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Show NorCf By Airman first Class Nakita Carlisle 388th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Force protection is a top priority during peace and wartime operations. To ensure the 388th Fighter Wing practices the highest security measures in times of need, some people are being tasked to assist in the Resource Augmentation Duty program. The READY program places and trains people for other.jobs around the base to meet augmentee needs for installation exercises, contingencies and emergency situations. For example the program provides extra manning to help with extra security measures on base, said Master Sgt. Duane Martin, 388th FW manpower organization superintendent and 388th FW READY go program coordinator. People in various types of jobs are augmented to perform different jobs not normally assigned to them "It's a lot different than my normal job," said Airman Kanisha 388th Williams, Operations commanders Support Squadron support staff who has been a security forces augmentee since the beginning of October. The READY program is not just used only at Hill AFB; it's a program used at every Air Force base, said Sergeant Martin. The host organization is responsible for making sure that the base has a READY program and an installation READY program office of primary responsibility (According to Air Force Instruction However, tenant units on the installation, like the 388th FW, 10-21- 7). 5 6, "If they didn't have us (aug mentees) the base wouldn't have the manning to perform the heightened security measures on base when needed," said airman Williams. "I think that everyone should be ?f an augmentee at least once. Photo by Airman 1st Class Nakita Carlsle The experience gave me a Airman Kanisha Williams, 388th Operation Support Staff and Airman 1st Class Jade Johnson, 75th Communicaton Squadron check identification cards at the Roy gate as READY augmentees. better appreciation for the Chief of Staff shares views on Global Strike Task Force By Tech. Sgt. Scott Elliott Air Force Print News WASHINGTON Such "Kicking down the anti-acce- ss threats. General Jumper, Ajr Force chief of staff, explained the concept, and its importance to the United States in an uncertain world, during an air staff call Oct. 24 in the Pentagon. Successfully implementing GSTF will require the right mix of stealth, super cruise, precision and integrated information, Jumper with maneuverable stealth will said. to their targets, destroying the cruise super surface-to-amost lethal missile threats and threats, he said. Older, legacy-stealt- h 2 Spirit will work in concert with 2 Raptors to demolish the adversary's F-2- 2s ir ir B-- F-2- remaining anti-acce- ss al targeting requires unprece- dented coordination and interoperability among command and control, intelligence, door" and ensuring access for persistent, follow-on forces is the entry fee for winning future conflicts. The Global Strike Task Force is the Air Force's concept of operations for how it is going to do that by defeating air-to-a- time-critic- capabilities. Together, with other ground, sea, air and special operation forces capabilities, they will clear the way for other joint forces to enter the fight. Ultimately, GSTF will prepare the battle- field for persistent follow-o- n forces and establish the conditions for future victory. To illustrate his point, Jumper referred to lessons learned from several military operations conducted in the 1990s. "In every case we weren't able to do the job with a shock attack; it took persistent operations over the battlefield for a sustained period of time to get the job done," he said. "You don't do persistent operations over the battlefield with forces coming from 3,000 miles away," Jumper said. "And that's the if you're thing you have to remember going to win the war, you have to persist over the battlefield 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You have to be there to do the job as the targets emerge." Increasingly, the Air Force's future success will depend upon its ability to rapidly engage fleeting, or emerging, targets, Jumper said. c M7w S ing. "Becoming an SF augmentee was a frustrating experience," said Airman Williams. "The training and appointments I had were scheduled on my off days, and I had to get qualified on using and go through two days the of classes to learn the rules and regulations on how to work at the gates and verify identification cards," she said. According to Sergeant Martin the READY program is still a fairly new but important program. Like anything else it is going through some growing pains but is M-1- 2501 Augmentees keep traffic moving with heightened security measures have a responsibility to do the best they can to participate in the program where feasible and when it does not conflict with commitments they may have. "With the coordination between the 75th Air Base Wing and the 388th FW, there are about seven READY augmentees from the 388th FW," said Sergeant Martin. Each organization that uses or provides READY augmentees must appoint a READY program coordinator and ensure READY augmentees get the appropriate train- &2$L 51 H 8 surveillance and reconnaissance assets, known as C2ISR. They must be intimately linked with all air and space capabilities. It is less about platforms and more about effects and capabilities. "When we talk about the horizontal integration of manned, unmanned and space assets, it rolls off the tongue but we don't mention one platform or one system it's one program one integrated capability that we need," Jumper said. "It makes sense." Jumper said the challenge is making the elements of GSTF come together. d "The perfect example is radar," he said. "I get a lot of grief over space-base- d space-base- radar because I don't want to make the Photo by Airman 1st Class Nakita Carlsle Airman Kanisha Williams has been checking identificaton cards and guarding the base as a Security Forces augmentee since the beginning of October. people who protect this base." According to Airman 1st Class Jade Johnson, 75th Communication Squadron telephone systems apprentice, the program is helpful in protecting this base, but it puts a strain on the shops where the augmentees are from. Airman Johnson has been an SF augmentee since the beginning of October. "Our shop is about right now and we are really behind Continued from Front Page invasion of Guadalcanal in August of 1942; - The U.S. bombed Japan for years - until August 1945 before we accomplished our objectives in the Pacific; -- three-and-a-ha- On the European front, the allies bombed Germany continually for nearly five years - from September of 940 until May of 1945; It took months to start the land campaign against the Germans with the invasion of North Africa in November of 942; and It took the United States two years and six months after Hitler declared war on us before we landed in France on June 6, 1 944 We are now fighting a new kind of war. It is unlike any America has ever fought before. Many things about this war are different from wars past-bu- t, as I have said, one of -- 1 1 1 1 Horizontally integrating C2ISR assets and Oct. 7, automating them so they can have that our initial conversations among themselves is crucial. Jumper said he envisions this kind of highly integrated force in the future: "The sum of the wisdom of these platforms is a cursor over the target," he said. "Once you do that, you put the sum of that wisdom down in front of the commander, who's making the deci- sion." In the end, the Air Force needs robust operational concepts to guide its planning, pro- gramming and budgeting process, Jumper said. "I've been frustrated for a very long time over a lack of ability to find a greater cause than program budgets," Jumper said. "We tend to talk about what we're going to go buy to win a war before we talk about how we're going to win the war. What I'm trying to do is find a construct we can all use to get beyond that." lf -- campaign on machine-lev- el ed Secretary Rumsfeld subject of the sentence space or air. Tell me e the best mix between the airborne and to relithe most best, platforms get able information to commanders on the ground. I can't do that if the fight is between 'do we put the technology in space' or 'do we put it in the air.'" The important thing is that we identify and pursue the right mix of capabilities, he said. space-born- half-mann- on our work," said Airman Johnson "but we have to protect the base, it's our number one priority." "The people in charge of the READY program know that the program puts a strain on the work centers and individuals but the augmentations are done as best as possible," said Sergeant Martin. "All parties concerned are working diligently to improve the READY those differences is not the possi- bility of instant victory. 1 stated - goals. The attacks of Sept. were not days or weeks but years in the making. The terrorists were painstaking and deliberate, and it appears they may have spent years planning their activities. There is no doubt in my mind but that the American people know that it's going to take more than 24 days. I also stated that our task is much broader than simply defeating the Taliban or it is to root out global terrorist netnot works, just in Afghanistan, but wherever they are, to ensure that they cannot threaten the American people or our way of life. This is a task that will take time to accom plish. Victory will 1 1 - ur adver-sarie- have had the staying power to defeat Secretary of Defense them. UnderestiDonald H. Rumsfeld goals were: -- -- - "In the end, war is not about statis- require that every tics, deadlines, short attention spans, element of Amerior news cycles. It is about will can influence and power be engaged. the projection of w ill, the clear, Americans have unambiguous determination of the seen tougher s and the to American than this president people see this through to certain victory." before, and they 24-ho- At my briefing when I announced the start of the air That was 24 days ago - three weeks and three days not three months or three years, but three weeks and three days. We have made measurable progress on each of these To make mating the American people is a bad clear to the Taliban that harboring terrorists carries a price; To acquire intelligence to facilitate future operations against and the Taliban; To develop useful relationships with groups in Afghanistan that oppose the Taliban and make it increasingly difficult for the terrorists to use Afghanistan freely as a base lines, short attention spans, or news cycles. It is about will the projection of will, the clear, unambiguous determination of the president and the American people to see this through to certain victory. In other American wars, enemy commanders have come to doubt the wisdom of operation; To alter the military balance over time of taking on the strength and power of this nation and the resolve of her people. I - da - - by denying to the Taliban the offensive systems that hamper the progress of the various opposition forces; and To provide humanitarian relief to Afghans suffering oppressive living conditions under the Taliban regime. bet. In the end, war is not about statistics, dead24-ho- expect that somewhere, in a cave in Afghanistan, there is a terrorist leader who is, at this moment, considering precisely the same thing. ( Courtesy of Air Force Space Command News Service) |