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Show HILLTOP TIMES TIMES March 15, 2007 fight ccess Photo by Airman 1st Class Stelanie Torres Master Sgt. Barry Harrah, 388th Equipment Maintenance Squadron, playing a Big Bomb operations munitions supervisor during the exercise, places the FZU-48 initiator in a 2,000 pound JADAM GBU-31. The Initiator is a little device that collects air when it's dropped, which turns the Internal turbine and sends a signal to the fuze Inside the bomb to arm it. A student's perspective Photo by Beth Young itary personnel complete decontamination produres before entering a building after conducting a sweeps during an exercise on Hill Air Force Base jrsday. During Phase 11 of the ORE, the 388th Air Expeditionary Wing Commander lead "deployed" operations from i the the Wing Operations Center. relieve Intelligence gathered inforpave mation on enemy operations • cticc field and worked with the misg through sion planning cell to identify |ng plays, enemy targets, while mainteks and Importunity nance operations Airmen eilsured aircraft and munitions i.aid Mrs. were available to fly sorties. n bet the ! The 388 FW completed 48 \ takes sorties in Phase I and 321 in cry seriPhase II. ; Airmen The survival and recovery /ment at cell was lead also housed in the WOC. Deployed civil /ancey, engineering, medical, personrt Squadnel and logistics readiness i:or, said Airmen responded to attacks •'ent well. and other deployed scenarios iave a during Phase II. -iivplace' Hill AFB Airmen and civilians can expect to participate 3 the last I there was in another evaluation again in the fall. Mr. Faucher said :" laid he was the next major exercise is scheduled for October. id with |in his (The 388th Fighter Wing Pub! pulled lic Affairs Office contributed to n the :vith much One 13-year-old girl from South Ogden Junior High School participated in the Operational Readiness Exercise for one day as part of a job shadow program. Kymberli Peterson, daughter of Master Sgt. Darren Peterson, 75th Logistics Readiness Squadron air transportation craftsman, shadowed her dad and then wrote a school paper about her experience. "Usually my dad leaves at 6:30 to be there at 7, but it was their war game day/' wrote Kymberli about arriving at the base by 6 a.m. "They had to dress in really heavy material with rubber boots, gloves, a gas mask, and a pouch that holds their mask and gloves. They dressed me up in it too so 1 could play with them. "After lunch we had the first pretend attack," she writes. "It was a bomb attack...The masks make you get really hot so it's good to get a lot of water." Kymberli thought thc*tiicknames 75 LRS personnel gave each other were a lot of Photo by Airman 1st Class Stefanie Torres The 388th Equipment Maintenance Squadron Munitions Flight personnel work together to build bombs while wearing all MOPP gear during Phase II of the exercise March 7. fun. "My dad's buddy Ed was real funny. He nicknamed me Green Horn. It means newcomer. Something really funny that happened was he nicknamed one guy Cutie so that guy named Ed Cupcake. It was really funny. I had a great time." In conclusion, Kymberli decided a career option other than the Air Force might be for her. "I really don't think this is the job I want to do, because you're away from your family quite a bit, and you don't get to go on very many vacations, and you have to get up pretty early/' she writes. "It would be furi though." ' -•—*"*':; •ljilWU'*. • i this story) Photo by Lt. Gcnieve David Tech. Sgt. Jason Smith, 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs, administers an atroplne shot as part of his self-aid and buddy care to unconscious member, Staff Sgt. Amanda Siaso, 75th Mission Support Squadron, during the operational readiness exercise 07-01 Thursday on Hill AFB. PhotobyG.A.Volb iWimander of the 75th Civil Engineer Squadron, tracks operational events during the Opircise Wednesday at Hill AFB. He logged actions taken and initiated recovery responses r a conference table during a simulated scud missile attack. |