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Show iTIMES January 6, 2005 Looki Back Year in Review Photo by Airman 1st Class Micah Garbarino In June, more than 450,000 people came to Hill for the 2004 Air Show. The show featured several aerial demonstrations, including the Thunderbirds. CQMPILE0_BY^ALRMAN_JENN_Y_CHONG „ Hilltop Times staff January June • The base movie theater reopened Jan. 16 after a five year closure. Movies are shown for free to anyone who has access to the base. • The base commissary completed its renovations. Customers were offered new chill cases, new shelving and 2,000 new items throughout the store. Six new specialty sections were added for shopping convenience. can keep people out and can stop criminals from fleeing the base. • Hill's Clinic Laboratory team won the AFMC Medical Laboratory Team of the Year Award. On top of that, the lab aced the 2,000 item "College of American" Pathology' inspection standards, placing them in the top 1 percent of all accred• Skies over Hill AFB were busy as a variety of aircraft were ited laboratories in the nation. The lab attained the highest showcased at the 2004 Air Show, "A Salute to America's ratings possible in all areas inspected, to include personnel Warfighters!" The air show featured the U.S. Air Force Air safety, technical processes, quality improvement and profi• Chief Master Sgt. of the Demonstration Squadron "Thunderbirds." More than 100 Air Force Gerald Murray Photo by Beth Young ciency testing. The base's gates begin to receive a volunteers spent three days ensuring that the air show ran made his first trip to Hill million renovation In March, smoothly. Around 450,000 people attended the two-day air AFB and thanked airmen $4 including the addition of pop-up barshow. and fellow patriots for riers, which were completed later In their continued committhe summer. • Secretary of the Air Force Dr. James Roche submits his • Gen. Greg Martin, commander of Air Force Materiel Comment to the defense of resignation after four years in the position. Secretary mand, received the 2004 Freedom Award July 2 in Provo. liberty and service to the nation. Roche plans to depart Jan. 20 or sooner if his successor is The award honors individuals for their accomplishments confirmed by the Senate before then. and sacrifices for freedom. • Air Force leaders promote Wingman Day to encourage people to take more responsibility for each other. Through• Nelson Gibbs, the assistant secretary of the Air Force for the day, Hill units did such things as talk about the out installations, Environment and Logistics discussed the Air •The 75th Logistics goals of Wingman Day, give out awards and decorations, Logistics Center's journey toward improved processes and Readiness Squadron was and talk about how to handle stress. Some units took it a Lean while speaking to an.audience at the Shingq Prize called on to support-con-" step further, hosting "stress-busting" activities like dodge Public Sector Manufacturing conference held in Ogden. voy operations in Iraq. ball and potluck dinners. • 75th Air Base Wing's Services Division wins the Air Force More Airmen were used • 75th Air Base Wing "deploys" to Utah Test and Training Materiel Command's LeMay Award. The award honors the to run the convoy misRange. The three-day exercise put the 202 "deployed" Airbest overall Services unit at a large base with a population sions because Army solan environment that many may not have experimen into exceeding 5,000. diers were heavily tasked. enced before. They had to Hill logistic troops Photo by Beth Young set their specific Air stopped at Lackland AFB Puppy love was spread at May's "Bark in the Park" event sponsored Force Specialty Code and met up with other by Services as part of the Spring • 75th Security Forces Squadron Airmen return from training aside, and work airmen from other bases Fling. deployment. They were deployed as members of the 506th to build a tempotogether for training. Expeditionary SFS protecting Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq. The rary Air Force Base. Airmen left Utah in November for Kirkuk and provided air • The new BX opens Nov. base security. 18. It boasts 278 more • Two Air Force Materiel Command evaluation teams gave • Hill's gates receive a $4 million upgrade and renovation. parking spaces, 215 more the base and its personnel outstanding ratings. Unit Comclothing racks, nine regPhoto by Airman Jenny Chong pliance Inspection and the Logistics Standardization and The first customer checks out at the isters, a beauty shop, Evaluation teams looked at the base Aug. 5-13 and new BX here, which opened Nov. 19, more seating capacity in announced their findings. In the Unit Compliance Inspecjust In time for holiday shopping. • The Ogden Air Logistics Center's Intercontinental Ballisthe food court and more. tic Missile Division completed work in March on the 100th tion, the Ogden ALC and the 75th Air Base Wing were found Minuteman III missile to be refurbished as part of the most to be 97.5 percent in compliance with the evaluation stan• Team Hill members pledged $1,046,619 to the Combined dards. The inspection team looked at 204 areas on base — recent life-extension program for the missile. The refurFederal Campaign. The campaign succeeded in contacting 93 among the headquarters staff and product directorates, bishment completed on the missiles will carry the weapon 99 percent of the base workforce, and 32 percent of those and 111 in the 75th ABW. The Logistics Standardization system to the year 2020 and possibly beyond. participated. and Evaluation team inspected 23 branches and divisions in • Parts from two jets — one Navy and one Air Force — were Ogden ALC logistics-related directorates, and gave the joined together through the ingenuity of the 649th Combat highest possible rating to 20 of them. Logistics Support Squadron and Ogden ALC engineers. • The Ogden Air Logistics Center is awarded the Air Force Crew members attempted to repair the damage in the cripOrganizational Excellence Award for demonstrating exceppled Falcon, but found it was too severe and decided to tional innovation and high standards of excellence in supcombine two jets. Thousands of hours of work on the $1.2 • Col, Seb Romano, 75th Air Base Wing commander retired porting the United States and allied warfighters around the million repair have saved taxpayers about $30 million in Sept. 10. He assumed command of the 75th ABW in July world in 2003. the cost of a lost aircraft. 2002. Colonel Romano • Col. William McCasiand, Ogden Air Logistics Center vice passed the command to • Hill AFB was named a commander, presents the 649th Munitions Squadron with Col. Sharon K.G. Dunbar. Tree City USA recipient the Air Force Explosives Safety Plaque for their exemplary Colonel Dunbar came to by the National Arbor Day in 2003. The unit's aggressive self-inspection team work the 75th ABW from the Foundation. More than identified 120 discrepancies and suggested action to cor737th Training Group, 13,500 trees of 85 species Lackland Air Force Base, rect them. populating nearly 7,000 Texas. She commanded acres within the base the U.S. Air Force's sole boundary. Photo by Airman 1st Class basic military training Mlcah Garbarino group comprised of nine The 84th Radar EvaluaCol. Seb Romano retired in September, passing command of the squadrons, more than 700 tion Squadron celebrated 75th Air Base Wing to Col. Sharon permanent party person50 years at Hill AFB. Dunbar during a ceremony presided nel, and a daily student by Maj. Gen Kevin Sullivan, Ogden of more than 6,500. load Air Logistics Center commander. ACTIVE VEHICLE BARRIER SYSTEM AHEAD November February July March August April December September May • The base restricted water usage because it faced the sixth year of a regional drought. Photo by Airman 1st Class Mlcah Garbarino Last summer, Master Manuel Tanlngco, left, lead Instructor of the Integrated Self-Defense course, and Maj. Doug Balllnger, commander of the 75th Security Forces Squadron, cooperated to develop the ISD course at Hill AFB. The 75th Air Base Wing leadership hope to make the training mandatory for all predeployment troops here. •The 75th Civil Engineer Squadron and Network 56 teamed up to send some comfort to injured troops in Iraq, so they could have some things to keep them busy and some toiletries they were short on. October • More than 2,000 people turned out for the "Salute to our Nation's Defenders" picnic, sponsored by the Military Affairs Committee of Ogden, Weber and Davis Counties and Gastronomy Inc. of Salt Lake City. • As part of the $4.6 million gate re-design project, pop-up barricades, called bollards, were installed at the south, west and Roy gates. Thehalf-million-dollar bollard system consists of a row of hardened steel pipes that run underground across the roads by the gates. When activated, these pipes pop-up, creating a barricade to vehicles. Hill is one of the first bases to have a bollard system in place. The bollards r> Photo by Shad West In November, the 75th Air Base Wing exercised from a "bare-base" situation In the Utah Test and Training Range. It was very similar to deployed locations In Southwest Asia. Here, and EOD tech works to disarm unexploded ordinance. |