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Show n LTUU u Hill INSIDE: Critchlow reports on Commanders' Confer- ence Page 2 Bradbury wins Air Force honors Page 2 Nurses week cele- brated Page 6 Spouse Day events Page 7 Wage pay charts Page 11 Angel Awards Page 15 Profes- sional relation- ships16 Page Births U S AIR FORCE Hill, 1997 1 , 1997 Income To State in of Utah, local business people take show on the road by Richard Bartlett Spacemaker staff writer MCCLELLAN AFB, Calif. "We're not only offering jobs, we're offering a new lifestyle," was the theme during an open house hosted by the Ogden Air Logistics Center on April 24. The event was the last of three open houses held by bidders competing for a large portion of McClellan's maintenance workload which will be awarded in January 1998. Ogden ALC is the public bidder competing with private companies Boeing North American, Inc. and the AAI Corporation. Besides staff workers from Hill AFB's civilian personnel, union, and family services, the Ogden ALC entourage brought with it reprefrom their local Business sentatives Development Center, school districts, real estate companies and various travel and recreation offices, giving visitors a wide spectrum of life in Utah. "We think the open house went very well," said Tom Miner, Ogden ALC executive director. "An estimated 1,500 visitors attended and we tried to cover all ends of their concerns, which were mostly in the areas of real estate, schools, weather conditions and work environment on base." Unlike open houses held previously by the two private bidders, Ogden ALC was accepting applications for 150 jobs currently open in various areas of their depot maintenance section. They will continue to review more applications and compare matches from the Priority Photo by Maj. Bob Ballew Ogden Air Logistics Center executive director Tom Miner talks with Sacramento's Channel 3 about the bid competition for McClellan AFB workloads. Two local TV channels and three print media representatives covered Hill's April 24 open house. Placement Program for close to 2,000 more up with job security and a nice environment to positions in depot maintenance and program live in." For McClellan employees unable to attend management for McClellan work already slated for Ogden ALC. Ogden ALC presently the open house, a wide range of information is employees approximately 15,000 personnel, currently available at the Ogden ALC workload or transition office in Bldg. 347D. Ext. 5,000 of which are military. "We've been performing depot maintenance For those interested in current employment work for a long time," Miner said. "We consider ourselves a viable competitor for the openings at Hill and the Ogden ALC, call Hill's McClellan workload contract and can back it Civilian Personnel Office, Ext. Fraternization policy redefined al intercourse with an enlisted by MSgt. Merrie Schilter Lowe Air Force News Service Ruling based WASHINGTON In 1995, a military court reaffirmed that Air Force officers who fraternize with enlisted members, even those outside their com- mand or supervisory channels, can be In a decision handed down against 2nd Lt. Ronnie D. Boyett June 12, 1995, Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces upheld a lower court's decision that Boyett was guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman for fraternizing with an enlisted woman. The ruling also limits a 1983 vs. CapL court decision-U.S- . Michael Al Jo'hanns that suggested the Air Force could not prosecute an officer for "engaging in mutually tary, private, non-devia- 1947 Vol. 51 No. 16, May 84056-582- 4 Nearly 1,500 attend open house at McClellan AFB court-martiale-d. Page 18 AFB, Utah nt volun- sexu member neither under his command nor supervision" since the Air Force custom had eroded over the years. custom on WRIGHT-PATTERSO- "In essence, the court of appeals has said the Air Force does have such a custom based on military history dating back thousands of years, and officers who violate that custom are subject to disciplinary action," said Loren Perlstein, associate chief of the Air Force military justice division, Boiling AFB, D.C. Boyett originally pleaded guilty to the charges stemming from his sexual relationship with an enlisted person who was not assigned to his organization, Perlstein said. A military judge convicted Boyett for violating Article 133 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and sentenced him to dismissal from the service and partial Cranston named vice commander forfei- - See Fraternization, page 8 N AFB, Ohio, (AFMCNS) The new vice commander of Air Force Materiel Command will be Maj. E. Gen. Stewart Cranston, commander of Force Air the Development Test Center at Eglin AFB, Fla., pending Senate confirmation. officials Pentagon announced April 22 that the president nominated Cranston to the rank of lieutenant general with assignment as vice com- mander. Before assuming command of AFDTC in May was Cranston 1993, for of staff chief deputy test and operations at AFMC headquarters. Prior to his headquarters AFMC ! ft! ;. :; ' J'; J assignment, he served as vice commander of Aeronautical Systems n at Center Wright-Patterso- from April 1990 to July 1992. The general has held a variety of assignments throughout his Air Force career. He commanded a test squadron, an inspection center and a test wing. He also served in various assignments at Headquarters U.S. Air Force at the Pentagon. He holds a bachelor's 31-ye- ar degree in mathematics from the University of Southern California and a master's degree in business administration from Auburn University. Also, he is a distinguished Maj. Gen. Stewart E. Cranston graduate of Air Command and Staff College and is a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. A command pilot with more than 3,200 hours in more than 20 different aircraft, Cranston flew 300 combat missions over Southeast Asia. Cranston becomes the fourth vice commander since the formation of AFMC in 1992. Pentagon officials also announced that Maj. Gen. See Cranston, page 12 |