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Show Supplement to the Hilltop Times Hill leaf 419th Fighter Wing Mission: To Fly, Fight and Win! Volume 14 Number 11, August 6, 1998 AFB, Utah 84056-541- 0 Civil Engineers by Stephanie Johns 419th FW Public Affairs AF Commendation Medals Master Sgt. Clark C. Adams Master Sgt. James A. Amberboy Master Sgt. Louis I. Martinez Master Sgt. George M. Montoya Master Sgt. Arnold E. Wilcox Tech. Sgt. Leonard A. Blackner Tech. Sgt. Joel S. Neiswender .., Contrary to what you may believe all the repaving projects in Utah are not being done on Eight members of the 419th Fighter Wing's Civil Engineer Squadron have been expanding a National parking lot in the Wasatch-Cach- e Forest area that is popular with snowmobile enthusiasts." The 419th Fighter Wing Commander, Brig. Gen. David E. Tanzi, was asked if the wing could donate time, equipment and people to work on the Monte Cristo snowmobile parking lot. Monte Cristo is a mountain east of Huntsyille. 'The ' number of snowmobile enthusiasts using the area is growing larger each year. The parking lot was originally designed to hold about 150 vehicles. "They've had as many as 600 vehicles ' trying to squeeze in on the lot," said Lucky director. Utah Faust, safety Faust, along with Jack Miller, a member of the Utah Snowmobile Association, asked the state of Utah to take on the project. They were told there was no budget for it. They then wrote Utah Senator Orrin Hatch requesting assistance for expansion of the parking lot. Hatch's office passed the request to the Army National Guard which was not able to get to the project right . Tech. Sgt. Lance R. Remund Tech Sgt. Carlos E. Romero, Tech. Sgt. Vincent M. Sandoval Tech. Sgt. Steven D. Ames . Tech." Sgt. Patrick M..Bish : " Tech.' gi. Scott D. Clements -Tech Sgt. Joel W. Gurr Tech Sgt. William R. Heim Tech. Sgt. Mark J. Lemmon Tech Sgt. Wayne E. Linder Tech Sgt. Kurtis L. Vancleave Staff Sgt. Tod C. Bell , Staff Sgt. Ralph E. Thompson, III Staff Sgt. Laurence A. Hunt, Jr. Staff Sgt. Keith L. Jeffery Staff Sgt. Mark D. Joesten Staff Sgt. Gregory C. Kelly Staff Sgt. Donald F. Conger Staff Sgt. Kenneth B. Davis Staff Sgt. Teresa A. Edwards ;i Staff Sgt. Lani R. Brothers Staff Sgt. Lindy J. Cascaddan Staff Sgt. Brian R. Christensen Staff Sgt. Kenneth S. Warr Jr. ' away. A friend suggested Faust try the Air Force Reserve. Faust contacted General Tanzi and Tanzi put Faust in contact with Chief Master Sgt. Rick Potokar, 419th Civil Engineer . Squadron chief of operations. Eight volunteers from the squadron: Senior Master Sgt. Jim Cosper, Master Sgt. Dave - - H,jfli lilt w9 v Photo by Stephanie Johns . loader to clear the National Forest. 419th Fighter Wing Civil Engineers use a front-en- d way for an expanded parking lot in the Wasatch-Cach- e Browning, Master Sgt. Terry Browning, Technical Sgt. Michael Martinez, Technical Sgt. Jeff Hulse, Staff Sgt. Clarence Bigler and Staff Sgt. Allen Mills took on the - task. They began moving heavy equipment (bulldozer's, and dump trucks) from the 419th to Monte Cristo on July 16. They worked on expanding and leveling the area through the weekend and finished the first stage on July 19. "This will be an ongoing project," said Sergeant Cosper. "We are planning to return again this fall to do some more work on the parking lot." The lot should be done by November. Lucky Faust coordinated the project that benefits , Utah residents and the 419th. Air Force Reserve members are getting invaluable experience in planning a project in a new location, assembling equipment, . transporting the gear to a work site, completing the job and getting everything back to Hill. Simulations and repeated exercises in familiar locations do not afford the same quality of training. . AF Meritorious Service Medals David P. Widauf Senior Master Sgt. Paul D.. - . Gapinski . Master Sgt. Paul-A-. Harvey TechrSgt. John F. Berkley support community project front-end-loade- rs . . '' Pilots learn "down to earth" survival tactics Lt.A-Co-l. by Stephen )- , . Johns - " 419th FW Public Affairs Picture this; you are flying over hostile territory fire and starts to when your jet is hit by . , go down. It's time to punch out. . As you float down under your parachute, your mind goes over all the survival training you've had. You know it's likely the enemy has seen you eject. What will you do? Pilots with the 419th Fighter Wing know because of the training they get from the wing's life support unit. On July 12, about 35 pilots and flightliners from the 466th Fighter Squadron went to Monte Cristo, National Forest Utah located in the Wasatch-Cach- e just east of Huntsville, to take part in combat Aircrew members, are survival, training (CST). ' required to have this training every two years. The flightliners went along' as volunteer" aggressors. Their job was to make the pilots escape and evasion training more challenging. The aggressors were asked to position themselves within area where the pilots would be trekking a through. The pilots challenge was to get through unseen. If an aggressor saw a pilot he would get his attention to let him know in a real world situation he would have been captured. When they arrived at Monte Cristo, they were given refresher training on survival techniques such as building a basic shelter, fire craft methods, camouflage and concealment, how to employ the global positioning system (GPS) and other basic survival skills. The adventure begins when the pilots are told . . V?7&Wt 1 anti-aircra- ft . Windows NT conversion rescheduled The wing will be converting to Windows NT beginning August 26 through SeDtember 9. Your service be could for down two about days. Indi- viduals are to needed with help this project. If you have quesany or tions would like to volunteer to help with the conversion, contact Jens Kunkel, 419th LAN administrator, at 777-104- 3. is a Reserve supplement to the Hilltop Times, published by Mor Media, Inc., a private firm in no way connected with the U.S. Air Force, under exclusive written contract with the Ogden ALC Public Affairs Office. This commercial enterprise Air Force newspaper is an authorized publication for Air Force Reserve members of the U.S. military services. Contents of Htadidp are not necessarily the official views of or endorsed by the U.S. Government, the HtodsUp si- - V- - FW practice survival training skills in the National Forest (Photo by Master Sgt Richard Sawyer) Members of the 419th Wasatch-Cach- e they've been downed in a hostile environment. Twenty pilots were broken down into 10 groups of two. Their mission was wooded area, to get from point A to point B, through a .without being seen by any of the 12 aggressors who were strategically positioned in that area. Each group of two pilots , had to get to their destination within a certain amount of time using their camouflageconcealment skills, compass and map. Once a pilot has ejected and landed in enemy territory, he goes through a checklist. His first task is to inventory his survival equipment. He then tries to make initial contact with rescue forces; camouflage himself according to the terrain and then prepare to evade. "Our job is train them for this scenario so if they were put in an escape and evade situation it would be like second nature," said Senior Master Sgt Mark Anderson, 466th Life Support supervisor. "It was hot, it was bug infested, but it was excellent training," said Capt. Terry George, 466th FS pilot. "The training we receive from our guys and they way we execute that training could save our lives." 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