-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 0900. Air Force secretary and chief send holiday message by James G. Roche, secretary of the Air Force and Gen. Michael E. Ryan, Air Force chief of staff WASHINGTON (AFPN) - July 4, 1776, marked an extraordinary turning point in history. The Declaration of Independence adopted by the Continental Congress was, and still is, a revolutionary step in governance. It focused on the good of the individual as well as the good of society. More than 225 years later, those revolutionary ideas continue to flourish on this globe. The American Revolution was based on the founding fathers' vision of liberty - one in which they placed all their trust and their very lives. Their courage has inspired countless Americans to serve our country in public life and the armed services to build this great nation. We owe a debt to all those who have gone before us for their sacrifices for our freedom. To each and every military member and civilian on duty around the world, we salute you. We are proud to serve with you, as together we protect and preserve the extraordinary freedoms won by those who have gone before us. 0902. Some did not get correct pay, officials say RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- Air Force Personnel Center officials here are asking people who have re-enlisted, extended their enlistments or been promoted recently to look closely at their latest Leave and Earnings Statements to ensure they are receiving all of their pay. Problems with the Air Force's new personnel data system may have caused the "suspension of pay records" for hundreds who re-enlisted within 30 days of their dates of separation or who have extended their enlistment since late April. These problems could lead to those individuals not being paid, said officials here. "What this means is that some folks may not have gotten paid, or may not see expected increases in their pay," said Lt. Col. Richard Treasure, chief of the systems requirements division here. "This really bothers us since we've been working hardest with this transition to keep peoples' pay from being affected. And it takes on that much more urgency now." There is, however, a way for those impacted to receive their money, according to Defense Finance and Accounting Service officials. Affected airmen can take their re-enlistment or extension contract to their accounting and finance office to receive their pay through electronic funds transfer that takes, on average, three to five days. Another problem affects the pay of airmen promoted in June. Some officers and enlisted members promoted in June did not get their pay increase on time, according to Treasure. That problem should be corrected by the middle of July, he said. Individuals who find discrepancies with their LES should work with their local military personnel flights and accounting and finance offices, he said. (Courtesy of AFPC News Service) 0901. Officer trainee dies after morning run MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. (AFPN) -- An officer trainee died here July 2 after collapsing during morning physical conditioning. Officer Trainee Angel A. Castro Jr., assigned to the Officer Training School here, collapsed during a morning run at 5:50 a.m. Two trained medical technicians, who were also officer trainees in class 01-07, administered CPR immediately. An ambulance then transported the trainee to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead at 6:40 a.m. Castro was in the sixth week of a 12-week officer training program that began May 29. Before coming to OTS, he was an avionics technician at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. He had been in the Air Force 15 years and attained the rank of technical sergeant. An autopsy will be performed to determine the exact cause of death. Lt. Gen. Donald Lamontagne, Air University commander, has elected a commander-directed investigation of the circumstances regarding Castro's death. (Courtesy of Air Force Education and Training Command News Service) 0903. AEDC begins next 50 years ARNOLD AIR FORCE BASE, Tenn. (AFPN) -- Arnold Engineering Development Center celebrated its 50th anniversary with a rededication ceremony June 25. President Harry S. Truman dedicated Arnold Engineering Development Center here to the memory of five-star General of the Air Force Henry "Hap" Arnold June 25, 1951. Truman's speech was dedicated not only to the general but also to Dr. Theodore von Karman who authored "Towards New Horizons," the blueprint for Air Force research and development and the foundation for AEDC. Truman, in his original speech, used a term common to people today, but unheard of in 1951, Gen. Lester Lyles, Air Force Materiel Command commander, said. "It was the first speech dedicated to air power," Lyles said. "We talk a lot about air power today, but the first mention of the word air power came from President Truman." Lyles re-emphasized Truman's point when he said Arnold "knew that you can't have a first-class Air Force with second-class aircraft." "During these last 50 years, AEDC has certainly lived up to the vision of Dr. von Karman and certainly the vision of General Arnold and the promise of President Truman," Lyles said. "It has been as some like to say, 'America's aerospace advantage,' That's really what this facility has represented, allowing air power to evolve successfully from the beginning of the jet age to supersonic flight to developing ICBMs, space launch capabilities, satellite development, ballistic missile defense and now hypersonic research and directed energy research." It's easy to get caught up in the awe of AEDC and its testing, but the real key to the success of the center has always been its people, he said. "The people of AEDC are the true heroes," Lyles said. Nine former AEDC commanders attended the ceremony along with a host of people who attended the 1951 dedication. Dr. Sam Carney, a professor at nearby Vanderbilt Medical School, was one of those. "The mood today is very happy just like it was 50 years ago," Carney said. "We didn't realize then how important AEDC would be. It was just another facility. But it has, with time, proven that it's the bottom line in space and air power all over the world." AEDC is the nation's largest complex of flight simulation test facilities. The complex has some 58 aerospace test facilities including the center's remote operating location Hypervelocity Tunnel 9 in White Oak, Md. The test facilities simulate flight from subsonic to hypersonic speeds at altitudes from sea-level to space. Virtually every high performance flight system in use by the Department of Defense today and all NASA manned spacecraft have been tested in AEDC's facilities. Robert Arnold, General Arnold's grandson, said, during the ceremony, he had heard about AEDC all his life and he was sure his grandfather would be proud of what his vision has become. "But what makes this place special to my family isn't that Hap Arnold's name is on the front gate," he said. "What is special about AEDC is what you do here. You are on the cutting-edge. You help create the future of air and space flight. And, for all that and all the rest of the things you do, you are part of the never-ending front wave of Hap Arnold's vision and dreams moving through time always towards new horizons." (Courtesy of Air Force Material Command News Service. Dana Davis, Arnold Engineering Development Center Public Affairs, contributed to this report.) 0904. 'Star Wars' cryo tank gets new life with NASA ROME, N.Y. (AFPN) -- A multi-million-dollar cryogenic chamber, erected as part of Air Force research for President Reagan's 1980s Strategic Defense Initiative, will soon be helping NASA develop space science capabilities for the 21st century. Opened in June 1989 at the then Rome Air Development Center, the "Cryogenic Test Facility" was built to test prototype space systems and components in pressures and temperatures simulating space environments. The chamber and associated equipment cost approximately $4 million. It was funded through the Strategic Defense Initiative Office at a time when testing was projected for large optical components of a space-based surveillance system. The CTF will now become the largest vertical cryogenic chamber at NASA's Marshall complex in Alabama when it's completely moved. The move will cost approximately $300,000; however experts estimate the cost of building a new facility would be between $6 and $10 million. After a crane lifted the main, two-story tank from an annex of the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate, it as well as mounts and controls were loaded on a truck destined for the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Rome experts said pressure in the chamber can be lowered to near vacuum conditions and the facility was designed to drop temperatures to 100 degrees Kelvin, or 279 degrees below zero on the Fahrenheit scale. It can accommodate test articles up to six feet in size. "The cryo chamber was used for more than just testing objects in extreme cold," said James W. Cusack, an engineer on the program at the time and now chief of the information directorate's information systems division. "It also served as an optical test chamber." Rome's original mission was to test optics envisioned for a space-based ballistic missile defense system, he said. "With this chamber, engineers would look down at the mirror being tested from above and conduct experiments with classic optical test equipment," he said. Based on chamber observations, the mirrors' surface could be altered to eliminate minute atomic-level variations the simulated space environment caused." With the demise of SDI space optics work at Rome, the chamber was renamed the Space Simulation Facility and was used sporadically under a 1994 memorandum of understanding with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. 0906. POW/MIA Day poster reflects unwavering determination by Rudi Williams American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- Veterans, ex-POWs, MIA family members and active duty military people comprise a poster for National POW/MIA Recognition Day on Sept. 21 that officials tout as "bigger and better" than last year's. Starting in mid-July, DOD will send the poster, with the theme "Their Service ... Our Duty" to military units worldwide, including ships at sea. The POW/Missing Personnel Office will also distribute the poster to veteran's and family organizations. "All military units around the world will have the poster in plenty of time to use it for National POW/MIA Recognition Day," said Larry Greer, public affairs officer for the POW/Missing Personnel Office. "People can also download it from the Internet. This is the second year we've made the poster available in a lot of different sizes. People can download small or large sizes and print it in color or black and white. They can use it in their POW/MIA Recognition Day programs, reprint it -- do whatever they want to with it." The DPMO Web site -- at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/powday/index.htm -- receives as many as 152,000 hits per week from people requesting documents. "We've found that interest in our Web site picks up right before National POW/MIA Recognition Day. The poster was unveiled during the National League of Families annual convention in Washington recently. "The families really spoke highly of the poster and we're getting very good feedback from a lot of people," Greer said. "We printed about 150,000 posters this year as compared to about 130,000 last year." He said the picture arrangement on the poster shows the service members who went off to war and made their sacrifices for our country. "Now we must continue to do our duty to achieve the fullest possible accounting of those who never returned," Greer said. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? 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