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Show Hilltog TIMES Weekly Since 1948 Award Supplement Leader5 ou; Sjpo Achievements recognized makes a difference Pages A-D Page 5 Contest winner announced 7 AFB, Utah 84056-5824 www.hilltoptimes.com hilltop.times@hill.af.mil Vol. 66 No. 42, November 2,,_ IN THE KNOW Hot Seat Summit open to all All Team Hill members - including families and retirees - are invited to the "Hot Seat Summit" Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Club Hill ballroom. The event is an opportunity to address a captive audience of Hill leaders and ask questions on everything from family issues to work concerns, customer service matters, new ideas and suggestions or long-standing gripes. Free child care will be available on site at the club for the duration of the meeting. Two alternate participation venues will also available for individuals who cannot make the meeting due to scheduling conflicts. A phone line, 777-1234, will be available for call-ins during the meeting, and questions may be sent in advance to 75ABW.CCA@hill.af.mil, using "Town Hall" as the subject line. For more information, call Pat Cerone at 7774681. VOLUNTEER AND ADOPT A HERO FOR WINGMAN DAY letters and donate care package items for deployed Airmen. Additionally, more than 40 loWith the Christmas and Thanksgiving holi- cal charitable organizations will be on hand day season right around the corner, this is the to accept donations and offer opportunities time of year many people look to help others for volunteer work. Participants will also be able to receive or volunteer their services. The Nov. 9 Wingman Day provides the per- health screenings like blood pressure checks, body mass index screenings, glucose screenfect opportunity to do just that with the first ings and bone density screenings. ever Volunteer and Wellness Expo. "For the 'adopt a hero' we are going to have The Expo will feature the 'Adopt a Hero' letter writing stationary so folks who are program, which will allow people to write BY MITCH SHAW Hilltop Times-staff there can actually send a letter and drop off care package items," said Lori Noble, 84th Combat Sustainment Wing. "We will have the names of the folks who are deployed so people can write a specific letter and personalize it." Hygiene products, movies, books, magazines, gum, hard candy, energy bars, beef jerky, sunflower seeds, dryer sheets, coffee, See Wingman Day, 3 Hill recognizes ICBM milestone 21st Utah Wheelin' Jazz visit Wednesday The Hill Person's with Disabilities Committee will sponsor the annual wheelchair basketball game featuring the Utah Wheelin' Jazz Wednesday at 4 p.m. at the Hess Fitness Center. The team will face a Hill team of senior management. Fee for the event is a $1 donation at the door. Door prizes will be awarded and refreshments will be available for purchase. For more information, call Vicki Frampton at 777-5211 or Paula Godfrey at 5865106. Ogden Air Logistics Center Combined Federal Campaign status Week 3, Oct. 18-25 • Center Goal is $1 million • Pledges to date $460,850 • 46 percent of goat raised •,43 percent of personnel contacted Photo by Todd Cromar Col. Richard Crowley speaks at the ICBM recognition ceremony Oct. 24. Photos by Beth Young At a special breakfast, Dr. Ron Rltter, special assistant to the secretary of the Air Force, spoke with Hill Airmen returning from deployment to get their take on AF5O 21 and how it can best be used. AF leadership takes look at Hill's Lean successes Just before catching a flight back to the Pentagon, Ron Rltter, special assistant to the secretary of the Air Force, meets with Hill leaders who have Lean projects their organizations. Friday, 7 p.m.-"My Super Ex-Girlfriend" (PG-13) Saturday, noon - "Rebound" (PG) Saturday, 7 p.m. - "The Devil Wears Prada" (PG-13) Hill celebrated the successful deployment of the Mark 21 reentry vehicle on a Minuteman III missile in a ceremony at Missile Park here Oct. 24. The Mark 21 was officially deployed Oct. 10 at F.E. Warren AFB.Wyo. More than $230 million and four years of effort by the Safety Enhanced Reentry Vehicle (SERV) Program Team of the 526th ICBM Systems Wing were invested into making necessary modifications to the Minuteman III weapon system. The deployment marks a new era for the Minuteman III, allowing the United States to continue its constant vigilance against external threats, said Col. Robert Shofner, 526th ICBM Systems Wing commander, in remarks at the event. See ICBM milestone, 6 Shop finds better way to meet customer needs STORY AND PHOTOS BY BILL QRNDQRFF 309th Maintenance Wing Base Theater Movies braced Lean if the ALCs didn't have the success they've had." Smart Ops 21 is a program Last week, many of Hill's Lean which combines the best parts of several efficiency programs, processes were scrutinized by Dr. Ron Ritter, special assistant including Lean and Six Sigma, to the secretary of the Air Force to develop an Air Force-unique for Air Force Smart Ops for the process improvement program. 21st Century (AFSO21), to "see Hill currently has some 85 Lean what it really looks and feels like," projects ongoing and has earned and to help the AFSO21 program numerous nationally-recognized awards for public-sector indusbecome stronger. trial process improvements. "You guys have been the pioneers," he said during a threeDr. Ritter took in some of the day visit to Hill and the Ogden more visible programs, includAir Logistics Center. "Air Force See Ritter visit, 4 leadership would not have emBY BETH YOUNG and G. A. VOLB Hilltop Times BY MITCH SHAW Hilltop Times staff an antenna," said Bill Wilmot, Radio Frequency Shop supervisor. "IntroSince adopting Lean principles, the ducing Lean helped streamline our F-16 Antenna Shop has improved ef- process and improve the quality and ficiency, cut costs and enabled F-16 reliability of the antennas we propilots to fly without worrying about duce." their radar. When an F-16 antenna shows signs The nine-person shop, part of the of failure, it is replaced with a spare 523rd Electronics Maintenance and the defective antenna sent to Squadron (Avionics), 309th Electron- the shop for repair. Using Lean prinics Maintenance Group, started its ciples, shop mechanics have reduced Lean project in January 2005. Project flow days - repair time measured goals included significant reductions from when the antenna arrived at the in flow days, back orders, work in shop until work is completed and the progress and customer wait time. part shipped out - from 28 days to "We're no longer causing the airShane Bertagnolll, 523rd Electronics Maintenance Squadron (Avionics), tests craft to sit on the ground, waiting for See Antenna shop, 4 an F-16 antenna after maintenance. T |