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Show fg FIGHTER (TOUNTRY 1947 - 19 97 Jt 388th Fighter Wing supplement to the Hilltop Times Aug. 14, 1997 Twice Monthly VXy 388th FW plans to compete in corporate sports tournament The 388th Fighter Wing's best athletes are needed to compete in the Northern Utah Corporate Sports Challenge Sept. Wing members will face teams from local businesses in a variety of events including softball. volleyball, basketball, golf, and track and field. Other less conventional events scheduled include the briefcase toss, executive triathlon and hoola hoop relay. d people will also he able to attend a Wellness Fair w hich promises to feature doens of interactive areas aimed at helping to improve health. Another related event will be Corporate Sports Challenge Night at Weber State University. On Sept. 13. reserve seat tickets, normally 59. will be available for S3 when purchased in advance. Registration fees will be paid through donations. Wing competitors need only purchase a team shirt costing about S5. These 100 percent cotton will be decorated with the Challenge logo the front and a color wing emblem on the on Some back. events may require an entry fee to pay for officials. The Challenge is managed through a company with the purpose of improving individual health, providing wellness education and promoting 13-2- 0. r. - tu v-- Fitness-minde- o . L J' 1 1 II :M 17 i Photo bv Airman st Class Sara Banda non-prof- it Staff Sgt. Dennis Youngberg, 4th Fighter Squadron crew chief, shows Airman 1st Class Kevin Hyde his photo cleareance pass on the 388th Fighter Wing Ramp. Photo clearance is neccesary for anyone taking photos on the ramp. For more information, see related story Pg. 3A. See Competition, Pg. 3A Staff sergeant selections announced 'vr.f- The Air Force's recent 1997 pro- motion cycle selection of staff sergeants included 77 senior airmen from the 388th Fighter Wing. This was a 21 percent selection rate from the 373 eligible airmen in the wing. The Air Force selected 9,854 of 52,820 eligible senior airmen for promotion to staff, an overall 18.66 percent selection rate, for the 97E5 cycle. A list of selectees at each installation was released Aug. 6. The 18.66 percent selection rate is a two percent increase from the 1996 promotion rate and marks the sixth consecutive staff promotion sergeant cycle above the Total Objective Plan for Career Airmen Personnel, or TOPCAP goal, which is 16 percent for promotion to staff sergeant. The average selectee score for this cycle was 3 12.92 points based 388th Fighter Wing on the following: 29.43 - performance reports 70.34 - Promotion Fitness Examination 62.5 - Specialty Knowledge Test 3 .06 - time in grade 6.05 - time in service 2.36 - points for decorations The average selectee had 4.13 years time in grade and 6.9 years in servite at time of selection. Ted A. Kummet 1 Davis Munoz 388th Logistics 1 Group Kenneth W. Jones 1 1 388th Logistics Support Squadron Aaron Gordon Robert T. Sutherby Promotion to staff sergeant is based on the combined value of TIG, TIS, performance reports, 729th Air Control Squadron Brian K. Blair Karl S. Brown Verlan R. Cole Cassandra L. Dyer Rusty W. Fudge Robin N. Holzknecht Larry J. Johnson Sean W. Langston John E. Michel William F. Roberts David V. Sanders decorations, PFE and SKT. A complete list of the new staff sergeants is posted on the Air Force Personnel Center's World Wide Web page. is http: Click on www.afpc.af.mil. "Hot" to see the latest headlines and promotion results. (Courtesy of Air Force and AFPC News Senice ) address The 388th Maintenance Squadron 34th Fighter Ricky L. Allenbaugh Craig R. Colby Gena A. Diprofio Carl J. Dyer Tammie B. Francis Brent D. George Jayson G. Headrick William P. Hopkins Michael J. Keams Grant D. Lawson Travis W. Limbaugh Nelson E. Lopez Paul M. Lueth Christoph McKellip Eric R. Nelson Mark A. Osweiler Andrew M. Perez Chistopher Powers Miguel A. Ramirez Shane Roe John L. Simeon. Jr. Candee J. Stewart Candase K. Bingham Troy E. Blanchard Patrick S. Campbell Robert E. Cooks Brandon C. Dobson Matthew P. Kyler Lawrence R. Leahy Warren M. Lucero Edward E. Olson Raymon Thoroughman Michael A. Yates 4th Fighter Squadron Trainina,' security influence , By Christie Anderson Air Combat Command Public Affairs y The new LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE. Va. which begins deployment rotation policy, w ill affect many people in Air Combat Command but not everyone. Aviation packages, which include aircrews and their associated squadron maintenance people, will now usually rotations, said Col. Jeffrey Williams, chief deploy on y of ACC's personnel readiness team.; Aircrew training was mission readisuffering in theater and as a result, overall rotations will bring airy ness was declining. The crews home sooner to preserve and continue their training. unit a Support people who are attached to deploying ACC of chief William Miles, will go for 45 days, said Maj. 45-da- 45-da- comad hn do not coo-.- , .noorwaw .... ii. hv POOR COPY "; . )m , contingency rotations. However, individual augmentees support people who will now a unit with are not deploying deploy for 20 y deployments. The days, an increase from previous primary reason for increasing the deployments was the Downing Commission Report, which examined force protection issues following the Khobar Towers bombing. Previously, everyone, including support people, deployed for 90 days. Towers reviews found that there was "The a great deal of turbulence at the deployed location, especially in base operating support functions." said Gen. Dick Hawley. ACC commander. "That turbulence could break dow n the sense of unit cohesion that helps people work as a team and share responsibility for maintaining vigilance against potential terrorists. 90-da- post-Khob- n.,.. -- ..c ar a.. 388th Operations Group Strother T. Brown 388th Operations Support Squadron Wanda E. Atkari Shelly R. Johnson Matthew B. Thompson Ronald R. Blackwcll ..VV Edward P. Lawson Gillian D. Penswick Merry N. Lante Billy W. Wilson 421st Fighter Squadron Raymond A. Atanacio Jason C. Gray Steven M. Hult Troy D. Luepke Russel Nunnikhoven Randal F. Ricker James V. Schwartz 84th Radar Evaluation Squadron Mirosla Malinovsky Dennis S. Perry 45-da- y 1 45-da- Squadron Henry L. Cramer. Jr. Francisco De Guzman Charles W. Durfee Robert M. Evans Kurt R. Klaiber Jesse M. Bunck Michael D. Gaddis Marc A. Sacco Dee Ann Yates rotations -,- :-cn qw ?!ifO ! f, HOU ClHOJfil "We can maintain unit integrity w ith the operator and maintainer teams that go over, even if they're being rotated every 45 days, because they deploy as a team. The support functions go as individuals and therefore have to form that team in theater, and develop their unit integrity after they arrive. To do that, they've got to be there a while longer." General Hawley said. Under the new deployment structure, there will typiy rotations and cally- be 2.600 Air Force people on y rotations to Southwest 3.400 Air Force people on Asia, according to officials at U.S. Central Command Air Forces. More information on this and other changes being worked by ACC Headquarters is available on the ACC home page under the Commander's Corner, at w ww.acc.af.mil aircrew. 45-da- 120-da- |