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Bruce Justice, NCOIC of look Chacon to Pass and Registration. squadron 59 High 37 Low Partly c:c ;'!,' d I ihi-s- by Airman 1st Class Micah Garbarino Hilltop Times staff On Wednesday a field near the West Gate lu re will be filled with 33 tactical shelters for the meeting of the Joint Committee on Tactical Shelters. inter-servic- e Tactical shelters provide the military a prefabricated shell for living or working areas that can be shipped to a theater of operations and require little or no advance work. The receiving unit usually configures the shelter onsite. Some shelters can be linked together to create living or working cells, said Col. Michael Williams, Space and C3I systems directorate commander. This is the first time Space and C3I will host the event. The meeting is an opportunity for members and industry representatives to exchange information and display their shelters. "At the meetings, we have an exchange of information, which ensures that we don't have a duplication of effort. If the Army is working on a shelter that they need and the Air Force has already developed something similar, then the funding would move over here. It eliminates said John Arnold, the Air Force Tactical Shelter program manager with Space and C3I. JOCOTAS was formed in 1975 under the office of the Secretary of Defense. At the time, all services were developing and inter-servic- e cross-funding,- " sustaining their own shelters. Between services, there were over 100 shelters. Since then, JOCOTAS has reduced that number to 17 standard shelter types, significantly cutting the cost of logistics, said Williams. Space and C3I oversees all the management of tactical shelters for the Air Force, said Williams. Recently, the shelters were used with short notice to form and alternate Combined Air Operations Center in Southwest Asia. The team deployed to set up the center included members of Hill's Space and C31 systems directorate, Hanscom Air Force Base's Shelter Technology Liaison Office, as well as contractors and guardsmen. There are three basic types of tactical and a hybrid shelters, rigid-walof both. The latest advance in shelter technology is a composite shelter, reinforced with a bullet resistant material, said Williams. The current shelters are made of aluminum, which is heavier, requires paint, corrodes and is less The composite shelters would save energy by requiring a smaller air conditioning unit, without the need for paint it could save the environment and composites would need less maintenance because they are Williams said. The shelters will be on Alabama Drive across from Bldg. 1207 and the display is open to everyone on base, said Arnold. Mostly clojdy with chance snow-shower- by Sylvia LeMons-Liddl- e OgdenALC Public Affairs better believe Jim Spence when he says he has the Wright stuff. Dressed as his alter ego, Spence personifies Orville Wright, the first man to fly in 1903 in a "heavier than air flying machine." Dressed in his three-piecsuit, sporting a mustache and a receding hairline, Spence is a motivational speaker who becomes Wright when he speaks to different groups. He is a writer, historian, founder and managing member of ViKKnt Broadcasting Company based in Ohio and is America's only professional Orville Wright impersonYou'd all 48 High 38 Low Mostly cloudy with chance ItKPAh T1 at Hill 1 " , Low Flight events, Spence will speak Field, Mountain View and South s, Mostly cloudy with chance of snowshowers i. , - . 1 fiflj,lM ..I jl 1 First strike pilots receive Flying Cross OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM (AFPN) clubs offer scholarships SAN AN'I ( )NI( ) (AFPN) is of lering Air Force Clubs S1T),( X )0 in scholarship noncy to any clubmeinberorhisor her family members. There will Ik1 six si hoi, ul n awan led, willi the lop pric ol'Sd.OOO lor higher education costs. Scl k ilai"sl ii is will Ik awan It based on a essay written aloul "Air Force Clubs Help Us Make Members First." All entries must be submitted to the base services comi I 500-wor- d mander or director by July 15. Students are eligible if they have been accepted by or arc enrolled in an accredited college or university for the fall 2003 term as a part-timor e student. Rules and entry forms are full-tim- e available online dle East were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross recently for extraordinary achievement while flying in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. On the opening day of the air campaign Lt. Col. David Toomey and Maj. Mark Hoehn flew the very first strike mission which targeted a senior Iraqi leadership compound in Baghdad where intelligence sources believed Saddam Hussein and other top regime leaders were staying. President (ieorge W. Bush approved the target. he president told the nation in a televised statement that on his orders coalition forces had begun "striking selected targets of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein's ability to wage war." The next day Secretary of Defense Donald II. Rumsfeld told a lull pressroom at the Pentagon that the mission was the first strike of the war to liberate Iraq and that the U.S. Central Command exercised flexibility in the strike by taking into account the "realities that you find in the world." The pilots launched on the strike less than two hours after being notified of the mission, with minimal planning material available. They met up with aerial refueling and electronic warfare aircraft on their way to Baghdad and coordinated the many details of the mission elements they needed in the air to support the attack formation. Hoehn faced another challenge when his aircraft developed a malfunction during the flight and had degraded communications ability. He was able to handle he aircraft through superior airmanship and was still able to achieve complete surprise in the heavily defended target area. Toomey also had to overcome a weapons system malfunction as daylight approached in the target area and the two aircraft entered into the heart of an Iraqi Integrated Air Defense System with more than fifty strategic surface-to-ai- r missile systems and more than two hundred anti-air- - KC-13- 5 more efficient production processes within the branch; benchmarking efforts began four years ago, according to Dee Mackliet, Landing Gear Branch chief. "Over the past four years we've been working on better ways to do our job. This past January we finally put all the pieces together," commented Mackliet. Since then, the Landing Gear Production Branch has reduced flow days for the from 95 days to 58 days. The program has reduced flow days F-1- 6 KC-13- 5 from 118 days to 61. Ultimately, the branch hopes to attain end goals of 38 days for the 6 and 58 days for the KC-13"Benchmarking is when you go to somebody else that is in the same business as you. It's usually someone in the private sector, but not necessarily, that seems to do it better than you. You look at what they do F-1- your benchmark, your stan- Two dard," explained Mackliet. Working with BF Goodrich, who repairs struts and components, and Heroux Devtek, a Canadian landing gear manu- d Rain 6 and compare your process to theirs. Their numbers become Nighthawk pilols from the 379th Air Expeditionary desert air base in the MidWing at a forward-deploye- 50' High 40' Low AFA - provides maintenance, repair, manufacturing and modification of landing gear, wheels and brakes, reduced flow days for and landing gear systems by nearly half over the last quarter. Looking for smarter, better, F-1- 1 48' High 38 Caroline Wellman The Maintenance Directorate's Landing Gear Production Branch Clearfield Flemetitary Schools today. He will perform at the Hill Aerospace Museum Friday at 3 p.m. and Saturday at 10 a ni. and 3 p.m. He is available for photo 4V 1 opportunities Friday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m. and :3() p.m. The public is invited to attend the ' 1 tree events. Spence was introduced to flying in 1947 when his uncle built an airplane and his mother sewed the material for the wings and fuselage. His uncle took him for a ride and he flew the aircraft for about 30 seconds. From that time on, Spence dreamed of becoming a licensed pilot by age 15. bui ibis was not meant to be. He was stricken with polio at 13 and doctors told him he would "never walk, use your right arm or stand straight again." Spence not only recovered, he went on to play football, track, water ski, snow ski, scuba dive and climb mountains. He did just about everything people told him he Jim Spence as Orville Wright couldn't do. In his mid-20Spence again longed to fly. He did, only this time he "flew" as a skydiver. "First Man to Fly," Spence has managed to capture the in the music an as essence of Orville Wright who, since 1903, people throughSpending Navy's years program instructor and musician, he left to become an indepen- out the world have admired and praised for his contrident recording engineer and producer. Spence has butions to aviation as we know it today. recorded symphony orchestras, rock and gospel groups, "If birds can glide for long periods of time, then ... why commercials and television specials. He designed and can't I?," Orville Wright said in 1899 as he aspired to do helped build four recording studios. Since 1990 he has something that no human had ever done. Spence, as spoken before groups all over the country on aviation Wright, goes one step further. He shows what dreams history, inspiration and patriotism. In his studies of the can do through the eyes of the man who did. show showers of Centennial students to of Lt. Hilltop Times staff ator. part of t. Landing Gear Branch cuts flow days by 2nd e As l, energy-efficien- Impersonator, speaker has Wright stuff 49 High 38 Low soft-wal- l, F-1-6 'XT fern f A F facturer that repairs struts, the Landing Gear KC-13- 5 lfBL. ?T. if 12 W .:V-- lKiM I pilots launched on the strike less than two hours after being notified of the The mission, with minimal planning material available. craft artillery sites defending it. Despite the mal- functions, both pilots penetrated the defenses and placed enhanced precision munitions exactly on target within one sec- ond of the planned time over target. Their performance in carrying out the mission was "in the finest traditions of our Air Force," said Lt. Gen. T. Michael "Buzz" Moseley, Combined Forces Air Component Commander, on presenting the medals. They "made us all very proud," he added. "The days of the Saddam Hussein regime are numbered," said Rumsfeld. This mission opened the air war by striking at the very heart of the Iraqi regime and began a continuous stream of what now numbers more than 42,000 sorties. Those sorties are aimed at supporting the operation's key goals of ending the regime of Saddam Hussein, eliminating Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and liberating the Iraqi people. Pro- duction Branch examined how to keep costs low while maintaining quality and decreasing flow days. The branch reset organizational goals for flow days and began amending policies and procedures on how parts are processed. "It's been a long process. It's not just something you jump right into. Benchmarking takes some time. You have to research and then take gradual steps toward implementing the new procedures and policies. But the work pays off. We've really improved our capacity to get the right parts to the right places at the right times," Mackliet said. Procedures can do a lot to improve flow days, Col. Don Richardson, chief of the Commodities Division, points out, but people also play an important role in the implementation of change. "Our benchmarking, process improvements, as well as other initiatives and a motivated workforce continue to push us to our flow days end goals." POOR |