Ogden Air Logistics Center technicians with the 574th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Hill AFB, Utah, have won the Shingo Silver Medallion for 2007 in the public sector category. Bill Orndorff reports that the squadron received the award for its innovative work and cost reduction efforts on A-10 and F-16 aircraft. The award committee reviewed three years’ worth of initiatives, comparing 2004 operations to the present.
The top Air Force commander on on the Japanese island of Okinawa has clamped down alcohol and issued a curfew for junior enlisted Airmen and Guardians at Kadena Air Base for the next month. The order came roughly two weeks after a U.S. Marine was arrested for allegedly robbing and…