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Show Hilltog * COUNTDOWN * TIMES Weekly Since .1948 purple Katrina help Food for Life Air Force helps victims of hurricane Museum opens aircraft for annual event, chili Hill people recognized at WSU football game Paqe 5 Page 7 Page 9 days to the Operational Readiness Inspection 5!th 84056-5824 www.hilltoptimes.com hilltop.times@hill.af.mil Vol. 65 No. 36, September 8, Hill, Air Force get involved in hurricane IN THE KNOW Gate hours back to normal Starting Saturday the West Gate will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The East Gate will revert back to inbound traffic only from 5-7 a.m., Monday through Friday. The hours for all the base gates are as follows: East Gate (entry south oftixe base golf course) - Open 5-7 a.m., Monday through Friday (inbound traffic only) South Gate - Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week West Gate - Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Roy Gate - Open 24 hrs a day, seven days a week (Inbound traffic only from 4-8 a.m.) Southwest Gate (entry into base housing area) - Open 5 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, closed weekends. Vehicle decals not available Due to a no-notice Air Forcewide vehicle decal shortage, vehicle decals will no longer be available for distribution.In the interim, Pass & Registration will issue 120 day vehicle passes to all personnel who would otherwise require a vehicle decal. Once decals are available, base personnel will be notified. The 120-day vehicle pass will still be honored until it expires, allowing personnel to report to Pass & Registration for their decal at their convenience. For more info, call Pass & Registration at 777-6614. Legal office hosts Warrior Day The Hill AFB Legal Office, Bidg. 1278, will host a Warrior Day, today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Attorneys and notaries will be available to generate and execute wills or powers of attorney, provide legal assistance, notary services, and present law of armed conflict and preventative law briefings. Attendees must bring a valid military ID. Commanders or first sergeants bringing large groups, or requesting briefings should call to make an appointment time, 777-6626. Tickets on sale for breakfast Sept. 19 In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Hispanic Employment Program will host a breakfast, Sept. 19 at Club Hill from 8-10 a.m. Speaker Ernie Parada, 84th Combat Sustainment Wing director, will discuss this year's theme "Hispanic Americans: Strong and Colorful Threads in the American Fabric." The cost of the event is $8 for club members and $10 for non-members. Tickets must be purchased in advance and are available from the following individuals: Dora Gomez, 5864399; Staff Sgt. Colleen Bowman, 777-3663; Barbara Garcia, 775-2258; and, 1st Lt. David VanAssche, 777-3419. relief efforts BY CAPT. SEAN CARTER _ 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs Hill AFB employees have been known for their generosity, and their dedication to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina echoes that ongoing commitment ! - tFC kicks to community service. off in Plans to raise money through October several initiatives are being ; Hill AFB's Cornworked through bined Federal a host of miliCampaign initiatives tary and miliwill begin Oct. 5 and tary-affiliated i run through Nov. 18. organizations Many disaster relief Photo by Shad West across the base. • organizations that Workers put new pavement down on the runway in August. The runway was identified as needing repairs In 2004 when the Employees are . participate in the runway pavement Index was measured at 63 well below the standard of 71 recommended for F-16 use. encouraged to CFC are participatcontact their ; incj in the Hurricane unit's first serkatrina relief efforts. geant for more Organizations such information and I as the American Red to find out how ! Cross and the Salvathey can get in- ; tlon Army will need BY SHAD WEST volved. days of deployed operations to make way for the runlong-term support, Hilltop Times stafl In an initial way construction, conducted operations from various tfffitj payroll deduc- Hill AFB's runway reopens Sunday after months of locations throughout the state including the Utah Test effort to help tlons through the and Training Range, Michaels-Army Airfield, Wendofinancially supconstruction to resurface and repair the 13,500-foot CFC Is a great way to ver Airport, and the Salt Lake International airport. aircraft takeoff and landing zone. .port victims, give to these orgaWhile the construction project affected all of Team The 466th Fighter Squadron remained in the local the Hill AFB nizations over time. Hill, including those who faced limited gate access area to "allow our traditional Reservists to fly with us, Chapel Commu- Base employees and longer wait-times during peak traffic hours, it nity collected as they normally do, without the negative impact of should contact their was the flying units from Hill that felt the brunt of the having to deploy out of the state of Utah," said Lt. Col. about $12,500 unit CFC representa; impact. Bill Lyons, the 466th Director of Operations. during its sertives for more inforThe 419th and 388th Fighter Wings temporarily revices Saturday "We paid the lion's share of the cost to move operamation about how located to other airfields out of the state or at the busy and Sunday. tions, but the 75th Security Forces Squadron pitched i to donate through commercial Salt Lake City International Airport. The The donations in to help secure the areas for us and the 514th Flight the CFC 514th Flight Test Squadron, part of the 309th Maintewill go to the Test Squadron," he said. Headquarters nance Wing, had customers bringing aircraft to Hill To provide the security needed for the Reserve for depot-level maintenance work land their aircraft at Air Education and Training Command wing's aircraft at other facilities in Utah, required other airports near Hill where flight test squadron pisome adjustments in Hill's limited poll of security Chaplain's Special Activity Fund. The fund lots then flew them into Hill from the other airports. See Runway, 6 See Hurricane, 4 The 419th Fighter Wing, which transitioned to 43 Runway reopens this weekend Depot repairs Navy C-130 with AF parts, ingenuity the ramp when a windstorm gust knocked it onto its left side. As Hill workers repaired a Navy The base, located on the western cargo plane with Air Force parts, edge of Tarrant County, Texas, is in Marines observing the process an area that was hit almost weekly declared more than once that the with severe weather during June rebuilt aircraft wouldn't fly. 2004. According to National WeathHowever, on July 13, the teams er Service forecast office records, a from the 309th Aircraft MainJune storm with 60-80 mph winds tenance Group and 514th Flight took down trees and power lines Test Squadron proved the doubtover much of Tarrant and other ers wrong as the multicolored, north Texas counties, leaving half double-labeled C-130 Hercules took a million people without power for off from Fort Worth, Texas, and as long as five days. Damage was landed on the Hill runway without estimated at nearly $100 million in a problem. Tarrant County alone. "This is the culmination of our "If you can imagine this aircraft, expertise," said Mike Martinez, as big and wide as it is - the winds a C-130 workload planner for the rocked the aircraft and literally wing when the project began. smashed the wing down into the "This shows the rest of the world ground," Mr. Martinez said. "It what Hill can do on projects like bent the left hand wing which also this." damaged the No. 1 props on that In early June 2004, the C-130, engine. The engine and the wing owned by Naval Reserve Fleet had to be replaced." Logistics Support Squadron Six Hill became involved in the projTAvo (VR 62), was in transit from ect when Roy Dow, from the 309 the unit's home station Brunswick, AMXG's C-130 Production Branch, Maine, when it landed at Naval Air attended an Air Force workload Station-Joint Reserve Base, Fort conference in Fort Worth. He was Worth for liquid oxygen modifica- approached by a Navy representation. The aircraft, holding a small amount of fuel, was sitting on See C-130, 4 BYBILLORNDORFF 309th Maintenance Wing Friday 80° F 53° F Partly to mostly cloudy w/isolated thunder storms Saturday 79° F 54° F Partly cloudy Sunday 75° F 48° F Partly cloudy Photo by Bill Orndortf A Navy C-130 wearIng Air Force wings flew onto the Hilt AFB runway recently following repair work in Fort Worth, Texas. Crews from the 309th Aircraft Maintenance Group and the 514th Flight Test Squadron repaired the cargo plane, which was damaged in a Fort Worth windstorm, and brought It back to Hill for finalmaintenance and painting. At the movies Friday, 7 p.m. "Madagascar," - PG Saturday, Noon "Madagascar," - PG Saturday, 7 p.m. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe," - PG |