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- Hello, my name is Van Mizak

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and I'm the logistics
civilian career field manager.

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My current role as your
CFM is to provide all

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of our personnel with critical career

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development guidance and develop programs

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to grow the skills and
knowledge of workforce.

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My focus is to establish
career field entry

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and train personnel requirements,

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manage programs, and develop
career-long training plans

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that directly impact the career field.

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My goal is to evaluate
and improve the health

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and strength of our workforce.

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I'm involved in development
and implementation

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of our Logistics Human Capital Strategy,

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and the logistics liaison to our personnel

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A1 community for force development.

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I also oversee development initiatives

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from more than 44,000
civilian logisticians

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across more than 150
different occupational series.

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Our career field is as
diverse as it is talented,

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that the broad range of
expertise and skillsets.

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Our four Work First categories, or stalls,

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are broken into supply
management, maintenance support,

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deployment distribution
and transportation,

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and life cycle logistics.

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These varied stalls provide opportunities

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to build both depth in your
specialties and breadth

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across a number of different
core areas of capability.

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We have some big goals
this year and we're excited

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to roll out new programs and
initiatives to our workforce.

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The DoD Logistics Human Capital Strategy

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has called for an increase
in enterprise logisticians

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that are available to bring a multitude

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of different skills and
experience to the table.

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I encourage you to continue
to analyze your career path

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in relation to our newly
developed logistics career pyramid

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ensuring that you're taking steps

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to build leadership opportunities.

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Take advantage of professional education

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and cultivate joint experience
among other imperatives.

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One key initiative that
I would like to highlight

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is Logistics Professional
Development Program.

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The goal of this program is

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to create a well-trained, educated,

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and certified workforce
through Air Force LPDP.

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The program is voluntary
and consists of five levels

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of certification for each
of our workforce categories

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to help build career progression

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as well as to clearly
define different levels

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of experience and expertise benchmarks.

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Our windows for application
are October and April,

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and we encourage anyone
interested to get involved.

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Another important development that I want

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to draw your attention to
is the recently launched

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Logistics Readiness Sharepoint website.

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This site has been
designed to be a platform

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for all of our career field managers

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to easily communicate
updates to our career fields.

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We plan to have this site function

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as a one-stop shop for all of your force

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development resources and announcements.

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Our team will be sending
additional information

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when we fully launch our page.

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So stay tuned for more details
about this exciting tool.

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So one piece of advice I'd like to offer,

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is vector, vector, vector.

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Even if you don't know
what you want to do,

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or do not want to move,
this is the opportunity

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to gain valuable visibility and feedback

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from your senior logistics leaders.

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It also gives you opportunity
to let leadership know

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your short and long-term goals helping us

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to ensure we have the right
training and programs available.

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Many times, we limit ourselves

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because we don't think we are competitive,

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or we have family events, or
just plain don't want a PCS.

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They can help guide you
in ways you never realize

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to reach your full potential while taking

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into consideration your
personal circumstances.

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You may be contacted about a reassignment,

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a class, or development opportunity just

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by remaining visible each year.

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As your logistics civilian
career field manager

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I feel it's important to hear directly

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from our logistics personnel.

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I encourage you to reach
out with innovative ideas

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or feedback that might
benefit our career field.

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You can reach me by
emailing the address below.

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Thank you for your
time, and I look forward

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to working together as we continue

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to enhance our logistics force
development capabilities.

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