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Show I i lnf-- "s 1 cooat riixCTM mtoyGM D loc-sn- Thenk your bois i i National ill ii it i i i ZL-J- T Bosses' Week Vol. 45 No. 41 Hill AFB, Utah B Oct. 18, lr' n o a SjO8 7 Th" n o f?o 2F iJ r f y i o f DM If IrDDtT. V lis by TSgt. George A. Dedsaul 388th Fighter Wing Public Affairs fQf The 388th Fighter Wing may have missed the gold ring at Gunsmoke '91, but they are the top scoring active duty unit in the competition. The winner of the 1991 Gunsmoke competition is the 175th Tactical Fighter Group, Maryland Air National Guard unit. They won flying aircraft. Second place went to the 944th Tactical Fighter Group, Air Force Reserve, Luke AFB, Ariz., flying The parent wing of the 944th is Hill's 419th Tactical Fighter Wing. Units of the 419th have finished first or second in the last four Gunsmokes. "This is the toughest competition I've ever seen," said Lt. Col. James Corrigan, team leader. "I think placing third among this group is not shabby by any standards. Remember, these are the best of the A-1- F-16- i' ' ! J A h " - ' MM 1 ) ' - ) 0 J 4'ur. : s. i - I- ' " s best." The pilots from the 388th had developed a game plan to take the competition. "We were dropping great during practice," said Gapt. Mike France. "But when we got down here and hit the ranges, the aircraft tended to drop a little more inconsistently than at home. Still, we finished the competition scoring 93.7 percent of the total possible points." The maintenance team received great praise from the pilots. "We had no difficulty with the jets when we went out," said France. "We never had to go to the spare because they kept the aircraft ready. They did a really outstanding job." On the fifth day of competition, France exd bomb in the navigation perienced a hung attack profile. The hung bomb did not cost the team any points, since in profile three the scoring is the best of the two bombs dropped. The one which released scored right on target. , The problem was traced to a malfunction in the pylon carrying the bomb. There were no replacement parts available, so another pylon was switched to that position. The aircraft worked perfectly then. v9 600 Hilltop Times staff In an almost invisible changeover Tuesday, more than 600 Hill AFB em- ployees started working for a new boss the Defense Logistics Agency and its local unit, Defense Depot Utah, 12 miles away. The reassignment action is part of a Defense Department initiative under Defense Management Report Docu Og-de- .......A.,, " n, MM ... ,. 1 ..-.- -i ., Air Force Photo by Sgt. Gary J Kunith F-1- 6 Mission impossible? 388th can do what it really takes to excel in the Air Force is hard work, Yankee ingenuity and dedication to the Defense Department's new quality principles. After a recent problem put restrictions on afterburner use Air Force-widthe CRS Engine faced a was with Shop by Sgt. Gary J. Kunich 388th FW Public Affairs It may seem like computers and new wave tech- F-1- 6 nology have taken over many work centers, but the commander of Tactical Air Command, Gen. John Michael Loh, has stressed people determine the success of the Air Force mission. A group of airmen from the 388th Component Repair Squadron proved that theory, snowing SJ.,.,JUMuh. -- ' w fy e, next-to-impossib- le problem remove silicone from 97 engines in three months to bring the wing back to full F-11- 0 status. mission-capabl- e II Please see I IIHI Aa.m.tf. mw im wjp ifr Quality, Page 2. I 1 " wiywwgwwfwwwwwwwwfwrwwwtwtwww x w-;:: i. ii rtWl.JMft A M ! gift , n mnmmMmmmMmmmmmmmmm---- Q a A ownership from Hill to DDOU. In addition to people being ysyy-- i i Ml II flti flkll ft, rtft fl ift "" i. ::;;; DCunsmoIio I I Demands top performance mmm reas-- Please see DLA, Page 2. " v : They don't mind repetition HH routine for them. They reported to work at the same place, worked the same hours and served the same customers other Hill workers. "It's business as usual," said Joe Robles, distribution site manager. There was a small ceremony at the Hill Officers Club Tuesday to symbolically pass the warehouse key of February 1993. All of this will eventually lead to the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines using the same supply system called the Defense Distribution System. For the approximately 640 Hill people who now work for DLA, Sunday's reassignment meant little change in Interact ivo vidoo dims " ' IIIMlWIIIIIIIIIIlllllHllllllMHIW1""""1"1 wtw"m In addition, other branches of the service are also changing. Tooele (Utah) Army Depot's distribution function will transfer to DDOU in ry"iV:XvW :.., y,yyyyy.fAv..ffyy.y .:. wi;VtfJMf ft ftftftotffjftffacfGMttdimiitAlGAafafUAAm Blackbird takes place at museum Ill Zw .... Sgt. James Dean Steele, left, and SrA. Charlie Banks remove silicone from an engine. Page 3. u SR"71 is pcrSicd I It.. - . Quality at work ment 902. The action is designed to save money by developing a centralized distribution system of parts and supplies controlled by DLA, Defense Department officials said. The Hill change is only part of similar consolidations planned at air logistics centers at Warner-Robin-s AFB, Ga.; Kelly AFB, Texas; and Tinker AFB, Okla. The center at McClellan AFB, Calif., has already undergone the change. ,,Wfwtrifti&rwrrrri9imiivrTf?9 ii vfcyfl'gtffi.gsss k ..l it . employees now assigned to DLA Hill by SSgt. Barbara Fisher wi " U S "Without fantastic maintenance attention to the aircraft, we wouldn't have been able to keep our scores as consistent," said Corrigan. "We had planned to increase our score by 250 points on the last day and ended up gaining 262." They also planned for the leaders to have an average day and instead, they too had outstanding days. 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