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Show SEPTEMBER 14, 1983 Theres A Lot Going On At HAFB Fighting Falcon, is another of the Ogden Air By TOM BRUFFY Logistics Centers system management reHILL AFB Hill AFB is Utahs largest sponsibilities. The Air Force will eventually single employer with a payroll that tops $460 buy 2,333 of these sleek ships. Another 348 are being by Belgium, Demillion annually. Almost every person in northern Utah works at Hill, has worked there, nmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and the cenhas an application on file there, or has a family ter will provide limited support for these aircraft too. member who has. OTHER ALLIED nations that have purchSINCE IT is so much a part of this area, ased or want to buy the Fighting Falcon are Utahns tend to think they know what is going Israel, Egypt, Taiwan, Venezuela, Pakistan on at the base. With $2.6 million in construcand South Korea. The center will probably tion going on there now and $455.7 million provide some support for these aircraft, slated in the next five years, Hill and its major although the exact amount will vary. at Hill AFB with the Center is the organization, Ogden Air Logistics Center are constantly changing. The Ogden ALC is one of 388th Tactical Fighter Wing. It is the first tacfive Air Force Logistics Command centers that tical fighter wing equipped with the Air Force s provide maintenance and logistics support to newest fighter. Another wing at Hill is the the Air Forces fighting commands. 419th Tactical Fighter Wing (Reserve). It will The five centers are logistics bases and they be the first reserve unit to have the 6 next equip, maintain and store all Air Force weapon year. systems in the highest possible state of readiness. LOCATING the wings with the Air Force system manager makes for timely reTHE OGDEN center is commanded by Masponse to the units maintenance and logistics who Leo General the sees that requirements. Marquez jor center does it jobs in three major areas. They The backbone of the nations strategic misare system management, item management sile force is the Minuteman missile. The center is also the system manager for the Minuteman and geographic support. The center has worldwide logistics responsisystem. That system began its life cycle here in 1961. The first Minuteman missiles were bility for more than ,700 Air Force 4 Phantoms. Most of them belong to the Tactical Air assembled at the Boeing Aircraft Company Plant 77 at Hill AFB. Then they were put in Command, Pacific Air Forces and Air Forces in Europe. Ogden ALC also supports the Phansilos at six Air Force wings in the United toms belonging to the Alaskan Air Command, States. WHEN DEPOT maintenance is needed, the the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Minuteman missiles are returned to Ogden and those of Systems Command. ALC. They are disassembled into their three THE CENTER supports another 1,200 s stages and repaired or modified. Equipment structured differently for each of nine different used to do the job ranges from a common sockvolt et wrench to the sophisticated Allied nations, which makes this job chalF-1- ed F-1- F-1- 6 1 F-- F-4- lenging. The Air y machine. Varian industrial Two ALC test facilities insure high quality X-ra- Forces newest fighter, the F-1- 6 engineering support for the missile. The Hill Engineering and Test Facility, includes two Minuteman launch control centers and two inert missiles that duplicate launch centers at operational wings. THE OGDEN ALC also has logistics responsibility for support of the Titan II intercon- tinental baslistic missile. It remains the heavyweight of the Air Forces missile force. Ogdens newest strategic missile assignment is system management for the Peacekeeper program. The Peacekeeper, a larger missile than the Minuteman, can deliver a 7,500-poun- d payload more than 7,000 nautical miles. The center is charged with logistics responsibility for all Air Force flight simulators and flight training devices. That means the Ogden ALC participates in acquiring the devices, testing them, evaluating them and furnishing logistics support to them throughout their life cycle. These devices range in complexity from simple training aids to multi-millio- dollar n flight simulators. ALL AIR Force landing gears, photographic equipment, reconnaissance equipment and air munitions are the responsibility of the Ogden ALC. That is a worldwide responsibility. Landing gears include aircraft wheels, brakes and struts. They are modified, rebuilt and overhauled by people working at Ogden Air Logistics Center. In summary the center is one of five major Air- Force Logistics Command centers that keep the fighting commands ready to go to war. The center here has system management responsibility for two of the top line fighters of the Air Force, for several major missile systems, for all Air Force landing gears and for aircraft training devices and simulators, for commodities and for geographic logistics support to more than 50 Air Force installations. Half HAFB Employees From Davis By MARK FOTHERINGHAM You can alHILL AFB ways tell who is a stranger and who is a resident in North Davis County. The stranger is the one who is always looking skyward whenever one of the Hill AFB jets passes overhead. .LONG TIME residents are used to the roar of the F-- 4 and 6 engines and the pounding drone of large cargo planes passing overhead. Knowing what the presence of the base contributes to the state and their communities may somehow influence their noise tolerance levels. F-1- After all, of the nearly employees who work at the base, over 50 percent re 21 ,000 impact on the slalo of Utah. That figure includes salary and retirement incomes, construction, supplies and services, utier, comes just from the day to lities and transportation and day operations of the facility. travel. Each day the base averages 201 payments totalling over THE BASE has also contri$522,000 to vendors of every- buted over $280,000 to charitthing from stationery to food- able agencies such as the United Way of Northern Utah and stuffs. other nonaffiliated organizaIN 1983 alone the base will tions. shell out more than $6.6 milConsidering all the benefits lion for electricity and $5.1 mil- coming from the 6,666 acre lion for natural gas. Added to facility, it seems likely that Hill sewer and secondary water Air Force Base is not only tolcosts, the total utility bill is erated by residents, but quite often appreciated. over $12.1 million. OGDENS relatively mild Lumped all together, contributions by the base result in a weather and accompanying larger than $1.1 billion dollar good visibility contribute to side in Davis County. Weber lars richer. Federal withholdCounty comes in second with ings amount to over $2 million. 38.6 percent. Only about The greatest economic conof the bases employees tributions to the area, howevone-four- th are military personnel. BESIDES providing direct employment to nearly 15,000 civilians, it is estimated that the bases needs indirectly create and maintain about 22,000 more jobs in Davis County alone. k In a period, the bases civilian employees will be paid over $13 million. The average monthly wage at the base is $1931.82; nearly double what it was ten years ago. two-wee- FROM THOSE monthly wages, state tax coffers become over half a million dol Hills effectiveness as a staging base. The airfield is rarely closed and the control tower is manned at all times. Private aircraft occasionally k use Hill during hours to practice flying with the Precision Approach Radar and the off-pea- Instrument Landing System navigational aids available here. The field is always available for military, commercial or private aircraft cies. emergen- HILLS SINGLE runway does lead to some traffic jams when one of the infrequent but violent storms hits the area. The storms created by the land mass funnel occurring between the Great Salt Lake and Introducing Maj. Gen. Reynolds Major General Marc C. Reynolds is commander of the Ogden Air Logistics Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah. AS COMMANDER, he has worldwide responsibility for the logistics management of two major aircraft systems, the 6 the entire and the F-fleet of Minuteman, Titan II, and Peacekeeper ICBMs and all airmunitions, propellents and explosives used by the Air F-1- 4, Force. General Reynolds was born June 2, 1928 in Chamberlain, South Dakota. He graduated from high school there in 1946 and later from the University of Rhode Island, Kingston. He d is a graduate of the Air and Staff College at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, and the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. Com-iman- HE WAS commissioned a second lieutenant in 1952 after graduation from pilot training and served in various fighter assignments throughout the United States and m the Far EAst until 1961. He then was assigned to Europe as a member of the 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing serving in England and France. In 1966 he joined the 460 Tactical Reconnaissance Wing in Vietnam and while there flew 230 combat missions in the RF-4- . A subsequent tour was in Japan as a member of the 5th Air Force staff. AFTER attending the Naval War College in 1972, he was assigned to the Ogden Air Logistics Center where he joined the Air Force Logistics Command. While there he as the director of Distribution and later the Director of Maintenance. In 1976 he moved to the Sacramento Air Logistics Center as the Director of Materiel Management and later as the Centers Vice Commander. He became Commander of the Air Force Acquisition Logis-tic- s Division, Wright-Patterso- n AFB, Ohio, in 1981. GENERAL Reynolds is a Command Pilot with more than 5,200 hours flying time including 475 combat hours. His decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, and Distinguished Flying Cross. |