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Show COMMENTARY TIMES May 22, 2008 Let's observe Memorial Day's true meaning ftMES Hilltop Times Editorial Staff: Lee Carter... Standard-Examiner publisher Mary Lou Gorny Hilltop Times Editor Lee Anne Hensley HilltopTimes Writer Deadlines: Editorial and news items are due by noon on tho Friday prior to the Thursday print date. To submit news items e-mail hiHtoptimes©standard.net or call 629-4273. For Classified Advertising, call 625-4300. For Retail Advertising, call 625-4388. The Hilltop Times is published by Ogcien Publishing Corporation, a private firm in no way connected with the U.S. Air Force, under, and in compliance with, a Memorandum of Understanding with Hill Air Force Base. The content of the Hilltop Times ( does not necessarily represent the views of, nor is it endorsed by, the U.S. Government, the Department of Defense, the Department of the Air Force or Hill Air Force Base (collectively, the Government). 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Remember their sacrifices and the sacrifices made by their friends and families. Commander, Air Force Materiel Command These are sacrifices that airmen, sailors, soldiers and Marines — and the people RIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — This Me- who support them — continue to make during current conflicts around the world. morial Day, I invite you to join men and women are America's heThese me in a tradition that has been someroes, and their ultimate sacrifice of laying what forgotten over time. On May 26, down their lives for our country should be let's celebrate the true meaning of this memorialized on this special day. national holiday by flying our American There are more than 1,300 Air Force flags at half staff from dawn until noon. Materiel Command men and women As you wind down your holiday weekcurrently deployed in support of Operaend, take this time to remember why we tions Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freehave a long weekend toward the end of dom. Nearly 100 airmen across the Air May each year. It's not because we've earned it as individuals, but rather because Force have given their lives in these two campaigns. Their commitment to helpwe've earned it collectively as a nation ing ensure our nation's freedom cannot — through the heroic sacrifices of great go unnoticed. Please pause to remember Americans who laid down their lives in order to gain and protect the many freedoms these men and women as you pay tribute to all those who have died in defense of our we enjoy in this great country today. BY GEN. BRUCE CARLSON W remembers its fallen airmen BY MAJ. GEN. KATHLEEN CLOSE Ogden Air Logistics Center Commander T he importance of Memorial Day can never be overstated. For many, it is the start of summer with backyard barbecues, camping and spending time with the family. But this year at Hill AFB it is a special Memorial Day because we are honoring Hill's heroes. On Monday at 1130 hours, we will dedicate a memorial to honor our fallen heroes who have given the ultimate sacrifice for their country. We will honor Tech. Sgt. Timothy R. Weiner, Senior Airman Elizabeth A. Loncki, Senior Airman Daniel B.- Miller Jr. and Special Agent Ryan A. Balmer. We ask you to join Team Hill, the families of our heroes and our supportive community leaders in this tribute. Additionally, I ask that, wherever you are on Memorial Day at 3 o'clock, please pause for the Memorial Day national Moment of Remembrance. Take this moment to reflect about the meaning of this holiday and the freedom we all enjoy for which many have died. Lastly, please remember that this weekend also starts the "101 Critical Day§ of Summer." t Be safe this summer season, look out for one another and most importantly be a good Wingman. My husband, Mike, joins me in wishing everyone a safe and enjoyable Memorial Day Inscription on the granite memorial for Hill AFB fallen airmen and the park as shown in weekend. artist's rendering. Team Hill Memorial Park — you made it happen! BY COL. LINDA MEDLER Commander 75th Air Base Wing W MMfC Nest itTip (rtimlhfl Hea!<h andVYfllne-ti Center Myth Buster Sugar causes diabetes. FALSE! If you already have diabetes you do need to watch your sugar and carbohydrate intake. However, the risk factors for developing diabetes are a diet high in calories, being overweight and an inactive lifestyle, and family history — not sugar intake. hew, it's here! Memorial Day coupled with an AFMC and ACC Family Day means a wellearned, much needed fourday break for many of us. But as you are making weekend plans, I hope you will take a minute to carve out some time from the hiking, biking, fishing, boating and barbecuing, to Unit Involved: Airmen Agilnst Drinking and Driving provide ridts when designated drivers ... are unavailable. '•" Call 777-1111 any time to request a ride. So what does this have to do with our second place finish in the Installation Excellence Award and being named one of two "America's Best" bases? EVERYTHING ... because without your daily hard work and dedication to excellence, Hill Air Force Base wouldn't have been named AFMC's best base, let alone selected as one of the top two bases out of 119 Air Force installations worldwide. And, in these tight budget times, without those winning dollars, this park and memorial would still be a dream in progress with no funding to turn it into reality. Thank you Team Hill... you made it happen! I invite you all to join us Monday to honor our airmen and dedicate our new park. Bring your family and make it a Memorial Day they will long remember. Uniform for military is service dress, and appropriate civilian attire is requested. Report suspicious activity vi'3 the AFOSI EAGLE EYES program Dial: 777-5056/5057/3508. Watch - Report - Protect Force Protection is Our Business - Everyone is a Sensor When you call or send an e-mail, your com- Please give your supervisor and chain of com- calling the Action Line. This will help me better ments will be recorded and staffed through the mand the opportunity to work with you in an- serve your interests. Items of basewide interest agency responsible for action. swering questions and solving problems before will be published in the Hilltop Times. Phone numbers — The base agencies listed can be contacted directly if you have a complaint or a problem with their services: Security Forces _ .....777-5550 24-hr. Crisis Information ...777-3056 Services _ _. ,..777-4134 Base Restaurants..:.. :„ ...„..._.. 777-2043 Retirement/Compensation 777-6142 (civilian) Social Actiom ; 777-3516 Employe Relation! 777-7129 Military Pay _ 777-1851 GvilianPay _..„ .....777-6246 Air Force Suggestion ,^r. »:?J:_^ 777-6901' Program •.. s '••'.- IG Complaints ^XSt-Z- 777-5305 (for appointment) IC Complaints „. 777-5361 (after hour^f Fraud. Waste or Abuse _ 777-5361 75th Medical Croup.: 777-4918 Civil Engineering ..._„._; ;'..„ -777-1856 HiH Pride Hotline ™™.:_ 777-7433 Public Affairs ^ki_™ 777-5201 Public Affairs Infonrotion 777-9696 Control One Military Houiii^J^^ Maintenance " Jf Salely Office.. ,™4L ^j_ 777-3333 777-3257 Union - _ AFOSI Narcotics Hotline _ _-._- 777-1852 777-3090 Family Assistance Center (when activated) Air Force Base Library and Theater mark 40 years of service1 Hill's Total 2008 DUIs: 13 6 join us in dedicating the Team Hill Memorial Park and honoring our four airmen killed in action last year. At 11:30 a.m., on Monday, May 26,2008, in the grassy area between the Airman and Family Readiness Center and Building 308 (across E Street from the BX), Team Hill will dedicate the Memorial Park, unveil our new memorial and rename four streets in honor of the four heroes we lost in Iraq in 2007. 777-7000 action.line.pa@hill.af.mil THINK SAFETY Hill's Last DUI: country. A great time to do this is during the nationwide Moment of Remembrance at 3 p.m. on Memorial Day, a time designated for all Americans to recognize our , common heritage. So as you raise the "Stars and Stripes" early this Memorial Day, think too about a little-known verse from Francis Scott Key's "The Star-Spangled Banner:" Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just And this be our motto: "In God is our trust" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! Please have a safe, joyous Memorial Day weekend. Thank you for your continued commitment to our great country. God bless each and every one of you. General Thomas P. Gerrity, who commanded 1967. He died suddenly from a heart attack in Air Force Logistics Command (re-appointed February 1968. Ogden Air Logistics Center Historian as Air Force Materiel Command in 1992) from Today's Base Theater first opened its doors bout this time in 1968 Hill Air Force August 1967 to February 1968. Born in Mon- this week in 1968. The 500-seat facility preBase (AFB) personnel gained our tana in 1913, Gerrity entered the Air Corps sented a movie a day with more than one current theater and library. Both in 1939 and earned his wings in May 1940. showing per day for especially popular films. were memorialized in honor of extraorHe flew mainly B-25 combat missions durIn 1982, base leadership formally named dinary people — the library on the same ing World War n, primarily in the Pacific, and the theater in honor of Mont and Mark Steday it opened and the theater more than a commanded the B-36 wing at Carswell AFB, phensen. They were two USAF pilots from decade later. Texas, during the early 1950s. He became Rivjerton, Utah, killed in action more than 20 In May 1968, Ogden Air Materiel Area instrumental in the fielding of the first inter- years apart—Mont in 1944 during a B-26 mis(re-appoihted as Ogden Air Logistics Center continental ballistic missiles, including the sion over Europe and Mark in 1967 during a in 1974) memorialized the library in honor of Minuteman, and pinned on his fourth star in RF-4C mission over North Vietnam. BY DAVE KENDZIORA A |