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Show Hilltop TIMES U.S.AIR on Weekly Since 1948 Utah 84056-5824 www.hilltoptimes.com hilltoptimes@standard.net Vol. 69 No. 1, January 8, 2009 *' IN THE KNOW Power outage planned Jan. 15 A power outage will occur Jan. 15 from 7 a.m. to 8 am. Buildings affected will be: Buildings 14,10, Base Ops and Airfield lighting. The purpose of the outage is a monthly generator test. Constant Improvement SARC office moves to new location The Sexual Assauft Response Coordinator office has relocated to the Base Chapel (Building 475, basement, office B5). The contact numbers remain the same, 777-1964 and 777-1985. The SARC cell phone number also remains the same, 430-3368. The point of contact is Capt Jose Milan. Hill military spouses on television Friday Select Team Hill military' spouses will be televised Friday, Jan. 6, in conjunction with a day of pampering at a local spa The Military and Family Life consultant at the Airman and Family Readiness Center is coordinating a Salon Tantrum's Salute to the Military Spouse on the morning of Friday, Jan. 9,5:30 a.m.-8 am. KUTV Channel 2 News will be covering the event. Call the AFRC at 777^681 for more information. Coat Drive has been extended to Jan. 22 The 729th Air Control Squadron and other squadrons will extend their coat drive until Jan. 22. Until then, the squadrons will be collecting warm coats and clothing to be given to the Ogden Homeless Veteran's Fellowship and the George E. Wahien Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salt Lake City. To find out where the nearest drop-off location is, contact the following organizers: •729th ACS: Tech. Sgt. Jesse Bunck, 777-4293, and Staff Sgt. Aileena Audiss, 777-0624. • 649th Combat Logistics Support Squadron: Master Sgt. James Jordan at 777-8072 • 75th Operations Support Squadron: Tech. Sgt. Susan Secora at 777-2018. • 388th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: Senior Airman Jason Smith and Master Sgt James Mysliwski at 777-6409. College grant money available The Air Force Aid Society provides $2000 grants to selected sons and daughters of active duty, Title 10 AGR/Reservists on extended duty, Title 32 AGR performing full-time active duty, retired, retired Reservists with 20-plus qualifying years of service, and deceased Air Force members, spouses of active duty and Title 10 AGR/Reservists on extended active duty, and surviving spouses of deceased, for their undergraduate studies. Visit the Airman and Family Readiness Center or the Web site www.afas.org to apply for the General Henry H. Arnold Education Grant Program. Courtesy photo Members of the 75th Medical Group In Place Patient Decontamination team are shown removing clothing from an "unconscious patient" prior to washing the patient's skin with soap and water at an Operational Readiness Exercise on March 8. 75th Medical Group focuses on efficiency and reorganization BY LEE ANNE HENSLEY Hilltop Times staff I t seems common for an employee to utter the phrase, "Things would run so much more efficiently if ..." at least once in their career, yet it seems rare for a business to dedicate time and money into making such improvements. The Hill Air Force Base 75th Medical Group has broken that trend and dedicated an extraordinary amount of effort and resources into making their group more efficient in the past year. The efforts were made after the group underwent a Rapid Improvement Event and looked at how their organization scheme could be managed most efficiently. Lt. Col. Christopher Dun, 75th MDG Medical Support commander, was tasked to find the resources to make its dreams into reality. "We have a five-year master plan that the Health Facilities Office helped us to develop into a multimillion dollar project, in which no funding was available," he said. "When I arrived here in July as the commander, Col. Chini (75th Medical Group commander) asked me to look at our fiscal position and, if we had the money, we were to move out on aspects of this plan with an end-state to provide better quality care and more space for the provision of healthcare in our primary care clinics." The numerous items targeted in the plan required a tremendous reorganization effort. SENIOR AIRMAN JASON BURTON/U.S. Air Force Lt Col. Christopher Dun (right), 75th Medical Support Squadron commander, shows Col. Linda Medler, 75th Air Base Wing commander, samples for the medical clinics remodeling project. Bioenvironmenta! Engineering (BEE) Flight buzz "We respond to chemical, biological, and nuclear incidents, as well as perform health risk assessments and sample the environment to determine the hazards, and then make personal protective equipment recommendations to the incident commander," explains Master Sgt. Michael McGurl, Bioenvironmental Engineering and Readiness Emergency Response coordinator. "We rewrote our Medical Contingency Response Plan in the beginning of the year to reflect the requirements of what a medical clinic can provide rather than what a hospital can provide." The BEE Flight took their training plans a few steps further by forging training relationships with other groups to create a more See GROUP I page 4 Look inside this week's Hilltop Times for •• Base Theater Free Movies Friday, 7 p.m. - "Lakeview Terrace" (PG-13) Saturday, noon - "Horton Hears a Who" (G) Saturday, 7 p.m. "Righteous Kill" (R) Sunday, 1 p.m.-"Meet the Robinsons" (G) General visits Hill Lt Gen. Seip, 12th AF commander, tours the base See page 6 Team Cover Girl M See who was promoted and who graduated Team Hill member shares fitness message See pages 7-8 See page 9 SPORTS & F THE HOW TO ISSUE... OO QREEhTWITH YOUR WORKOUTS COOK WITH PROTEIN 8AY 'NO1 TO iNACKtNQ |
