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Show s lean COfetAT ritNCTN THIOOG lOClSTtCJ Dc::d drive 1 Saving helps iha nation. 1991 1 nn I i Savings Bond drive ends IS- w3 y vi Vol. 45 No. 25 H;ll AFB, Utoh . 00 ALCPA Hill AFB, UT Third Class 64056-599- 0 Serials Order Department University of Utah Libraries Salt Lake City, UT 84112 DIB"D,i?8 1 3 , 'f I'F" by Nancy Lucas Human Resources Directorate The recent expansion of the Compressed Work Schedule test for some and the subsequent delay for other organizations has raised many questions. Workers have generated numerous Action Line inquiries and phoned the Civilian Personnel Office and the directorates involved, said Clair Frischknecht, employee management relations chief in the Human Resources Directorate. "It's important to keep in mind that the CWS is a test program," he said. "There is no requirement for 100 percent participation in fact, in a test concept there must be a group that does not participate. This group is a control group. "At the conclusion of the test, we can then compare many issues between the control group and the participating group such as leave taken, shift times, holiday hours and the type of CWS most beneficial to the Air Force." The automated Time and Attendance System for industrially funded employees does not allow for enwork schedule. Untry of more than an eight-hou- r til this programming problem can be resolved, organizations with industrially funded employees must wait to participate in the test. The decision to delay both operations and maintenance personnel and industrially funded employees who worked together was made to maintain g efforts. Some directorates are reviewing their unified implementation concept and are considering initiating the CWS for the operations and maintenance personnel previously delayed, Mr. Frischknecht said. Basic policies for the test follow: The work schedule selected by each organization was based on workload, customer support and mission requirements, as well as manning and budget constraints. Therefore, one schedule for all organizations was not utilized. h it 1 - : v f yir- vk. Li J - - I u ) ' , ) Ik ' I : I - ' I fF f) 1 .71 A ii I . -- y . V . . "lh SteamitV along contract worker fits insulation around steam and condensate pipes in the 1200 area of A team-buildin- See Test Hill AFB. Many of Hill's pipes are jp q I - - ..-.- The Air Force's two top leaders told Congress that the role of the B-- 2 bomber remains extremely critical, even with the end of the Cold War and superpower talks limiting strategic arms. "If we had some kind of guarantee that we would not have to face a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union, we would still have the B-- 2 bomber as our top priority program because of its conventional capabilities," Secretary of the Air Force Donald B. Rice told the Senate Armed Services Committee 19. During the Gulf War, for example, 50 6 it took more than 50 missions to hit 15 and nearly 20 targets at an Iraqi nuclear research fa- F-1- F-l- ll FcrrJIy Pc: 1 Base schedules events B-- 2 important al use of the B-- is a highly likely one that we'll run into in the next 50 years," Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Merrill A. McPeak said. "For that reason, I think the B-makes a very valuable contribution to our tool kit." The general also told lawmakers that with the B-- the Air Force could have taken the offensive initiative at the very beginning of Desert Storm. "The beauty of the B-- and its long legs and great payload capability is that you do have a much faster capability to intervene in situations like that in both a defense and offense kind of capability," General McPeak said. The House has already voted to keep B-- 2 production at 15 airplanes, and according to Rep. Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, 10 operational 2 Air Force News Service 7, il Page 2, please. by SSgt. David P. Masko F-11- easier U.S. Air Force Photo by Gary Hatch AF leaders tell Congress June -- currently underground, but the base is converting to overhead pipes where practical for 66 2 ...the B-- 2 makes a very valuable contribution to our tool kit. 2, 2 -- Gen. Mtrrill A. McPealc Air Force Chief of Staff cility. stealth bombers carrying a large payload and precision munitions could accomplish the same task, Secretary Rice said. "I think that (the Operation Desert Two B-- 2 Storm) kind of scenario for convention LJ ilk bt'm a Many changes face AF D-Wi- s., f"3 would be sufficient to conduct military operations. But Secretary Rice said that 10 planes is an insufficient number to conduct global bombing missions. B-2- s "The latest independent studies show that the kind of conventional operations which would call strongly for the use of the capabilities that the B-offers, demand operational forces in the range of 40, 50 or 60 bombers, depending on what range of scenarios you're handling," Secretary Rice said. aircraft gives the Air Seventy-fiv- e Force the necessary training aircraft, backup aircraft for airplanes that are in depot maintenance status, and a 2 small attrition reserve, General McPeak said. "So the 75 number is really based on the fact that we plan to build two See OAID5 roiocrcli Army research tests D"2, Page 2, please. 1 |