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- Yeah, this is exciting times for us, you know.

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This is our second I-WEPTAC, as General--

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- [James] Exciting times, says the AFIMSC commander,

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Major General Brad Spacey, as he kicks off

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the capstone event for this year's

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Installation and Mission Support

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Weapons and Tactics Conference.

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Exciting because the event has the innovative potential

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to impact the agility and lethality

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of today's and tomorrow's airmen.

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- I-WEPTAC is the forum

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that allows for innovative and creative solutions

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to be explored and recommendations made

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to our most senior Air Force leaders

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of today's hardest agile combat support challenges.

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- [James] The presentations culminate

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more than five months of work.

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Mission Aerie working groups teamed up in January

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and today they're presenting their recommendations.

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- And we can take those away,

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maybe the whole recommendation,

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maybe parts of it,

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and develop policy and strategy

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to get after these hard, hard questions.

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- [James] This year, four teams focused

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on problem sets related to infrastructure investment,

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resilient and agile support operations

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in a combat environment,

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and how to develop multi-function combat airmen.

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- This come directly from the enterprise.

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These are directly from those individuals

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who had an idea, those individuals

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who saw a tactical-level problem

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and we're taking that input

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and we're working on it

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so that we can get it back to the field

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and improve their situation.

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- In the end, this allows us an an Air Force

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to have a integrated,

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consolidated master strategy, so to speak,

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for our installations.

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And ultimately that's better

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for our Air Force, it's a better use

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of our funds and allows us

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to, essentially, cost-effectively

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modernize our infrastructure

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and our installations going forward.

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- [James] For the Air Force Installation

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and Mission Support Center,

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I'm James Truitt.