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Show TIMES HILLTOP TIMES October 4, 2007 Parker Bennett looks at some airplanes at the Hill Aerospace Museum with his grandfather on a visit to the facility Oct. 2. Wings conduct night flying HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Pilots from the 388th and 419th fighter wings started conducting night flying missions Oct. 1 and they will continue into the winter months. Local residents will hear F-16s flying during the night hours as pilots continue to sharpen their night-time combat flying skills. The active duty 388th FW and Reserve 419th FW share a fleet of Block 40 F-16s and are required to train at night because of special nightflying capabilities. During after-dark operations, the wings1 personnel train with advanced targeting pods and night vision goggles. When deployed, the 388th and 419th make up the largest F-16 close air support wing in the world and must remain proficient in night flying to continue to successfully accomplish their mission. The wings limit their night operations to what is required to remain proficient in night-flying training. When on a night schedule, the wings conduct missions . Mondays through Thursdays from the early evening until shortly after midnight. For more information, call the 388th or 419th Public Affairs office at 777-3200. MATTHEW HATFIELD StandardExaminer MUSEUM Don Byington oversees restoration and facilities. "He moves so fast it's like you can't even From page 1 see him," the museum director said. "I tell him this is what we Volunteers form the museum's need, I give him the challenge, backbone, with about 110 curand he rises to meet it." rently involved at an average b ~\\ age of 68 to 70, Wirz said. John Pepin is the "adminGeorge Duaine of Roy is one istrative guru," who not only handles the computer end of the such volunteer. His involveoperation but has taken on the ment with the military effort scheduling events, "not a part goes back to his father, living of his job description," Wirz in the Detroit area, who helped emphasized. build B-24 bombers for Ford, which was under contract to Tom Hill is the museum cusupply them to the World War rator and a federal employee. II defense effort. "He worked His wife, Mary Hill, shares in on some of the 7,000 B-24s that that capacity but is a contract Ford built," Duaine said. employee. "We had 200 special events The museum is used as a resource by hundreds of school here in 2005, everything from teachers from across the region pin-ons to retirements," the who brought upwards of 40,000 director said. "There were 300 in 2006," and it appears to be students through on field trips, increasing this year, with the last year. ceremony recognizing Gen. Leslie Peterson is the direcClose's second star, today, the CAPT. GENA DAVID/U.S. Air Force tor of education, staffing such latest where the museum is as the Learning Center. facilities Senior Airman Nicholas Jack, 75th Security Forces Squadron, and "Leslie has a heart of gold, re- playing host. wife share an emotional moment during the homecoming of 45 ally loves children, makes sure Wirz wants to shift the airmen at the Salt Lake International Airport on Oct. 2. The 45 children have some place to museum's focus from showairmen returned from a seven-month deployment in Bucca, Iraq. learn, to grow," Wirz said. ing off hardware to being more BOUTIQUE!! Oct. 3-4-5-6 Show Hours "Cornstalks <£ Pumpkins" Grant/ Opening! GOLDEN SPIKE EVENTS CENTER Wednesday 1-8 PM Weber Count)' Fairgrounds 1000 N. 1200 W.Ogdcn * Exit 346o(TI-I5 Thurs.fi Fri. 10-8 PM No Strollers on Wed. 1-5 PM arc Mxkunic fur the bakniLC n/llic \luiw about people. "Eighty percent of what you see (objects) tells only 20 percent of the story. The focus has been on hardware, not people." That includes showing off what he calls "two of the most unloved units" at the base. "The security forces are essential, but most people never have a good interaction with them. And civil engineers, including those who have to clean the toilets, clean up the stink," are vital yet never thought of for what they do, Wirz said. "They (those employees) should have a place to bring their family, show them that 'this is what I do, there's me," he said. "We want to show them and other groups off, for a day," Wirz said. "I never served in the Air Force or the military, have no vested interest, but this is what you (military, etc.) do. I'm trying to help you tell your story." The museum gives a chance to tell that story, the 362 days a year it's open, he said. 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