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Show ww1! 1 f"""1 LIU I ti hull mi Hill AFB, It f mm ', A INSIDE: Museum dedicating new gallery Page 2 Pause for retreat Page 3 Hanukkah starts Friday Page 5 fes;W" ji 1 Utah IM&r j 84056-582- 4 U ) tammt Vol. 54 No. 48, Exercise tests mobility, support A Phase I Exercise will begin here Tuesday and continue through Dec. 9. It will include most units from the Ogden Air Logistics Center, 75th Air Base Wing and 388th Fighter Wing. The exercise will test mobility, wartime materiel sup- December 2, 1999 w's the weather? I m i i .Kk. ... cis t i . - VA port and force protection. Some impacts are expected like longer traffic lines coming and going from work for very short durations. In addition, a major accident response exercise with mass casualties is planned and will include medical ; personnel. Base personnel should be aware of additional threat condition measures. For more information, contact ' unit exercise chiefs. Leaders stand by use of medication ... J- - r&t : , . ...... sv .. 3, : J fas i simulator Page 6 Civil Air Patrol ceremony Sunday Page 8 388th Fighter Wing Fighter Country Page A-- C n i .? i . : Photos by Steven by Douglas J. Gillert American Forces Press Service Page 15 Russell visits BX Page 17 The Defense Department gave pyridostigmine bromide tablets to troops during Desert Storm to protect them during suspected chemi- R. Ford flight teaches children at Lakeside Elementary School how to use an anemometer," which measures wind speed and direction. Left, SrA. Jeremy Hotelling helps old Alexis Hartman IIs The Food and Drug Administration has approved and licensed "PB" for treating the muscular disease myasthenia gravis, but not for countering chemical warfare agents. Instead, the FDA authorized DoD to use PB as an "investigational new' drug" to protect troops against certain nerve agents thought to be in the Iraqi arsenal. Although a new literature review has indicated that PB should not be ruled out as a possible cause of Gulf War illnesses, defense leaders stand by their predecessors' decision to issue the medication. They say they'd do the same if the threat is imminent and PB is the best protection available to U.S. service members. The White House, DoD and the FDA concur that inves- tigational new drugs can and should continue to be viable options for force protection. President Bill Clinton made it official Sept 30 by issuing Executive Order 13139, which spells out ground rules for giving such drugs to service members with or without their consent See Drugs, page 7 read an AF-38- Surface Weather Observation form. Mesenbrink, Hotelling, SrA. Troy Reisner, and MSgt. Michael Dore of the weather flight volunteered their time to teach the advanced third and fourth grade students about weather, weather tracking and weather prediction. The young students even got hands-o- n experience with some of the flight's technical field equipment, including a GPS unit, anemometer and hygrometer. Visiting astronaut recalls Discovery flight the solids fell away, after two minutes, the rest of the ride was real smooth because the three main engines are powered by liquid. It's staff An astronaut who spent over 8 million miles in space, spent a few hours at the Hill Aerospace Museum lastweekviewing exhibits and talking with volunteers. Blaine Hammond, who piloted two space shuttle Discovery missions during the 1990s, was in the local area visiting family over the Thanksgiving holiday. "I wanted to see the museum. I've d heard so much about it," said who retired from the Air Force in January 1998 after flying on the STS-3- in 1991 and the STS-6- 4 in 1994. He now tests planes for including the G--4 and Hammond is amazed at the plane's advanced technology and said flying the line doesn't involve much more than pushing a button. The plane does the rest and is smooth with no surprises unlike Hammond's first space mission. almostlikeaturbojetengine..JsJobody ever talked about the very first - i Gulf-Strea- G-- 5. Gulf-Strea- m sequence of events on the pad those three main engines lighting 5 f, off. "So, when it came time to think about it, I just deduced that, Well, OK, the three main engines - that everybody talked about how smooth they are when up and running - I i - Ham-mon- 9 f - Above, Capt. Mark Mesen-brin- k of the 75th Operation Support Squadron's weather WASHINGTON (AFPN) Hilltop Times fires I .11 by Mary Galbraith Avoid holiday " 'i cal attacks. Athlete drives J sS . . .1 - ' .' "'. Photo by Mary Galbraith Astronaut Blaine Hammond, left, visited the Hill Aerospace Museum last week, guided by Larry Mercer, one of the museum's volunteers. Prior to his first mission, Hammond spent seven years in training. By the time the first countdown was called off he'd been debriefed by several astronaut crews after their landings. Engineers and trainers at NASA use the debriefings and astronaut descriptions to make simulators as realistic as possible emulating the motion, noise, vibrations and visual affects of shuttle take-of-f and space flight. "The crews always talked about how rough it was when you lifted off the pad because of the two solid rockets on the sidc.and then when : must be smooth when they come up.' And the simulators sort of supported that theory. There wasn't a whole lot of noise in the headsets in the simulator and there wasn't a whole lot of vibration in the training module. But let me tell you, when three rocket engines come from zero thrust to half a million pounds of thrust each in seconds they have to be totally up and running in 3 12 seconds or the engine won't fire thafs anything See Astronaut, page 7 |