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Show 10 HILLTOP TIMES February 18, 2010 Team Hill engineers win honors at UEC awards banquet iPLANES (From page 9 •i from Brigham Young University where he taught anthropology, took his first flight on July 6,1930, when he was 5 years old. The {plane was a 1927 Waco 10, piloted by his uncle. , When he was 9 years old, he had his first ,'pair of goggles and a helmet. But he also Vas wearing a parachute and knew the •value of pulling the "ring of life," he said. j It was that knowledge that saved his life ;10 years later when he was shot down over 'northern Germany. \ The pilot of the first B-17 Matheney was "assigned to was only 19 years old and had !six hours of flight time. I "We trained every day and it was real ^intense," Matheney said about the pilot and ithe crew of 10. \ Diagrams of the B-17, along with photojgraphs of different bombers were part of piis presentation. \ The tail gunner of his crew, Bob Lamouxeaux, brought two GI blankets off his bed lone morning. When Matheney protested, JLamoureaux said, "You can never tell when Jyou'll need these." i They were among 14 B-17s heading jto Abbeville, France, to bomb the airfield fwhere Herman Goering's fighter squadron, f'Yellow Nose Boys," was stationed, when tthey were attacked. j Lamoureaux was severely injured, Matheney said. ) Matheney did what he could for his friend, then wrapped him up in the two jblankets. f After they landed, Lamoureaux was ^transferred to a hospital for treatment. 1 "We were shot down several days later [and Bob (Lamoureaux) was unconscious ffor 10 days, so he thought we were dead," Matheney said. * The two men met again in 1997 in Flori;da, Matheney said. S BETH SCHLANKER/Standard-Examiner A picture of Ray Matheney during World War II. Matheney discussed his time spent as a B-17 engineer and POW during a plane talk session at the Hill Aerospace Museum at Hill Air Force Base on Feb. 6. Matheney will continue talking about his experiences in an Airplane Talk on April 24. NEXT TALK Ray Matheney will talk about the two years he spent as a prisoner of war in Stalag 17 in Germany at the next Airplane Talk program scheduled for April 24 at the Hill Aerospace Museum. For more information contact the museum at (801) 777-6818. THE TRADITION IS BACK... Standard Examiner 1-* -K 'r^ >;-~-r. -•- There's no place like USA.gov. Have you ever wondered how the Wizard of Oz seemed io know every*htnghWell. Lhc secret's out and ifs USA.gov. Von can find everything from studcnL loans lo fiovrmnicnl auctions ami government benefits io. well, almost anything. So £o lo the official source af federal and slate -government information. USA.gov. It can make you as all-knowlngns lhc Wizard of Oz. 'tJSA.gov 1 (800) FED-INFO SAT. JANUARY 9.23 FEBRUARY 6 I SAT FEBRUARY 20 MARCH 6 20 SUN JANUARY 10.2«FEBRUARY7 I SUN FEBRUARYS! 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He is the \ with dining, awards author of many other \ and a speaker, Kent V publications and was \ Rominger — an ATK the primary advocate * vice president and a for development of the \ former astronaut. current engineering \ and technical manage- \ Hill Air Force Base ment awards program, \ engineering leaders Christenson won both of the top a Team Hill Engineers \ awards targeting enWeek activity. \ gineering professionals within Also recognized with achieve- } the state. There were five major mentawards, which qualified j awards announced, three rethem as runners-up for the En- J served for recognizing educators gineer of the Year award, were \ and students. Lt. Kathryn MarAllan Dalpias, chief engineer, ron, of the 75th Civil Engineer 526th ICBM Systems Group, Air [ Group, received the Fresh Faces Force Nuclear Weapons Center, ; in Engineering 2010 Award for who was nominated by the Soci- \ her engineering leadership role ety of American Military Engi- £ over fire protection projects on neers, and Col. (Ret.) Charles T. \ base. She was nominated by the Vono, deputy IPD manager, from \ Society of American Military Northrop Grumman, a corpo- •'. Engineers. rate partner with Hill AFB, who ; The final award at the ceremo- was nominated by the American ; ny, the prestigious Engineer of Institute of Aeronautics and As- ; the Year 2010 Award was given tronautics. Five other engineers * to Dan Christenson, director of received achievement awards * Engineering, 748th Supply Chain qualifying them as runners-up ? Management Group, Air Force for the Engineer of the Year \ Global Logistics Center, who award. Achievement awards > through the organization effects were also given to four engi- * the execution of more than $700 neers who were runners-up to j million a year and the managethe Fresh Faces in Engineering ) ment of 30,000 Air Force part award. j types. He was nominated by the Engineers Week is a nationally ;; Institute of Electrical and Elecand state-recognized event that ] tronic Engineers. has been celebrated every year Christenson also was a found- since 1951. It is held the third ing member of the Engineering week of February. This year it directorate who hired most of the runs Feb. 14-20 \ initial staff, developing and proThe UEC is an umbrella or- jj ••'ducirtg Chief Engineers and a Di- ganization of fourteen differ- j rector of Engineering, coordinat- ent state or local chapters and \ • ed the creation of bachelor's of sections of engineering societ- \ science and master's of science ies, with a primary mission of 5 degree programs for base engiadvancing the art and science -i neers, with his team reduced the of engineering and providing a ? time taken to create an scientific forum of communication between; and engineering job offer from the more than 10,000 engineers \ months to an average of less than in Utah represented by varying } two weeks, and was responsible engineering societies. j • Hill AFB Job Openings Site REVIEW Internal civilian announcements are posted on the Air Force Personnel Center Web site. Announcements for bargaining unit positions are posted on Fridays. All other announcements may From page 9 be posted any day of the week. The Civilian Announcement Notification System is a subscription e-mail service available to \ assist employees in their job search. ; a Soviet transport plane Self-nominations for posted announcements can be made on-line that has been buried in at www.afpc.randolph.af,mil/resweb. or via the interactive voice the ice for 50 years (we response system at 1-800-997-2378 and TDD 1-800-382-0893. saw it go down in the • For info on NSPS visit http://www.cpms.osd.mil/nsps. film's prologue). Something important Military Special Includes: Featuring: K1M3ER K\BLE THGm rtIM MONITOR AUDIO sir "a II i L H rT. s n j D I b • >j i • I a O|0|0O -Fed 1040 - Schedule M -Home of record state return - Electronic Filing (5) SONY DENON Pioneer ...and more A beautiful blue-eyed boy joined the Parson family Tuesday night. John Bigelow Parsons arrived a few minutes before midnight and parents Mary and John, Sr. couldn't be prouder. 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