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Show ITIMFS Command moves forward with restructuring plan May 13, 2010 WINGMAN FITNESS & OUTDOOR REC EXPO i- Air Force Materiel Command Public Affairs W RIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — Air Force Materiel Command officials notified center commanders May 11, that Air Force headquarters has approved converting the command structure from wings, groups and squadrons to directorates, divisions and branches. The targeted implementation date for these organizational changes is June 30. The e-mail notification to center commanders included an extensive list of wings, groups and squadrons that will be either inactivated, activated or re-designated. The move follows an Air Force senior leadership decision to standardize the size of wings, groups and squadrons across the Air Force. Wings now must contain 1,000 or more members; groups, 400; and squadrons, 35. As a result, many wings, groups, and squadrons at AFMC centers will be inactivated, and replaced by new directorates, divisions and branches, which do not have mandatory minimum manning thresholds. "Most of our acquisition units were not large enough to maintain the appropriate wing, group and squadron designations," said Gen. Donald Hoffman, AFMC commander. "Combining units to meet the size thresholds would have been major surgery and would have buried senior acquisition leadership at the squadron level or below." Along with changing from wings to directorates, Air Force officials have alsocreated several new program executive officer slots. PEOs, senior officials responsible for acquisition program execution, will be leading many of the directorates at AFMC product centers. With this reorganization, all of AFMC's centers will see some changes. AFMC planners say the "realignment is "manpower neutral," meaning no net gain or loss of jobs will occur. AFMC planners don't have answers yet to every question that civilian and military members may have about potential personal impacts, but they said they will keep the information flowing as the change process plays out. AFMC centers with acquisition organizations that will be restructured to directorates, divisions and branches are: • Air Armament Center, Eglin Air Force ALEX R. LLOYD/US. Air Force The Warrior Health and Fitness Center filled with tables and static displays is visited by several members of Hill Air Force Base as they browse through the various displays March 5. Take charge of your health and quit smoking bined. Cigarettes, cigars, and spit and pipe tobacco are made from dried tobacco leaves, as well as ingrehe 1982 United States Surgeon General's re- dients added for flavor and other reasons. More than 4,000 different chemicals have been found port in 1982 stated that "cigarette smoking in tobacco and tobacco smoke. Among these are . is the major single cause of cancer mortality (death) in the United States." This statement is more than 60 chemicals that are known to cause cancer (carcinogens). as true today as it was in 1982. There are hundreds of substances added to cigSmoking is responsible for nearly 1 in 5 deaths arettes by manufacturers to enhance the flavor or in the United States. Because cigarette smoking to make smoking more pleasant. Some of the comand tobacco use are acquired behaviors — activipounds found in tobacco smoke include ammonia, ties that people choose to do — smoking is the most preventable cause of premature death in our tar, and carbon monoxide. Exactly what effects these substances have on the cigarette smoker's society. health is unknown, but there is no evidence that About half of all Americans who keep smoking will die because of the habit. Each year about lowering the tar content of a cigarette lowers the health risk. Manufacturers do not usually give out 443,000 people in the United States die from illinformation to the public about the additives used nesses related to cigarette smoking. Cigarettes kill more Americans than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide and illegal drugs comSee QUIT I page 10 Health and Wellness Center T See RESTRUCTURE I page 10 Commissary case lot sale Friday, Saturday Burger King to undergo extensive renovations T B urger King close its dining area May 10 for extensive renovations. The drive through will still be in operation until June 10, at which time that service will also close. The entire facility will then close for approximately 45 days while renovations are completed. View from the west side of building DOING THE BRIGHT THING Senior Airman Eric Lecocq, 75th Security Forces Squadron, replaces an incandescent lightbulb with a new Energy Star compliant compact fluorescent lightbulb at the West Gate Visitors Center. By repjacing 13 canned fixtures and bulbs at the center, the Air Force will save approximately $153 per year, said Dave Abbott, the base's utility manager. The bulbs last three times longer than the incandescent bulbs and save more than 2,000 kilowatt hours of electricity. 1 ":Ptt ALEX R. LLOYD/U.S. Air Force he Hill Com- • missary May * Worldwide Case Lot sale will be held on Friday, May 14, and Saturday, May 15, from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. both days. This year Army and Air Force Exchange Services will be participating along with us. There will also be a DJ both days for the entertainment of the crowd and family events for children. It pays to be 'green' at Hill Air Force Base BY DEBBIE RADLOFF ii AAFES [I T he Hill Air Force Base BX is rewarding military shoppers who N are doing their part for the environment through its new "Use a Bag, Save the Planet" initiative. Instead of using traditional plastic bags, retail facilities at Hill AFB are encouraging shoppers to bring their own reusable bags. Beyond helping the environment, shoppers that "Use a Bag, Save the Planet" will get five cents back for every reusable bag used. "The Army and Air Force Exchange i 'i Service desires to be an environmentally responsible retailer and a 'green' place to shop," said the BX's General Manager Don Sydlik. "By rewarding the use of environmentally-friendly bags we hope to begin changing behaviors today to put us on a path for a ' cleaner tomorrow." The five cent credit applies only to shoppers who bring in and use reusable shopping bags (plastic bags do not apply) at the Main Exchange, Shoppette and all other retail facilities at Hill AFB. As such, Airmen who simply decline a plastft bag, but do not utilize a reusable bag, will not qualify for the five cent credit. |