-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 001497. Now showing: Oct. 2 edition of Air Force Television News SAN ANTONIO (AFPN) -- The Air Force mission on a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean, and the island's role in the development of nuclear weapons, highlights the latest edition of Air Force Television News. In a special "Eye on the Air Force," Senior Airman Israel Aviles visits Johnston Island, one of four that make up Johnston Atoll, to chronicle the island's history. The Air Force will soon turn the island over to the Interior Department, which will manage the area as a bird refuge. Tech Sgt. Dean Padgett and Senior Airman Marty Rush team up to show the expanded use of "smart bombs" on the Air Force's B-2 Spirit and F-16 Falcon fleets. Staff Sgt. Rolla Suttmiller and Senior Airman Matt Lomba go to the former eastern block republic of Moldova to spotlight an Air Force-led delivery of medical supplies and equipment. Senior Airman Eric Kerr talks to one of three Air Force surgeons capable of using a unique new treatment for skin cancer, and Army Sgt. Ken Robinson goes along with a Texas Army and Air National Guard group helping the city of Corpus Christi get rid of its crack houses. Customers receiving a VHS version of this program will also receive on their tapes the new Air Force television commercials, as well as an eight-minute production showing how the new commercials were made. Customers receiving Beta copies of the program will now be getting a 30-second promotional announcement for each program. Air Force Television News, now available in closed captioning, is a biweekly production of Air Force News Service. It is distributed on videotape to more than 3,000 military and civilian outlets worldwide, and is seen on more than 700 cable outlets worldwide. The program can also be accessed on the Internet at either www.af.mil or www.broadcastairforce.com. Viewers can comment on the program by sending e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 001504. Mission critical, high-risk people first in line for flu shots by Leigh Anne Redovian Air Force Surgeon General Public Affairs BOLLING AIR FORCE BASE, D.C. (AFPN) -- The Department of Defense has announced its plan to prioritize influenza immunizations in response to the national delay in the availability of the vaccine for the upcoming influenza season. Mission critical military personnel and high-risk medical individuals will be vaccinated first in an effort to maintain optimal military readiness and protect the military's most vulnerable populations. "We encourage others to be patient and wait to get vaccinated until those at highest risk can be protected," said Col. Dana Bradshaw, chief of preventive medicine at the Air Force Medical Operations Agency. Currently available supplies will be administered first to operational military personnel, health-care workers with direct patient contact, and defense enrollment eligibility reporting system enrollees (both active duty and non-active duty) who have high-risk medical conditions. To the extent possible, these groups will be done simultaneously. Next in order of priority will be military trainees, groups in close contact with high-risk personnel, all other military members in priority for deployment, other active-duty members and mission critical DOD civilians at overseas facilities, and all other beneficiaries. Individuals with high-risk medical conditions, including the elderly and women in their second or third trimester pregnancy, should contact their health care provider for more information on how to obtain the shots. According to Bradshaw, pneumococcal vaccination is also indicated for many of the same high-risk persons for whom influenza vaccine is recommended. Individuals with an indication for pneumoccocal vaccine should be sure they are up to date for this shot, although it is not a replacement for the influenza vaccine. The delay has been created by two factors -- a slow-growing component of this year's vaccine formulation, along with production problems at two of the four pharmaceutical companies licensed to produce influenza vaccine in the United States. DOD will delay organized influenza vaccination campaigns until early to mid-November, pending receipt of adequate supplies of vaccine. As additional doses become available later in the fall, regular influenza vaccine campaigns will resume. The Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration estimate the full amount of vaccine required nationwide should be available no later than December. "Influenza epidemics in the United States typically occur in winter to early spring," Bradshaw said. "We expect that even with the delay, we will have time to adequately protect all of the beneficiaries for whom we are responsible." "While influenza can cause mild to moderate illness lasting two to seven days in otherwise healthy individuals, by far the greatest number of hospitalizations and deaths are in elderly persons or children and adults with high-risk medical conditions," she said. DOD receives the vaccine from the same pharmaceutical companies that produce influenza vaccine for the nation. The department is working with CDC and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, an expert panel that advises the CDC, in responding to this vaccine delay. For details, please visit the military health system/TRICARE Web site at www.tricare.osd.mil. More information about the national delay in the distribution of influenza vaccine is available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site at http://www.cdc.gov. 001505. CSAF approves green flightsuit for space, missile operators WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- The Air Force chief of staff has approved a proposal calling for the green flight suit to become the standard uniform for space and missile operators. The move replaces the blue one-piece crew uniform worn for nearly 12 years. Gen. Michael E. Ryan approved the Air Force Space Command proposal for space operators to switch to wearing the green flight suit to support air and space integration efforts as well as provide long-term cost savings. People in career fields space and missile operations, and space systems operations career fields are now eligible to wear the green flight suit and both the lightweight and heavyweight green flight jackets, according to a message sent to the field Sept. 27. Major commands will prepare plans to phase out the blue space and missile crew uniform. The blue security forces jacket will not be authorized for wear by space and missile operators once the phase out is complete. "It's the operational integration that matters," said Col. Mark Lilevjen, chief of AFSPC's Operations Training and Evaluation Division. "We are all Air Force operators and we wear an Air Force operational uniform, whether we are an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot, a Milstar satellite command and control operator or a Minuteman III operator. "Our (space and missile) crewmembers will deploy more and more with other theater warfighters, and they will integrate much better in the green (flightsuit) than in the blue (uniform)," he said. 001506. Travis wins quarterly WEAR recruiting award by Staff Sgt. Rick Williams 364th Recruiting Squadron SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AFPN) -- For its service in helping bring in new bluesuiters, the 60th Air Mobility Wing at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., has earned accolades as winner of the Air Force Recruiting Service's "We Are All Recruiters" award for the third quarter of 2000. Travis also won the WEAR award for the first quarter of 1998. During the quarter, recruiters from the 364th Recruiting Squadron here -- the unit responsible for a vast area covering all of central and northern California -- have been able to count on assistance from the wing when it came to telling the Air Force story to potential recruits. "The wing's support of the 364th Recruiting Squadron and the surrounding community assisted our recruiters in meeting the challenges of an increasingly difficult recruiting environment," said Col. Duane Deal, AFRS commander, based at Randolph AFB, Texas. "The 60th AMW provided incredible assistance to the 364th, including a two-day distinguished educator tour that included a KC-10 (Extender) orientation flight, along with base tours for applicants, volunteer role models, civic leader tours, guest speakers and hosting applicants throughout the base," Deal said. The WEAR program is designed for "all who pride themselves as a member of the world's greatest aerospace team, to tell others about what it means to be an Air Force member and refer quality applicants whenever possible," according to the WEAR homepage at http:www.rs.af.mil/WEAR.htm. When the 364th talks about thanking "Team Travis" for its help, it means everyone from Brig. Gen. Thomas P. Kane, 60th AMW commander, to the newest airmen checking into the base, according to Lt. Col. James McCaw, 364th RS commander. "General Kane started a fire under Team Travis, and the base is on a roll," McCaw said. "I imagine long hours and numerous deployments are taking its toll, so people here at Travis realize we need to recruit more people." One example of Travis' drive to help recruiting was an educator tour that the base hosted earlier this year. Designed to show educators first-hand the job opportunities available in the Air Force, the educator tour included flying on a KC-10 during an air refueling mission. Another example was an orientation flight on a KC-10 for members of the press to record the Thunderbirds, the Air Force's demonstration team, as their F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft were refueled. "To see educators and media crews who were previously leery about the military become pro-Air Force can only mean good things in the recruiting trenches," McCaw said. Travis also sent volunteers and military equipment ranging from HMMVEs (Humvees) to C-5 Galaxy auxiliary power units (used to start aircraft engines) to events such as the U.S. Summer Olympic Trials and the California International Boat Festival. Seeing Air Force people and equipment up close and personal is invaluable recruiting assistance when it comes to the "wow" factor, according to Master Sgt. Pamela James, 364th's "C" Flight recruiting supervisor. "The Air Force needs to fill numerous openings in the mechanical and electrical areas; we need assets and people from these areas to support how great those careers are," she said. Travis added even more to its substantial support by regularly opening its doors to recruiters doing self-guided tours. With no advance warning, recruiters could walk into any shop and get a tour immediately. On top of that, Travis put together a large tour the third Thursday of each month for applicants, giving future Air Force members and their parents an up close look at the Air Force. Each tour included visits to work areas, repair shops, dining facilities, educational centers and dormitories, capped off by a military working dog demonstration, a tour of a C-5 and a trip to the engine test cell for a live run. "These tours are critical," McCaw said. "In today's computer generation, students are familiar with seeing, touching and feeling things before buying, or in our case, committing." (Courtesy of Air Force Recruiting Service) 001503. Vandenberg launches pair of Minutemans by Staff Sgt. Rebecca Bonilla 30th Space Wing Public Affairs VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFPN) -- Two unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles launched here Sept. 28, at 1:01 and 3:01 a.m. PDT. The launches were a team effort by members of the 30th Space Wing and the 576th Flight Test Squadron here, the 90th Space Wing from F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo., and the 341st Space Wing, Malmstrom AFB, Mont. This mission was a part of the Force Development Evaluation Program and tested the reliability and accuracy of Air Force weapon systems. The missiles' unarmed re-entry vehicles traveled approximately 4,200 miles in about 30 minutes, hitting a pre-determined target at the Kwajalein Missile Range in the western chain of the Marshall Islands. 001500. Affordable Moving Surface Target Engagement program enters second phase ROME, N.Y. (AFPN) -- The second phase of a research program to dramatically increase the ability to target moving ground targets is scheduled to begin later this fall under the guidance of scientists and engineers at the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate. The Affordable Moving Surface Target Engagement program, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is designed to investigate and develop technologies to affordably engage moving surface targets such as tanks, tactical ballistic missile transporters and small boats. The program's initial phase explored technologies to network Ground Moving Target Indication sensors to provide fire-control-quality tracks of sufficient accuracy to direct inexpensive munitions against moving surface targets. AMSTE II efforts will consist of a series of experiments to investigate critical technologies, explore performance boundaries and demonstrate potential operational utility. The program is being researched and developed by the DARPA Special Projects Office, with the AFRL Information Directorate as the lead agent. "The focus of the research is to develop a new capability for the services to strike, with precision, moving surface threats from long ranges and in all weather conditions," said Jon Jones, program manager in the directorate's Information and Intelligence Exploitation Division. "The program is primarily focusing on Ground Moving Target Indication radar, a sensor that can detect moving surface vehicles from long distances," Jones said. "Planners do not envision developing any specific hardware system. Technology in development during the next seven years will be used to enhance the capability to strike moving targets with high accuracy." Several initial studies, conducted during the past year, investigated the feasibility of precision engagement of moving ground targets using advanced sensor systems such as those proposed for the next generation of fighters and surveillance aircraft. One result of these studies concluded that, while obtaining the high accuracy required was possible, the real challenge was in maintaining the location of the target during the battle management process. Moving ground targets pose a significant challenge to current weapon systems because of the dynamics in a ground target's performance. Idle vehicles can accelerate to speeds of 60 MPH in less than 10 seconds, and stop in shorter periods of time. While typical military vehicles do not tend to accelerate or stop that fast, they still pose a significant challenge to maintain accurate tracks. Vehicles also tend to mix with other vehicles, travel in groups or convoys, start and stop often, and use terrain to block their detection. All of these dynamics provide challenges to the maintenance of a single, precision fire control engagement. The fiscal 2001 experiment will feature an airborne experiment demonstrating precision fire control and weapon delivery with limited target association challenges. The FY02 experiment will feature airborne experimentation demonstrating integrated high-reliability track maintenance and precision fire control. Finally, the FY03 experiment will be an end-to-end field demonstration of AMSTE engagement capabilities. (Courtesy of Air Force Research Laboratory News Service) 001499. Reverse auction nets history-making buy ARLINGTON, Va. (AFPN) -- The Defense Finance and Accounting Service made the largest online purchase ever in a reverse auction, Sept. 22, buying $7.6 million worth of information technology equipment. The auction, conducted in conjunction with the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service, was the first under GSA's Buyers.Gov exchange. Through the electronic reverse auction format DFAS purchased 6,200 desktop computers, 200 laptop computers, and 1,473 printers at a significant cost reduction. Reverse auctions, conducted with an Internet-based software application originally developed for the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, have suppliers bid against each other in head-to-head competition. Whoever provides the service for the lowest bid gets the contract. Thus, unlike a traditional auction, here the low bidder wins. "We determined we needed to buy about $10 million of equipment," explained Thomas R. Bloom, DFAS director. "Since our purchase was so big, we figured the forces of competition could work to our advantage. We were right. We used the Internet much like eBay. We identified our specific requirements, and companies competed on-line for our business. The bottom line is we saved about 22 percent, or about $2.2 million, from what we thought we would have to pay (based on our latest purchases). It was a tremendous success. The savings will be used to update even more equipment." Vance Kauzlarich, DFAS chief information officer, said, "We expected the format to accelerate the contract award process and result in the lowest price possible, and this exceeded expectations. The auction was beneficial and we saw healthy competition between the bidders." Fifteen pre-qualified IT commodity suppliers participated in the online, real-time auction which was scheduled to last one hour but continued for four hours spurred on by descending prices with Gateway Computers, Micron Computers and SR Tech ultimately offering the lowest prices. "We have launched a new era in leveraging the government's buying power," said Bob Suda, FTS assistant commissioner for Information Technology Solutions. "We have found a way to streamline the procurement cycle, while maintaining a truly competitive environment, thereby providing the best value for both the government and the taxpayer." (Courtesy of DFAS Public Affairs) 001501. Recruiting's best announced as 'Blue Suit' winners RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- Col. Duane Deal, Air Force Recruiting Service commander, recently announced the winners of the 2000 Operation Blue Suit XXII competition. The program recognizes the "best of the best" recruiters. Operation Blue Suit was initiated in 1979 to stimulate production in critical Air Force recruiting programs. Originally designed to enhance enlisted recruiting efforts during the traditional crunch months of February through May, the program proved so successful it was expanded over the years. Blue Suit now recognizes the top 10 enlisted (also called nonprior service or NPS) recruiters, officer accessions recruiters, and flight chiefs from among nearly 1,600 production recruiters around the world. This year's top 10 recruiters are: Master Sgt. LeRoy G. Burney Jr., 344th RCS, NPS Recruiter, Arlington, Texas. Tech Sgt. Robert D. Davis, Jr., 332nd RCS, Officer Accessions Recruiter, Nashville, Tenn. Tech Sgt. Brent L. Ditto, 368th RCS, NPS Recruiter, Boise, Idaho. Tech Sgt. Scott L. Earle, 361st RCS, NPS Recruiter, Anchorage, Alaska. Tech Sgt. Donald B. Echols, 331st RCS, NPS Recruiter, Mary Esther, Fla. Tech Sgt. Craig S. Freier, 317th Recruiting Squadron, NPS Recruiter, Roanoke, Va. Tech Sgt. Robert G. Siler, 369th RCS, NPS Recruiter, Los Angeles, Calif. Staff Sgt. Ronnie D. Dunker, 347th RCS, NPS Recruiter, Peoria, Ill. Staff Sgt. Rodney E. Wells, 367th RCS, NPS Recruiter, El Paso, Texas. Senior Airman Eric Ramos-Rodriguez, 314th RCS, NPS Recruiter, Jamaica, NY. The winners were nominated from their assigned recruiting groups and selected by a board based upon their performance in meeting assigned recruiting goals, leadership and other professional qualities. (Courtesy of AFRS Public Affairs) 001498. Air Force team teaches joint antiterrorism class by Tech. Sgt. Ann Bennett Air Force Print News NAVAL AIR STATION KEFLAVIK, Iceland -- An Air Force mobile training team is teaching Air Force and Navy people here how to perform vehicle searches and other ways to protect themselves against terrorist acts. The three-person training team, from the 786th Security Forces Squadron at Sembach Air Base, Germany, travels throughout the command to conduct the five-day United States Air Forces in Europe's Antiterrorism and Force Protection Level II Course. "With the number of contingencies we respond to in high-threat areas all over the world today, this training is essential," said Tech. Sgt. Jon Rouse, 786th SFS noncommissioned officer-in-charge of Antiterrorism and Force Protection training. "Terrorism is on the rise," he said. "We're not going face-to-face with a lot of people anymore, so they're going to use the tool of the week -- terrorism -- to hit us. As Americans, we are a target and everybody wants to take a shot at us." The course offers 40 hours of instruction in five Department of Defense-required areas: introduction to terrorism, terrorist operations, detecting terrorist surveillance, individual protective measures and hostage survival. In addition, the course covers physical security considerations, unit protective measures, cyberterrorism and more. Students also participate in practical exercises, such as conducting vehicle searches. The group of 16 Air Force and 10 Navy students taking the course here are from various units assigned to the base. Rouse said the class is open to anyone -- not just security forces members -- because force protection is everyone's business. Navy Master-at-Arms First Class Victor Stewart, who works for the Iceland Defense Force in the provost marshal office, said with the information they are learning, they can teach other troops who will then pass it on. "This knowledge will help them, if not here, then when they deploy or (move) from here," Stewart said. Staff Sgt. Daniel Bosche, 85th Security Forces Squadron NCOIC of training, agreed that people definitely need this training. Even though the threat is low here, he said, most are only here for a year or two and will need it when they move on, especially if they are going to a high-threat area. Rouse and the other two instructors conducting the class -- Staff Sgts. Kenneth Joy and Charles Sauvage -- all agree that the most important aspect of antiterrorism is awareness. "People can make a difference if they just open their eyes and are aware of their surroundings," Rouse said. Some antiterrorism measures discussed included conducting vehicle searches, varying time schedules and routes to and from work, and watching out for people or things that are out of place. Terrorists aren't shadow figures, they are people and we can defeat them as long as everybody is aware of what's going on around them, Rouse said. The 786th SFS instructors are the only certified AT/FP Level II Course instructors in the European Command. Besides providing mobile training in Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia, they also offer an in-residence version of this course. They teach Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps members as well as state department, embassy and defense courier service personnel. This MTT course is the ninth one they have conducted away from home this fiscal year, in addition to the 12 conducted at Sembach AB. 001502. RED HORSE celebrates 35th anniversary by Capt. Brenda Campbell 363rd Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- The Air Force squadrons whose mascot is a horse with wings and whose motto is "Can do, will do, have done" are celebrating their 35th anniversary. Originally nicknamed RED HORSE as an acronym for Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineer, the two original RED HORSE squadrons were formed under Tactical Air Command in September 1965. Today, RED HORSE squadrons provide the Air Force with a mobile, rapid-response civil engineer force to support contingency and special operations in remote, high-threat environments worldwide. In wartime, the squadrons perform heavy damage repair required to recover critical Air Force facilities and utility systems, particularly those used for continuous aircraft launch and recovery. The squadrons also provide engineer support for beddown of weapon systems and people in austere environments. In the mid 1960s, the Air Force had base civil engineering units but these organizations didn't have the heavy equipment and skills necessary to repair facilities that had suffered heavy bomb damage or to build "expeditionary" airfields and facilities. These capabilities were sorely needed as the United States' role in Vietnam increased. The rapid buildup of U.S. forces in Southeast Asia led to overcrowded airfields, limited maintenance facilities and almost nonexistent living areas. That led to the establishment of the two original RED HORSE squadrons. Once unit personnel were trained and equipped, they deployed to Vietnam in early 1966 and immediately took on many of the construction projects originally scheduled for Navy contractors and the Army Corps of Engineers. Four more RED HORSE units were formed and deployed to Southeast Asia by the end of 1966. The six squadrons were constructing facilities at Phan Rang Air Base, Phu Cat, Cam Ranh Bay, Tuy Hoa AB, and Bien Hoa AB in Vietnam and U Tapao AB, Thailand. In 1968, a seventh RED HORSE squadron was created in response to a contingency situation in South Korea. That squadron spent 18 months building facilities for the U.S. forces in Korea. As the end of the Vietnam War approached, the requirement for RED HORSE squadrons was reviewed. Each squadron experienced a different fate. All were moved to new locations, some were inactivated and some of the RED HORSE capabilities were taken over by the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve. To keep their skills honed during peacetime, squadron personnel looked for training projects that were similar to contingency operations requirements. For example, one squadron constructed an aircraft bombing and gunnery range and another built concrete aircraft shelters. They also responded to humanitarian calls for assistance when Hurricane Agnes hit Pennsylvania in 1972; tornadoes went through Xenia, Ohio, in 1974; and Hurricane Hugo devastated Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., in 1989. When Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, RED HORSE responded throughout the Arabian Peninsula, building facilities totaling more than $15 million. 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