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Show HILLTOP TIMES flMES 3 July 19, 2007 ^ Commander studies Hill's systems, missio for the airmen under her command and the Air Force in general. Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau sfarver@standard.net During a discussion with media last week, Close outlined her hopes for and impressions of Hill. or about three weeks, Brig. The No. 1 duty of the base is to Gen. Kathleen D. Close has been touring the base, famil- adequately prepare airmen for iarizing herself with her new com- combat, she said. But the base also mand and preparing for the future. has the role of continually supportClose, the first female command- ing weapons systems such as the Aer of the Ogden Air Logistics Cen- 10 Thunderbolt II and the F-16. ter, expects it to take more than 90 "Every day, we are supporting days before she has a good handle the war fighter and a huge portion on everything that occurs on Hill of that is the munitions responsibilAir Force Base. ity that we have here," she said. With the average age of military "I really feel before I can do any kind of changes or understand the aircraft being more than 24 years direction I want to lead the center, old, updating that aircraft is vital, and that goes for installation, too, is she said. MATTHEW HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner understand what we do here," she "We need to modernize our inBrig. Gen. Kathleen Close answers questions from the said. ventory, our fleet and the support media at Hill Air Force Base recently. Close is the new equipment that goes with that," she But Close said she does know commander of the Ogden Air Logistics Center. that she has to continue providing said. BY SHANE FARVER F 'Adopt a Hero' redoubles campaign to thank troops ing. BY MITCH SHAW According to Noble, the feedback she received from the troops who benefited from the program in December was reaill Air Force Base will hold the son enough to do it again. second installment of its "Adopt "We received a ton of letters from our a Hero" campaign today at the troops thanking us for the gifts," Noble Centennial Park small pavilion starting at said. "It was really amazing to get the let9 a.m. ters they sent back. For these folks to take what little personal time they have and go The first Adopt a Hero campaign was and get a card to thank us says a lot about held last December and proved to be an our military." overwhelming success. Donations needed for care packages "The Adopt a Hero campaign was include: hygiene products, movies, books, a huge success last year," said Debra Schwartz, who helped organize the event. CDs, magazines, gum, hard candy, energy "The teamwork with all the people inbars, beef jerky, sunflower seeds, dryer volved and all the great volunteers was sheets, coffee, ChapStick, hand warmers, incredible. It was fantastic to see people batteries, and phone cards. bring in their donations and sign up to The past success of the program has volunteer." led organizers to set some lofty goals for the campaign. According to organizers of the event, the main mission of the campaign is to "Our goal is to eventually send a packsend care packages stocked with much age to every deployed member," Noble needed personal items and letters to said. "We are in this for the long haul." troops overseas. December's campaign Noble said she expects the Adopt a sent more than 90 large care packages Hero campaign to again be a success and and 1,000 letters to deployed troops. hopes it will continue to thrive at Hill. "We are going to have letter-writing sta"We have so many different people who tionery so folks can stop by and actually have dedicated themselves to making this personalize their letters and care package event a huge success," she said. "I think it items," said event organizer Lori Noble. will continue to grow because the base as "We will have the names of the folks that a community embraces the enormous sacare deployed so people can be specific and rifice our troops make, and we want them talk directly to the person they are helpto know we haven't forgotten them." Standard-Examiner staff mishaw@standard.net H Part of that is upgrading F-16s through the Common Configuration Implementation Program. The 388th Fighter Wing is preparing to deploy its first squadron of CCIP airplanes, Close said. She said she will continue to help ensure Hill plays a vital role in upgrading and performing maintenance on airplanes for years to come. 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