WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.053 - [Moderator] Then General Larry Spencer. 00:02.584 --> 00:05.001 (epic music) 00:06.951 --> 00:09.201 (applause) 00:11.210 --> 00:15.363 - Okay now look, we've had a great two days. 00:15.770 --> 00:18.983 We gotta get everybody awake in here this morning. 00:19.770 --> 00:24.770 So, the MC just announced the president of AFA 00:26.730 --> 00:31.730 which means nothing but as General Wilson 00:31.730 --> 00:33.530 and General Goldfein would tell you, 00:34.050 --> 00:36.520 I also have the distinction 00:37.280 --> 00:40.460 of being the greatest vice chief of staff of the Air Force 00:40.470 --> 00:41.633 in Air Force history. 00:42.140 --> 00:43.140 How about that? 00:43.140 --> 00:45.390 (applause) 00:48.370 --> 00:49.203 Okay thank you. 00:49.203 --> 00:50.890 Actually, welcome to our last day. 00:50.890 --> 00:54.330 This has really been great and so we really appreciate you 00:54.330 --> 00:55.630 all being here and we really have 00:55.630 --> 00:57.203 a great panel for you today. 00:57.530 --> 01:00.510 Essentially a lot of the leadership of the Air Force. 01:00.510 --> 01:02.235 Most of the leadership of the Air Force 01:02.235 --> 01:06.400 and what's really exciting today is we've saved the last day 01:06.400 --> 01:10.190 we pulled out all the stops, we saved all the money we had 01:10.640 --> 01:13.210 til the end and we went out and hired 01:13.210 --> 01:16.713 the most expensive, most talented MC we could find. 01:16.800 --> 01:19.563 So general Goldfein is going to MC this morning. 01:19.720 --> 01:21.490 So I'm just going to kick this thing off. 01:21.490 --> 01:23.400 But good morning again and welcome to today 01:23.400 --> 01:25.700 and we've got some fantastic speakers for you. 01:25.800 --> 01:27.310 I'm really looking forward to it. 01:27.310 --> 01:29.840 Two of theIR several commanders are here 01:29.840 --> 01:31.470 that you're all familiar with. 01:31.470 --> 01:34.090 So let me introduce them very quickly. 01:34.090 --> 01:36.143 We have Lieutenant General Scobie, 01:36.430 --> 01:39.663 Lieutenant General Rice, Lieutenant General McMurray, 01:40.050 --> 01:43.193 Lieutenant General Quast, Lieutenant General Webb, 01:43.640 --> 01:46.023 Chief Wright, did I see him? 01:47.090 --> 01:47.923 No he's not. 01:47.923 --> 01:51.283 Okay he's a cowboy fan so we understand that. 01:53.840 --> 01:54.950 He has another speech actually. 01:54.950 --> 01:58.663 General Miller, General Ray, General Brown, 01:58.930 --> 02:02.923 General Holmes, General Raymond, General Walters, 02:03.250 --> 02:05.593 General Wilson and finally General Goldfein. 02:05.720 --> 02:07.720 So ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to ASA 02:07.720 --> 02:09.783 an all-star panel for you this morning, 02:09.930 --> 02:11.885 the leadership of the United States Air Force. 02:11.885 --> 02:14.302 (epic music) 02:15.432 --> 02:17.682 (applause) 02:22.950 --> 02:23.783 - Thanks Larry. 02:24.896 --> 02:29.663 So let me kick it off by saying first of all, 02:30.813 --> 02:34.240 as we work to deliver this one-two-three punch, 02:34.240 --> 02:35.803 three being the third day here, 02:37.770 --> 02:40.240 the secretary first laid out 02:40.240 --> 02:42.300 the Air Force we need for the future 02:42.300 --> 02:44.900 to be able to execute the National Defense Strategy. 02:45.040 --> 02:47.940 Yesterday's discussion was how are we gonna prepare 02:47.940 --> 02:50.320 and present that force and today, 02:50.320 --> 02:52.405 Chief Wright will talk about 02:52.405 --> 02:55.323 how do we develop our airmen from the ground up. 02:56.512 --> 02:58.090 And so as we set the stage 02:58.090 --> 02:59.890 for where we're going in the future, 03:00.179 --> 03:01.963 I will tell you as chief, 03:03.430 --> 03:06.370 this all-star team that we have assembled here 03:07.230 --> 03:10.650 is among the most combat-proven team of warriors 03:10.650 --> 03:12.650 that we as a service have ever assembled 03:13.370 --> 03:15.420 and the important work that we have ahead 03:15.580 --> 03:19.840 I can't imagine a better, more talented team than this one 03:20.590 --> 03:23.440 and so as kick it off in questions 03:23.690 --> 03:26.300 and start to get those questions to start rolling in, 03:26.300 --> 03:30.950 I'll start with the world's greatest vice chief 03:31.170 --> 03:33.470 that followed the world's greatest vice chief. 03:36.690 --> 03:38.453 Ask you if you would, 03:39.520 --> 03:42.423 I mentioned that there's a vice chief challenge coming up. 03:42.870 --> 03:45.520 So if you would sort of lay out for us what's coming. 03:46.570 --> 03:47.963 - So vice chief challenge. 03:48.071 --> 03:48.904 This is the way I read that. 03:48.904 --> 03:51.983 The chief says he has a vice chief and I'm a challenge. 03:54.910 --> 03:57.360 But what it's really about it's to take something 03:57.360 --> 04:00.700 that AFRL did over the past couple years on their challenge 04:00.700 --> 04:03.640 and kind of scale that and to let our airmen 04:03.640 --> 04:05.883 focus on our hardest problems. 04:06.030 --> 04:07.460 In this case we're gonna focus on 04:07.460 --> 04:09.230 what the chief talked about yesterday, 04:09.230 --> 04:11.910 multi-domain operations and what does that mean. 04:11.910 --> 04:14.508 So we're gonna go out to our whole Air Force, 04:14.508 --> 04:17.410 we're gonna crowd-source ideas from our airmen 04:17.410 --> 04:19.847 on how we would solve some of those hard problems 04:19.847 --> 04:21.613 and multi-domain operations. 04:22.210 --> 04:24.160 We'll do a user ideation platform 04:24.160 --> 04:26.810 and the guys at app works and cyber works to help us. 04:27.460 --> 04:29.000 We'll refine that problem set. 04:29.000 --> 04:31.390 We'll get the public and private folks to help us 04:31.390 --> 04:35.600 to really get after the couple of those big challenges 04:35.990 --> 04:37.270 and then we're gonna get our pros 04:37.270 --> 04:40.590 from our Air Force Materiel Command or acquisition pros, 04:40.590 --> 04:42.661 our contracting pros and we're gonna try 04:42.661 --> 04:46.260 to build that capability and rather than take years, 04:46.260 --> 04:49.560 do it in months and so hopefully by this time next year 04:49.560 --> 04:52.050 at AFA we're gonna roll out the winner 04:52.050 --> 04:54.260 of the vice chief challenge but it'll be 04:54.390 --> 04:56.351 quite frankly from all the airmen out in the field 04:56.351 --> 04:59.640 taking your ideas, crowdsourcing it, refining it, 04:59.640 --> 05:02.100 working with pros from app works and cyber works 05:02.420 --> 05:05.590 and industry partners and then with our pros 05:05.590 --> 05:08.713 and contracting acquisition to deliver capability fast. 05:09.250 --> 05:10.330 That's what's it's all about. 05:10.330 --> 05:11.163 You'll see this. 05:11.163 --> 05:12.964 We're gonna roll out some stuff over the next few weeks 05:12.964 --> 05:16.113 with more detail but that's the big nugget sign. 05:16.950 --> 05:17.783 - Awesome. 05:17.920 --> 05:19.503 So first questions rolling in. 05:21.010 --> 05:23.310 General Rice could you give us an update 05:23.310 --> 05:26.400 on Hurricane Florence and all the recovery 05:26.400 --> 05:27.800 and rescue efforts going on. 05:28.510 --> 05:29.343 - Yes sir. 05:30.410 --> 05:32.930 Who's here from North Carolina or South Carolina? 05:32.930 --> 05:34.163 Raise your hand please. 05:34.450 --> 05:37.590 So our hearts and minds and souls go out to you 05:37.590 --> 05:41.810 for the almost two dozen of our Americans 05:41.810 --> 05:43.963 that have perished in this storm. 05:44.296 --> 05:46.640 It was pretty devastating. 05:46.640 --> 05:48.560 It was first thought of as a storm 05:48.560 --> 05:50.430 of another storm of the century 05:50.650 --> 05:53.463 in the category of things like Katrina. 05:54.020 --> 05:57.720 Thankfully as it hit the coast it changed into a cat one 05:58.190 --> 06:00.450 but dumped tremendous amount of rain. 06:00.450 --> 06:02.020 Turned it from a wind event 06:02.220 --> 06:05.580 which we were right about loss of power into a flood event 06:06.634 --> 06:10.360 and for those in South Carolina, you're gonna be happy 06:11.210 --> 06:13.870 that large parts of North Carolina washed downstream 06:13.870 --> 06:16.203 over the next week into North Carolina. 06:16.300 --> 06:19.480 So that's a problem though 06:19.550 --> 06:22.310 because this tends to make the storm long-term 06:23.710 --> 06:26.980 in the sense of the flooding is gonna last for days, weeks 06:26.980 --> 06:28.700 and in some cases months. 06:28.700 --> 06:31.450 Anyone down on iForty and see the pictures on the news 06:31.450 --> 06:34.770 that still iForty is still closed with water over it 06:35.200 --> 06:36.996 but as terms of our operation, 06:36.996 --> 06:40.730 we have roughly 550 Air Guardsmen on-duty 06:40.970 --> 06:42.300 directly supporting this. 06:42.300 --> 06:44.580 Everything from rescue to transport. 06:44.580 --> 06:47.790 We have our whole enterprise involved in this 06:48.260 --> 06:50.820 and typically when we look at the total force, 06:50.820 --> 06:54.750 we multiply any boots on the ground or boots in the air 06:54.750 --> 06:55.760 from the Air Guard. 06:55.760 --> 06:57.640 We multiply that number by 10 06:57.700 --> 07:00.130 and that's the number of people that are usually involved 07:00.130 --> 07:02.263 in exercise across the whole community. 07:02.370 --> 07:05.400 Everything from TACC to First Air Force 07:05.400 --> 07:09.010 to all of our U-pad sites which are providing analysis 07:09.010 --> 07:10.580 of some of the data from overhead. 07:10.580 --> 07:15.580 So it's a whole of DoD effort with 550 or Guardsmen, 07:17.940 --> 07:21.340 over 50,000 of our total force involved in this 07:21.500 --> 07:26.500 across the whole Air Force to 10,000 Army Guardsmen 07:26.970 --> 07:29.710 that are on the ground helping out and driving around 07:29.710 --> 07:31.143 and picking up people. 07:31.260 --> 07:34.030 We've done over three dozen rescues of people 07:34.030 --> 07:37.030 that have been stranded by flash flooding that comes through 07:37.060 --> 07:38.187 and that's still continuing 07:38.187 --> 07:40.253 and it will continue for another week. 07:40.290 --> 07:41.123 Thank you sir. 07:42.160 --> 07:43.003 - Thanks Cavich. 07:43.960 --> 07:46.090 A couple questions coming in on innovation 07:46.510 --> 07:48.670 and so this one is really for across the panel 07:48.670 --> 07:50.990 and anybody can grab it and we'll just go down the line 07:50.990 --> 07:52.253 as you see fit. 07:52.900 --> 07:56.937 First of all what are you seeing from the dollars 07:57.240 --> 08:00.430 that was put forward to wing and squadron 08:00.500 --> 08:02.640 and group commanders relative to the innovation, 08:02.640 --> 08:06.660 readiness dollars and how do we work? 08:06.660 --> 08:08.160 This is coming from the field. 08:08.220 --> 08:10.220 How do we work through the frozen middle 08:10.700 --> 08:13.130 to be able to push those innovation ideas forward? 08:13.130 --> 08:15.903 So let me open it up to anyone who wants to grab the mic. 08:19.820 --> 08:22.700 - Chief, as you know in Europe and Africa 08:22.700 --> 08:24.980 we have a European Defense Initiative 08:25.237 --> 08:28.670 and it's a set of funds that we can throw at tasks 08:28.670 --> 08:30.810 to ensure that we can get quicker, faster, 08:30.810 --> 08:34.500 stronger and more resilient and in so doing, 08:34.500 --> 08:37.200 we pull Squadron commanders and Wing Commanders 08:37.580 --> 08:39.660 for lucrative ways to train smarter 08:39.660 --> 08:42.440 so that we can be successful in the first five seconds 08:42.440 --> 08:44.913 and the first 48 hours of a confrontation. 08:45.470 --> 08:47.500 And so our Wing Commanders put their heads together 08:47.500 --> 08:50.370 with their squadron commanders and as time has gone by, 08:50.370 --> 08:54.070 we've found recommendations coming from our wing commanders 08:54.070 --> 08:55.639 all the way to the MAJCOM commanders 08:55.639 --> 09:00.533 about how to protect airmen more so in a combat environment. 09:00.630 --> 09:03.090 In one of the discoveries by one of our wing commanders 09:03.090 --> 09:05.461 as a result of this innovation initiative 09:05.461 --> 09:09.070 was just re pulling out the old blueprints 09:09.070 --> 09:11.750 for sheltering in place to save lives 09:12.120 --> 09:15.950 and that's a classic case where when you put folks together 09:15.950 --> 09:17.640 and they're thinking about what they can do 09:17.640 --> 09:19.790 to actually save lives in the battle space, 09:19.790 --> 09:22.368 some of the great old ideals that they'll come up with 09:22.368 --> 09:24.540 and take some of those old ideals 09:24.540 --> 09:26.020 and put some new refinements to it 09:26.020 --> 09:27.670 and we're in a position to where actually 09:27.670 --> 09:30.070 we know we can save more lives on the continent. 09:32.660 --> 09:35.000 - On the frozen middle piece, one of the things 09:35.000 --> 09:36.980 that we've done at the Air Force Space Command 09:36.980 --> 09:40.471 is instituted and others have as well a shark tank 09:40.471 --> 09:42.890 where you kind of bypass the frozen middle 09:43.133 --> 09:45.190 and young airmen can bring ideas 09:45.190 --> 09:47.163 straight to the command team. 09:48.130 --> 09:51.070 It has proven to be very very effective and then what we do 09:51.070 --> 09:53.859 is we try to reward and incentivize a reward, 09:53.859 --> 09:57.840 that innovation to send a strong message 09:57.840 --> 09:58.780 that it's important to us. 09:58.780 --> 10:00.650 So allowing folks the opportunity 10:00.700 --> 10:02.650 to have access to leadership to share those ideas 10:02.650 --> 10:05.290 and then having leadership take action on those 10:05.290 --> 10:06.890 and implement them and then reward that, 10:06.890 --> 10:08.933 I think it's been been pretty helpful. 10:14.697 --> 10:16.476 - Chief I think what's particularly helpful 10:16.476 --> 10:18.717 with respect to the frozen middle piece 10:18.717 --> 10:21.180 I want to jump on the same thing General Raymond did 10:21.180 --> 10:22.487 is actually just talking about it 10:22.487 --> 10:27.140 because I know in my commanders calls 10:27.230 --> 10:28.630 in the various forms we have 10:28.770 --> 10:32.220 but actually saying that hey, we the senior leadership 10:32.250 --> 10:34.800 and actually the junior members of our service 10:34.800 --> 10:35.970 are actually acknowledging this 10:35.970 --> 10:38.690 as kind of put a challenge out there 10:39.100 --> 10:40.360 and I think that'll be helpful 10:40.360 --> 10:42.060 in kind of a thawing some of that. 10:44.500 --> 10:47.840 - Chief, I'd like to defend the frozen middle 10:49.530 --> 10:54.320 because the reality is this is really the way 10:54.450 --> 10:58.870 organizational behavior is rooted in human nature 11:00.550 --> 11:03.740 but the good thing is this challenge has helped us all 11:03.740 --> 11:08.470 understand how we balance a bureaucracy 11:08.470 --> 11:12.050 which is intended to perpetuate what works and it's good, 11:12.050 --> 11:13.023 it's important. 11:13.260 --> 11:16.740 You have to have process or it becomes chaos 11:17.340 --> 11:19.390 but you also need the leaders 11:19.810 --> 11:22.710 to straddle the difference between the bureaucracy 11:22.710 --> 11:25.980 that perpetuates what works and the innovative piece 11:26.100 --> 11:29.253 that does the disruptive stuff that threatens a bureaucracy. 11:29.290 --> 11:32.670 Both are essential in an adaptive organization 11:32.760 --> 11:34.810 and what people are learning through this challenge 11:34.810 --> 11:36.513 is how to manage that. 11:36.750 --> 11:38.380 So it's really not the frozen middle. 11:38.380 --> 11:41.010 It's actually the people that have been held accountable 11:41.010 --> 11:42.713 to perpetuate what works. 11:43.460 --> 11:46.250 So I'd like us to use a different term than frozen middle 11:46.250 --> 11:49.470 because that disenfranchises a lot of people we need 11:49.690 --> 11:51.580 to make sure we stay effective 11:51.930 --> 11:54.150 but we also celebrate the innovators 11:54.590 --> 11:57.863 that when they do find something that's novel and useful, 11:58.140 --> 11:59.780 we fold it into the bureaucracy 11:59.780 --> 12:01.873 and then we perpetuate that goodness. 12:02.650 --> 12:04.290 - Hey Steve how about building on that a little bit 12:04.290 --> 12:06.130 with what you're looking at 12:06.130 --> 12:08.523 in terms of how we train differently. 12:10.220 --> 12:12.560 - Sir so the other piece for Air Education 12:12.560 --> 12:13.880 and Training Command that has come out 12:13.880 --> 12:15.040 of this Innovation Challenge 12:15.040 --> 12:19.060 is the other dynamic of innovation that's really fun 12:19.150 --> 12:24.060 and that is that you let your people look at the tools 12:24.060 --> 12:26.390 that have been invented in the last few years 12:26.390 --> 12:29.193 that did not exist even three four or five years ago 12:29.590 --> 12:32.619 and see how those tools can actually accentuate 12:32.619 --> 12:34.323 the job we're trying to do. 12:34.780 --> 12:36.480 So for Air Education and Training Command 12:36.480 --> 12:39.733 it's things like virtual reality, augmented reality, 12:39.760 --> 12:42.760 artificial intelligence coaches and supercomputing 12:43.040 --> 12:46.580 where now I can afford to give a simulator to every student 12:48.070 --> 12:50.220 and they can put it in their pocket, take it home with them 12:50.220 --> 12:51.590 and learn anytime they want 12:52.130 --> 12:55.180 and when you give the power of control to the individual 12:55.840 --> 12:58.293 where they can actually develop themselves, 12:59.690 --> 13:03.670 it's a game changer and we've moved from a model 13:03.670 --> 13:06.690 where in the Industrial Age in the military 13:06.690 --> 13:08.603 most of us kind of make a joke of. 13:08.610 --> 13:09.690 When you come in the military, 13:09.690 --> 13:11.120 I'll tell you exactly what to learn, 13:11.120 --> 13:12.600 when to learn it and how to learn it 13:12.600 --> 13:15.600 and you will not learn anything until I tell you to learn it 13:16.030 --> 13:17.890 and we flipped that where I say 13:18.120 --> 13:19.550 you can learn anything you want to learn, 13:19.550 --> 13:20.580 anytime you want to learn it 13:20.580 --> 13:22.350 in any way you'd like to learn it 13:22.940 --> 13:25.560 and then now you start incentivizing a culture 13:25.560 --> 13:27.340 that's an aggressive learning culture, 13:27.340 --> 13:30.200 an aggressive adapting culture and believe me, 13:30.200 --> 13:34.140 in this age of change, the fastest learners 13:34.450 --> 13:35.713 will be the big winners. 13:38.290 --> 13:40.233 - Got one here for General Holmes. 13:40.370 --> 13:42.710 So what updates can you give us 13:42.710 --> 13:46.430 on the ACC TRADOC discussions 13:46.430 --> 13:48.633 relative to multi domain operations? 13:50.190 --> 13:51.023 - Thanks chief. 13:51.023 --> 13:53.390 So over the last year, Air Combat Command 13:53.400 --> 13:56.640 and US Army Training and Doctrine Command 13:56.640 --> 13:58.550 which is across the interstate from Langley 13:58.550 --> 14:01.500 across 64 they're at Joint Base Langley-Eustis 14:01.910 --> 14:06.570 have done for TTXs or tabletop exercises together 14:06.870 --> 14:08.880 with the purpose of trying to figure out 14:08.880 --> 14:11.730 how the Army and Air Force will fight together 14:11.730 --> 14:13.270 on the battlefields of the future 14:13.270 --> 14:15.120 that the chief talked about yesterday 14:15.350 --> 14:18.070 and how we can present those multiple approaches 14:18.070 --> 14:19.830 that will require multiple lanterns 14:20.350 --> 14:22.563 out of the enemy as the chief said. 14:22.910 --> 14:25.580 So we looked at different portions of the fight 14:25.730 --> 14:29.220 and we started with the close battle for an Air Force guy 14:29.220 --> 14:31.980 that would be starting with the target and working backwards 14:31.980 --> 14:33.870 and we started with what will be required 14:33.870 --> 14:36.423 for us to fight together well in the close battle. 14:36.660 --> 14:40.283 We work that back into some command and control tabletops, 14:40.540 --> 14:42.178 we looked at deploying our force 14:42.178 --> 14:44.160 and we looked at the different pieces 14:44.160 --> 14:45.930 of what it'll take to leave Garrison 14:45.930 --> 14:48.713 and be able to fight together against a peer adversary. 14:49.160 --> 14:50.678 Some of the things that we've learned 14:50.678 --> 14:55.370 are that one of the key things that we'll have to figure out 14:55.370 --> 14:58.770 is how do we take the echelons of Air Force Control 14:58.770 --> 15:01.360 which for most of us in the fight is one echelon 15:01.360 --> 15:04.330 at the Air Operation Center that pulls everything together 15:04.330 --> 15:07.330 and tells our Airmen how to proceed in the fight 15:07.650 --> 15:11.030 and the army with multiple echelons at the Battalion 15:11.030 --> 15:13.380 and then Brigade and the Division and the Corps 15:13.560 --> 15:16.000 and how will we coordinate our efforts together 15:16.000 --> 15:18.610 in a away faster than the board structure 15:18.610 --> 15:20.143 that we've used in the past. 15:20.360 --> 15:23.180 So we've been in a fight where we could think about 15:23.180 --> 15:24.870 what are we gonna do three days from now 15:24.870 --> 15:28.140 because the enemy was not a peer adversary 15:28.560 --> 15:32.483 and was having to work slowly and approach their goals. 15:32.550 --> 15:34.640 And so we did boards and committees 15:34.910 --> 15:36.130 and then the kind of fight 15:36.130 --> 15:37.670 that the chief talked about this week, 15:37.670 --> 15:40.033 those boards and committees will be too slow. 15:40.270 --> 15:42.750 We'll be talking about targets that don't exist anymore 15:42.750 --> 15:44.650 and launch and joint fires against them 15:44.650 --> 15:46.500 that may not be there anymore either. 15:46.570 --> 15:48.890 So chief, we're working together primarily focused 15:48.890 --> 15:52.900 on how we'll share our ability to command and control 15:52.900 --> 15:55.440 so that we converge on multi-domain solutions 15:55.440 --> 15:56.540 like you talked about. 15:57.870 --> 15:58.703 - Thanks. 15:58.907 --> 16:00.440 So three of our new commanders, General Miller, 16:00.440 --> 16:01.823 General Brown, General Ray. 16:02.380 --> 16:03.670 I got a question that came in says, 16:03.670 --> 16:05.070 as you as new commanders, 16:05.070 --> 16:06.880 what are you focused on as you take the reins 16:06.880 --> 16:07.903 of your new command? 16:11.740 --> 16:14.403 - It's funny we're all sitting here right together as well. 16:15.990 --> 16:18.430 Chief I think the thing I'm looking at is first of all, 16:18.430 --> 16:20.320 I want to highlight the fact that my predecessor 16:20.320 --> 16:23.273 General Sansi she actually laid out a pack up strategy. 16:23.780 --> 16:25.480 Actually I think it's pretty sound 16:25.910 --> 16:27.390 and so what I'm really focused on now 16:27.390 --> 16:30.940 is how do I take that strategy from a 40-page document 16:30.940 --> 16:33.440 in several PowerPoint slides and make it a reality 16:33.620 --> 16:34.820 and so that's what I'm focused on 16:34.820 --> 16:36.840 is how do I operationalize this strategy 16:36.840 --> 16:40.920 that the pack up staff with General Sansi put together 16:41.000 --> 16:44.060 so we can implement and execute 16:44.060 --> 16:45.560 the National Defense Strategy. 16:47.880 --> 16:50.090 - Chief, my initial focus here 16:50.090 --> 16:52.063 is on excellence teams and people. 16:52.290 --> 16:54.325 You've asked us to revitalize the squadrons, 16:54.325 --> 16:56.750 you've asked us to find the lethality 16:57.629 --> 17:00.250 and my focus right now hearkening to my time 17:00.250 --> 17:02.770 as a ECOM at EUCOM. 17:02.770 --> 17:06.130 What the SecDef said is if this was the last week of peace, 17:06.130 --> 17:08.130 what would you be doing different today. 17:08.270 --> 17:10.480 So that means that there's a greater focus 17:10.480 --> 17:12.580 on being as lethal as we can with what we have 17:12.580 --> 17:16.820 and not looking to all of our indicators for readiness 17:16.820 --> 17:19.090 as our capability to fight 17:19.620 --> 17:23.393 but it's the attitude to take to the enemy at any time, 17:23.450 --> 17:24.833 making sure that we're as good as we can 17:24.833 --> 17:26.590 with what we have and being honest 17:26.590 --> 17:29.370 about what we can and can't do and making sure 17:29.370 --> 17:31.510 that we're focused as the teams and of course 17:31.510 --> 17:33.323 as we focus on the squadrons, 17:33.920 --> 17:36.410 each of those squadrons is gonna be part of a bigger team 17:36.410 --> 17:38.950 and making sure the leadership of those squadrons 17:38.950 --> 17:41.220 is focused not just in and down but across 17:41.780 --> 17:44.510 and of course my predecessor did a fantastic job 17:45.210 --> 17:47.940 formalizing that the effort to make life better 17:48.100 --> 17:51.290 for our crews and our teams out there in the missile fields 17:51.290 --> 17:53.233 and in the bomb wings is to make sure 17:53.233 --> 17:55.733 that we're actually delivering on those things. 17:56.000 --> 17:58.460 There's a few key programs that I could always follow up 17:58.460 --> 17:59.720 on the things that we're working on 17:59.720 --> 18:02.653 but I'm gonna look at that lens as well. 18:03.760 --> 18:05.890 I've got clear guidance from you and I got clear guidance 18:05.890 --> 18:08.210 from General Hyten as the STRATCOM commander 18:08.210 --> 18:12.480 to come at this as the air component to US Strategic Command 18:12.480 --> 18:15.110 and so that changes a little bit of a perspective 18:15.110 --> 18:16.483 on how we go after that. 18:17.000 --> 18:19.823 It gives me a unique opportunity to look at all the things 18:19.823 --> 18:23.000 they need to do for the strategic portfolio 18:23.000 --> 18:24.600 through the lens of a warfighter 18:24.640 --> 18:26.410 as well as an organized training equipment. 18:26.410 --> 18:29.310 So it gives me a better perspective on how to tackle that. 18:30.560 --> 18:32.840 - Chief, rapid global mobility 18:33.060 --> 18:34.820 it's really moving at the speed of war 18:34.820 --> 18:37.900 being able to achieve all of our mobility objectives 18:37.900 --> 18:41.483 in a contested degraded or operation limited environment. 18:42.000 --> 18:44.227 We will do that with a focus on the AOC. 18:44.870 --> 18:46.830 The AOC the future what we need to have 18:47.100 --> 18:50.123 to be able to do those things. 18:50.350 --> 18:52.603 And also the apt trans R-4. 18:53.410 --> 18:55.620 We are the air component to Transcom. 18:55.620 --> 18:57.834 So how do we better improve those processes 18:57.834 --> 18:59.630 and move at the speed of war 18:59.640 --> 19:02.383 in able to being able to support the warfighter. 19:02.930 --> 19:03.763 Thank you. 19:05.290 --> 19:06.883 - One for General Holmes again. 19:07.460 --> 19:10.180 Is the winging organizational experiment at Mountain Home 19:10.180 --> 19:12.580 going to be spread to the rest of the Air Force? 19:14.510 --> 19:15.670 - Well I think that'll be 19:15.670 --> 19:17.500 up to the rest of the Air Force chief 19:17.500 --> 19:19.080 and we'll see how it goes. 19:19.080 --> 19:22.590 I think so far the feedback from the experiment 19:22.930 --> 19:23.870 has been good. 19:23.870 --> 19:25.540 So what we did at Mountain Home 19:25.540 --> 19:28.823 was we look to streamline the command and control structure, 19:29.320 --> 19:33.470 flatten it to separate line duties from staff duties 19:33.470 --> 19:35.900 and move some of the things we asked squadrons to do 19:35.900 --> 19:37.940 that are really staff functions for the wing 19:37.940 --> 19:40.650 and raise those up to to an A staff 19:40.650 --> 19:42.340 like you'd see it at headquarters 19:42.630 --> 19:45.220 to allow squadron commanders to focus on their role 19:45.220 --> 19:47.110 and to work more closely together 19:47.390 --> 19:49.140 and I took the first to report chief 19:49.140 --> 19:50.480 which I'll forward to you soon, 19:50.480 --> 19:53.232 the first kind of quarterly report on how they're doing 19:53.232 --> 19:56.850 and we will put metrics against that 19:56.850 --> 19:59.730 and measure their readiness and their retention rates 19:59.730 --> 20:02.003 across the wing all the squadrons, 20:02.280 --> 20:05.030 the operational squadrons, the support squadrons 20:05.030 --> 20:08.020 and see how they're doing but the short answer 20:08.020 --> 20:10.190 on how they're doing is that squadron commanders 20:10.190 --> 20:14.090 are working very closely together to solve their problems 20:14.090 --> 20:15.940 which is I think what you had imagined 20:15.940 --> 20:18.293 as we revitalize squadrons. 20:18.470 --> 20:21.250 Then instead of going to a group commander to ask for help, 20:21.250 --> 20:23.360 squadron commanders are reaching out across groups 20:23.360 --> 20:25.500 and sitting down and working through solutions 20:25.500 --> 20:29.030 of their problems together and then taking those solutions 20:29.030 --> 20:31.230 to the Wing Commander which is what we hope. 20:32.800 --> 20:33.713 - General Quast. 20:34.380 --> 20:36.290 What's the future of officer promotions 20:36.290 --> 20:37.490 and officer development? 20:40.490 --> 20:43.230 - Well sir this is a team sport 20:43.850 --> 20:48.850 and the future of development I would say broadly 20:50.010 --> 20:52.483 is really changing the paradigm 20:52.483 --> 20:56.180 where the development of the individual 20:56.180 --> 20:58.460 is something the individual has control of 20:58.560 --> 21:00.950 and they have access to the information 21:00.950 --> 21:03.280 to make them a better version of themselves 21:03.586 --> 21:05.530 and so this continuum of learning 21:05.530 --> 21:07.220 that we're building for the Air Force, 21:07.220 --> 21:09.320 this ecosystem where every airman 21:09.320 --> 21:12.040 is going to have access to education and training 21:12.040 --> 21:16.240 and networks of coaches and mentors and friends 21:16.510 --> 21:21.510 on command, on demand anytime is a foundation 21:21.990 --> 21:23.874 for a different model of development 21:23.874 --> 21:25.890 and that force development 21:25.890 --> 21:30.840 where you really can start creating an environment 21:30.840 --> 21:33.940 where people can take control of the things they know 21:33.940 --> 21:37.370 and the things they can do to achieve excellence 21:37.790 --> 21:39.900 will drive a different model 21:39.900 --> 21:42.690 for talent management ultimately 21:43.300 --> 21:46.363 if we do it collectively right. 21:46.523 --> 21:50.400 What I mean by that is when we figure out what we value 21:51.860 --> 21:53.970 and we can allow people to really be good 21:53.970 --> 21:55.600 at doing those things we value 21:56.040 --> 21:59.200 whether it's some of the corporate values 21:59.200 --> 22:02.980 like critical thinking, integrity, creative thinking, 22:02.980 --> 22:05.230 collaborative thinking, constructive thinking 22:05.250 --> 22:07.360 or whether it's more skill related 22:07.360 --> 22:09.980 where you're a great mechanic, you're a great pilot, 22:09.980 --> 22:11.860 you're a great space operator 22:12.600 --> 22:16.440 that now you can actually start promoting what you value 22:16.822 --> 22:20.660 in ways that we have never achieved before in any military 22:21.270 --> 22:24.540 and the only thing that allows us to do this is the data 22:24.670 --> 22:28.780 and the ecosystem, the environment we have now 22:28.780 --> 22:30.793 that we did not have 20 years ago. 22:31.100 --> 22:33.100 So we're taking something that exists now 22:33.100 --> 22:36.410 just like Steve Jobs could have never given us this 22:36.410 --> 22:38.660 even though we didn't even know we wanted it. 22:39.010 --> 22:40.310 He could never have given us that 22:40.310 --> 22:42.060 had the internet not been invented. 22:42.610 --> 22:45.060 We could have never done what we're doing now 22:45.110 --> 22:47.683 had all of this data not been out there. 22:47.850 --> 22:50.250 So it's very exciting how force development 22:50.250 --> 22:53.100 will change the way we can more accurately 22:53.100 --> 22:55.770 promote what we value and people are measured 22:55.770 --> 22:57.176 by the performance of their job 22:57.176 --> 22:59.163 not by what school they went to, 22:59.410 --> 23:01.410 not by what square they filled 23:01.800 --> 23:03.550 but by the performance of their job 23:03.550 --> 23:05.060 measured by another human being 23:05.060 --> 23:06.710 that knows what right looks like. 23:08.290 --> 23:09.123 - Thanks Keller. 23:09.790 --> 23:11.110 For General Scobie and General Rice 23:11.110 --> 23:12.806 and General Scobie if you could also 23:12.806 --> 23:17.806 as you take a look at take the new reins of your command, 23:17.860 --> 23:19.650 you know what are you thinking about for the future 23:19.650 --> 23:21.050 that you could share with us 23:21.230 --> 23:23.480 and then for General Scobie and General Rice, 23:24.330 --> 23:26.850 what's the Air Force doing to create career paths 23:26.850 --> 23:30.230 that will allow airmen to move more seamlessly 23:30.230 --> 23:32.573 between the active and the reserve components? 23:33.810 --> 23:34.710 - Thank you chief. 23:35.200 --> 23:38.393 I'll say one of the things I've come into this command, 23:38.470 --> 23:39.643 it is great. 23:39.860 --> 23:43.640 My predecessor did a great job of setting me up for success 23:43.660 --> 23:45.400 so I got to give her some props as well 23:45.400 --> 23:48.224 but really what we're focused on as we go forward from this 23:48.224 --> 23:52.390 is first of all as we are prioritizing our strategic depth 23:52.620 --> 23:54.110 which really includes the readiness 23:54.110 --> 23:55.430 of the Air Force Reserve Command 23:55.430 --> 23:56.960 and where we're going with that 23:56.960 --> 24:00.250 and then we're focused on building our resilient leadership 24:00.250 --> 24:03.330 and trying to we are in lockstep 24:03.330 --> 24:05.340 with the things that the Air Force is doing 24:05.340 --> 24:09.030 and how do we best present leaders and grow our leaders 24:09.030 --> 24:12.640 in order to fill the needs of the Air Force total force. 24:12.640 --> 24:15.030 That's the second piece and the other one 24:15.030 --> 24:18.763 is our organizational reform that we're looking at. 24:18.940 --> 24:21.340 Mr. Manescu puts it very well when he says 24:21.700 --> 24:25.160 excellence in all we do all we do does also include 24:25.160 --> 24:27.160 excellence in our support to our airmen. 24:27.190 --> 24:29.900 So we're focused on ensuring that we keep the faith 24:29.900 --> 24:33.240 with our airmen and we provide them the necessary support 24:33.240 --> 24:35.340 that they need to be able to do their jobs 24:35.470 --> 24:36.590 and that's what we're focused on. 24:36.590 --> 24:38.570 Is making sure that our airmen have the ability 24:38.570 --> 24:40.173 to show up every day to work, 24:40.310 --> 24:42.630 focus on their AFSC skills training 24:42.900 --> 24:45.640 and really get after the work of being ready 24:45.650 --> 24:47.550 for the wars that will come in the future 24:47.550 --> 24:49.080 and those are really the three things 24:49.080 --> 24:52.710 that we are going to prioritize as we go forward from that 24:52.910 --> 24:55.030 and I'll let General Rice start with the first part 24:55.030 --> 24:56.353 of your second question. 24:57.520 --> 25:00.350 - So some of the things we're doing in this realm 25:00.350 --> 25:03.330 of continuity of service is to give an individual 25:03.330 --> 25:05.730 an opportunity to still patriotic serve 25:05.730 --> 25:10.550 and wherever they may fall in their life cycle 25:11.640 --> 25:14.120 as they grow where an individual 25:14.120 --> 25:17.890 might want to be on an active status 25:17.890 --> 25:19.950 as they begin their service for our country 25:19.950 --> 25:21.700 and have an adventure and see the world 25:21.700 --> 25:25.230 and feel the depth of the Air Force 25:25.230 --> 25:29.080 and at some time in place they might have a change 25:29.110 --> 25:31.610 in their life and a family may come into view 25:31.610 --> 25:34.210 and they want some more stability and predictability 25:34.280 --> 25:37.850 and a Reserve Component opportunity may exist 25:37.863 --> 25:40.620 and then as they evolve through their family, 25:40.620 --> 25:41.640 they may want to say hey, 25:41.640 --> 25:44.610 I want to go back on active service and see the world 25:44.610 --> 25:47.320 and lead some of the innovative things 25:47.320 --> 25:48.993 we're doing in the Air Force. 25:49.340 --> 25:51.790 As General Scobie talks about 25:51.790 --> 25:55.313 our work with Secretary Menascu, 25:55.750 --> 25:58.770 we're working on some real innovative ideas 25:58.770 --> 26:01.420 to get after that and joining General Quast 26:01.420 --> 26:03.370 and getting after the frozen middle 26:03.600 --> 26:06.064 and working on things like scrolling 26:06.064 --> 26:09.640 where there's a scroll for active duty regular service, 26:09.640 --> 26:12.720 there's a scroll for reserve service. 26:12.720 --> 26:15.723 Why don't we have just one scroll rather than two scrolls? 26:15.740 --> 26:17.650 That allows us to go back and forth 26:17.650 --> 26:20.943 between the two services as well. 26:20.950 --> 26:23.140 We do not want to get in front of Congress 26:23.140 --> 26:26.840 and their role and responsibility to approve the scroll 26:26.840 --> 26:28.690 of who gets appointed in the military 26:28.800 --> 26:31.830 but we want to add to that and bring it to the 21st century 26:31.880 --> 26:33.937 and that will add great value to us. 26:33.937 --> 26:36.061 And one more process we're gonna get after 26:36.061 --> 26:39.210 and that's this four-letter word called MEPS 26:39.460 --> 26:41.430 and as we engage with MEPS 26:41.430 --> 26:43.830 and use that process to our advantage 26:44.160 --> 26:48.030 to allow our members to transfer from one service to another 26:48.050 --> 26:50.600 or one component to another, 26:50.600 --> 26:52.450 that will be of great value to us 26:52.450 --> 26:55.440 as we streamline that process and get after that 26:55.440 --> 26:58.500 and make that better and work for us rather than against us. 26:58.500 --> 26:59.333 Thank you sir. 26:59.690 --> 27:02.550 - And General Rice had it right on the head there boss 27:02.550 --> 27:04.880 and that is exactly what we need to get after 27:04.880 --> 27:06.220 is the ability to do that 27:06.357 --> 27:08.034 because we are all in this together. 27:08.034 --> 27:10.990 It's really the ability to give our airmen 27:11.059 --> 27:15.530 the ability to serve in the best pay status or component 27:15.530 --> 27:17.470 that suits the needs of them and their families 27:17.470 --> 27:20.720 so they can continue to serve and the more barriers 27:20.720 --> 27:22.820 we are removed to them being able to move 27:22.820 --> 27:24.710 from component to component 27:24.850 --> 27:28.453 in order to get after the job of defending our country, 27:28.500 --> 27:29.900 the better off we'll all be. 27:31.580 --> 27:32.413 - Thanks. 27:32.756 --> 27:33.840 General McMurray, how are the results 27:33.840 --> 27:35.700 of the light attack experiments being used 27:35.700 --> 27:38.293 in the formal acquisition process for light attack? 27:42.320 --> 27:45.480 - Well what we're using it for is to really establish 27:45.480 --> 27:47.930 the selection criteria that we're gonna work 27:47.930 --> 27:50.573 to make that contract award. 27:50.810 --> 27:53.680 We expect to have the RFP out this December 27:54.430 --> 27:57.020 and then as we're rolling out the draft RFPs 27:57.020 --> 27:59.670 and work through that will use the experiment results 27:59.890 --> 28:03.110 to make a more informed decision matrix 28:03.110 --> 28:07.233 that basically allow the award to be more rooted in reality. 28:09.150 --> 28:11.720 - Okay I got one for General Walters, General Brown. 28:11.720 --> 28:14.360 As forward commanders, how do you propose 28:14.360 --> 28:15.830 to synchronize and harmonize 28:15.830 --> 28:18.760 the developments in multi-domain command control 28:18.760 --> 28:22.640 to ensure coalition UK, NATO, Pacific 28:23.340 --> 28:25.290 that they fit into the operating model? 28:27.960 --> 28:29.820 - Chief the greatest medium 28:29.820 --> 28:31.860 with which to improve our ability to perform 28:31.860 --> 28:34.807 as you well know as exercises and training events 28:34.807 --> 28:38.230 and making sure that we shift the focus 28:38.230 --> 28:40.380 in those exercise and training events 28:40.584 --> 28:43.600 to where from beginning to end we bake in 28:43.640 --> 28:46.280 all domain/multi domain operations 28:46.660 --> 28:49.240 and to ensure we do so with the allies, 28:49.240 --> 28:51.260 with the partners, with the coalition 28:51.680 --> 28:54.130 and focus on the logical phases of conflict 28:54.130 --> 28:56.380 that we anticipate that we'll have to embrace 28:56.710 --> 28:59.950 and with the improvement in funding 29:00.060 --> 29:02.773 over the course of a steady budget and through EBI, 29:03.480 --> 29:05.150 we've been able to take those dollars 29:05.150 --> 29:08.600 and put those dollars against those actual timing events 29:08.600 --> 29:12.110 inside of exercises to where we're improving our ability 29:12.110 --> 29:13.970 to bake in all domain operations 29:13.970 --> 29:15.883 to be effective from start to finish. 29:18.170 --> 29:20.160 - So the Pacific doesn't have EDI right now 29:20.160 --> 29:21.550 so we don't have the same amount of money 29:21.550 --> 29:26.070 that's going to Europe but I think the key aspect for this 29:26.070 --> 29:28.520 is the interoperability we have with our partners 29:28.820 --> 29:32.720 and one of the things I found is that in my recent travels 29:32.720 --> 29:34.940 to Australia, Japan and Korea, 29:34.940 --> 29:37.210 they're all getting F-35 as a good example 29:37.730 --> 29:40.410 and then how do we actually work in our operability 29:40.410 --> 29:43.103 between those different platforms, how we exercise, 29:43.650 --> 29:45.910 how we dialogue and when I look at it, 29:45.910 --> 29:48.955 the exercises and operations allow us 29:48.955 --> 29:51.160 look at different levels of interoperability. 29:51.160 --> 29:53.320 One is at the high end where we're able 29:53.320 --> 29:55.783 to push information back and forth very easily. 29:56.500 --> 29:59.260 The second end is we're able to actually 29:59.323 --> 30:01.393 just able to talk on the radios. 30:01.780 --> 30:03.580 The third is this buying us equipment 30:03.580 --> 30:06.350 so we can actually go down a path 30:06.900 --> 30:09.220 and as I look across AOR, 30:09.220 --> 30:10.670 there's different levels of operability 30:10.670 --> 30:12.470 but we use it for different reasons. 30:12.540 --> 30:15.233 Part of it is for a high end type conflict. 30:15.280 --> 30:17.840 It's a competition but also Humanitarian Assistant 30:17.840 --> 30:20.883 Disaster Response there's another aspect of this as well. 30:22.090 --> 30:24.980 - General Raymond with the president talking openly 30:24.980 --> 30:27.013 about space as a war fighting domain, 30:27.430 --> 30:29.960 what can you share with us in terms of where we are headed 30:29.960 --> 30:31.860 in the business of space war fighting? 30:32.570 --> 30:33.403 - Two things. 30:33.403 --> 30:34.236 Thanks for the opportunity. 30:34.236 --> 30:37.540 I think it's clear you have to focus on a war fighting 30:38.020 --> 30:40.632 and there's great alignment in our nation today 30:40.632 --> 30:42.960 that space is a war fighting domain 30:42.960 --> 30:44.250 just like air, land and sea. 30:44.250 --> 30:45.723 You've heard the President say it, 30:45.723 --> 30:46.970 you've heard the Vice President say it, 30:46.970 --> 30:48.580 you heard the Secretary of the Defense, 30:48.580 --> 30:50.390 chairman our secretary and our chief 30:50.700 --> 30:52.220 and that's really the focus 30:52.220 --> 30:53.460 of Air Force Space Command today. 30:53.460 --> 30:55.540 If you come into Air Force Space Command today, 30:55.540 --> 30:56.778 you're coming into a command 30:56.778 --> 30:58.843 that is at a strategic inflection point 30:58.843 --> 31:02.690 and that's a point where we used to operate 31:02.690 --> 31:04.250 in a benign domain and today, 31:04.250 --> 31:06.150 we're operating in a contested domain. 31:06.200 --> 31:09.210 So I would say there's kind of four lines of effort 31:09.210 --> 31:12.180 that you could lump our group activities in 31:12.180 --> 31:13.330 that we're focusing on. 31:13.380 --> 31:16.360 First one is partnerships and developing the partnerships 31:16.360 --> 31:18.240 with the war fighters that are here on this table 31:18.240 --> 31:22.650 and working to integrate space at a different level 31:22.650 --> 31:24.713 with the partners that are here. 31:26.740 --> 31:28.520 We already have a great relationship 31:28.520 --> 31:30.798 with intelligence community but even furthering 31:30.798 --> 31:32.970 that partnership with the intelligence community 31:32.970 --> 31:34.070 which is so important, 31:34.300 --> 31:36.900 we are also developing partnerships with our allies. 31:37.680 --> 31:39.850 Just a couple months ago we transitioned 31:39.850 --> 31:41.280 the Joint Space Operation Center 31:41.280 --> 31:43.130 to a combined Space Operations Center 31:43.260 --> 31:45.570 and so we're really working that aspect as well 31:45.570 --> 31:47.820 and then working to strengthen 31:47.820 --> 31:49.380 the relationships with industry. 31:49.380 --> 31:51.640 This is a really bad word to use in the space business 31:51.640 --> 31:53.160 but there's an explosion of things 31:53.160 --> 31:54.930 happening in the commercial industry 31:54.956 --> 31:57.373 and we want to capitalize on that. 31:57.570 --> 31:59.372 Now the other line of effort would be 31:59.372 --> 32:02.840 to develop joint war fighters and that's a two part problem. 32:02.840 --> 32:04.610 That's developing space operators 32:04.610 --> 32:08.290 that understand the joint war fight 32:08.630 --> 32:10.800 but also understanding what you might consider 32:10.800 --> 32:13.660 more traditional joint war fighters that understand space. 32:13.660 --> 32:14.623 So work on that. 32:14.941 --> 32:18.130 We are also the third line of effort 32:18.130 --> 32:21.033 would be towards bridging to defendable architectures. 32:21.260 --> 32:23.850 The constellations that we have on orbit today 32:24.040 --> 32:25.340 aren't all that defendable 32:25.540 --> 32:28.370 They're described by some the slow kids 32:28.370 --> 32:30.220 in gym class that can't run very fast 32:30.370 --> 32:34.130 and we're gonna make them run a little faster if you will 32:34.390 --> 32:36.740 and then the last thing 32:36.740 --> 32:39.570 and this is being done largely by the great team 32:39.570 --> 32:42.290 out of SMC, working acquisition agility 32:42.550 --> 32:46.180 and making sure that we can develop capabilities 32:46.260 --> 32:48.610 at the speed that's tactically relevant 32:48.610 --> 32:49.850 that'll keep us in the fight. 32:49.850 --> 32:50.683 Thank you. 32:51.210 --> 32:52.043 - Thanks Jay. 32:52.450 --> 32:54.360 Vice-chief I'll start with you and then 32:54.360 --> 32:58.490 I've got a few questions that came in about infrastructure 32:58.860 --> 33:00.920 and of course, yesterday I talked a lot about 33:00.920 --> 33:02.620 establishing the base, defending the base, 33:02.620 --> 33:06.230 fighting the base and so start with the Vice Chief. 33:06.230 --> 33:07.950 The question is and we talk a lot about 33:07.950 --> 33:10.050 aircraft, acquisitions, speed, delivery 33:10.050 --> 33:11.890 but what's being done about our aging bases 33:11.890 --> 33:14.883 and our infrastructure from which we project power? 33:15.850 --> 33:17.097 - So let me start chief. 33:17.097 --> 33:20.040 We've got a big team at the air staff 33:20.420 --> 33:23.520 working with AFMC and Installation Mission Support Command 33:24.250 --> 33:27.713 but our A4 General Barry our IE, Mr. Henderson, 33:28.280 --> 33:32.890 General Harris have mapped out our bases and infrastructure 33:32.890 --> 33:36.770 and we can tell you where areas we need improvements are 33:37.150 --> 33:40.280 really down to every building on each installation 33:40.280 --> 33:43.130 across our Air Force and then we got to put... 33:43.520 --> 33:45.790 Stop just looking at it and do something about it 33:45.790 --> 33:48.813 so we've prioritized the investments in our infrastructure. 33:49.030 --> 33:51.200 We've raised the plant replacement value, 33:51.200 --> 33:53.320 the number we're gonna use to make sure 33:53.320 --> 33:56.490 our infrastructure is turned over an appropriate rate 33:56.800 --> 34:00.340 and boosted the funding considerably this last year 34:00.750 --> 34:01.870 and made that a priority 34:01.870 --> 34:03.670 that we're gonna foundationally fund 34:04.390 --> 34:05.530 for base infrastructure. 34:05.530 --> 34:07.170 It is our power projection platform. 34:07.170 --> 34:10.850 It is the place that we're gonna project combat power from 34:11.080 --> 34:13.600 both here and as we're doing an expeditionary environment 34:13.600 --> 34:16.100 and so we got to put our money where our mouth is. 34:16.330 --> 34:18.590 So I see ya JD Harris over there shaking his head 34:18.590 --> 34:21.300 because we got a big bill this last year 34:21.300 --> 34:23.580 and how do we... 34:23.580 --> 34:25.323 Unless we prioritize and do that, 34:25.410 --> 34:29.240 it's gonna consistently get older and more worn out 34:29.350 --> 34:31.240 and we were on a replacement value 34:31.240 --> 34:34.395 of replacing installations about every 150 years. 34:34.395 --> 34:36.230 That wasn't acceptable. 34:36.230 --> 34:39.410 So the funding's gone up and we're gonna get after it 34:39.410 --> 34:41.720 with late in that money over this five-year defense plan 34:41.720 --> 34:44.900 to really get after fixing our infrastructure 34:44.900 --> 34:45.963 across all our bases. 34:46.630 --> 34:48.700 - And so maybe we can go down and align a little bit 34:48.700 --> 34:51.418 and then maybe General Walters, we'll start with you 34:51.418 --> 34:53.950 because basing is a big part of all the things 34:53.950 --> 34:57.273 that you're thinking about relative to operational planning. 34:58.650 --> 35:00.900 General Brown, the same thing in the Pacific. 35:01.280 --> 35:04.670 We talk about all of the aspects 35:04.670 --> 35:06.930 of being a smaller Air Force 35:06.930 --> 35:08.780 that needs to deploy very quickly 35:09.150 --> 35:11.580 and the only way we can do that is if we have access 35:11.580 --> 35:13.970 and basing from which to quickly establish and operate. 35:13.970 --> 35:16.733 So maybe share with us a little bit what you're thinking. 35:17.610 --> 35:22.300 - Well chief, the culture that you have infused 35:22.300 --> 35:25.220 into our Air Force has allowed those initial 35:25.220 --> 35:28.280 A4 conversations that Warren Berry has had 35:28.280 --> 35:31.580 with the MAJCOM Air Force to start the conversation 35:31.580 --> 35:35.030 in your component Walters in Europe and Africa 35:35.500 --> 35:37.790 to enhance multi-domain operations. 35:37.790 --> 35:40.630 From a basing perspective, what is it that you need 35:40.630 --> 35:43.820 to be successful is you have alignment 35:43.820 --> 35:46.074 with your sister services, with NATO, 35:46.074 --> 35:47.863 with the partners of NATO. 35:47.950 --> 35:49.500 So we've been able to bake all that 35:49.500 --> 35:51.360 into the master attack plan if you will 35:51.360 --> 35:53.010 from an infrastructure standpoint 35:53.350 --> 35:55.889 and that in itself will ultimately allow us 35:55.889 --> 35:58.810 from a basing standpoint to be better 35:58.810 --> 36:00.420 at multi-domain operations, 36:00.420 --> 36:03.000 to be more interoperable with our sister services 36:03.000 --> 36:05.820 in theater and our NATO partners and obviously, 36:05.820 --> 36:07.272 be a much more effective force. 36:07.272 --> 36:09.188 I'm just proud that our Air Force 36:09.188 --> 36:11.380 embraces this kind of attitude 36:11.380 --> 36:13.040 in each one of these large decisions 36:13.040 --> 36:15.310 from basing to saving lives on the battle space 36:15.310 --> 36:16.560 and being more effective. 36:18.700 --> 36:20.630 - Chief there's a couple things that I'd like to add 36:20.630 --> 36:21.750 from a basing perspective. 36:21.750 --> 36:24.660 There's a major operating bases 36:24.660 --> 36:26.610 that we have around the Pacific 36:26.809 --> 36:28.120 that we got to pay attention to. 36:28.120 --> 36:30.020 One of the key things I found in my recent travels 36:30.020 --> 36:31.880 is that when I went into Japan, 36:31.880 --> 36:34.216 they're getting ready for the Olympics and as they do that, 36:34.216 --> 36:38.743 finding quality construction will be a challenge. 36:39.300 --> 36:43.600 The same thing in Korea as Samsung is bringing a major plant 36:43.600 --> 36:44.643 very close to Osan. 36:45.420 --> 36:47.777 The top part is finding quality construction to do that 36:47.777 --> 36:48.950 and the oversight to go with it. 36:48.950 --> 36:50.283 So that's one aspect. 36:50.800 --> 36:53.750 The other aspect as we work a agile combat employment 36:53.750 --> 36:56.200 and we appreciate that the headquarters Air Force 36:56.200 --> 36:57.800 being part of the Adaptive Basin Conference 36:57.800 --> 37:00.080 that we held in Hawaii here just recently 37:00.570 --> 37:03.310 is how do we actually look at the other basic infrastructure 37:03.310 --> 37:06.446 across our AOR to be able to employ 37:06.446 --> 37:09.440 and when we look at that, it's not just a challenge 37:09.530 --> 37:11.080 and I got this from one of our partners 37:11.080 --> 37:13.600 that when the US talks about basing, 37:13.600 --> 37:15.855 the challenge that makes people very nervous 37:15.855 --> 37:18.384 which is sometimes good for adversaries, 37:18.384 --> 37:20.484 a little more challenging for our partners 37:20.820 --> 37:22.343 but how do we actually just have capability 37:22.343 --> 37:25.143 that we can go different places to actually operate from 37:25.660 --> 37:27.122 that are kind of somewhat bare base 37:27.122 --> 37:29.080 and then be able to move on 37:29.150 --> 37:31.080 and that's all part of agile combat employment. 37:31.080 --> 37:34.313 So it's kind of a two-headed coin for the Pacific. 37:37.790 --> 37:41.230 - Chief your Air Combat Command kind of bridges the gap 37:41.230 --> 37:43.480 between the bases that are forward 37:43.520 --> 37:45.930 and the places where your airmen have to be ready to fight 37:45.930 --> 37:47.150 from where they are now. 37:47.150 --> 37:51.030 So if you start with the 430 second wing at Creech 37:51.030 --> 37:54.690 and their 24-hour day MQ-9 mission 37:54.690 --> 37:57.920 and you look at 24th Air Force and their cyber capabilities 37:57.920 --> 37:59.830 in 25th and the ISR support 37:59.830 --> 38:01.930 they provide to people all over the world, 38:02.020 --> 38:04.900 the focus area is making sure that their mission is assured 38:04.900 --> 38:09.543 with predictable and secure power, 38:09.670 --> 38:11.080 with the network connectivity, 38:11.080 --> 38:12.210 with the things that they'll need 38:12.210 --> 38:15.170 to operate against a pure adversary over long distances 38:15.540 --> 38:18.000 and then the second part is having forces 38:18.000 --> 38:20.110 that are ready to deploy tonight and fight tomorrow 38:20.110 --> 38:23.120 to roll in with General Walters and General Brown 38:23.120 --> 38:24.490 and fight alongside them 38:24.900 --> 38:27.330 and as you've talked about the expeditionary side of it, 38:27.330 --> 38:30.440 we think the key to that is pushing down the authorities 38:30.440 --> 38:32.930 and responsibilities and tools to squadron commanders 38:32.930 --> 38:35.210 and let them have control of their training 38:35.210 --> 38:36.560 to get ready to go do that. 38:38.748 --> 38:40.204 (mumbles) 38:40.204 --> 38:41.553 - The global strike guy. 38:42.610 --> 38:44.660 I think the first entering argument here 38:44.660 --> 38:48.710 is we are the thing our enemies fear the most out there. 38:48.710 --> 38:51.800 We are the one to keep all those leaders awake at night 38:52.410 --> 38:55.560 and so obviously, we're gonna be the object 38:55.560 --> 38:57.140 of their attention and I think 38:57.550 --> 39:00.320 if you think of the infrastructure as the equipment, 39:00.320 --> 39:02.130 there's also the attitude 39:02.130 --> 39:04.763 behind which we operate the equipment. 39:05.340 --> 39:07.850 So having lived through the coup at Incirlik 39:07.930 --> 39:10.230 where everything was isolated and working our way 39:10.230 --> 39:13.200 through all that, there's a lot of things we can do 39:13.200 --> 39:14.960 in the blocking and tackling category 39:14.960 --> 39:18.300 to make sure we are resilient but it is an absolute mindset 39:18.380 --> 39:21.360 that we fight this base, that we fight as an integrated team 39:21.360 --> 39:24.463 so as we revitalize the squadrons as we mentioned before, 39:24.830 --> 39:26.100 it's how well they integrate 39:26.100 --> 39:28.430 not as a collection of functionals 39:28.890 --> 39:31.900 but as operating that power projection platform 39:31.900 --> 39:33.760 and getting that right culture and mindset. 39:33.760 --> 39:35.960 So as we look through the security improvements 39:35.960 --> 39:38.520 in Global Strike, as we look at that part, 39:38.520 --> 39:41.700 there's absolutely a focus of who we are as airmen 39:41.700 --> 39:44.521 and how we're gonna make that just an impossible target 39:44.521 --> 39:47.140 and now we do that from a dispersed location, 39:47.140 --> 39:50.370 our missile fields are dispersed and so how do we do that 39:50.370 --> 39:52.690 and I think the Air Force is doing great 39:53.090 --> 39:54.430 to help us with that problem 39:54.430 --> 39:56.530 but it's going to be an evolutionary thing 39:56.979 --> 39:58.393 and we're just gonna have to have that right mindset 39:58.393 --> 40:01.823 that goes along with the equipment in the parts and pieces. 40:02.630 --> 40:05.430 - There's a partnership here at the table too between... 40:05.530 --> 40:08.180 I'm gonna go to General Miller and General Webb as well 40:08.180 --> 40:09.633 because you know we're a global power 40:09.633 --> 40:11.865 because of global reach and our global reach 40:11.865 --> 40:14.460 and we often talk about every 2.8 minutes 40:14.460 --> 40:15.530 an aircraft has taken off. 40:15.530 --> 40:16.970 I don't know we talk enough about the fact 40:16.970 --> 40:19.870 that it's taking off from a base where we have access 40:20.210 --> 40:23.820 and we don't do global mobility, global reach rapidly 40:23.820 --> 40:26.920 without access to bases and many of those bases 40:26.920 --> 40:31.362 are in less than secure locations and that doesn't stop it 40:31.362 --> 40:34.420 but we reach into General Webb's force 40:34.507 --> 40:37.690 and General Webb's team to ensure that we can establish 40:37.690 --> 40:39.160 security very quickly and operate 40:39.160 --> 40:40.870 for the period of time we need to operate. 40:40.870 --> 40:42.470 So perhaps the two of you talk a little bit 40:42.470 --> 40:44.000 about how you're looking at this 40:44.000 --> 40:46.563 from a force projection perspective. 40:49.380 --> 40:50.260 - Okay, thanks chief. 40:50.260 --> 40:53.910 The several kind of lines of effort 40:53.910 --> 40:56.400 I think from a Special Operations perspective 40:56.400 --> 40:58.104 that we look at this, first as you said 40:58.104 --> 41:02.560 in many of the AORs, we don't own bases 41:02.560 --> 41:04.280 outside overseas. 41:04.280 --> 41:07.560 We own two CONUS but we're falling in 41:07.560 --> 41:09.670 on top of infrastructure either you're safety 41:09.670 --> 41:11.890 or a pact after more most predominantly 41:12.180 --> 41:13.917 and so some of the challenges that the General Walters 41:13.917 --> 41:17.303 and general Browns just alluded to come into play. 41:18.339 --> 41:23.180 The challenges with a construction in Japan and elsewhere 41:23.180 --> 41:25.250 and in Europe are certainly in play 41:25.340 --> 41:27.590 but the challenge that I've had for our folks 41:27.910 --> 41:29.470 here in Special Ops of course 41:29.470 --> 41:32.373 is we tend to be out on the frontier. 41:33.210 --> 41:35.650 Kind of the mantra is and really 41:35.690 --> 41:38.530 what I've continued along this line of thought 41:38.530 --> 41:40.233 is how austere can you go. 41:40.684 --> 41:44.140 So all of our kind of weapon systems, 41:44.140 --> 41:47.262 all of our tribes within Special Ops are charged 41:47.262 --> 41:51.370 with how can you conduct operations 41:51.680 --> 41:53.763 in one period of darkness for instance? 41:53.790 --> 41:56.777 You roll in on it could be as austere zone in Hawaii, 41:57.130 --> 41:58.390 being able to conduct operations, 41:58.390 --> 42:01.810 roll it up at the break of dawn and roll out 42:01.810 --> 42:03.650 and so that kind of mentality 42:03.650 --> 42:06.080 drives a different set of logistics challenges 42:06.247 --> 42:09.440 but some that makes us kind of 42:09.440 --> 42:12.400 into the other definition of resiliency that we talked about 42:12.400 --> 42:14.210 obviously two kinds of lines of resiliency 42:14.210 --> 42:19.210 but those kind of challenges roll into direct linkage 42:19.996 --> 42:23.690 to the rest of the Air Force that is helpful support 42:23.923 --> 42:27.743 that the sea fact or from a main component command. 42:28.500 --> 42:31.020 So really infrastructure that's already there 42:31.020 --> 42:32.590 and the austerity perspective 42:32.590 --> 42:34.793 is the approach that we take in FSOC. 42:37.495 --> 42:40.200 - Certain the expeditionary piece of air mobility 42:40.440 --> 42:41.603 is very robust. 42:41.660 --> 42:45.540 We roll in open ports, we roll into tube air base airfields 42:45.790 --> 42:49.010 and get them up and running and that is an expertise 42:49.010 --> 42:52.033 that we will sharpen as we go ahead. 42:54.440 --> 42:57.810 - Chief you know one of the tough conversations 42:57.810 --> 42:59.570 that we're gonna need all of your help with 42:59.570 --> 43:02.040 is the fact that we ran out of money 43:02.040 --> 43:03.680 after the first three speakers 43:04.640 --> 43:08.240 because it's expensive and all strategy 43:08.240 --> 43:10.500 comes down to a conversation about priorities 43:10.990 --> 43:14.060 and to not forget that from Alexander the Great 43:14.060 --> 43:17.960 to Napoleon to Eisenhower, real war fighters understand 43:17.960 --> 43:19.370 it's all about the logistics 43:19.720 --> 43:22.470 and if your facilities fail you, your mission fails you 43:22.610 --> 43:27.610 and if you don't invest in the foundation of power, 43:28.490 --> 43:30.090 the edge of the sword will dull. 43:30.110 --> 43:32.810 So it goes back to the Secretary's analogy of the fist. 43:32.810 --> 43:33.900 If we're gonna grow this fist, 43:33.900 --> 43:36.043 the body needs to increase in muscle. 43:36.450 --> 43:39.803 So if you don't even have the dorms to teach your basics, 43:40.070 --> 43:43.163 the skills to be an airman, the mission fails. 43:43.580 --> 43:46.150 Logistics and the investment in this 43:46.170 --> 43:47.990 and we don't have enough money to fix it all 43:47.990 --> 43:50.840 because we've been taking risk on facilities for so long. 43:50.990 --> 43:54.363 So this key conversation about priorities. 43:54.660 --> 43:55.760 What's more important? 43:55.960 --> 44:00.010 Is it more important to fix a base out on frontline 44:00.500 --> 44:02.703 or fix the foundation at home? 44:03.420 --> 44:06.153 And that's really where it gets contentious. 44:07.868 --> 44:08.701 - So I got a card that came up 44:08.701 --> 44:09.800 said we have time for one more question 44:09.800 --> 44:11.890 so I'm gonna ask this one down the line. 44:11.890 --> 44:14.359 Start with the vice chief and the question was 44:14.359 --> 44:15.900 an organization is perfect 44:15.900 --> 44:17.500 but we ought to be working towards perfection. 44:17.500 --> 44:20.050 If you could do one thing within your organization, 44:20.390 --> 44:22.693 what would it be to advance the Air Force? 44:24.300 --> 44:27.350 - Chief I'd say that we continue what you've been pushing 44:27.350 --> 44:29.450 for the last two years and that's to continue 44:29.450 --> 44:30.763 to empower our airmen. 44:30.970 --> 44:32.270 They're absolutely amazing, 44:32.270 --> 44:34.190 we need to remove the road blocks 44:34.190 --> 44:36.480 from their success and continuing to power down 44:36.480 --> 44:37.913 to the lowest level. 44:40.860 --> 44:43.490 - Chief here to the vice chief just continue to foster 44:43.490 --> 44:46.000 this environment where we are allowed to recruit 44:46.000 --> 44:49.363 and retain the absolute best Americans on planet Earth. 44:50.170 --> 44:51.890 Well as long as we have good people, 44:51.890 --> 44:53.540 the enemy doesn't stand a chance. 44:54.720 --> 44:58.380 - Along that same lines, I think if King for the day, 44:58.380 --> 45:01.310 I'd try to flatten the organization 45:01.310 --> 45:03.323 to allow us to make decisions faster. 45:03.330 --> 45:06.590 We have got to be able to make decisions and move out 45:06.590 --> 45:07.940 to stay ahead of the threat 45:08.334 --> 45:09.920 and I think one of the big things we have to do 45:09.920 --> 45:12.750 is figure out how to empower the folks that are here 45:12.750 --> 45:15.100 to make decisions and move out and make change. 45:16.550 --> 45:18.220 - So mechanically we're convinced 45:18.220 --> 45:21.236 that the way to do the things that you guys talked about 45:21.236 --> 45:26.236 is to focus on pushing the tools and the authorities 45:26.460 --> 45:28.860 and the resources down to squadron commanders 45:28.860 --> 45:31.660 and allowing squadron commanders to make more decisions. 45:33.460 --> 45:36.910 - Chief I'd say the one area that I focus on 45:36.910 --> 45:40.363 is how we embrace innovation and as we do that, 45:40.530 --> 45:41.930 you gotta be willing to fail 45:42.360 --> 45:44.833 and when was the last time a medal for failure? 45:45.785 --> 45:47.850 If we're gonna innovate, you got to be willing 45:47.850 --> 45:50.730 to fail in certain areas and I think that's an aspect 45:50.730 --> 45:52.480 and that's where our airmen come in 45:52.730 --> 45:54.950 and how they are able to come up with good ideas, 45:54.950 --> 45:56.570 willing to try, willing to fail 45:56.570 --> 45:58.770 and learn from our failures to move forward. 46:00.730 --> 46:02.940 - Sir I don't think perfection is possible 46:03.170 --> 46:05.721 but I think we as leaders have to categorize 46:05.721 --> 46:07.713 what we do in three categories. 46:08.420 --> 46:10.630 Things we must change things, we can change 46:10.630 --> 46:12.280 and things that can never change. 46:12.760 --> 46:15.620 I would have to say that the culture we have as airmen 46:16.180 --> 46:18.020 everyday even though there's somewhat routine 46:18.020 --> 46:20.920 produce the most exceptional aerospace force on the planet 46:21.060 --> 46:24.440 and after working with so many Air Forces on every continent 46:24.440 --> 46:26.010 there's things that we call routine 46:26.010 --> 46:27.810 that they could never imagine doing. 46:28.200 --> 46:31.370 So when we think about that shot group, those three, 46:31.370 --> 46:33.560 it's one, to work as hard as we can 46:33.560 --> 46:35.950 to preserve those things that can never change 46:36.170 --> 46:37.760 and to put our heart and soul 46:37.760 --> 46:39.360 into the things that must change 46:39.650 --> 46:42.530 and to continue that culture that just creates 46:42.530 --> 46:44.900 so many great people in this organization. 46:44.900 --> 46:46.090 I think if you really look 46:46.090 --> 46:47.410 at every other Air Force out there, 46:47.410 --> 46:50.323 they just cannot produce what we produce on a daily basis. 46:50.620 --> 46:51.630 We got to preserve that 46:51.630 --> 46:53.470 and we just got to keep the innovation 46:53.470 --> 46:55.923 and set the stage for them to keep doing that. 46:58.030 --> 47:00.630 - The best equipment on the planet will sit on ramps 47:01.700 --> 47:05.300 unless we develop, we tap and we leverage all of our airmen 47:05.300 --> 47:07.000 and that's across the total force. 47:08.960 --> 47:11.560 - Chief, of course it's just a variation on the same thing. 47:11.560 --> 47:13.490 We in the Air Force tend to get very focused 47:13.490 --> 47:14.723 on weapon systems. 47:14.810 --> 47:17.280 It's a natural state of our service 47:17.530 --> 47:18.610 but at the end of the day, we know 47:18.610 --> 47:21.110 it's about humans being more important in hardware 47:21.520 --> 47:24.480 and it's the initiatives that you already have 47:24.640 --> 47:27.070 be it from innovation or reinvigoration of the squadrons 47:27.070 --> 47:30.210 is key it's incentivizing airmen and really 47:30.423 --> 47:34.780 what we tend to see and say inside of SOF 47:34.780 --> 47:36.030 it's release the cracking 47:36.410 --> 47:39.480 and our airmen are gonna get to get after it 47:39.480 --> 47:41.630 and that's how you move towards perfection. 47:43.760 --> 47:46.240 - Chief I agree that culture eats strategy for lunch. 47:46.240 --> 47:48.220 So focusing on the people is important 47:48.660 --> 47:51.557 but there's another thing that has to be coupled with that 47:51.557 --> 47:54.410 because back at the edge of World War I, 47:54.470 --> 47:58.380 England was the greatest military in the history of mankind 47:58.880 --> 48:00.440 and they had better machines 48:00.440 --> 48:03.490 and better cultures of war fighting, better aggressiveness 48:04.410 --> 48:06.640 but they lost an entire generation of men 48:06.920 --> 48:08.343 because of a lack of vision. 48:09.030 --> 48:12.280 So the other thing that I think we need 48:12.380 --> 48:15.963 is a vision big enough for the times we live in. 48:16.780 --> 48:19.060 This is a failure of many civilizations 48:19.060 --> 48:21.373 and the question we have to ask ourselves is, 48:22.450 --> 48:25.780 is our vision big enough for the times we live in 48:26.290 --> 48:28.840 so that our generation of war fighters 48:28.842 --> 48:31.350 are not going into machine-gun nests 48:31.350 --> 48:32.973 with a rifle and a horse. 48:35.010 --> 48:39.150 - And sir chief as we pull on the thread for innovation 48:39.150 --> 48:44.020 and culture and empower that through giving more authority 48:44.020 --> 48:47.623 and control and responsibility to our squadron commanders, 48:48.050 --> 48:51.410 the more we can work together across all of our components 48:51.410 --> 48:53.726 and train so that when the time comes 48:53.726 --> 48:57.780 and we fight together, we want to empower 48:57.840 --> 49:00.310 that phrase of train like you fight 49:00.310 --> 49:01.780 and then fight like you train. 49:01.780 --> 49:04.730 The more we can do with that, the better well off we'll be. 49:06.010 --> 49:06.843 - Thanks chief. 49:06.900 --> 49:08.420 As a career acquisition guy, 49:08.420 --> 49:10.883 I'm pretty acquainted with bureaucracy. 49:11.450 --> 49:16.363 I really want to shift the mindset to yes if culture, 49:17.100 --> 49:20.540 marked by competence, collaboration, perseverance 49:20.980 --> 49:23.520 for people to where they really want to come to work 49:23.520 --> 49:26.610 every day work to deliver the capability 49:26.610 --> 49:28.460 for a mission bigger than themselves. 49:30.820 --> 49:33.610 - Chief as your anchorman at the end of the table down here, 49:33.610 --> 49:37.210 it is nice to go last and I can just say ditto. 49:37.210 --> 49:39.090 Everything that everybody has brought up to this point 49:39.090 --> 49:40.860 are things that we're trying to get after 49:40.860 --> 49:42.270 but I will say what I need 49:42.270 --> 49:44.223 is a better way of doing business. 49:44.410 --> 49:47.520 Innovation is paramount to what we're gonna do 49:47.900 --> 49:50.513 to empower our airmen and really get after our readiness 49:50.513 --> 49:52.363 and that's what we're gonna focus on. 49:53.360 --> 49:54.370 - You know as we bring this to a close, 49:54.370 --> 49:55.850 I opened up by telling you 49:55.923 --> 49:58.372 that this is the most combat-proven team 49:58.372 --> 50:00.630 that I've seen put together in years 50:00.960 --> 50:02.703 and I'm excited about the future. 50:03.457 --> 50:05.330 One of the attributes that I'm so excited about 50:05.330 --> 50:10.003 that I'm hopeful has come through here is humility. 50:11.090 --> 50:13.360 Just because we get stars on our shoulders, 50:13.360 --> 50:15.760 does not mean that automatically that day 50:15.760 --> 50:17.583 we have all the best ideas. 50:18.210 --> 50:20.090 Our job is actually to squint with our ears 50:20.090 --> 50:20.990 and listen to you. 50:22.350 --> 50:24.350 My team knows this that I try to do 50:24.350 --> 50:26.938 or say something at least once a day 50:26.938 --> 50:29.590 that allows two or three airmen to look at each other 50:29.590 --> 50:32.423 and go ha, I could be a four-star. 50:33.046 --> 50:35.129 (laughs) 50:36.000 --> 50:37.700 Sure doesn't take a hell of a lot. 50:37.846 --> 50:39.929 (laughs) 50:41.660 --> 50:46.660 So our job is to empower you our airmen 50:47.440 --> 50:49.903 so that your ideas get a hearing, 50:50.750 --> 50:52.310 that we build an environment 50:52.860 --> 50:57.400 where we're open to new fresh ways of doing business 50:57.650 --> 51:00.003 because we never arrive at this destination. 51:00.200 --> 51:02.400 This is a journey that we're all on together 51:02.780 --> 51:05.570 and it's an incredibly exciting journey to be on 51:05.767 --> 51:07.160 and last thing I'll close with 51:07.160 --> 51:09.283 is the other aspect of humility. 51:11.020 --> 51:14.740 You don't get these without being raised 51:14.940 --> 51:16.903 by some great stripes. 51:17.950 --> 51:20.550 Every successful senior officer in United States Air Force 51:20.550 --> 51:24.000 in my mind was raised by great NCOs 51:25.100 --> 51:28.710 and so bring your ideas in, keep them coming 51:29.060 --> 51:32.523 because this team is listening. 51:32.670 --> 51:34.170 We're squinting with our ears. 51:34.580 --> 51:35.580 Thank you very much. 51:36.117 --> 51:40.784 (applause) (epic music) 51:52.930 --> 51:54.380 - Thank you all for being here 51:54.380 --> 51:56.090 and speaking of great stripes, 51:56.090 --> 51:58.100 we have Chief Wright at 10:15. 51:58.100 --> 51:59.937 So it's time for a call.