From: CMSgt Mike Bergman <bergman@afnews.pa.af.mil>
Subject: AF News Svc 08/06/92
Organization: Hq Air Force News Agency/SCC
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:37:51 GMT


From CMSgt Mike Bergman <bergman@afnews.pa.af.mil>


From CMSgt Mike Bergman <bergman@afnews.pa.af.mil>


626.  Nine-year sentence
627.  Uniform board results
628.  Aerial fire fighters
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626.  Nine-year sentence
     COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AFNS) -- An English instructor at the Air Force
Academy was sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to
sexually molesting a young girl over a three-year period.
     Capt. William R. Bauman was sentenced Aug. 4 after he pleaded guilty to
attempted rape, oral sodomy and indecent acts with a minor.  The maximum
penalty could have been 81 years, a spokesman at the Academy said.
     In addition to the prison term, Bauman was also sentenced to dismissal
from the Air Force.  His military pay and allowances will go into a fund for
the victim and her family.
     The sentence is pending appeal.
     Bauman, 46, is confined at Fort Carson, Colo., until he is transferred to
the prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.  He will be eligible for parole in three
years.
     He elected to have only a judge preside over the court-martial instead of
a jury of five officers.


627.  Uniform board results
by TSgt. Sarah L. Hood
Air Force News Service
     WASHINGTON -- Cuffs will replace tabs on hot weather and desert battle
dress uniform sleeves, just one of the dress and appearance changes approved
by the Air Force chief of staff.
     Improved hot weather and desert BDUs will be adopted in a strong 50
percent nylon-50 percent cotton fabric designed to stop small rips from
spreading.
     Other changes to the BDUs include keeping the knee and seat patches and:
     -- Removing the knee pleats and one lower bellow-style pocket.
     -- Removing the yoke on the back of the shirt but keeping the elbow patch
on the desert BDUs.
     -- Removing the waist tabs and taking the waist in three inches.
     BDUs will not change to velcro closures on the pocket flaps and the
button flies will not be replaced with zippers.
     Other recommendations from the 91st Air Force Uniform Board approved by
Gen. Merrill A. McPeak are:
     -- Approve the mock double-breasted maternity jumper.  It will not be
available in clothing sales stores until the Air Force adopts the new
polyester-wool fabric in conjunction with the service dress wear test.
     -- Make a women's tuck-in shirt, with a button closure at the neck and
plain seams down the front, the standard issue blouse.  The next uniform board
will decide whether or not to keep the current overblouse as an optional item.
     -- Conduct a study of women's pants to determine a better fit and design.
     -- Delete the wear of shoulder cords, braided cords and cords
representing military citations with uniforms.
     -- Change Air Force Regulation 35-10 to allow security policewomen to
wear Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff or other
identification badges on the left side of their service dress uniform.
     -- Air Force Regulation 35-10 will also be changed to allow medical food
inspectors to wear a paper hat or hair net while performing official facility
inspection duties.
     Areas recommended for further study include redesigning the woman's shirt
to cover the exposed white button below the neck tab when the service dress
coat is worn.
     The honor guard uniform will be changed from its present design to a more
distinctive uniform to promote interest among volunteers at base level.
     Items to be kept in the inventory include:
     -- Modified Navy issue utility uniforms worn by water survival
instructors at Homestead AFB, Fla., and the water survival training uniform at
the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine.  The Uniform Board recommends
standardizing the two uniforms.
     -- Only green Nomex flight suits.
     -- The A-2 leather flying jacket.
     -- The black beret with the functional badge worn by Tactical Air Control
Party people.  Limit beret wear to graduates of the 14-week enlisted school
and the three-week officer school.
     -- The blue smock worn by management people working in the Pentagon mail
room.
     -- The security police jacket.
     -- Basic security police and special gate guard uniforms with major
command crests on the berets.  Uniforms should be standardized among the
individuals assigned those duties.
     -- The major command elite guard uniform with the crest on the beret.
The uniform should be standardized Air Force-wide.
     -- The combat arms baseball cap.
     -- Hospital whites, smocks and doctors' coats in medical and dental
fields.  Wear should be standardized where various uniforms are worn in health
care facilities.
     -- Food service whites.
     -- Red berets worn by combat controllers and maroon berets worn by
pararescue people, with functional badges on the beret.
     -- Physical training ensembles worn by combat controllers, pararescue and
TACP people.
     -- Green coveralls worn by people in logistics.
     -- MA-1 jacket worn by communications maintenance people.
     -- OSI raid identification jacket.
     -- Missile crew uniform.
     Items to be dropped from the inventory include:
     -- Blue coveralls.
     -- The presidential jacket and blue ground crew ensemble jacket worn by
89th Airlift Wing people who provide executive airlift.  They will be replaced
by the polyester-wool lightweight blue jacket with removable liner.
     -- Blue fatigues worn by logistics people.
     -- Lint- and static-free laboratory coats worn in meteorology
laboratories.
     Approved suggestions will not go into effect until regulations have been
updated.


628.  Aerial fire fighters
     MARCH AFB, Calif. (AFNS) -- Thirty reservists and three C-130s from the
943rd Airlift Group are helping fight forest fires near Klamath Falls, Ore.
     The March Reserve unit is supporting the U.S. Forest Service with a
modular airborne fire fighting system, similar to crop dusting systems, but
spraying water and fire retardant chemicals from the aircraft.
     Reserve flight crews from the 943rd AG are trained in aerial
fire-fighting procedures and work closely with the Forest Service when
combating a blaze.
     A properly equipped C-130 can carry 2,700 gallons of environmentally-safe
retardant and release up to 500 gallons per second in quarter-mile swaths.
     Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard units are made available to the
Forest Service when a fire is too large to be controlled with existing
commercial resources.


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