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Show HILLTOP TIMES TOP TEN From page 1 Assistance Center. It will continue its foreign military sales mission from its Wright-Patterson location. Program executive officers (PEOs) will remain at their respective bases and continue to report to the Under Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition at the Pentagon. Also, the current Aerospace Sustainment Directorate program offices at Robins AFB, Ga.; Tinker AFB, Okla., and Hill AFB will align to a respective PEO while mission work remains at these locations. Air Force Sustainment Center The command's maintenance and supply mission will be led by the new Air Force Sustainment Center to be located at Tinker AFB. The AFSC will consolidate oversight of most missions now performed at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center at Tinker AFB; the Warner Robins ALC at Robins AFB; and the Ogden ALC at Hill AFB. Like the current acquisition centers, the three ALC headquarters will stand down and their combined workforce will report to the new AFSC. Each location will continue to operate one of the Air Force's three air depots, to be named the Oklahoma City, Warner Robins and Ogden Air Logistics Complexes, respectively. Maintenance wings at each location will stand down and all subordinate groups will directly report to their respective Air Logistics Complex. The current Aerospace Sustainment Directorates will become the Aerospace Sustainment Divisions reporting to their respective Logistics Complex. The 75th Air Base Wing will report to the Air Force Sustainment Center. The Air Force Global Logistics Support Center headquarters at Scott AFB, Ill., responsible for Air Force-wide supply chain management, will stand down. "These important initiatives will mean reductions in our civilian workforce by approximately 261 positions over the next two years," said Maj. Gen. Andrew Busch, Ogden ALC commander. "Our efforts to date to reduce costs through hiring restrictions will help reduce the impact to our existing workforce. Additionally, we will use all personnel management options available including normal attrition, voluntary early retirement and incentive opportunities to further minimize the impact to our personnel. "We greatly appreciate the community's support and understanding as we implement these cost saving initiatives," said Busch. "Hill AFB will continue to play a key role in Air Force logistics and critical support to the war-fighter." The 635th Supply Chain Operations Wing at Scott AFB will align to the AFSC. The 448th Supply Chain Management Wing will become the 448th Sup- Hilltop 3 TIMES Dec. 29, 2011 ply Chain Operations Wing at Tinker and also align to the AFSC. The 591st Supply Chain Management Group at Wright-Patterson, which was a direct report to the AFGLSC, will stand down and become a Logistics Operations Division. The command's test mission will also be consolidated. The center for test management will be the new Air Force Test Center at Edwards AFB, Calif., presently the Air Force Flight Test Center. The 46th Test Wing at Eglin AFB, Fla., and the Arnold Engineering and Development Center at Arnold AFB, Tenn., to be renamed the Arnold Engineering and Development Complex, will report to the AFTC, along with the 412th Test Wing, at Edwards. The Air Force Research Laboratory, headquartered at Wright-Patterson, will continue in its role as the command's center for science, technology, research and development. AFMC's nuclear sup- port mission will continue to be led by the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Kirtland AFB, N.M. All centers will be led by general officers. The AFLCMC and AFSC commanders will each be a three-star general. AFRL, the AFTC and the AFNWC will each be led by a twostar. The Air Logistics Complexes at Tinker, Robins and Hill will be led by one-star generals, as will the test wings at Eglin and Edwards. The AFSAC commander at Wright-Patterson will become a direc- for and remain a one-star. AFMC will use all personnel management options available to mitigate impacts on civilian employees, to include using normal attrition and early retirement and incentive opportunities where possible. * SWAP MEET ALL YEAR ROUND * S. 1050 W. MOTOR VII 5368 RIVERDALE 394-1768 DRIVE-IN & SWAP MEET SATURDAY & SUNDAY 8 AM - 1 PM BUYERS FREE ON SAT.! Visit Our Indoor Shops! A Great Place for Those Hard to Find Bargains! 3 SELLERS VISIT US AT www.motorvu.com or call 394-1768 * SWAP SHOPS AVAILABLE FOR RENT * DO YOU NEED HELP SETTLING AN ESTATE? • Is there a will or a trust? • Who is named on deeds accounts? Robyn Walton Attorney and bank • Questions on life insurance or retirement accounts? ROWE & WALTON PC 915 South Main Street Bountiful, UT 84010 801-298-0640 FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION We accept most major legal insurance plans Mention this ad and receive 10% off ..mownw VISA 10-2-1978 5-26-2011 Tech. Sgt. Kristoffer Solesbee, Hill EOD technician, is killed in Kandahar, Afghanistan 2 ' Hill lost an Explosive Devise Ordinance technician when Tech. Sgt. Kristoffer M. Solesbee died while in the service of his country in the Shorabak district of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device, and Solesbee and two other services members were killed in the incident. Solesbee was a member of the tight-knit 775th Civil Engineer Squadron at Hill. Those who served with him remembered an energetic, quick-witted intelligent sergeant who loved his job. The Citrus Heights, Calif., man had served two tours of duty in Iraq and was on his first tour in Afghanistan. "Kristoffer loved his job," said his mother, Sandra Parker at the memorial service. "He always had a smile on his face and he loved what he did." "He said to me, `Mom, this is the only job where I get to go out and blow something up and get paid for it,' said Parker, recalling her son's enthusiasm for his work. "We will miss him, but we know he did his job well. He saved a lot of lives defusing bombs." Solesbee joined the Air Force in 1999 and completed basic training at Lackland, AFB. Solesbee was survived by his mother and father, his wife, Lilia, and his sister, Trina. a on,c)(.. 1847 W 2100 S • Ogden 7-777;$ 01Z ..0: Fu41 Additive to New eusTomers w9fIrla Purchase. • 1111 Tech. Sgt. Kristoffer M. wfr Et,Caril ; 7171 yo Solesbee „After Christniak rt „, • '•••' l'"• • • oi tO /0 FF Marked Prices ON OVER 200 SELECTED ITEMS ' 4 d SOFAS LOVESEATS F-35 planning proceeds All indications were •< that the timeline for the next step in bringing two F-35 squadrons to Hill continued to move forward. Barbara Fisher, chief of environmental affairs, confirmed the environmental impact statement results were scheduled to be released sometime in January. "We currently don't know when the public hearings will be held for Hill," she said, "but we anticipate there will be four (hearings)." In early 2010, a team of Air Force representatives from the Air Combat Command, Langley AFB, Va., said then the environmental work would take about a year to be complete. The F-35 is said to be considerably more noisy than the F-16 and that may have played a role in the lengthy process under way. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said he had been in contact with the Secretary of the Air Force in November, and that the F-35 program remained funded and on course. The Air Force selected Hill from a pool of 204 CHAIRS TABLES LAMPS PICTURES 1 HOME DECOKE 3 DINETTE LEATHER SOFA '900/. 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