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Show Hilltop Weekly Since 1948 Hill AFB, Utah 84056-5824 IN THE KNOW Volunteer Excellence forms due by March 9 The Airman and Family Readiness Center is looking for nominations for this year's Volunteer Excellence Award. Nominations are due March 9. Nomination packages will be accepted from supervisors or commanders for federal civilians, family members and retirees who performed outstanding volunteer work of a sustained and direct nature. The award will be presented at the Volunteer Recognition Breakfast on April 16 at 8:30 a.m. at Club Hill. The breakfast is free for volunteers, their spouses and supervisors, leadership and coworkers, space permitting. For more information and a list of the nomination packages guidelines, please contact Colette Geiss at (801) 775-6832. Special needs family summit on March 15 www.hilltoptimes.com hilltoptimes@standard.net Vol. 72 No. 9, March 1, 2012 Speed Mentoring to help advance your career BY MARY Lou GORNY Hilltop Times editor 0 n March 22, anyone interested is invited to a Speed Mentoring event to help them in their careers. "How to make the Air Force work for you" could become a topic of paramount interest in the near future and the event offers the opportunity to answer those questions. Such answers are often on the minds of those who mentor Airmen, and the event is meant to help fill in those knowledge gaps for Airmen and those who mentor them. Master Sgt. Kristy Gallagher, 75th Dental Squadron, explained that future requirements might make re-enlistment more difficult. "With the downsizing of the Air Force to include CJRs (career job reservations) not being automatic and the High-Year Tenure being shortened, the educated choices as a first-term Airman will now be more critical than ever in the determination of future career options," Gallagher said. This mentoring event will ensure the Airman or noncommissioned officer will be able to ask a qualified expert these types of questions in a more casual atmosphere. The one-toone meetings will be low key and short in nature and serve to make sure the informational process is conducted in a positive atmosphere. Master Sgt. Dan Bosche, 75th Security Forces Squadron said, "You need to start stepping up as soon as you get to your installation as a first-term Airman. You've got to be doing it all the way (to make sure) those marks are at the highest point so you can be at the highest level to fight for the CJR if you want to re-enlist. Bosche said, "Stepping up the last six months won't do it." In addition to having the opportunity to talk with experts in commissioning, legal issues, education and Reserve opportunities, a mini education fair will also be available at that time at the Junior Enlisted Recreation Center (JERC). Pizza and refreshments will See CAREER There will be blood drives at Building 568 on March 9 and 23 and April 6, between 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. and donate blood. Donations aid the peacetime and contingency requirements for military personnel and local community healthcare. One pint of blood you donate can save up to three lives!. Walk-ins are welcome. Please request supervisor approval if during duty hours. For questions contact Lt. Leonil Cruz, DSN 775-3137 or Lt. Ricardo Basora, DSN 777-4909. Women's History Month Film Festival Free movies in Bldg 524 6 The Hill Chapel Inspirational Choir performs at the Gospel Extravaganza Feb. 24 in Ogden in the final event for African American History Month. The event was sponsored by the AAHM committee from Hill Air Force Base. Performing are (from left to right) Samira DeHorney, Banetta Cole, Harold DeHorney, Derick Clark and Kathy Ford. Blood drive by ICBM Systems Directorate More blood drives I page ZELEBRATION CULMINATION "Keeping the Promise by Empowering Families," will be March 15 at The Landing. A focus group will begin at 9 a.m. and an information fair will open at 10 a.m. Anyone can attend the information fair to get information on special needs, special education, adapative equipment, recreation, behavioral health and transition services. A behavior management class, "Taming the Lion without the Whip" will be offered from noon to 2 p.m. Attendance is limited and an RSVP is needed for that class and focus group. For more information or to provide an RSVP please call 801-777-4681. On Tuesday, March 6, the ICBM Systems Directorate will hold a blood drive in the parking lot north of Building 1221. It takes approximately 20 minutes for the donation process. A third of the donations go to troops. Every month 2,500 pints of blood are needed for critically ill patients cancer patients, trauma victims, anemia patients and at-risk newborns. To sign up go to: https://org . eis.afmc.af.mil/sites/526icbm/ WSSCM/Blood Drive Sign up 6 March 12/Forms/AllItems.aspx. For information call Staff Sgt. Christina Hildebrandt or Capt. Jeffrey Lassiter, at 801586-5536. 1111111.rell MARY LOU GORNY Hilltop Times Hill EOD sergeant to have dinner at the White House BY JASEN ASAY Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau S taff Sgt. Andy Piirainen did not know what he would be eating Wednesday night at the White House. Nor did he really care. "Whatever they make, I'm sure it will be good," he said. The dinner was scheduled to occur just as the Hilltop Times went to press and he was interviewed prior to his departure. Piirainen, an explosive ordnance disposal technician from Hill Air Force Base's 775th Civil Engineer Squadron, felt honored just to have been selected to attend the dinner hosted by President Barack Obama and the first lady. A Purple Heart recipient, Piirainen is one of 77 service members invited to the dinner organized to express the nation's gratitude and recStaff Sgt. Piirainen ognize the contributions of those who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and/ or Operation New Dawn. He was selected to represent both his home state of Massachusetts and Hill Air Force Base. Piirainen, of Grafton, Mass., has been stationed at Hill most See PIIRAINEN I page 'Celebrate Small Victories with first speaker at Women's History Month BY MARY Lou GORNY Hilltop Times editor L t. Col. Abigail Ruscetta, commander of the 388th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, will lead off the Women's History Month with a presentation on "Celebrating Small Victories." On Monday, March 12, 9-11 a.m. in Building 385, Airman Leadership School, she will address those assembled on maintaining a balance between work, family and community with a physically and mentally demanding schedule. "Regardless of what's going on in your daily life and the tasks at hand there are moments to celebrate," she said. "Each day there is a victory worth celebrating." After her graduation Lt. Col. Ruscetta from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1997 and her first assignment at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, she moved on to assignments at Osan AB, Korea, as she worked in F-16 flight line maintenance. Upon her graduation from the Air See RUSCETTA I page 4 6 `The Early Films' Monday, 7:15 p.m. - "The Scarlet Letter" Tuesday, 7:15 p.m. - "The Awful Truth" Wednesday, 7:15 p.m. "Stella Davis" Thursday, 7:15 p.m. "Adam's Rib" Base Theater movies Saturday, noon - "Alvin and the Chipmunks Chipwreaked" (G) Saturday, 3 p.m. - "New Year's Eve" (PG-13) Saturday, 6 p.m. - "Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part I" (PG-13) Look inside this week's Hilltop Times for • • • AFLCMC's first commander Carrying their i colonel Gen. Moore nominated by President Obama Spirit Trophy efforts mean they go all out Check out who got honored See page 3 See page 9 See pages 7, 9 Awards and more awards |