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Gallery: Carrying the torch

419th Employer Appreciation Day

419th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Staff

This year's Employer Appreciation Day is set for June 5. Reservists are encouraged to invite their civilian employers to the annual event, where they'll meet wing leadership, tour work areas and get a taste of the wing's mission. Employers can also look forward to learning more about the F-16 Fighting Falcon during an up-close, interactive tour in the hangar, among other activities. The local... Read more

419th reservists earn top honors

Three Airmen from the 419th Force Support Squadron have won Air Force-level awards for excellence in their career fields for 2009. Education and Training Senior Noncommissioned Officer of the Year: Master Sgt. Marites Ramoneda-Thomas, chief of 419th Education and Training, briefed more than 200 Airmen in a proactive push for the Post-9/11 GI Bill. She successfully managed the Community College of... Read more

Re-enlistments

Editor's note: Due to the number of re-enlistments and space considerations this month's re-enlistments were held until this week. Only last month's re-enlistments were published on March 4. Re-enlistments Ogden Air Logistics CenterTech. Sgt. Jamie Boyer Air Combat CommandSenior Master Sgt. Christian Puff, Master Sgt. Jason Hughes Air Force Global Strike Master Sgt. Matthew Schildgen 2nd Combat... Read more

Gambling, lotteries and office pools illegal

Lt. Col. Raymond Rounds, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate

Now that you have lost your shirt in off-base betting on the Super Bowl, the best ice hockey team in North America, or whether or not a female can finish in the top five of a stock car race, protection is on the way from your insatiable habit. It is time for the annual reminder that gambling, lotteries and office pools are not allowed in the workplace at Hill Air Force Base. Questions regarding... Read more

AFMC Commander Gen Donald Hoffman looks at aircraft brakes as SAirman Stephen Baumgart, 379th EEMS, explains the mission.

Tour heightens resolve of AFMC commander

Robert Ely, Air Force Materiel Command Public Affairs

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The commander of Air Force Materiel Command returned recently from a trip to Iraq and other sites in the region with an amped-up sense of responsibility to deployed Airmen who depend on his command for the supplies, parts and maintenance to get their jobs done. Gen. Donald Hoffman had a simple message for the AFMC work force, which he shared first with his... Read more

Members of the U.S. Army prepare to fly airmail on March 19, 1934. (U.S. Air Force)

Commentary: Airmail in the U.S. military

Amy Kemp Butler, Ogden Air Logistics Center History Office

Courageous pilots taking off into clouds without knowing when the clouds would break, flying through rain and snow while being pelted in the face, flying without any type of guide or any communication with ground personnel, crashing due to weather or engine loss resulting in loss of life, running into and killing livestock in attempts at safe crash landings, and many other heroics and... Read more

309 MXW Brig. Gen. John Cooper salutes 573 AMXS SMS Gary Meacham at the presentation of a Bronze Star Medal (Julie Lehr)

309th Maintenance Wing senior master sergeant gets Bronze Star

Bill Orndorff, 309th Maintenance Wing Public Affairs

In recognition of his efforts during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Senior Master Sgt. Gary L. Meacham was presented the Bronze Star medal Feb. 24 by Brig. Gen. John Cooper, 309th Maintenance Wing commander. Meacham received the award for meritorious achievement as squadron superintendent of the 52nd Expeditionary Flying Training Squadron, 321st Air Expeditionary Advisory Group, 321st Air Expeditionary... Read more

OO-ALC Yearly Award Winners honored at event

Mary Lou Gorny, Hilltop Times editor

The Ogden Air Logistics Center award winners for 2009 were recognized March 4 at Club Hill as 46 award winners from each of the wings and directorates at Hill Air Force Base, received medallions as honored guests or representatives standing in for them. The keynote speaker at the ceremony was the Adjutant General, Utah National Guard, Maj. Gen. Brian Tarbet. Those taking top honors at the OO-ALC... Read more

Commentary: Triumphing over adversity not about labels

Brig. Gen. Everett Thomas, Commander, Nuclear Weapons Center

I've spent quite some time with the 898th Munitions Squadron in the aftermath of its inspection results and subsequent decertification. What follows is my way to think about readiness and to put these events in perspective. They apply to any mission area. For most of you this is new ground -- the inspections, the root cause analysis, the decertification -- all of it. Some of you have lived this... Read more

Isa Thomas awaits the outcome of an inbounds throw by his Spurs teammates at a Youth Center basketball game Feb. 27.

Youth players acquire team skills

Mary Lou Gorny, Hilltop Times editor

Youth Center basketball league play concluded recently with a video broadcast at the Base Theater showing highlights of the season at an awards ceremony. Garry Navas, Youth Sports and Fitness director, said Hill Air Force Base is the only base to do such an end-of-the-year video. Navas finds that participation in youth sports contributes a lot to the development of the young athletes. "I think it... Read more

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