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Show Hillt op Weekly Since 1948 U.L. AIR FOL- -(1- LiHill AFB, Utah 84056-5824 Sexual assault awareness luncheon A Sexual Assault Awareness Month luncheon will be at 11:30 a.m. on April 17 at The Landing Ballroom. Dress is uniform of the day. Admission is $11.50 for members and $13.50 for nonmembers. Entrees include pecan crusted chicken salad, roast turkey sandwich or vegetarian avocado sandwich. For more information, call the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response office at 801-7771985/1964. Walk-in service ends at Tricare The 75th Medical Group TRICARE Service Center closed April 1. Walk-in service will no longer be provided at 200 TRICARE Service Centers stateside. This change is an effort by the Department of Defense to manage costs and is estimated to save $254 million over the next five years. Military members, their family members and all other TRICARE eligible beneficiaries are encouraged to utilize United Healthcare Military and Veterans toll free number at 877-9889378 or their website at www. uhcmilitarywest.com for all TRICARE related issues and questions. Beneficiaries can perform all administrative tasks online or by phone. Hill's TRICARE office was run in concert with the base's 75th Medical Group. The office was at 7321 Balmer St. Bldg. 570. Beneficiaries can get more information and sign up for updates at www.tricare.mil/tsc or call 1-877-988-WEST. www.hilltoptimes.com hilltoptimes@standard.net Vol. 74 No. 1, April 3, 2014 AFA banquet recognizes winners ICBM, space and C31 communities honored with Scowcroft awards BY RICHARD W. ESSARY 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs The best in intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), space and command, control, communications and intelligence (C3I) career fields were honored at the Brent Scowcroft Awards banquet March 27. The Northern Utah Chapter 235 of the Air Force Association (AFA) hosted the event at the David Eccles Conference Center to honor individuals in five categories, and teams in two categories, for their performance in 2013. Guest speaker Maj. Gen. Sandra E. Finan, Commander of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Kirtland AFB, N.M., praised the nominees and award winners for their achievements and gave specific examples of how individuals and teams, through hard work and dedication have made great improvements in Air Force hardware, processes, policies and procedures. The award winners included: Individual awards Maj. Matthew Franchetti , of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Hill AFB, for excellence in ICBM acquisition and sustainment. See SCOWCROFT I Page 10 Courtesy photo Maj. Gen. Sandra E. Finan, Commander of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Kirtland AFB, N.M., addresses attendees at the Scowcroft Awards Banquet held at the David Eccles Conference Center March 27. Hill Airmen may see less pay when deployed BY MITCH SHAW Hilltop Times staff HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The list of dangerous places in the world Legal assistance center closed The walk-in legal assistance at 75 ABW/JA will be closed on April 9 for the 75th Air Base Wing Spring Wingman Day. For emergency legal assistance, call 801-775-3320. IBY MITCH SHAW Hilltop Times staff H Public meeting on gas station cleanup past, mass transit and Hill Air Force Base have been a little like oil and water — they didn't quite mix. But this spring, a new service from the Utah Transit Authority aims to change that. UTA announced Wednesday that details have been finalized for a new service that will offer two new bus routes that will connect the base with FrontRunner's Clearfield Station at 1250 S. State St. — making FrontRunner a viable transit option for those who commute to Hill. The service will officially begin April 14. UTA spokesman Remi Barron said bus routes 664 and 665 will travel between Clearfield and Hill's west and south gates during peak commuting hours, which is from approximately 5 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. The routes will accommodate FrontRunner passengers as well as those who use the Clearfield Station park-and-ride lot. Hill Air Force Base will have a public meeting to discuss a proposed plan for cleanup at Operable Unit 11. OU 11, which is located on-base near the Autopride gas station, includes contaminated ground water and soil from different types of fuels and solvents. The meeting will be from 3-5 p.m. on April 9 at The Landing (Club Hill) 7420 Miller St., Bldg 450. The public will be allowed to comment on the plans through April 23. To see the proposed plan, visit www.hillrab.org/ OU11Proposed Plan. 729th ACS change of command The 729th Air Control See IN THE KNOW I Page 11 ILL AIR FORCE BASE — In the UTA General Manager Michael Allegra says providing bus service to the base will give the more than 20,000 military members and base employees who live off-base a convenient public transportation option. "The men and women at Hill Air Force Base are doing important work, and we're proud to make it a little easier for them to get to and from their jobs," Allegra said. Currently, the only transit to speak of at Hill is the Utah Transit Authority's Rideshare Program — a van-pooling program in which UTA provides around 100 large passenger vans to base employees for carpooling purposes. Just under 1,000 Hill employees, or about 5 percent of the employee population, use Rideshare to commute to and from the base. The new bus routes will be open to the public and will make stops throughout Clearfield. Riders without access to Hill Air Force Base will need to depart before the buses enter the base. For more information about routes 664, 665 and other enhancements to UTA service, visit www.rideuta.com . will soon become considerably smaller — at least according to the Department of Defense. The military announced earlier this month that it is planning to scale back bonus pay for service members who deploy to dangerous parts of the world. Beginning June 1, the DoD plans to discontinue its "imminent danger pay," or IDP, in multiple countries where U.S. forces either are already deployed, have recently deployed or will deploy in the near future. Locations where IDP designation will be discontinued: • The six land areas and the airspace above Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Serbia and Montenegro. • The nine land areas of East Timor, Haiti, Liberia, Oman, Rwanda, Tajikistan, United Arab Emirates, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. • The water and air space above the Persian Gulf. Service members deployed to the affected locations won't be grandfathered into the previous pay entitlements, according to the Air Force Personnel Center. "The IDP recertification process I- See MILITARY PAY I Page 10 Look inside this week's Hilltop Times for " " " Base Theater Free Movies Saturday, noon, Frozen, (PG) Saturday, 3 p.m. 47 Ronin (PG-13) Saturday, 6 p.m. American Hustle (R) For review see page 9 Vietnam Veterans Caring For People Governor signs recognition day Forum addresses concerns See page 5 See page 7 Wounded Warrior run Race helps vetrans See page 9 |