• Salvia banned at Hill Air Force Base

    An alarming new trend, popular among many young Americans, has now been made illegal to all military members at Hill. Salvia Divinorum, commonly called Salvia, is often advertised as a 'legal high' because it is not currently considered a controlled substance. It can be purchased legally over the

  • Sticker shock: eliminating decals saves Hill a million

    It's hard to believe that a four inch sticker could cost more than a million dollars a year, but that is the estimated savings of the pioneering Air Force Smart Operations initiative that eliminated vehicle decals at Hill last June. "The material costs were $37,000 a year," said Dr. Chalon Keller,

  • Services competes for Hennessy Award

    This week, the entire scope of Hill's food service program will be scrutinized and evaluated, yet those who manage the program have done nothing different to prepare. "We are ready because we do not only prepare for evaluations, we are prepared everyday," said Mike McCoy, Hill food service officer.

  • Co-workers team up to communicate better

    When a co-worker has a special need, employees often team together to help them out. In the case of the 524th Electronics Maintenance Squadron, more than a dozen workers are willingly taking an early-morning class to help improve one co-worker's quality of life. The 524th employees meet weekdays at

  • 75th leadership addresses base community concerns

    Editor's note: This is the third and final in a series of articles answering questions from a town hall meeting held with 75th Air Base Wing leadership Nov. 8. Q. Before I came into the military, I was covered by several different dental plans. Each one of these insurance companies had figured out