HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Taking a fighter jet into combat undoubtedly requires some backbone, and even just putting such a machine thousands of miles into the sky takes a different breed.Hill Air Force Base’s Maj. Daniel Toftness has successfully accomplished both of those feats, time and time ...
OGDEN — To mark the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, later this year, a <a href="https://honor365.org/911Exhibit" target="_blank">traveling exhibit</a> is coming to Ogden’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NewgateMall" ...
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — A new facility at the Hill Aerospace Museum is being used to refine the facility’s vintage aircraft while providing Northern Utah students with some hands-on work experience.The recently opened aircraft restoration and maintenance facility is located on the northwest ...
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — After a year that saw two of Hill Air Force Base’s three F-35 fighter squadrons serve overseas combat deployments, airmen there are back to the grind in 2021 — but this time the deployment is a little closer to home.Micah Garbarino, 388th Fighter Wing spokesman, said ...
FARMINGTON — As it turns out, reaching your 100th birthday isn't all that difficult — at least not if you're Wallace Gatrell. The Farmington Army veteran of World War II and the Korean War turns 100 on Monday, Jan. 25. He has an unambiguous, inarguable approach to his longevity."All you ...
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Though they’re not alone, 2020 was a year unlike any other for the Air Force’s only combat-ready F-35 unit.An amped up deployment rotation was intensified by the arrival of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Each of the 388th Fighter Wing’s three F-35 squadrons, ...
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — For a group of people whose ultimate purpose is to fight and win wars, Hill Air Force Base has its fair share of warm-hearted Christmas softies.In the days leading up to the 2020 Yuletide, several outfits at Hill were either recipients or donors of some exceptional ...
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — For the Air Force’s F-35 Aerial Demonstration Team, their inaugural season at Hill Air Force Base in 2020 was unlike any other, to say the least.In the latter days of 2019, when the Air Force announced that the team charged with showing off the F-35 would be moving to ...
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — It’s a scenario they hope never happens in the real world, but officials from Hill Air Force Base say the installation’s F-35 wing is ready to intercept enemy aircraft in the event of a stateside emergency.Micah Garbarino, spokesperson with Hill’s 388th Fighter ...
LAYTON — More than two years ago, after a multi-year process of fundraising, planning and eventually building, an immense monument honoring the more than 58,000 soldiers who died in Vietnam was erected in Layton.And now, in the same section of Layton Commons Park, the canine counterparts of ...
