WEBVTT 00:08.940 --> 00:11.030 Here was she what're. Okay we're should work. 00:12.300 --> 00:15.060 But turner joel brookfield challenge just as when commanders 00:15.240 --> 00:20.230 to exercise every muscle we have to exercise our full designed 00:20.260 --> 00:24.890 operational capability to exercise or for more mobilisation plan 00:25.210 --> 00:30.460 to exercise every bone in all organization. He. And the cheapest 00:30.460 --> 00:32.990 out your forster omar. We'll know. 00:33.530 --> 00:36.080 That air force not is bigger than in the past. 00:36.810 --> 00:38.410 That we got use every ounce of it. 00:39.290 --> 00:39.990 To be effective. 00:40.880 --> 00:44.220 Mm we get the opportunity to exercise more most likely mission 00:44.250 --> 00:48.250 all the red flag in the game into the sea operations of cross 00:48.310 --> 00:52.180 world including peter security packages will we don't get the 00:52.180 --> 00:57.450 opportunity to this exercise our full da capability uh it as 00:57.450 --> 01:00.690 a laid out in all of war mobilisation plans an exercise at this 01:00.690 --> 01:03.920 40 rates 14 during time off to out those plants. 01:04.630 --> 01:08.000 The first challenge in executing an exercise of this magnitude 01:08.260 --> 01:11.490 pretty air national guard is calling are citizen garment to duty. 01:12.080 --> 01:15.430 Shortly after yearn in began this summer camp the one 30 fighter. 01:15.430 --> 01:17.960 We did receive a deployment order. 01:18.560 --> 01:23.630 Uh our orders were to prepare all 21 P a a aircraft and associated 01:23.630 --> 01:27.680 minutes and support to the polite to the exercise combat the 01:27.680 --> 01:30.240 inner within the middle whole time as prescribed by our dock 01:30.450 --> 01:35.830 the largest portion of the ways manpower personnel and assets 01:35.990 --> 01:39.430 is actually in engaged in the support of the up 60 it's. 01:40.190 --> 01:44.250 A out where the end result is the airplane awed delivering harmon 01:44.250 --> 01:47.820 that and a and me a targets what goes on behind the scenes of 01:47.920 --> 01:50.090 is what we really wanted an exercise. 01:50.790 --> 01:53.300 First we had a process all the. Cargo. 02:05.000 --> 02:08.660 But some way 48 hours ago. We were get at short notice that de 02:08.660 --> 02:13.090 Puerto to deploy a um just over 200 25000 pounds of cargo. 02:13.640 --> 02:16.340 But today were loading the cargo on 15 to. 02:17.740 --> 02:18.150 We have. 02:18.820 --> 02:22.740 The plan on getting everything accomplish today and tomorrow 02:22.740 --> 02:25.370 we have a couple of tickets up around on top of it. 02:26.060 --> 02:27.620 The to this hearing than that. 02:30.110 --> 02:33.360 Today we're shipping cargo about for the deployment of to balk 02:33.360 --> 02:34.430 failed and a. 02:35.430 --> 02:37.380 We are shipping everything from. 02:37.970 --> 02:41.780 Aircraft parts to their tools to what they made for weapons to 02:41.780 --> 02:43.620 get the mission accomplished for shipping. 02:44.150 --> 02:44.770 Ill tanks. 02:46.180 --> 02:47.290 Have matters tomorrow. 02:47.930 --> 02:50.810 The most of it is going out today just overturn point about tells 02:50.810 --> 02:51.640 me around. A. 02:56.740 --> 03:00.950 We had to out process. Every single airmen of the 600 and load 03:00.950 --> 03:04.320 them on a military are left to get them up there into theatre. 03:04.940 --> 03:06.420 With lucia. Lumps. 03:13.040 --> 03:16.320 Yeah to make sure that everyone was that a in this to pass and 03:16.350 --> 03:21.260 we needed 18 hundred meals a day a for approximately 10 days 03:21.470 --> 03:23.840 just that alone was a tremendous the. And 03:26.680 --> 03:38.250 The One. 03:39.600 --> 03:44.260 Boring working rapidly you trying to make sure if it when those 03:44.290 --> 03:45.840 individuals hit the ground. 03:46.590 --> 03:49.050 All they have to think about than feared shot. 03:49.590 --> 03:51.630 I'm services we had a series. 03:52.230 --> 03:55.440 And here and then working extremely keeps going. 03:56.060 --> 03:59.740 How They were stuffy nose packets making. Sure that the have 03:59.740 --> 04:03.420 labels with names I'm down with dating that we have the right 04:03.850 --> 04:04.940 to the right person. 04:05.560 --> 04:09.410 That we didn't double of her and said he had nails dresses the 04:09.440 --> 04:12.340 melts pound. It was private dining. 04:13.070 --> 04:17.910 The undertaking to make sure that we had everything live because 04:17.910 --> 04:20.740 we wanted to kick this off the right away. 04:21.420 --> 04:25.010 And that really is making its share of the car um and not on 04:25.010 --> 04:25.660 the ground. 04:26.210 --> 04:28.620 And they didn't have to worry about where's my way. 04:29.250 --> 04:33.890 Where's my he will have to wait a lot to wines that that we made 04:33.890 --> 04:38.210 it fast. So that they may be in that that I didn't get the ring 04:38.210 --> 04:41.060 and get their meals and and get to work. 04:42.680 --> 04:45.320 I'm for years and years up our. 04:45.830 --> 04:47.320 Our our airmen are used to. 04:48.120 --> 04:51.100 A hundred% a teal execution however that is. 04:52.130 --> 04:55.630 Basically gates heels we've been executing or a hard less than 04:55.630 --> 04:58.080 100% of our design. Capability. 04:59.890 --> 05:02.970 What what we had to have a hundred person that is we needed a 05:02.970 --> 05:03.910 hundred percent. 05:04.580 --> 05:09.140 Of bed space for him of the bed down for real we could not that's 05:09.140 --> 05:13.550 sad 80% of the Neil's being at people to Easter was for it ever 05:13.550 --> 05:17.860 for vocation. We couldn't it's that 80% of our fuel. Available. 05:22.470 --> 05:26.100 What's our air tasking order prepared at are deployed location 05:26.510 --> 05:29.140 a the war began and he could not. Stop. 05:38.570 --> 05:39.650 I am in responded. 05:40.220 --> 05:44.370 A dividing their forces in to use it to separate chips dividing 05:44.400 --> 05:47.310 supervision of those forces it to separate ships. 05:47.830 --> 05:51.080 Uh we would have shift change with their planes airborne. 05:51.650 --> 05:54.730 We would have continuity of me it's going on one aircraft had 05:54.780 --> 05:58.780 the transition from one maintain or to than that. We would have 05:59.200 --> 06:02.850 an some people coming into our dining facility eating breakfast 06:02.850 --> 06:05.470 for dinner a dinner for breakfast and they don't even know what 06:05.470 --> 06:09.600 watches and Forty eight hours ago. They were at home under because 06:09.600 --> 06:09.910 of all. 06:11.300 --> 06:14.590 What about tour build deployed location. Uh uh the weather was 06:14.590 --> 06:20.130 less than desirable and we have had so much invested so many 06:20.130 --> 06:24.080 muscle movements. So many people the boyd said today's weather 06:24.340 --> 06:29.120 stop was a was just not off to do with your air force operates 06:29.270 --> 06:31.310 in all weather conditions around the clock. 06:32.080 --> 06:35.730 In any case uh where we were deployed we had a single runway. 06:36.250 --> 06:40.170 Uh and uh we were carry some heavyweight gorgeous pity. It training 06:40.170 --> 06:42.940 in farming like we were just didn't make sense to actually live 06:42.940 --> 06:46.390 information about when them on a wet runway with one piece of concrete. 06:47.330 --> 06:49.600 In order as in order to get the ball. 06:50.300 --> 06:53.960 A results out of this exercise we went ahead loaded. 06:54.860 --> 06:59.290 Prefer and taxi these aircraft all the made its way of a as if 06:59.290 --> 07:02.310 they were going to actually block held at the end of runway. 07:02.840 --> 07:05.440 And then recall those aircraft as if they had flown the mission. 07:06.140 --> 07:10.340 I've been we had our of our own weapons in any nations motors 07:10.680 --> 07:14.670 unload and reload those weapons jest as it goes that those weapons 07:14.670 --> 07:17.740 are then expected to make sure that we were exercising the formal. 07:17.740 --> 07:20.390 So movement of our combat capability. 07:20.980 --> 07:23.830 Was all to get the realistic sorbie generation that would be 07:23.830 --> 07:27.290 accomplish had we been flying those weapons that it was the difference 07:27.290 --> 07:30.600 being in a real combat situation. We've would propose weapons. 07:31.700 --> 07:35.320 When executing air tasking order at the for more mobilisation rates. 07:35.920 --> 07:39.060 A those numbers equates to approximately. 07:39.580 --> 07:44.250 A in one day we re flynne just shot of the numbers of sorties 07:44.250 --> 07:47.990 that we normally fly an entire week your home and our weekly 07:47.990 --> 07:49.530 rate is actually quite robust. 07:50.090 --> 07:54.130 It is a different tempo for our maintain errors for pilots for 07:54.130 --> 07:57.810 our support crew about the demand on our aircraft in our personnel 07:58.080 --> 08:01.480 or something like we had not seen before and certainly not exercise reese. 08:02.210 --> 08:16.610 It's. Uh. 08:20.570 --> 08:25.560 In just the preparation in the planning to do to run this exercise 08:25.930 --> 08:28.830 hide the lessons learned were astounding. 08:29.330 --> 08:32.980 Until you reach for that lasted for made it you get every ounce 08:33.020 --> 08:36.750 of strength you about of your organization even the organization 08:36.750 --> 08:40.180 itself doesn't believe that excess or that they can pull it off. 08:41.280 --> 08:44.880 Yeah our objective is setting this exercise was that to execute 08:45.010 --> 08:46.210 100% of everything. 08:47.060 --> 08:49.990 It was to try to execute everything. 08:50.870 --> 08:53.940 In just the playing poker things for the the lessons learned 08:53.970 --> 08:54.950 go up an entire no. 08:56.050 --> 09:00.010 Well when you hear the number 21 and the the understanding of 09:00.140 --> 09:04.250 what you know was gonna take to get 21 airplanes for a I'm paul 09:04.250 --> 09:11.160 so Oklahoma to balk field. It is a bit daunting a task a justice. 09:12.140 --> 09:16.190 To in your mind you're almost setting for. For 21 before you 09:16.190 --> 09:20.740 can get out of the good fortune said uh never doubting a them 09:20.740 --> 09:22.830 in the women of among the did you do. 09:23.480 --> 09:27.060 Um but more doubting can the system actually support this for 09:27.060 --> 09:30.860 the get the part that we can get the funding that we really make 09:31.220 --> 09:32.940 all of this stuff happened.. Um. 09:43.730 --> 09:49.810 Um. For this I just me to the people and just focus on your. 09:50.480 --> 09:54.440 Gary focus on what your skill set is and don't be over while 09:54.440 --> 09:57.660 I'm acid with the to tell to worry about my don't worry about 09:57.690 --> 10:01.070 resources to worry about the same to get that a smudge up best 10:01.070 --> 10:04.430 when commanders drop but is take care there's things you focus 10:04.560 --> 10:10.000 on your skill set chief to focus on a leading these airmen on making. 10:10.000 --> 10:14.710 Sure that they understand what their jobs are and we will make 10:14.710 --> 10:17.560 sure that they're properly resourced park. We paid get through 10:17.560 --> 10:18.580 this entire. Thing. 10:21.700 --> 10:24.440 I will tell you that every year middle what their eighth fighter 10:24.440 --> 10:27.370 wing knows what they're capable of and knows what. 10:27.910 --> 10:28.790 Their air forces to. 10:30.300 --> 10:33.750 There's nothing like having to actually leave your office knowing 10:33.750 --> 10:36.470 that you work conference are not going to be where you end up 10:36.470 --> 10:37.500 in your before vocation. 10:38.050 --> 10:41.390 A your communication plan may be completely different our own 10:41.390 --> 10:44.220 command control plan that we use every day at home. 10:44.780 --> 10:47.800 Does not work at the deployed vocation and in this case it didn't work. 10:48.360 --> 10:51.530 Uh we made a new plan in short order a by some of the really 10:51.530 --> 10:54.480 smart people the we haven't are waiting in the end of lesson 10:54.480 --> 10:57.330 happen a we get a complete other command control system of work 10:57.600 --> 11:00.220 and it worked very very well although it provides the time. 11:01.760 --> 11:03.400 With this air force inspection system. 11:04.320 --> 11:07.780 There's no reason not to be as old as we have you believe that 11:07.780 --> 11:08.890 the as commander. 11:09.450 --> 11:12.430 To test our organizations to the absolute for. 11:14.210 --> 11:17.470 It may be that we're giving credit that red flag that made the 11:17.470 --> 11:20.810 that we're getting credit when we're going overseas with a portion 11:20.810 --> 11:22.010 of our design capability. 11:22.710 --> 11:26.130 To execute the mission to get credit for mission execution. 11:27.410 --> 11:30.310 But we don't test entire might abort her. 11:31.730 --> 11:33.760 That a deployed location having to. 11:34.310 --> 11:37.160 Eat. Reside wake up. 11:37.800 --> 11:42.680 Work. Which you were fellow airmen unlike on a normal go home 11:42.720 --> 11:43.720 for the work cycle. 11:44.420 --> 11:47.790 It is your workplace civil up for the real as some of the string actors. 11:48.470 --> 11:50.990 This exercise can simply not have been executed at home. 11:52.340 --> 11:55.900 The base we deployed to coldfield wisconsin as a combat readiness 11:55.900 --> 11:56.560 training center. 11:57.070 --> 12:00.580 What out that see our to see there would be no base for us to 12:00.580 --> 12:02.710 actually going habit has based acts. 12:04.490 --> 12:08.320 The capability to have a basic warm base with no other inhabitants 12:08.320 --> 12:11.620 there that we would go actually in fill as in here for seen it 12:11.650 --> 12:15.850 as we would in real life is immeasurable and now hard to quantify 12:15.880 --> 12:16.950 in dollar two hours. 12:19.020 --> 12:19.700 Even though. 12:20.680 --> 12:24.110 The chairman of the air national guard comes from a multitude 12:24.110 --> 12:27.230 of civilian employers. It's a billion. Situations. 12:29.240 --> 12:32.820 Even though they don't spend the jordie are from a working on 12:32.820 --> 12:35.210 combat capability of the United States air force. 12:35.850 --> 12:39.590 They can come together and exercise like this and execute at 12:39.590 --> 12:43.140 the old rate designed by the war planners and United States. 12:44.090 --> 12:45.790 The confidence of they came home where. 12:47.090 --> 12:51.310 It's not the global on any spread she or any chart that i've 12:51.310 --> 12:52.260 seen at any cost. 12:53.270 --> 12:55.620 I think we came home with every german knowing that they had 12:55.620 --> 12:58.770 apart and I feel a little bit more proud about their service 12:58.770 --> 13:00.290 a today surfor senator national. 13:01.990 --> 13:03.770 There were would push themselves to warm. 13:04.910 --> 13:08.290 Prove themselves and their supervisors that they all over the 13:08.290 --> 13:09.960 next generation beer of works. 13:11.120 --> 13:12.270 These guys and gal assist. 13:13.940 --> 13:17.890 It just you can see the pride in them. Well in the That they 13:17.890 --> 13:22.750 were able to be a part. Of such a huge undertaking been known 13:22.750 --> 13:25.220 that one that was done they were successful. 13:25.810 --> 13:29.210 It out when the most difficult things that you do a as a commander 13:29.210 --> 13:32.030 these tougher situations those said you know yet to polish. 13:32.550 --> 13:34.050 And been yet for some more. 13:34.850 --> 13:35.680 Get pushed here. 13:36.470 --> 13:37.000 And again. 13:37.850 --> 13:41.530 And again in than you know in the back german but how far can 13:41.530 --> 13:45.480 a push there's a breaking point everybody's got one no but what 13:45.480 --> 13:48.990 I quickly reminded them of their set. I said we're at our best. 13:49.410 --> 13:54.090 Okay when will our most stretched and over task and we are ever 13:54.260 --> 13:58.250 happiest when we're successful in good as you see that the success 13:58.250 --> 14:02.660 she she she that 20 first airplane landing a fork in everybody 14:02.660 --> 14:05.300 looking up in the sky in court. While there's tolls to. 14:05.980 --> 14:06.320 We did. 14:07.070 --> 14:09.190 The dual I had a conversation one of our. 14:10.290 --> 14:11.040 Nice what. 14:12.380 --> 14:14.770 Like coming here. Why stop. 14:15.480 --> 14:17.010 And it's not about. 14:18.050 --> 14:18.900 It's not about. 14:20.210 --> 14:21.350 The bow sir.. Is. 14:27.500 --> 14:32.890 Is. It's it's it's. 14:34.520 --> 14:37.415 Uh I wanna say thank you take each and every german of a one 14:37.415 --> 14:42.860 38 by the way a for being so professional so sound and such an 14:42.860 --> 14:44.200 asset to United States of america. 14:45.410 --> 14:49.000 Thank you to every hermann and the one 35 away without you. 14:49.540 --> 14:50.000 We got the..