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Show 4 'rimEs HILLTOP TIMES May 23, 2013 DAY From page 1 Supply Center Richmond. This is the first time a former employee Day from an Aviation forward site has been selected. Champions began submitting their nominees for this year's Aviation Hall of Fame in March. A selection committee consisting of deputy directors, a union representative and a retired DSCR employee chose Day from a field of five nominees to be honored for her contributions to the Defense Logistics Agency. In June 2008, Day became the director of the new DLR Procurement Operations organization at Hill. She worked tirelessly for several years to assure that the stand-up of DLA Ogden was accomplished without complications, according to Robyn DeSantis, management and program analyst at DLA Ogden. Largely due to Day's EFFECTS From page 1 department's roughly 800,000 civilian employees — will be exempt from the furlough, and that number could rise once issues involving intelligence personnel are resolved. While the furloughs will save the Defense Department $1.8 billion, "it's not something that we wanted to do," the official said. Part of the department's plan to reduce the furlough's effects is to ask Congress to allow shifting funds from one account to another, the official said. The services previously had taken steps in an attempt to avoid furlough, the official noted, with the Air Force stopping flights for 12 combat-coded squadrons and the Army canceling most of its combat training rotations. While all the services will experience furloughs, the official said, the Navy is getting a critical exemption for its civilian employees that work in shipyards and do nuclear maintenance, citing long periods required for maintenance and very little ability to catch up with maintenance on submarines and carriers. The official acknowledged furloughs will reduce efficiency across the department. "These people aren't doing PowerPoint slides in the Pentagon," the official said. "They are mostly outside of the Pentagon. They fix our ships, our tanks, our planes. They staff our hospitals. They're teachers in our schools. I think we are going to seriously adversely affect the productivity in almost all support areas COUNTS From page 1 average, about 10-15 minutes to process each idea," Master Sgt. Joel Meyer said. Meyer, a security forces Airman by trade, said this is a unique opportunity for today's Airmen. "It's an opportunity for Airmen in the field to provide an idea straight to the top, and not have that filter of that staff sergeant on their flight, or master sergeant, or (operations) officer," Meyer said. "They don't have to go through management and procurement expertise, DeSantis said, the Base Realignment and Closure directed organization stood up with minimal difficulty and without impact to customers or employees. Day believed it was important to not only build a basic organizational understanding of the BRAC changes, but to translate that into what it means for the organization and for the people and then communicate it throughout the organization. "Day had many great accomplishments. Throughout her tenure, she exhibited an untiring work ethic, commitment to the of the Department of Defense." The furloughs will affect the Department of Defense Education Activity, which operates schools for military children living overseas and at some U.S. installations, the second senior official told reporters. "Our commitment to our service men and women who have children in these schools is that they will get an accredited school year," the official said. Summer school will be held, the official added, and then the next school year will begin with five furlough days. The official noted that DODEA is in a special category because of the need to have an accredited school year Despite efforts to mitigate the impact of furloughs, the official said, there will still be an unavoidable effect. "I think that the anticipated impact (will) clearly be the morale of our employees," the official said. "I can tell you that we value every single civilian that works in the Department of Defense, and 86 percent of them work outside of the national capital region. They all add value to the mission that we do as a total force, and they're clearly part of that total force." The loss of pay civilian employees will face undoubtedly will affect them financially and in terms of their morale, the official said. "I believe that they will continue to perform in an admirable manner," the official added, "but I am sure that there will be some morale impact." Both senior defense officials emphasized the Defense Department's reluctance to implement furloughs, but said the decision ultimately was made after exhausting all other options. any of that ... they can get (their idea) right to General Spencer." Airmen who may be holding back due to reservations about confidentiality should think again. "The people who are responsible for filtering that (submission) and looking into it deeper — they have no idea who it is. So don't be apprehensive. Submit it," Meyer said. Uniformed and civilian Airmen can submit their ideas on how to squeeze the most out of every Air Force dollar via the Air Force portal, or EveryDollar.DoDLive.Mil ; the opportunity is live until June 1. TAKE A QUALIFIED TEST DRIVE AND GET 2 MOVIE TICKETS TO mission of the DLA Enterprise, astute stewardship of resources, all of which guaranteed her a recurring pattern of success," DeSantis said. Among her numerous successes, one that stood out among those was that she recognized the importance of ensuring the necessary resources were in place to make this not only a successful transfer, but a successful organization in the future, ensuring continued support to DLA customers. Day brokered a deal with the Air Force to perform a detailed workforce study and was able to get buy- "This is one of the most distasteful tasks I've had in more than 30 years of government service," the first official said. "We depend on these people to do all of the things I mentioned before. I find it in from both DLA and the Air Force to transfer the necessary number of positions required to perform the required mission. "It's a huge honor (being selected)," Day said. "It's pretty exciting after you retire. You think everyone forgets about you." Day said one of the barriers of being at an offsite, in Utah, was sometimes not feeling included in what DLA Aviation in Richmond was doing. 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