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Heritage Park Blvd • layton • 801-614-5012 j ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••a If Your Mortgage Rate is Over 4.5% You may be paying too much! A 5 Minute Gall Gould Save You Thousands In Interest! • Call today for a fast approval ""APITAL FINANCIAL JROUP 801-298-5887 ^ Your Local VA Loan Specialist Alan Blond J eral service, the chief of staff for the Ogden Air Logistics Center retired at the Hill Aerospace Museum, Jan. 29. Aksel Aydoner began his service in 1976 with the Air Force and later became an operations and research analyst and mathematical statistician as a civilian in the Engineering Division at the OO-ALC. Eventually assigned to his current position, he served under the direction of the two previous commanders of the OO-ALC, and Maj. Gen. Andrew Busch, current OO-ALC commander. Known as an institution of sorts at Hill Air Force Base, Aydoner thanked all those who helped to shape his career, including those he served with, including a humorous reference to "those criminals who welcomed me into their ranks." His remarks were filled with humil- ity and respect for those he served with noting however, that he considered the OO-ALC people some of the finest. "We are very fortunate to have the greatest community in the Air Force, maybe in the Department of Defense," he said. Aydoner paid tribute to his father, a freedom fighter in Yugoslavia. The family moved to Turkey, when Aydoner was 13 months old, to escape communism and eventually emigrated to the United States. Among his final remarks he noted, "Remember happiness is the consequence of personal effort." He concluded, "I salute you, thank you and God bless." Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Kevin Sullivan said in his introduction of the civil servant he assigned to the post of chief of staff, "He had the perfect temperament for the job ...you're gonna miss him when he's gone." Aydoner's wife, Mary Jo, presented him with his retirement pin. AFB beefs up the A-10 Warthog after 2008 grounding of aircraft f BY MITCH SHAW Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau mishaw@standard.net O ne of the best ground support aircraft the military has to offer is getting a significant life-span extension at Hill Air Force Base. The 38-year-old A-10 Thunderbolt II, commonly known as the Warthog, is undergoing procedures at Hill to prolong its service life. Standard-Examiner file photo As part of the Air Force's Lt. Col. Jeremy "Java" Horn explains cracks found Service Life Extension 11 in the wings of some A-10 Thunderbolt Us at Hill Air Ciass^.pnly,$QMAU INCLUSIVE!) Program, the'dose1 air sup- Force Base in 2008. Call (801) 430-4659 to reserve your seat & receive $5.00 OFF class port plane is receiving wing and .<-')\u\ j\. inspection1 and repairs that officials say will increase its lifespan from chief at Hill. "What it does for the troops 8,000 to 16,000 Hying hours. who are on the ground is invaluable." •t-Crews are also working on the plane's In October 2008, when the Air Force1;; called for a mass grounding of A-lOs after tail, fuselage and engine. discovering wing cracks in the older mod"The big picture with the A-10 is that els of the plane, Hill began immediate it's a big part of making sure we meet inspections and repairs of the Warthogs. our military requirements in Iraq and The planes in which the cracks were Afghanistan," said Jim Marx, a logistics found were built before 1980 and were management specialist at the base. "So we're focused on sustaining and modifyequipped with 'thin-skin" wings. ing it to improve the life of the wing." In 2011, Hill will begin to replace all thin-skin wings with a thick-skin model. With approximately 350 A-10s in ser"The difference in the wings is simply vice, Marx estimates about 90 percent of one has more material," Marx said. "The the Air Force's fleet has gone through the more material you have, the more durable SLEP. The A-10's strong airframe can survive they will be." direct hits from armor-piercing and highBy 2015 or 2016, Marx said, the Air {{. explosive projectiles, making it essential Force will have replaced all of the old Present this AD at the door and receive: in Iraq and Afghanistan. wings and will have one thick-skin configuration. "We don't want to disparage the F-16, because it's over there (in Iraq and AfIn addition to what it means for troops ghanistan) and has an incredible capabil- on the ground, it means almost as much ity," Marx said. "But the A-10 can go into for the base's workload. Merrill said the base will work on apa mountain valley and go really slow and proximately 110 A-10 aircraft in fiscal maneuver around. That's really different year 2010, a figure that doesn't include than the F-16, which by nature has to go fast." drop-in or unexpected maintenance. "The A-10 workload does a lot of good The aircraft has mechanical and flight systems that allow pilots to fly and for this community," Merrill said. land even after hydraulic power or part of "If you look at it from an economic a wing is lost. standpoint, we employ 325 people to perform maintenance and upgrades. That's a "It's just an amazing and important 'No purchase necessary. Must be 18 yrs or older. One entry per person. See Rocky Mountain Gun Shaw far details. plane," said Rick Merrill, A-10 production pretty big impact." Plus: - Muzzle Loaders - Reloading Supplies - Coins. • Assault Rifles • Knives • Collectables • Shotguns • Outdoor Gear • Clips Gear -Food Storage And MORE! 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