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Show n m 77 n Okie sister unit special ...Page 3a Supplement to the Hilltop Tmo 11111 AFB, UtahJan. 11, 1991 .'v V ; j V- - - -- - A - " i ; . ) 1 if t i 1 y 4 .'"A ' 1' I : m L i B.. 1 . 1 y If ,,'f m- vci . ' 1 1 . --N. i V7 i ' k " ..... ? - r - I Brothers in arms A1C Doran L Smith, left, and his brother, A1C Nolan K. Smith, both of Spring-ville- , Utah County, are among 24 reservists from the 419th Tactical Fighter Wing called to active duty at Hill AFB last month to serve with the fire department in support of Operation Desert Shield. Mllt .iii1''"''"1" """" . - - - . U S Air force Photos hy TSgt Bruce riilK Puttin' on the mask SSgt. Jimmy K. Gentry, Clearfield, a 419th TFW fireman called to active duty, prepares to don his air mask during a f iref ighting exercise at Hill. detail recall, family adj The two brothers and the other 22 reservists are shifts, one day on, one day off, working and get three days in a row off every seven shifts. Amn. Daniel R. Higgs, Roy, a political science student at Weber State University, was working at his part-timjob at an Ogden department store when his mother, Rosemary, telephoned him and said he was to report the next day. "When I arrived at Hill Dec. 6, I was placed in a platoon and given a shift schedule and started e as a fireman the next day. working by TSgt. Bruce Hills 419th TFW Public Affairs Office A1C Doran L. Smith, a reservist in the 419th Tactical Fighter Wing's fire department, was practic- ing for a play at Brigham Young University when he was called to active duty. Airman Smith is among 24 reservists in his unit, part of the 419th Civil Engineering Squadron, called to Hill AFB to replace firefighters from the 388th TFW who were sent to the Middle East. Like the active duty 388th TFW firefighters, Airman Smith is part of Operation Desert Shield and e at Hill until at least June. expects to serve Airman Smith, 22, was studying theater arts at B YU and says he not only had to drop out of school before the end of the term, losing some university credits in the process, but he will not be able to perform in two plays he was practicing for, "Hamlet" and "A Tale of Two Cities." Nevertheless, he says, "I'm proud to be serving my country and glad I could take part in Operation e Desert Shield. The training I am getting being a fireman is excellent and the regular firefighters on base are treating the reservists well." He said he was on stage at a theater on the BYU campus when his brother found him Dec. 5 and told him he was to report to the base the next morning. His brother, A1C Nolan K. Smith, 24, is also a Reserve fireman and the two are serving together on active duty at Hill. Both men live in Springville, Utah County. e full-tim- "The training is great, the regular firefighters treat the reservists very well, we have our own cafeteria in the fire department and the food is good and plentiful." Airman Higgs, 20, said he has only been in the 419th TFW a few months. "I joined the Reserve on March 29 last year and took my six weeks basic training at Lackland AFB, Texas, beginning April 9. Then I spent 10 weeks at a fire school in Illinois. "I've actually spent more days on active duty than I have on Reserve weekends. I really like be- full-tim- full-tim- Airman Doran Smith is married and his wife, Margaret, is also a student at BYU. ing a fireman and I'm considering becoming a fireman with some city in the area after my active duty is over. "I am saving my money, paying my bills and expect to buy a new truck this summer." SSgt. David L. Gentry, Ogden, was among 12 419th Reserve firefighters who volunteered to work at the Hill AFB Fire Department after the 388th firefighters were called to the Middle East. "That was in October. The Air Force let us off duty for a short time and then I was called up with the other 24. full-tim- e full-tim- e . is a Reserve supplement to the Hilltop Times, published by MorMedia, 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 headsllp are not necessarily the official headsllp "The training we have been getting is excellent. It couldn't be better. The weather has been down to 40 below zero on occasion, considering the chill factor, but we dress for it. "We've had car fires, structure fires and lots of standbys for inflight emergencies, plus a lot of drills and exercises that have prepared us for just about anything." Sergeant Gentry, a cartographer for a Bountiful firm, is married and he and his wife, Julie, have two children: Robert, 6, and Camianne, 3. e as a legal secretary, so "My wife works s we had to juggle our schedules and hire to watch cur children occasionally, but everything is working out fine and we've made the adjustment pretty well, I think, to my being on active duty. "I am proud to be serving in Operation Desert Shield." Some 300 other Air Force Reserve firefighters from 15 locations were called to active duty in early December to support Operation Desert Shield. They include reservists from Barksdale AFB, La.; Carswell AFB, Texas; Charleston AFB, S C.; Dover AFB, Del.; Griffiss AFB, N.Y.; Langley AFB, Va.; and Luke AFB, Ariz. Other firefightgers are from March, Mather and Travis AFBs, Calif.; Offutt AFB, Neb.; Pope and Seymour Johnson AFBs, N.C.; Scott AFB, 111.; and Westover AFB, Mass. full-tim- baby-sitter- AB, GerExcept for six reservists at Rhein-Maimany, all of the firefighters are on duty at stateside n locations, filling in for active-dutdeployed to the Middle East. y firemen who views of, or endorsed by, the U.S. Government, the Department of Defense or the Department of the Air Force, Advertisements contained herein do not constitute an endorsement by the Department of Defense, the Department of the Air Force or Hill AFB, Utah. Everything advertised is available without regard to race, color, religion, sex or other nonmerit factor of the purchaser, user or patron. |