• Satellite pharmacy renamed after Staff Sgt. Derek F. Ramos

    The 75th Medical Group renamed the satellite pharmacy after Staff Sgt. Derek F. Ramos during a ceremony June 11.Ramos, a pharmacy technician with the 75th Medical Group, and his wife Emily, died at the scene of an off-roading accident in Bountiful, Utah in Dec. 13, 2014. Their two children survived

  • Bomber and fighter aircraft training wrapping up in Utah

    They aren't UFOs and Northern Utah is not being invaded by an enemy military force.If you happened to notice any strange looking aircraft hurtling through the skies the past couple of weeks, it's highly likely those planes are participating in Hill Air Force Base's biannual combat training and

  • Hill Airmen return from F-16 deployment in Afghanistan

    Nearly 300 active duty and Reserve Airmen assigned to the 421st Fighter Squadron, known as the Black Widows, returned here Tuesday following a nearly eight-month deployment to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.The 421st FS spent more than 10,000 hours in the skies, flying 2,800 sorties and dropping more

  • Roy Gate construction starts after South Gate reopens

    Hill workers can rejoice -- the South Gate is scheduled to reopen at 12:01 a.m. May 16.The gate is one of the base's main traffic arteries and was closed for eight weeks for the installation of new speed tables to help calm traffic flow and wedge barriers that can be deployed to prevent unauthorized

  • Flying in fours: Hill F-35s form up for combat training

    F-35 pilots here began flying routine four-ship combat training missions at the Utah Test and Training range in the west desert this week.Active duty and Reserve pilots from the 388th and 419th Fighter Wings will use the jet's intricate computer network to evade a series of simulated threats.