-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 001562. Air Force bases win recycling excellence award by Olga Purpura-Clark Air Eductation and Training Command Public Affairs RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- Two Texas Air Force base recycling teams won a Texas environmental excellence award for their contributions to the success of recycling across the state. Texas Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby will present the awards during the Texas Recycling Summit in Houston Oct. 17. Randolph and Laughlin Air Force Bases, along with Goodwill Industries of San Antonio and the Central Texas Recycling Association garnered the Texas Environmental Excellence State Recycling Partnership Award. The award recognizes a partnership that excels in supporting the state's recycling mission and promotes innovative and creative ways of enhancing recycling. The bases are the first federal agencies to enter into a cooperative partnership managed by a public recycling marketing group. CTRA, the only non-profit cooperative recycling marketing group in the nation, negotiates sales of recyclable materials for the bases directly with manufacturers who convert the materials into usable products. Goodwill Industries of San Antonio manages the recycling center at Laughlin. In addition to the award presented to the two bases, recycling awards were also announced for two Air Force individuals active in the environmental effort. Michael Redfern, an environmental engineer at Headquarters AETC, won the Rick Fuszek Memorial "Front Line" Award. This top state award is presented to the individual who goes above and beyond the job responsibilities to advance recycling at work and in the community. Redfern initiated the successful partnership program at Randolph and Laughlin, and he travels throughout the United States sharing his experiences and encouraging other federal agencies to participate. He also designed a coloring book, "Recycle Texas," which features the Randolph "Taj Mahal" on the cover. Don Lindsey, Randolph recycling center manager, earned the Most Valuable Player Award. This award is given to the person who makes outstanding contributions to the Central Texas Recycling Association. Lindsey's dedication to establishing and maintaining recycling as an economically viable option for the Randolph community was key in his selection. 001566. America's Air Force takes to the silver screen by Staff Sgt. Dawn M. Harris 31st Fighter Wing Public Affairs AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy (AFPN) -- After 10 months of production, the Air Force debuted its new slogan and symbol in late August and early September in a series of commercials playing on the big screen and on prime time television. The move represents a radical shift in the way the 53-year-old service has done its advertising as well as a major push to promote the Air Force to the American public. The commercials sporting the Air Force's new motto "America's Air Force - No One Comes Close" has gotten favorable reviews so far, said Brig. Gen. Ron Rand, Air Force public affairs director, after only one month of airing on TV and at movie theaters. "We don't have any scientific results back on how they're playing and if they are doing what we want them to do with our recruiting audience and retention audience," said Rand. However according to the e-mails, letters and phone calls Rand and other Air Force officials have received from the public, they all agree that the commercials are being well received. "I think the ads are going to do what we want them to do: help us with recruiting, help us with retention and help us improve general public awareness," the general said. The Air Force spent approximately $4 million to produce the new commercials, which dramatically changed the service's approach to advertising. "Last year was the first year we paid for television advertising," said Rand. "Public service announcements work, but on a much smaller level than what we needed. Our research showed that we needed to reach a broader segment of the American public and the most expeditious way of reaching that broad sector is through paid television ads." Testing those waters, the Air Force advertised during the Olympics and during national league football and major league baseball games, and for the first time ever, Air Force commercials hit syndication and cable. "We wanted to focus all of our audiences, both the internal and external audiences, on the important mission that we perform for our country and the great people performing that mission," Rand said. In an effort to encompass those traits into a single theme, Rand formed a team to survey both the Air Force and general public and conduct focus groups. "We did much more extensive focus group testing on the current motto," he said. Other mottos tested included "America's Air Force, Above and Beyond," and "No One Comes Close." "We conducted about 40 focus groups, about 24 of which were with Air Force people and 16 were with general public audiences in four cities across America. The ones that tested the best were 'America's Air Force' and 'No One Comes Close.'" The Air Force ultimately went with a combination of the two. Besides seeing the Air Force symbol with the motto in these new commercials, the symbol and its usage around the Air Force will increase gradually over the years. "We already have approval to put the symbol up on gates," Rand said. "It's already up at Buckley (Air Force Base, Colo.) and it will be up at the United States Air Force Academy some time next month." The symbol also was unveiled recently on a water tower at McChord AFB, Wash. In addition to Buckley's new main gate, Rand said that Lackland AFB, Texas; Maxwell AFB, Ala.; Ramstein Air Base, Germany; and Yokota AB, Japan, will sport the new symbol on their main gates in the very near future. Rand said not to expect to see a makeover to every Air Force base main gate right away. "The criteria for all of these changes is that they need to be main gates or water towers in need of repainting. We're not going to spend money to paint something again that just got painted yesterday. We're doing it smart," he said. According to Rand, the next step is testing the symbol on airplanes and some Air Force vehicles. To view the Air Force's commercials, click on www.af.mil/airforcestory/ads/html. 001568. Air Force teams compete in first-ever military Wilderness Challenge by Rich Lamance Army & Air Force Hometown News Service FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AFPN) -- When 2nd Lt. Christina Hruska and her teammates converged on one of the nation's most pristine whitewater rafting areas, nestled along the rugged New River Gorge National River in southeastern West Virginia, they had no idea what lay ahead. The newly commissioned second lieutenant and her teammates, along with 38 other five-person teams representing each branch of the service, faced steep hills, swift rapids and rocky terrain during the first-ever military Wilderness Challenge 2000 Oct. 6-7. The competition, sponsored by the Navy's Morale, Welfare and Recreation department in Norfolk, Va., pitted military teams in a six-mile forced hike, a 40-mile mountain bike relay, a 14-mile whitewater raft race and a five and a half mile run. Each team consisted of five active duty members, with at least one female per team. "This competition was a complete surprise," explained Hruska, stationed at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., awaiting pilot training. Hruska was a member of the Air Force Pentagon team. "My team had very little intel about the events, making everything extremely exciting." The event was designed to promote outdoor recreation and give service members a physical challenge and a sense of competition, according to Michael Bond, Wilderness Challenge coordinator. Three Air Force teams competed in the inaugural event, representing F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo.; Langley AFB, Va.; and Air Force Headquarters, in the Pentagon. In addition to overall winners, each service also had a winning team. For the Air Force, first place honors went to the team from the 90th Space Wing at F.E. Warren, who placed 17th overall. "We started the competition with a 6.2 mile forced march that took us through some of the most treacherous mountain terrain I've dealt with in my life," said Staff Sgt. James L. Jordan, a command and control senior controller with the 90th SW. "The 10-mile mountain bike race was the easiest event, although we drudged through the mud ranging from two inches to two feet deep. The most enjoyable part about this event was getting dirty and showing all the other services that we aren't the ones just sitting behind a desk," added Jordan. Teammate Senior Airman Chance Miller agreed. "The bike race was awesome -- splashing through the mud, jumping over obstacles, huffing, puffing, screaming and yelling and pushing ourselves to the limit -- we had a great time." For Maj. Russell D. Fellers, a program manager with Headquarters Air Force, the whitewater rafting event was the highlight of the competition. "It was the first time I had ever whitewater rafted, and we had an excellent guide, Eve, to get us through the rough spots and make the trip fun." For Staff Sgt. Lisa Sanchez and her F.E. Warren teammates, riding the rapids was a bit more stressful. "We passed two teams who had been staggered ahead of us, then we crashed into the rocks and lost two people. We recovered, then passed the teams back up again and gained momentum. Team work paid off in the end." With just over six months advance notice from Navy MWR officials, most teams went into overdrive to prepare for the physically challenging events. "We mixed weight lifting, quick-paced distance runs, weekly eight-mile runs with off road biking all around the Hampton Roads area to produce a solid training regimen," explained Capt. Hugh B. St. Martin, a member of the Air Combat Command Communications Group at Langley AFB. For the top Air Force team from F.E. Warren, training was more of a concentrated effort. "Our training took the form of six-day weeks for two weeks," said Master Sgt. Clifford Backman Jr., the 90th Service Squadron's first sergeant and the team's coach. "We started each morning at 6 a.m. with stretching and push-ups and sit-ups. We would then take a rigorous 15-mile bike ride through the Cheyenne area and end up in a four-wheel drive area and tear up the hills and splash through the mud. "Other days we would swim laps in the pool to build cardio (better heart response), and we practiced rafting in area lakes," he said. "We worked on our paddling techniques and built up our muscles for the whitewater trip. We ran as a team for several miles each day to work on our pace." The rugged West Virginia location was chosen by Navy MWR officials because it had become a favorite of Navy families over the last decade for MWR-sponsored whitewater rafting trips. According to Bond, a Norfolk-based MWR official and the Wilderness Challenge coordinator, next year's competition should be more than twice as large with at least 100 teams projected. 001567. Combat photographers risk all to document war by Linda D. Kozaryn American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2000 -- Dick Taylor, Norman Hatch, Donald Honeyman -- you may not know their names or faces, but you've probably seen their work. These military photographers captured a lasting visual history of World War II. Taylor was on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Hatch captured the Marines' triumph atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Honeyman was at the liberation of Manila. DOD paid tribute to the military's past and present combat cameramen at a recent Pentagon reception and film preview. Defense Secretary William S. Cohen and his wife, Janet Langhart Cohen, invited more than 250 defense leaders, commanders and corporate executives to the Oct. 4 screening of the Dreamworks film "The Shooting War." Richard Schickel, a Time Magazine film critic, produced the 90-minute documentary about World War II combat photographers. It includes missing footage shot by Academy Award-winning director John Ford on the beaches of Normandy. Melvyn R. Paisley, a World War II aviator and former assistant secretary of the Navy, found the several reels of film in 1998 at the National Archives. In opening remarks at the screening, Cohen thanked these men and the other combat photographers who "caught" the images of World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Bosnia and Kosovo. He said America is indebted to the heroism and the courage of the men and women armed only with cameras who show what the nation's service members go through and the sacrifices they make. Cohen, who first saw the film during D-Day commemoration ceremonies in New Orleans in June, said Dreamworks executive and film director Steven Spielberg had asked Schickel not to "pretty it up," and Schickel complied. "This is not Hollywood," Cohen stressed to the Pentagon audience. "This is real, and you will see scenes that will catch your throat in terms of their emotional impact." Actor Tom Hanks and historian author Stephen Ambrose narrate the film, due to be aired on ABC television later this year. "In their hands, the camera became a weapon more potent than a rifle -- a weapon whose impact resonates even more powerfully now, as memory is transformed into history," Hanks states as the film opens. Much of the dramatic, tragic footage was not released in full during the war, Schickel said, because "we didn't want to show American losses and American pain. Now it's many years later and we can show all of that. I think it is to our advantage to show all of the story of World War II which includes the pain, the suffering, the losses." The film shows the wounded, the dying, the dead. It depicts the destruction and devastation of war. A Japanese woman tragically throws her baby and then herself off a cliff rather than surrender. Japanese kamikaze pilots crash into U.S. carriers off Okinawa. It also shows Italian dictator Benito Mussolini after his hanging death in Milan and the Jewish corpses of Dachau. As he worked with the photographers and their footage, Schickel said he realized they were making "an intimate epic," beginning at Pearl Harbor and ending at Nagasaki. The film embraces every branch of the service and many of the most significant battles of World War II, he said, "but it is told through the eyes of men who were anonymous, for the large part, in gathering this footage." The documentary highlights more than 20 veteran photographers who talk about their work recording the realities of war. "I loved it, because it was dangerous," one combat photographer said. "I'm a 'fraidy cat,'" admitted another, "but if there was a job to do, I did it." "No matter how horrible the action was that you were covering," still another explained, "when you looked through that glass, that glass was your filter." "I got carried away one time and got out in front of the gun firing, and that was a big mistake because the muzzle blast got me and knocked me about 40 feet ass over tea kettle," said another. "I don't know if these men are part of the 'Greatest Generation,'" Schickel concluded. "But I do know this: In getting to know them to make this film, their dutifulness, their modesty and their common decency impressed me inordinately, and I think it will impress you." Prior to the screening, the Cohens' guests had a chance to view a static display of photos and equipment. Combat camera personnel from the Air Force's 1st Combat Camera Squadron, Army's 55th Signal Company, Marine Corps Combat Camera and Navy Fleet Combat Camera Group were on hand to answer questions. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Allen of Erie, Pa., an aerial photojournalist with the 1st Combat Camera Squadron, based at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., said his unit takes pictures of joint operations around the world. He's been to Somalia and, most recently, he flew bombing missions over Kosovo. "I took this job out of basic training because it was offered without a tech school," Allen said. "I didn't realize that I'd gotten so lucky in what I picked. It's a great job. We get to fly in just about every type of plane the military has -- as long as it has two seats," he said. Petty Officer 3rd class Heather Contant of Pensacola, Fla., a video editor with the Navy's combat camera team in Norfolk, Va., demonstrated her editing skills. She noted to one guest that she had just returned from covering training exercises at Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, with a team of three still photographers and three videographers. "It's like no other job in the Navy," Contant said of her four years with combat camera. "We work with all branches of service. We're all over the world. We're not just stuck on a ship. There's a lot more opportunity to see the world. I've been to Albania, Kosovo, Crete, Greece, Italy. Anywhere something's going on, we're there." The military's joint combat camera teams document, process and transmit still and motion imagery to support air, sea and ground combat operations, according to Air Force Master Sgt. Chuck Reger, operations chief for DOD's Joint Combat Camera Center. "We're a low-density, high-demand type of organization in all the services," he said. There are only about 360 active duty and 230 Guard and Reserve combat camera photographers in all, and they play an important role in every contingency operation, training exercise or humanitarian relief mission, he noted. Whether the mission involves mine clearing, doing damage surveys, settling disputes among local residents, aiding refugees or documenting war crimes -- the military's combat cameramen are there, said Reger, who has spent 11 years in combat camera field units. "They provide the historical documentation of those events, but more importantly, they provide a tool for the commanders and the decision makers in the national capital region to be able to look at events as they unfold and make decisions about what needs to be done." *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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