia. More than 2,300 airmen are asroKendall K.J. Kitson, hometown Yusigned to Dhahran on kon, Okla; TSgt. Thanh V. Nguyen, tations. Asia is Joint Task hometown Panama City, Fla.; TSgt. Patrick P. Fennig, hometown Green-dalpart of Operation Southern Watch which was established to: Wis.; and Sgt. Millard D. CampPlan, and if directed, conduct an bell, hometown Angelton, Texas. air campaign against Iraqi targets as Names of other victims will be notification of next a means of compelling Iraq to comply with United Nations Security Council of kin. Initial indications are that the Resolution 687 which calls for UN inbombing was intentional, but no one spections. zone south of Enforce the has taken responsibility for the the 32 degrees north in Iraq in support bombing. President Bill Clinton announced of UNSCR 688, demanding Iraqi leadthat he had dispatched an FBI team er Saddam Hussein end his repression to assist the Saudi Arabian govern- of the Iraqi civilian population and to ment in its investigation. He also ensure no enhancement is made of made it clear that the United States Iraqi military capabilities in southern will hold those responsible fully acIraq. Be prepared to conduct operacountable. , The fuel truck which exploded was tions in support of Naval Central Comparked near the northern fence of the mand's maritime interception Khobar Towers military housing com- operation during gaps in carrier batpound. Several buildings were tle group presence. zone south of Enforce a damaged by the blast. The Khobar 32 degrees north in Iraq in support of Towers facility houses American military personnel and coalition military UNSCR 949 toofensure that there is noIraqi military capabilmembers who are serving in Operation enhancement Editor's note: The information contained in the following was current as of press time Wednesday. His Excellency visits Hill m in w e three-mont- no-fl- s, s, F-ll- ls Force-Southwe- st 90-da- Force-Southwe- st e, anno- unced-following no-fl- y no-driv- e Money Inside talks y JL Photo by Bill Omdorff Austrian defense minister Werner Fasslabend (left), and members of Aus tria's ministry of defense visited Utah June 19. His plane was met by the Ogden Air Logistics Center vice commander, Brig. Gen. Roger A. Brady (right) and the 388th Fighter Wing vice commander, Col. Mike Brake (not shown). His Excellency was briefed on the Hill mission, taken on a tour Demonstration niyru auer ot Dase facilities, treated to mncn ana an he traveled to Salt Lake City to meet with Utah Governor Mike Leavitt. Cruise missile malfunctions duringThetest misA cruise missile launched Monday tress as part of a test flight. from the Utah Test and Training sile's flight program called for a crash Range crashed into Sevier Lake. The landing, but the malfunction occurred cause of the crash is unknown and it prematurely. The flight was only will be looked into by the Air Force. about 20 minutes long. Under an agreement with BLM, the The missile was unarmed and there were no reported injuries or property Air Force is handling the recovery of damage. Dried-u- p Sevier Lake is locat- the missile. adThe missile was an AGM-129ed in a remote area of the west desert and is controlled by the Bureau of vanced cruise missile that measures 21 Land Management. The missile broke feet and weighs 3,700 pounds. The weapons through the hard crust on the surface missiles are of the lake and then became complete- which can carry nuclear or blast fragmentation warheads. They are ly immersed in mud. The cause of the crash is unknown guided by internal computer systems and is being looked into by the Air and have terrain contour-matchin- g Force. capabilities. About six to 12 missile tests are conThe 49th Test Squadron from Barksdale AFB, La., launched the $1 ducted each year at the test range. Stratofor- - Monday's test was the fourth this year. million missile from a B-5- 2 Saudi militants accused in the attack ities in southern Iraq. were arrested and beheaded on May A Nov. 13 car bomb at a U.S.-rumilitary headquarters in the Saudi 31. Underground extremists threaArabian capital of Riyadh killed five tened to retaliate with attacks against Americans and two Indians. Four U.S. interests. n TSgt. Civilian service pins H promos New DUI law Job ops |