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Show Hilltop TIMES • Weekly Since. 1948 Team uses AFS021 to cut waste 3 Spouse uses travels for inspiration Base happenings Pages 11-16 5 HiNAFB, Utah 84056-5824 www.hilltoptimes.com hilltop.times@hill.af.mil Vol. 66 No. 46, November 30, 2006 IN THE KNOW ; Visitor Center closes for 1 renovation The West Gate Visitor Center will be closed Dec. 11 to Jan. 5 for renovation. The Security Forces Mobile Command post will be set up in the parking lot of the West Gate Visitor Center for issuance of visitor passes, contractor identifications and extended base identifications and may be contacted by calling 777-6614. Space is limited within the trailer and customers are urged to use the South Gate Visitor Center whenever possible. The South Gate Visitor Center may be contacted at 777-8631. The issuance of Controlled Area Badges, Restricted Area Badges, Retired USAF Civil Service ID cards, AAFES ID Cards, and Geneva Convention Cards for Medical and Religious Personnel will be temporarily relocated to Bldg. 1219 during the renovation period. To inquire about these services, call 777-1853. i i ! Base holds blood drive There will be a base blood drive Dec. 7,8 a.m. - 4 p.m., in the Airman & Family Readiness Center (formally Family Support Center),Wg."T56; Tf individuals would like to make an appointment to donate, or nave eligibility questions, call Donor Services at 479-2389. Walk-ins are always welcome. Also, personnel can call Master Sgt. Margaret E. Santamaria pt 777-1147, to volunteer for the set-up, canteen or tear-down, i Ogden ALC commander talks with employees Maj. Gen. Kevin J. Sullivan will conduct his winter Ogden Air Logistics Center Commander's Call Dec. 14 at 7 a.m., 9 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. at the base theater. An interpreter for the hearing impaired will be available during the 9 a.m. session. Force protection security measures will be followed, so those at' tending should bring their identification cards and leave unnecessary items behind. The 9 a.m. session is expected to be heavily attended, so anyone planning to attend this session should arrive early as the theater doors will be closed once maximum capacity is reached. The 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. sessions are scheduled to accommodate graveyard- and swing shift employees and usually have the lowest attendance. The commander's call is mandatory for all Ogden ALC military members, plus GS-12s and above, but everyone is encouraged to attend. Base Theater Movies Friday, 7 p.m. - "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" (PG-13) Saturday, noon - "Fantastic Four" (PG-13) Saturday, 7 p.m. "Crossover" (PG-13) Hill exceeds $1 million CFC goal BY AIRMAN 1ST CLASS JENNY CHONG Hilltop Times staff Hill's Combined Federal Campaign wrapped up its final week Nov. 17, collecting $1,056,023, or 106 percent of its goal of $1 million. "We feel that this year was extremely ' successful," said Bart H u b b a r d, Hill's CFC publicity officer. "We exceeded our monetary goal as well as contacting 100 percent of base personnel. We are glad to know that we have raised a significant amount of money that will support numerous local and national charitable foundations." The overall amount is expected to grow as pledges typically flow in for several weeks after the campaign's six-week conclusion, Mr. Hubbard said that this year presented a number of unique challenges including a large number of retirements, deployments and wing/division reorganization efforts. But despite the challenges, Hill was still able to meet the $1 million goal with fewer people. "As always, the CFC provided a See CFC goal, 4 Deployed engineers support aircraft maintenance units BY TECH. SGT. STEVE STAEDLER 379th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) Growing up in Arizona was practically like having a desert as a backyard. That backyard served as the perfect place for mountain biking - a passion of 14-year-old Mark Eilertsen. For an avid biker, an ideal choice for a career would be doing something with mountain bikes. So the teenager did his research, and a quick telephone call later, his plans were set. W he n I was 14 I called a local bike company and asked what degree I needed in college to design mountain bikes," he said. "They told me mechanical enPhoto by Senior Airman gineering. Ricky Best I said lOK, Second Lt. Mark Elthat's what lertsen, a depot liaison engineer deployed with I'm doing.'" the 379th Expeditionary Thirteen Maintenance Operations years later, Squadron in Southwest his career Asia, uses a dial caliplans have alper while inspecting the most panned nose landing gear of a out as he B-1 Lancer. Lieutenant originally Ellertsen is assigned to intended. the 508th Aircraft Sus- The second talnment Wing. lieutenant, currently deployed to Southwest Asia but assigned to the 558th Aircraft Sustainment Group of the 508th Aircraft Sustainment Wing at Hill, has the degree in mechanical engineering and still loves mountain biking but See Deployed engineers, 7 Photo by Airman 1st Class Clay Murray Ma]. Gen. Kevin Sullivan, Ogden Air Logistics Center commander, serves some turkey to Harrison Punches on Thanksgiving Day at the Hillcrest Dining Facility. The dining facility served 320 people on Thanksgiving Day this year, 109 more than last year. General Sullivan along with other base leadership volunteered part of their day to serve dinner to those eating at the facility. For more photos on the event, see page 5. AFPC plans next force shaping board RANDOLPH AFB, Texas (AFPN) -The next force shaping board is scheduled to convene March 12 at the Air Force Personnel Center for officers in the 2003 and 2004 year groups. The board will evaluate active- duty line officers in overage career fields in the 2004 accession year group, as well as navigator, air battle manager, space and missile and developmental engineer officers in the 2003 year group. These are career fields that were not reviewed in last year's FSB. Retention recommendation forms must be completed for all board-eligible officers with See Force shaping, 4 Environmental team works with local school STORY AND PHOTO BY BETH YOUNG Hilltop Times staff An environmental mistake of the past has been turned into a learning opportunity for the future for some local high school students. Members of Hill's Environmental Restoration Branch welcomed advanced placement biology students from Clearfield High School Nov. 21 to witness a process that few get the chance to see, the drilling of a TCE monitoring well. Trichloroethylene, more commonly known as TCE, is a degreasing solvent commonly used at Hill until the mid-1970s. This and other chemicals used for aircraft depot maintenance processes were disposed of in unlined pits and trenches, becoming the sources of contaminated groundwater and soils now found on and off base. Hill has developed one of the most proactive environmental restoration programs in the Department of Defense, which includes a basewide network of wells and the use of several different technologies to clean up contaminated soils and groundwater. Earlier this year, the school received a $35,000 grant to help students study the effects of water contamination from the base. "We got a grant from Hewlett Packard to incorporate technology into teaching," said Bonnie Bourgeous, Clearfield High School biology teacher. "The goal is to find outCorey Schwabenlander, geologist with the environmental contractor CH2M Hill, what is going on with the pollution tells Clearfield High School students about the giant drill that Is used to create the plumes here at Hill Air Force Base." TCE monitoring well. This year-long project incorporates curriculum from chemistry, biology lations and what TCE is and how to In class the students are learning and calculus for the students. break it apart. And the math people about osmosis, the different layers "With the biology part, we are do all the equations. We are trying of the earth and building a model of studying man's impact on the ento figure out where the water is go- the plumes. During their visit, they vironment," Mrs. Bourgeous said. ing to move, and then we put it all "We are studying the chemical re- together." See Environmental lesson, 4 |