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Show Hilltop TIMES U.S. AIR FORCE Weekly Since 1948 Hill AFBf Utah 84056-5824 www.hilltoptimes.com hilltoptimes@standard.net Vol. 70 No. 30, July 29, 20tj IN THE KNOW July 30 women only motorcycle course Allan Woods, Installation motorcycle safety chief, has scheduled a Women Only Experienced Rider Course (ERC) on Friday, July 30. Learn emergency maneuvers on a controlled range, rather than on a busy street. This is a very good course especially for the rider with a lot of experience. Riders do tend to pick up bad habits over the years and this course will help you to identify and eliminate those on the learning range instead of on the road. To schedule your course go to https://www2.hill.af.mil/moto/ app/index.php or if you have any questions contact Allan Woods at (801) 777-3333, Extension 2. AFRC to limit service July 29-30 for training The Airman and Family Readiness Center will provide limited service July 29-30 due to staff training. Only emergency situations will be accepted during that time. The Airmen's Attic will be open during its normal hours. For questions call the center at (801)777-4681. reinstitutes GREEN FLAG WEST summer energy alerts BY DAVE ABBOTT Base Utility Manager T he last six years Hill Air Force Base has supported Utah's Power Forward Alert System in response to the power grid conditions affecting the entire Wasatch Front. Utah started this summer's campaign June 1. State energy office experts do not expect power conditions to be as severe as in years' past due to increased production capabilities throughout the region. This year once again Hill began taking this program one step further to implement its own recommended summer conservation actions as it began efforts July 1. Hill's actions will be based on a variety of factors including weather and electrical peak load forecast for the base as provided by the purchased Hill club hosts first airsoft event On July 31 the Hill Airsoft and Paintball Cfub will host the very first airsoft tournament on base. The competition will take place at the Woodsball Field, which is located behind the BORTA on Perimeter Road. Registration will begin at 2 p.m. and the event will start at 4 p.m. Cost is free and participants are eligible to win prizes in a raffle. Participants must bring their own equipment and must adhere to the safety and tournament rules provided by the club. For information or to obtain a list of safety and tournament rules, please contact Joe Contreras at joe.contreras@hill. af.mil. LAWRENCE CRESPO/U.S. Air Force Capt Phil Jackson, 4th Fighter Squadron F-16 fighter pilot from Hill Air Force Base, sets the laser code on a GBU-12 Paveway II, laser guided bomb prior to flight during Green Flag-West 10-8 exercise held at Nellis AFB, Nev., on July 20. The Green Flag exercise prepares Airmen for combat deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan, where U.S. Air Force, joint and coalition aircrews hone their air-land integration skills. For story and photos see pages 6 and 7. See ALERT I page 4 RODEO THRILLS A'PLENTY BY MARY LOU GOBNY Hilltop Times editor Efforts to 'freecycle' office furniture at Hill "Freecycling" is a term that describes the recycling of an unwanted item by offering it to someone else for free. Team Hill has iits own business version of "freecycling," one of the trendier attempts in these fiscally tighter times. In coordination with continued efforts to clean up and restore usable space it has been coordinated with the DLA Disposition Services (previously DMRO) to allow the turn-in of specific office furniture items WITHOUT the normal required paperwork. Please remember that it is imperative that no paperwork be left behind in desks, shelving and cabinets, when delivering them to DLA Disposition Services. On Aug. 5, DLA Disposition Services will be accepting both serviceable and unserviceable desks. On Aug. 19, DLA Disposition Services will be accepting both serviceable and unserviceable chairs. 1 If you have any questions on what is or isn't acceptable please contact David Beasley at (801) 777-8044. Base Theater Free Movies Friday, 7 p.m. - "Resident Evil" (R) Friday, 9 p.m. - "Resident Evil: Apocalypse" (R) Saturday, noon - "James and the Giant Peach (Disney)" (G) Saturday, 3 p.m. - "The Princess Bride (Disney)" (PG-13) Saturday, 6 p.m. - "Resident Evil: Extinction" (R) $600,000 grant going to Hill Field Elementary H ALEX R. LLOYD/U.S. Air Force A bull-riding participant takes his shot at placing in the Ogden Pioneer Days Rodeo as action unfolds at Hill Appreciation Night on July 21. Hill Air Force Base volunteers played a key role in making the community event a success. For more photos see page 5. ]ill Field Elementary School got some welcome news recently when in late June the Department of Defense announced it had approved an application by the school for approximately $600,000 in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) funds in the form of a grant. "We are very, very grateful to the Department of Defense for its insight in understanding that these children above all others need this opportunity," said Principal Paul Bryner about the largest grant the school had ever received under his administration. "(Military families) do have to move. They do have family members that have to be separated for great lengths of time. They do have people who are sent in harm's way. All of these things create stresses in families that 'normal1 families don't have. See STEM I page 8 Look inside this week's Hilltop Times for... In the bleachers Glamor for a good price Night out atlhe Raptors for Hill Formal dress loan program to hold drive •s See pages 9,13 See page 9 Around Hill Check out August events See pages 11-12 |