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Show Hilltop Age i 4 0 r, Weekly Since 1948 IBM ¥ Hill AFB, Utah 84056-5824 21 days to AFMC Consolidated Unit Inspection www.hilltoptimes.com hilltoptimes@standard.net Vol. 72 No. 28, July 12, 2012 111113-- Redesignation ceremony today, parking reminder Salute to our Nation's Defenders' Picnic BY RICH ESSARY 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs IN THE KNOW N Sesame Street USO tour for military kids The Sesame Street USO Tour will make a stop in Utah and offer shows for active duty military on Friday, July 13, 6 p.m., and Saturday, July 14, 3 p.m. at Syracuse High School, 665 S. 2000 West. Doors open 30 minutes before the performance and each performance lasts for 45 minutes. This is for military families only and ID will be checked at the door. Hilltop Times graphic o parking is available near Hangar 204 for today's ceremony so shuttle buses will transport attendees from The Landing and from the parking lot at the corner of Georgia Street and Wardleigh Road, beginning at 9 a.m. The ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. At the ceremony presided over by Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, multiple events will occur including: " Col. Allan Day, 309th Maintenance Wing commander, and Maj. Gen. Andrew Busch, Ogden Air Logistics Center cornmander, will inactivate the 309th Maintenance Wing. See CEREMONY I page 6 Steam outage from July 16 to Aug. 10 The 75th Civil Engineering SABER office will be performing a steam outage from July 16 through Aug. 10. The reason for the outage is to make tie-in connections to the buildings listed below for the new steam and condensate lines. Those facilities affected will include the following: Buildings 256, 237, 230, 100, 180, 150 and 152. Any questions or concerns please contact Randy Johns at 801-777-7196 or 801-430-5775. Nurse practitioner Warrior Call July 20 An Air Force nurse practitioner who was embedded with Special Forces in Afghanistan will speak July 20 at The Landing at 4 p.m. Dress is uniform of the day. Come early to secure your beverage of choice and get a seat. This is open to all with base access who are interested in hearing about the patriotic service of a Team Hill warrior. Professional Maintenance program The Professional Maintenance Certificate Program 4 PMxCP 4 was created in response to the Office of the Secretary of Defense's goal of developing enterprise logisticians. Informational briefings on this career development program will be held at the Hill AFB theater on July 18 from 1:30 to 3 p.m., and from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. According to the Workforce Development Team Lead and the program's coordinator, PMxCP provides a professional framework with consistent expectations, increases the marketability of maintenance professionals, and increases focus on understanding where interested people fit into the maintenance workforce. The briefing is open all maintenance employees. To review PMxCP tools and resources, visit the PMxCP Community of Practice via https://afkm.wpafb. af.mil/AFMCPMxCP Alternatively, you can reach the CoP via the Air Force Portal page if you are using a ".mil" computer. Simply locate the Air Force Indexes A-Z on the right hand panel, select Applications, select the Air Force Knowledge Now (AFKN) link and type "Professional Maintenance Certificate Program" into the search box. For additional information about the Hill PMxCP briefing, contact Kevin Moore, kevin. moore@hill.af.mil ; or Steve Tharp, steve.tharp@hill.af.mil . MARGO WRIGHT/U.S. Air Force In front of a crowd of hundreds of Airmen, family, former Center leadership, and state and local officials, the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center was redesignated the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex and aligned under the newly activated Air Force Sustainment Center. Lt. Gen. Bruce Litchfield, AFSC commander, received his third star during the ceremony, which was presided over by Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger, Air Force Materiel Command commander. Air Force Sustainment Center activated at Tinker AFB Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center becomes a complex AFMC Public Affairs T INKER AFB, Okla. 4The Air Force Sustainment Center was officially activated during a ceremony July 10. In the same ceremony, the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center was re-designated a complex and became part of the AFSC. Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, officiated as command of the center was handed to Lt. Gen. Bruce Litchfield, who was also promoted from major general to lieutenant general in the ceremony. As the Air Force's focal point for sustainment of all Air Force weapon systems, the center is part of an AFMC construct that consolidates the command's number of centers from 12 to five. The center activation and re-designation was announced in November 2011 and is a major part of AFMC's response to a congressional challenge to find efficiencies and save tax dollars. By consolidating overhead, the command will improve the way it accomplishes its mission, ultimately providing better support to the war fighter. The restructure will standardize processes and save about $109 million annually. "AFSC and its people will continue to Look inside this week's Hilltop Base Theater Free Movies Saturday, noon 4 "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" (PG) Saturday, 3 p.m. 4 "The Hunger Games" (PG-13) Saturday, 6 p.m. 4 "Act of Valor" (R) For review see page 11 be critical to AFMC achieving its mission of providing warfighter support," Wolfenbarger said. "The work done across all AFSC locations is important not only to the AFMC mission, but to the greater Air Force mission as well." Under the leadership of General Litchfield, the center will consolidate oversight of the command's sustainment mission now carried out within air logistics centers at Tinker, Robins AFB, Ga., and Hill AFB, along with the Air Force Global Logistics Support Center at Scott AFB, Ill. The three logistics centers will be re-designated as air logistics complexes. The missions at each location will continue at their respective bases, See AFSC I page 5 Times for " " " STOP! In the Canine's canine receives Hill dental treatment name of traffic MWD HHouston gets opportunity for local procedure instead of taking TDY New four-way stop at Colorado Dive and Gum Lane See page 7 See page 3 |