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Show AWARD SUPPLEMENT TO THE HILLTOP TIMES Civilian of the Year Category II Civilian of the Year Category I Christopher Nordberg Michelle Hathaway 530th Commodities Maintenance Squadron Michelle Hathaway created a strategic deployment manpower maximization plan. With ten percent fewer personnel, she specified fiscal year 2007 objectives. Ms. Hathaway lowered overtime 12 percent when she forecasted work hours in the Product Support Flight and produced a cost-cutting standard work plan. Her technical knowledge earned her a position to serve as the management analyst for the Power Systems Support Flight. Ms. Hathaway was appointed as the ' squadron awards monitor and nominations went up 500 percent with 14 wing winners and more than 100 civilian awards. 575th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Christopher Nordberg reinvented the A-10 inspection process and compressed the deceleron repair 60 percent. With a new balance sling paint • process, he cut two days from process times and saved $35,000 per year. These improvements and changes eliminated late deliveries. Mr. Nordberg streamlined the asset order process for temporary production work loads and slashed order times by 15 percent. He is a capable Lean transformation expert and was requested by name for three critical Lean events. Civilian of the Year Category IV Civilian of the Year Category III Lonny Sexton Eric Johnson 530th Commodities Maintenance Squadron 75th Civil Engineer Squadron Lonny Sexton is the primary drive in the 14 Eric Johnson implemented a weed removal program for 208,000 feet of the base fence line and percent rise in central gearbox delivery for fiscal accomplished it in-house saving the Air Force $2 year 2006 without any manpower increases. He _. million. Hejalso reconfigured the 2006 vendor purr.managejimanppwer^ time.andcell assets to help, * chasing list from 19 to one and saved the Air Force produce 105 units per quarter without the use $25,000 when he reduced the ordering process 95 of overtime. Mr. Sexton led troops through a percent. Mr. Johnson aided in weekly inspections turnover period. He trained new members and ran the only cell with 100 percent output during of grainery products from the base Commissary with a 100 percent health inspection compliance. fiscal year 2006. He also helped eradicate insects on the flightline arid reduced bird feeding around the airfield by 80 percent promoting flightline safety. Mr. Johnson performed thorough mosquito treatment at base ponds and reduced mosquito population and disease vector threat by 99 percent. Civilian of the Year Category V Civilian of the Year Category V THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2007 Hill members earn next rank The following Team Hill Airmen were promoted during March to the rank indicated: Ronald Todd, 729 ACS Mark Vandevender, 388 EMS To Senior Airman: Michael Brettelle, 775 CES To Senior Master Sergeant: Scott Knupp, 775th Civil Engineer Caleb Carpenter, 649 MUNS Andre Cervantes, 75 CES Squadron Gregory Cooper Jr., 75 SFS Christopher Findley, 388 EMS To Master Sergeant: David Fuller, 75 SFS Kris Braddock, 84th Radar Evalua388 CMS Michael Gallegos, tion Squadron Jacob Graf, 75 SFS Jason Byars, 388th Equipment Donald Gray Jr., 388 EMS Maintenance Squadron Kenneth Hartsfield, 388 CMS Samuel Chavez Jr., 75th Civil Jared LaCambra, 75 CES Engineer Squadron David Storm, 729 ACS Steven Harris, 84 RADES Jeffrey Labossiere, 729th Air To Airman 1st Class: Control Squadron Emmett Clark, 729 ACS Gregory Moore, 75th Security Ryan Cordell, 388 EMS Forces Squadron Neil Culp, 388th Maintenance Anthony Smith, 388 EMS Matthew Stears, 388th Fighter Wing Operations Squadron Andrew Dunn, 75 CES Robert Tirko, 388th Aircraft Joshua Hollis, 75th Dental Maintenance Squadron Squadron Raymel Jackson, 388 EMS To Technical Sergeant: Brandon King, 388 AMXS Joaqin Bourgeois, 388 EMS Arturo Nunez Jr., 388 EMS Brandon Branham, 368th Joselindo Ocampo, 75 CES Recruiting Squadron Marie Stallings, 75 CES Michael Braun II, 309th Missile Noelia Torres, 388 AMXS Maintenance Group Eric Tucker, 388 AMXS ' Charles Evelo, 388 AMXS Jaimes Vanderhoof, 388 AMXS Stephen Henry Jr., 75th Medical Support Squadron To Airman: Jennifer Johnson, 368 RCS Dustin Blocker, 729 ACS David Lenzie, 388 EMS Jason Metcalf, 388 MOS Susana Caraveo, 75 CS Michael Steer Jr., 729 ACS Amanda Rood, 75 MDOS To Staff Sergeant: Abigail Wright, 75 CPTS Victor Alvarez, 388 AMXS John Clark, 388 AMXS To Lieutenant Colonel: Willie Coffey, 75 SFS Travis Corn, 75 SFS Jeffrey Anderson, 388 FW Jerimey Dykens, 388 EMS Jack Sine, 4th Fighter Squadron Casey Evans, 75 CES 'Marissa Ferguson, 388 EMS' To Major: Dustin Fish, 519th Combat LeeDeWaldJr.,4FS Sustainment Squadron Suzanne McLaughlin, 649 MUNS Jason Harlan, 649 MUNS Kirstin Plagge, Detachment 860th Tony Hough, 75 CS ROTC Marcus Huss, 388 CMS Edward Spinelli, 729 ACS Heather Israel, 368 RCS Michelle Janusick, 34th Fighter To Captain: Edward Cutchen, 75 LRS Squadron Craig Martin 649th Munitions Shannon Jackson, 75 CPTS Squadron To 1st Lieutenant: Timothy Miller, 649 MUNS Justin Hochstein, 526ICBM SW Timothy Moore, 649 MUNS Mark Oberacker, 388 AMXS Mark Eilertsen, 558th Aircraft Monique Peloquin, 75 LRS Sustainment Group Vincent Schultz, 75 LRS Chad Manuele, 558 ASG James Tett, 309 MMXG EricJudd,75SFS Team Hill Airmen re-enlist Staff Sgt. Tracy Davidson, 75th Medical Operations Squadron Staff Sgt. Matthew Franklin, Senior Master Sgt. Timothy 75th Mission Support Group Staff Sgt. Luis Matos, 75th Moreiand, 508th Aircraft Sustainment Group Logistics Readiness Master Sgt. Jason Byars, 388th Squadron Equipment Maintenance Staff Sgt. Stephen Middleton, Squadron 388 Maintenance Operations Tech. Sgt. Evan Behringer, Squadron 649th Combat Logistics Staff Sgt. Ricardo Santiago, Support Squadron 388th Component MainteTech. Sgt. Kirk Fisher, 388 EMS nance Squadron Tech. Sgt. Gregory Moore, 75th Staff Sgt. Sean Thomas, 729th Security Forces Squadron Air Control Squadron Staff Sgt. Robert Bardago, 388 Senior Airman Aaron EMS McKenna, 388 CMS The following Airmen reenlisted in March and will be continuing their career in the Air Force. Christopher Robinson Jeffery Richardson 388th Range Squadron 84th Radar Evaluation Squadron Christopher Robinson coordinated airspace Jeffrey Richardson manages $8 million in . for 16,000 training sorties over the Utah Test and software, $1.5 million in contracts and $500,000 in Training Range that were critical to off-station hardware. Mr. Richardson oversaw a $5 million organizations. He consistently met or exceeded software transition effort that stores 25 years of support requirements for range war fighters. radar date. He prepared a four-hour data set for Mr. Robinson laid F-22A program ground work, a Navy surveillance project that protected homehandled the program, and coordinated endorse- land centers in Washington, D.C. Mr. Richardson ment of the UTTR for equipment testing and pilot integrated nine new radars for an Air Force traindevelopment. He directly coordinated 87 test ing range program expansion that saved $350,000. missions for 26 independent test programs. Volunteer of the Year First-Term Airman's Center graduates Paula Nowak Hill Enlisted Spouse's Club Paula Nowak established a spouse and family network for deployed members and made continuous contact with more than 50 people to pass critical information. She organized 13 weeks of meal deliveries for families in need and allowed them to focus on premature child care. Ms. Nowak personally held several meals in her own home and headed four potluck dinners at Snow Barn. She has welcomed several deployed troops home at the Salt Lake City International Airport, Ms. Nowak 1 vvis also an active member of the Hill Enlisted Spouse's Club as a fundraising chairman.' . There were twelve Team Hill Airmen include, but are not limitmembers who graduated March ed to, off-duty education, Airmen 23 here from the First-Term Air- and Family Readiness Center, man's Center. personal financial management, The First Term Airman's Center . TRICARE, disaster preparedness, is a two-week course designed to and finance and military personnel. Optional briefings may be transition Airmen from a trainlegal, domestic violence, suicide ing environment to a missionprevention, housing, honor guard oriented environment. It proand services. vides a means of in-processing Airmen, providing them with a The recent graduates are: foundation of base and training Airman 1st Class John Bergo, programs, while making them 75th Security Forces Squadron mission ready in a short amount Airman 1st Class Christopher of time. Bloom, 388th Aircraft MainteMandatory briefings for the See Airman's Center graduates, 10 |