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Air Combat Command site survey team to
visit Altus and Altus Air Force Base this week
US Air Force courtesy photo
B300 King Air with enlarged engine five 350ER‘s delivered in spring of
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Mixed Martial Arts contest to
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by Paula Peterson,
asst to editor
Altus is expecting some important
visitors this week Members of an
Air Combat Command site survey
team will be here from June 22-24, to
gather information on the communi-
ty of Altus and Altus Air Force Base
The team has been busy touring
six prospective sites for basing the
MC-12W aircraft Those bases being
considered, including our own Altus
AFB, are Warner Robins AFB, near
Macon, Ga.; Beale AFB, near
Marysville, Calif. Key Field Air
Guard Station, near Meridian, Miss.;
Langley AFB, near Hampton, Va.,
and Whiteman AFB, near Knob
Noster, Mo.
Each of these communities are
demonstrating their positive aspects
as part of the site selection process
The payload to the winning commu-
nity and facility will be 37 aircraft,
two additional squadrons, and more
than 500 airmen The stakes are fair-
ly high these days when the Base
- Dr. Joe Leverett
Altus Military Affairs Committee
“Surely your goodness and
unfailing love will pursue me all
the days of my life, and I will
live In the house of the Lord
forever"
- Psalm 23:6
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MC-12 W prize package to
go to winning community
Realignment and Closure (BRAC) the Paris Air Show in 2007
process keeps cycling around every The U.S. Manne Corps has been
few years using King Airs for over 20 years.
What Is the MC 12W? The USMC version of the 350 is des
The MC I2W Liberty is a King ignated the UC-12W Huron Six of
Air 350ER (extended range) two- these aircraft were rolled out of Ihc
engine turboprop aircraft which was Hawker Beechcraft Wichita, Kan
modified from the Hawker facility in May of this year "Altus Air Force Base has the Simulator space.
Beechcraft B300 series It’s a biz jet The U s Air Force contract with hangers and capacity to handle this new mission
gone hi-tech military They're Hawker Beechcraft for 23 of the 3• , .
designed to give ground support and King Air 350ER aircraft was of the MC 12, and would be the best location tO
reconnaissance for unmanned drone approved in Nov of 2008 The total do training. AAFB understands training missions
aircraft The King Air family of air- on contract now is 37 Designated and home to the Air Education and Training
craft began production in 1974 the MC-12W Liberty Project Aircraft and IS nome to the Foucaton and 9
According to Beechcraft it's the (LPA). the first aircraft was delivered Command (AETC), and known as the school
world's best selling turboprop line of to the USAF in April 2009 house tO the whole USAF.
all time " The 350ER, which is a The Iraqi Air Force (IQAF) owns
Foot stompin’, toe tappin’ musical
sensation to appear at Altus library
Mark your calendar and get set for love of entertaining that is rooted
some fun music at the Altus Public music and storytelling Their music is
Library Thursday, June 24 at 2 pm, an ever-evolving mixture of tradi
when the musical duo "Buffalofitz" tional blues, ballads and gospel
makes their first appearance in south songs, combined with surprising
west Oklahoma They are part of the originals and impeccably chosen
Altus Public Library's "Make a covers They fit comfortably in any
Splash. Read!" summer activities crowd and with any audience,
program This is fun for the whole whether playing gospel in a church
family on Sunday morning, entertaining kids
Buffalofitz is a vibrant acoustic in a library , or cutting through a loud
band from Oklahoma A versatile duo bar crowd.
featunng the combined energies of Fitz Jennings plays guitar, dobro
Fitz Jennings and Buffalo Rogers, and banjo and sings baritone
Better Youth Foundation holding event as
fund raiser for new sports complex
ALTUS - A Better Youth is the General Manager for the com-
Foundation will be raising monies pany, and will be helping A Better
needed to construct an Ultimate Foundation with promoting this
Sports Facility complex that will upcoming event
double as a disaster shelter for "It’s a great way for youth to get
Jackson County. This complex will involved in the sports because of all
produced jobs and bring excitement they gain from the work said
to southwest Oklahoma Simpson, "People think they're try
Brandon Bryant, professional mix ing to get frustrations and anger out,
martial arts instructor for the but that's not the case it teaches
Brandon Mix Martial Art Studio, said them discipline
of his team, "There probably some of While membership for ABYF
the best mix martial arts amateurs Boxing Club Is $60 a year, the pro
you'll see locally," adding that A gram cost is $100 a month Training,
Better Youth Foundation will be equipment and traveling is involved
recruiting boxers from ages 8 and up and can be expensive, which is why
Anthony Simpson, of SHARP events like this one schedule at
nacelles and a belly pod, was first 2009
displayed by Hawker Beechcraft at
Father’s Day in vet business
by Paula Peterson
asst to editor
Just in time for Father's Day, a
Hobart/Altus family is joining
forces Dr Charles Freeman is
proud to announce the very recent
arrival of two new veterinarians to
his practice at Western Prairie
Veterinary Hospital. Not only did
his own son. Joe Max come home
with his Veterinary Doctorate
degree, but his friend, and fellow
OSU new vet grad, Dr Michael
Didier joined the team. Both doc-
tors have moved to Altus with their
wives, who are both teachers
Michael's wife. Kinzie Didier, —--
has an elementary education cre- Drs Joe and Charles Freeman Father and son veterinary doctors,
dential, with a speciality in math Joe (left) and Charles Freeman (right).
She has also been a basketball all very proud to have another vet-
coach and is looking forward to erinarian in the family"
securing a teaching position in the Joe's vocational goals were set
area. in his mind early in life. “Growing
Joe's wife, Meghan, has an up I never knew any other life than
Early Childhood Education spe- that which was made up of animals
cialty and just earned her Master's and veterinary medicine," he said,
degree She taught in Stillwater last "With my father being a veterinar-
school year Joe and Meghan are fan and the clinic in such close
expecting a daughter this October proximity to our home. I was at the
Dr Charles Freeman graduated clinic daily nearly from the time I
from OSU in 1973. “It makes it could walk I have always thought
just a little bit special when your about and wanted to be a veterinar-
children get a degree from the ian "
same university their parents Joe said in an interview for the
attended and especially since all OSU newspaper, that the greatest--
five of our children have done so, lesson his father taught him is not Dr Michael Didier has also
My wife, Betty, and I as well as something related to medicine joined the Western Prairie
Joe's brother and three sisters arc See VETS page 3A Veterinary Hospital team
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