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Show 2 H;i!top Times Jen. U, 1991 NEWS . GU5llid!aifle. B Continued from First arrival -- r Little Amanda Westbroek sleeps in the arms of her 4. 4 mother, SSgt. Cindy Westbroek, while her father. SSgt. Scott Westbroek. watches over her. The infant was the first baby delivered in 1991 at U.S. Air Force Hospital. I J 1, J. weighing at 6 pounds. 15 ounces and measuring 21 inches long. Amanda is the in Westbroeks' I f Hill. She arrived at 1:38 a.m. on Jan. f 4 second child; they also have a son, Kyle, 4. Her dad is noncommissioned officer in charge of the emergency room and her mom is NCOIC of the obstetrical nursing unit. The Hill commissary, exchange, beauty shop and the hospital's Top Three Council, along with America First Credit Union and Classic Nails, all ii donated gifts. U S if. Aii Force Photo by Debbie Christiansen Pogt 1 initial consolidation by October. Functions to be consolidated include receiving, storage, shipment planning, packing, preservation, and crating. Distribution and supply functions are now performed separately at both installations. At Hill, those affected by the consolidation are from the distribution division of TI. Supply support to depot maintenance functions such as aircraft, missile, and landing gear production at Hill and to local tenant organizations such as the 388th and 419th Tactical Fighter Wings will not be part of the consolidation. Additionally, the Standard Base Supply System will continue to provide service to local customers. Hill's delivery requirements for the highest priority parts will continue to be 30 minutes. Parts needed to maintain the flow of production must be delivered within an hour and normal bench stocks must be replenished within 12 hours. Officials at both installations have been working together on the concept plan for nine months. The goal of the consolidated organization will be to provide customer service equal to or better than service now being provided, they said. "The team we have jointly established to develop a consolidation implementation plan has met, and I am pleased with the working relationship our depots have established," said Maj. Gen. Dale W. Thompson, Jr., Ogden Air Logistics Center sunsiUueinis by Debbie Christiansen Hilltop Times staff writer Hill AFB faces a challenging future in a time of change, the base's top officer told the Layton Chamber of Commerce in a speech last Thursday. In addition to facing budget and work force cuts, employees here must work toward fulfilling the total quality management vision, take a competitive posture and make the most of the base's strengths, said Maj. Gen. Dale VV. Thompson. Ogden Air Logistics Center commander. As a result of the situation in the Middle East and the federal deficit, the money appropriated for the defense of the United States will decrease, the general said. The Defense Department's share of the gross national product, which was about 5 percent in 1990, will go down to 4.2 percent in 1995, the lowest it has been since World War II, the general said. For Ogden ALC. those cuts are reflected in appropriations that have shrunk from more than a billion dollars in 1989 to S696 million in 1991. This is the money spent on payroll; contractor services; and travel, utility, printing and maintenance expenses. "1992 promises to be even less than that," General Thompson said. The civilian work force at Hill has also reflected the changing times. It has been on a decline since the when it peaked at around mid-1980- s, 15.378. The end of 1991 will find the base's civilian population reduced from its 1990 figure of 13.230 to 11.146 workers. There will be 5.354 depot maintenance industrial funded employees Co and 5,792 operations and maintenance employees. tions affected by the RIF to opera- ElIFs cut the reduction to 807 jobs. Seventy-fivemployees who work in the missile field, in Wyoming and other areas, will lose their jobs. That means locally only 732 base workers will need to be cut, the general said. "That's an approximate figure for now because there is still the factor of the number of people who continue to take the early retirement we offer and the number of people we lose through normal retirements and resignations throughout the rest of the year," he said. e "You've all seen a lot in the paper recently about the reduction in employees at Hill," General Thompson said. "As we began this year, in the maintenance work force we had 6,745 employees on board. As a result of budget pressure and money appropriated us from Congress, we don't have the workload to support that kind of work force in '91, '92. '93 or '94." So, the Air Force and the Air Force Logistics Command made the decision to reduce the work force through a reduction in force. "While they talked about a total number of around 5,000 people within AFLC being 'riffed, what we really got was a bottom line employment number," General Thompson said. "In other words, the number of employees that we could have on this base on the 30th of September of 1991. That was the only figure that was given to us. Everything else was an estimate." That bottom line for Ogden ALC means that by the end of fiscal 1991. the center can employ only 5,354 industrially-funde- tions and maintenance positions, which were not affected. That further d workers and so must cut 1,391 authorized positions. However, the number of jobs to be cut isn't as it appears, the general said. Additionally, the center is authorized to employ 5.792 workers in fiscal 1991 who are paid through operations and maintenance funds. Through an early out program, normal retirements and the release of some workers, the total reduction figure was cut by 420 people. Base officials were able, to convert 164 industrially-fundemaintenance posi on-ca- ll d out-of-sta- te facing Hill, he said the base will stay in the forefront of total quality management and maintain TQM as a way of life. Competitive posture "We're going to get into a competitive posture so that as DOD becomes more competitive we can compete for other military work within DOD," he said. Hill's strength will continue to be in its support of the weapon system, its landing gear facility, its worldwide support of simulators, its status as the technology center for the development of new software in the Air Force and F-1- 6 its munitions management, the gener- Accomplishments He said he is proud of Hill's three major accomplishments of 1990: undertaking a major reorganization in the form of Integrated Organizational Development, providing extensive support to Operation Desert Shield and making progress in the area of environmental management. Hill has deployed more than 1,000 people, moved 2.5 millions pounds of cargo, surged 5,917 parts and helped achieve an unprecedented aircraft mission-capablrate of 93 percent in of Operation Desert Shield. support General Thompson said. In the area of environmental management, among other accomplishments, the base has reduced its number of Environmental Protection Agency violations from 13 significant violations in 1985 to seven administrative violations in 1990. "We didn't pollute anything new." he said. "I'm proud of that record but we're going to make it even better." In addressing the future challenges e al said. "The Air Force is going to be smaller, maybe by 25 percent over the next five years. I don't think Hill is going to get that much smaller, because I think we can compete favorably with the rest of DOD and maintain our work force," General Thompson said. "Our motto for the future is 'Partners in Excellence.' That's a vision that encompasses empowering our people and the way they do their jobs; our quality the kind of product we put out and when we put it out; supporting the mission, which is why we're here; and supporting those environmental actions I mentioned earlier," the general said. The base's vision is a simple one, he said, that talks of a partnership with the operational forces it supports, with its contractors, and with the local communities. "To be a model installation and to live better with our neighbors -that's our vision." he said. Combat Strength Through Logistics Hilltop Times Published by MorMedia, Inc.. a private firm in no way connected with the U.S. Air Force, under exclusive written contract with Hill AFB. This commercial enterprise Air Force newspaper is an authorized publication for members of the U.S. military services. 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