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Show Jrmr MTiff Hill AFB, I vVhw v.r f),s Utah itnj Vol. 55 No. 20, May 18, 2000 84056-582- 4 Final depot work AF streamlines . leaves San Antonio Air Logistics Center s A''C INSIDE: ADSC program ' - 2 In response to conWASHINGTON cerns from the field, Air Force leaders have simplified and standardized the active duty By Senior Master Sgt. Denton Lankford San Antonio ALC Public Affairs making it service commitment policy The end KELLY AFB, Texas (AFMCNS) of an era for Kelly Air Force Base came recently less cumbersome and easier to understand. Secretary of the Air Force F. Whitten Peters and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Commanders Call Qs & As Page 3 Summer Safety Roadshows Page 4 Youth Center Summer Camp Page 8 TSP Open Season Page 11 DACOWITS Chair Vickie McCall Page 15 ICBMs Still Guard America Page 19 Michael E. Ryan approved the new ADSC The new ADSC Air Force instruction and tables are simple and easy to understand, But, more importantly, they are designed to be fair to the indi- Peters said. Volleyball Tourney Page 20 79-ye- vidual service member. This is simply the right thing to do nothing can be more than not treatdevastating in my mind ing people fairly. revision comes after a month-lon- g by an integrated process team by the secretary and chief ADSC to fix the problems. Led by Lt. Gen. Roger DeKok, deputy chief of staff for plans and programs, the team was tasked to come up with a plan to simplify and standardize ADSCs. i s, often contributing to incorrect documentation. The new program lets airmen plan their careers while allowing the Air Force to manage force requirements. We took the ADSC AFI from 15 tables and 189 rules down to only two tables and 34 rules, DeKok explained. Our primary premise was simplicity. The ADSC program, however, should e our troops for seralso not vice owed, but rather be a tool that shows a mutual faith and trust for our service to our country, he said. The new program in puts the trust back where it belongs our people. The major changes hit three primary areas: advanced flying training, education and training, and promotions. Changes to flying training include standardized pilot Hill ceiebiates spring cleaning May 19 trees Monday near the Hazardous Waste Facility in Bldg. 514. The area was improved with sodding and a sprinkler system last year, and workers added the trees and flowers this p funds. Base! employees year using to are encouraged postpone their regular jobs today and lend a hand improving office buildings, parking areas and other projects. Projects include planting flowers and shrubs, pruning trees, weeding flower beds, picking up trash and other general cleanup. Flowers, shrubbery, landscape materials and other p supplies are available through the encourCenter, Bldg. 820. Volunteers are also aged to protect themselves from the sun and drink sufficient water to prevent dehydration For more details, contact an organization repor resentative or Steve Weed at Ext. Ext. 2nd Lt. Luke Osborne at Self-Hel- regardless it involyed approximately 5,600 courses. ADSCs will also move to a standardized three years for all courses over 20 weeks. This includes Air Force Institute of Technology masters degree programs. AFIT doctorate programs will stabilize at a five-yecommitment, and ADSCs will be eliminated for Squadron Officer School. Self-Hel- 68 9. Air Force members will maintain their current ADSCs as reflected on the signed Air Force Forms 63 in their personnel files. Federal statutes govern retirement requirements for senior offi- When the new AFI goes into effect June 1, cers. Given these statutory mandates for airmen will move under the new rules as officer retirements, the previous two-yethey sign new ADSC commitments. This ADSC associated with promotions for major will primarily occur as people undergo a through colonel was not needed and has permanent change of station or attend extensive training. been eliminated. statuthose who feel an injustice has been of Given the absence comparable in the past or in the way the new tory restrictions on enlisted are being implemented, the Air retirement requirements, and Defense Department regulatory requirements that Force Personnel Center commander has senior noncommissioned officer promo- been given wide latitude to grant relief. The new ADSC tables are available online tions carry an ADSC, the two year ADSC 8 and E- - at http:www.afpc.randolph.af.mil. remains for promotions to E-time-in-gra- de ar time-in-gra- de SummsrfestI June 9 7, For E-- V ffisjuu F-1- on-the-j- ob photo by Bill Orndorff Starting early on a Take Pride in Hill project, Lynn Hill, left, and Mike Everett plant linden of weapon system or major command trainand eliminating ADSCs for ing. 95 percent of education eliminated Additionally, ADSCs were under 20 weeks. This ar Dont miss . nickel-and-dim- years ment Management Directorates Power Systems Program Management Division, supported by the Technology and Industrial Support Directorate, has been performing government maintenance operations for the air logistics center, according to Col. Barry W. Pitcher, Power Systems Division chief. The last of many items repaired by the division were a gas turbine engine, an 5 central gearbox and an 5 aircraft mounted accessory drive, Pitcher said. The divisions workload is being relocated to the Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill AFB, Utah, by September, he added. According to Pitcher, the majority of the divisions current workers were retrained employees from other divisions at Kelly. He explained provisions that, under the reduction-in-forc- e 70 percent Civil Service to workers, provided of the divisions work force was replaced when rules were executed in the reduction-in-forc- e October 1999 when the prior division incumbents were bumped by these remaining senior employees. Structured training guides were subsequently developed by a contractor in concert with division employees prior to the October 1999 reduction in force. This effort expedited the training course needed to retrain the incoming replacement work force. To our pleasant surprise, we kept right on moving ahead, and last year actually exceeded our production schedules, Pitcher said. Now that the last of the divisions work is completed, Pitcher said that Bldg. 331 is quickly becoming vacated. Weve established a facility vacate team to process excess equipment which was not designated to go to Hill AFB, he said. The facility vacate team has already turned in more than 39 truckloads of such equipment. A number of Power Systems Division employees have already relocated to Utah. The tranoperating sition of the remaining in May. in earnest force work location begins in conheld At the colonels final division call, junction with an April 20 fiesta in Lindbergh Park, Pitcher said the transition of the workload to Hill was very challenging but accomplished ahead of schedule because of the tremendous teamwork exhibited by all of our workers. He said the Power Systems Division was $10 million ahead of schedule in production and $1 million ahead of planned sales. Thats a tribute to the team we built after we found out we were transitioning the work to Utah, he explained. F-1- Our guidance to the IPT was simple, said Ryan. Create an easily understood program that is fair and equitable to the Air Force and its members. During review of the existing program, the team found the rules and tables governing ADSCs to be complex and ambigu-ou- 10 ar 28, 2000. Since October 1999, only the Aerospace Equip- The in-un- Operation Force-accomplish-ed plan. commitments of Warmheart when the last San Antonio Air Logistics Center Air depot maintenance was completed. Kellys role as a depot maintenance facility began in 1921 when the Air Service repair depot at Love Field near Dallas moved to Kelly Field his- Number One. That move began a tory of maintenance and repair that ended April UJLMU Kelly-to-Hi- ll Pitcher explained that Bldg. 331, which opened in 1993, was known as the largest power systems facility in the Department of Defense. Die Power Systems Division managed 244 secondary power systems items and 486 gas tur- bine engine and auxiliary power units. 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