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Show 27,2006: Leavitt tells Utah it's time to prepare for flu pandemic Get your BETH Djr' U LL March 28, 9mti-l>|mi March 29,8nm-!i|im TSC Ballroom AP photo PILOT JOHN MACULLUAGH prepares for a flight in a Royal Air Force Tornado GR Mark IV prior to a training flight at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Wednesday. Royal Air Force personnel from the Marham Air Base, United Kingdom, have been flying out of the base for the last few weeks. Fuftrythinn for your flrmlimtion m mii> \i\miu Exercises continue at Hill as more Royal Air Force personnel arrive HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (AP) Fighter jetsflyingover this Air Force base may have looked a little different recently to residents in northern Utah. Royal Air Force personnel from the Marham Air Base, United Kingdom, have beenflyingout of Hill Air Force Base for the last several weeks. On March 15, they dropped the last of their bombs on the Utah Test and Training Range. Flying nine Tornadofighterjets, airmen have been conducting an average of 12 airto-ground daily sorties at the Utah Test and Training Range using laser-guided and unguided bombs each day. Another Tornado squadron from Britain is arrived March 16 and is scheduled to continue joint training with F-l6s from the 388th Fighter Wing for the next two weeks. Capt. Rob Goza, 388th Fighter Wing Public Affairs officer, said the U.S. has a long and friendly history with the Royal Air Force. He said the training is beneficial for both units. "It enables both of us to determine what exactly we need to do to ensure that when . we go, into combat areas .that we are able to Travel Historic East Coast Cities while continuing your education ring American History alive with <i semester in the New England states. 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The Tornados have been dropping various types of munitions. The mission March 15 included a scenario where the aircraft dropped GPS-guided bombs, which needed to be dragged off-target when a simulated school bus moved into the target area. The test and training range affords allies, like the British, the opportunity to train their pilots over a broad terrain similar to that in Iraq. "We need the airspace to practice the weaponry we have," Andrew said. "The weapons we are dropping now are the weapons that we have been using on a regular basis in Iraq and what we may be called upon to use in Afghanistan. "And simply to go across to those eastern lands without having practiced weapon deployment is simply not just a player." ft.H'r:.'•>_"• (^Jf-,-<. Polygamy case costs the state a bundle -•i OF SPRING „:.".;„..-.' ?:;;»• trvA Pi Yf F i", R get the second one Si after $50 msIMn rebate pm phone and $3?,99 in-Btpr© credit on second phene, Offer valid on new activations only. Refer t o promo code BQGQZ52Q, S^GW J ^ W LAYTON, Utah (AP) - If the country can survive the nextfiveyears without being hit by an influenza pandemic, it should have the capacity to provide antivirals and other medicines to every American,. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said Friday. i But Americans shouldn't ; count on that and should ; begin preparing immediately, said Leavitt, who signed an : agreement that lays out state . and federal duties for handling a pandemic. : "PanJemics are part of the biological facts of life," said Leavitt, who is on a nationwide influenza preparedness tour. The former Utah governor addressed several hundred health and emergency management officials at a statesponsored pandemic influenza summit in Layton. Congress has authorized $7.1 billion to help state and federal governments stockpile drugs and medical equipment and to train officials for a pandemic. The deadly avianfluvirus that is known to have infected nearly 200 people - mostly in Asia - so far does not easily pass from animals to humans orfromperson to person. Scientists fear the virus could mutate, however, and spread more easily, touching off a pandemic that could infect tens of millions of people. The known human death toll from the H5N1 strain of bird flu reached 103 this week after five people in Azerbaijan died, according to the World Health Organization. Leavitt said the United States would have the medical capacity to treat a pandemic , in three tofiveyears. . (• , / i SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A child welfare case involving the children of polygamist John Daniel Kingston has cost the state a bundle. The state Division of Child and Family Sendees spent an estimated $381,744 on the two year case involving Kingston and Heidi Mattingly. During the case, 10 of the couples 11 children were placed in foster care. DCFS spokeswoman Carol Sisco said the case was unusual in its length, types of provided services and the number of children involved. Most of the money spent by DCFS paid for out-of-home care, including $215,000 for foster parents. Family preservation services, child protective service investigations and in-home supervised visits cost another $31,000. DCFS attributes another $135,000 to staff time for case workers and supervisors, as well as other indirect expenses, including some services provided to the family about six years ago. But the state's overall tab is likely much more. DCFS expenses don't include costs for state attorneys from offices of the Guardian Ad Litem or the Utah Attorney General. Kristin Brewer, GAL director, said she did not have a total. And Mark May, chief of the child protection division in the attorney general s office, declined to provide a '. breakdown of costs, saying _' the information is privileged. The Kingston case began in February 2004 after the family's two oldest daughters" argued with their parents over ear piercing. The girls were immediately removed from their mother s home. Eight months later, the other children were placed in foster care after a case worker said Mattingly and Kingston were not being cooperative. The younger children, now ranging in ages from 3 to 16, were returned to their mothers care last summer. Last fall Mattingly and Kingston voluntarily surrendered their parental rights to their elder daughters, now ages 17 and 14. They remain in state custody. Kingston was recently allowed to resume contact with his children, although 3rd District Juvenile Court Judge Elizabeth lindsley has refused to close the case. A review hearing is set for June 15. after $30 mail-In rebate gnd $10 ln*store erodlt. fena mrtrfctfer* may ppply. Qt&4 whiU *uppii*i lawt. 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