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Show r AIR FORCE RESERVE HEADS VP 1Q Cki 2S, lttl Supplement te tHe HJheft Timt 944fth fee clearVis Lead with toinofeh ideas these myths up against the As we continue in our series on fol- Total Quality Management, it is lowing facts: Fact A: Under TQM, we will best to think of managing as focus on the processes and though you had no authority but methods we use to do our work, rather leading by the quality of not just on output. We will try your ideas. The best organizaF.S. Gen. by Brig. Wineborger to find better ways of getting tions make change the "norm," and quality managers look for things done and eliminate usesmall improvements and challenge people to be less or unnecesssary work. Creativity, imaginainnovative. If you're not innovating... you're tion and innovation will be encouraged as part of our everyday way of doing business. Rather than decaying. "intelliallow for cutting back on personnel strength as a result of Recognize unit thinkers and gent' mistakes. I personally like this philosophy: doing things more efficiently, we'll look forward Some organizations are well managed and poorly to doing more in a short amount of time. We'll led; others are well led but poorly managed; the be able and ready to expand our mission and better satisfy the defense needs of our nation with best do both. Results and continuous improvement will be the resources we already have. Fact B: Teamwork people working together to the new standards rather than static perfection. solve work from As we on separating myth fact, keep problems and exploit opportunities will be in mind that TQM promotes team ownership. the vehicle for improving the way we get things work1: done and meeting the needs of our customers. TQM is Quality Circles. If Myth No. ers are kept busy working on insignificant little 'Managing quality centered teams will require a problems in their own area, they won't notice or different set of skills than those most of us have be as inclined to object when management hits used in the past. To be effective, leaders must now learn how to coach, facilitate and teach more than them with the Big Kibosh. is No. size down 2: the control, direct and discipline. TQM a way to cut Myth of the work force. It is an insidious plan designed As we begin our TQM journey, not an hour will to wring more work out of a smaller number of go by that quality will not be spoken in the 4 19th unfortunate souls who still have jobs. by someone. You can look forward to abandonOK. the word on the street probably givjes some ing anything that has outlived its value and focredibility to these observations. Let's bump cus on the integration of individual efforts. S6C0 944th Tactical NELLIS AFB, Nev. (AFNS)-T- he Fighter Group, Luke AFB, Ariz., captured second units place at Gunsmoke 1991 as two with awards the top "hogged" victories on the last day of the competition, Oct. 16. The Luke unit is under the 419th Tactical Fighter Wing. The Arizona Reserve unit also took second place in the 1989 Gunsmoke event and scooped up the Air Force Top Gun award. Lt. Col. Roger Disrud, a Reserve pilot from the 442nd TFW at Richard-Gebau- r AFB, Mo., needed a perfect score on his last bombing run to steal the Top Gun award from a National Guard pilot. "On my way to the range, I didn't even think about it," Disrud said concerning his thoughts before the bombing run. "Even after I was done with the run, I didn't think about how well I had done. Even now I don't think it has sunk in." He is the third reservist to be recognized as the Air Force Top A-1- come-from-behi- Gun. score of 2,203 gave him Disrud's Top the one point needed to beat Lt. Col. Ronald Ball, 175th TFG, Glenn Martin Airport, Baltimore, Md. The 175th took the overall top team award. Team Gun-winnin- 'New' Air Force will be stronger Reach-Globa- leadership." Air Force Secretary Donald B. Rice spoke about the need for restructuring in a speech to the Air Force Association Sept. 17. "Global Reach-GlobPower reflects a renaissance in airpower thinking that began at the end of the Cold War, triumphed in the Gulf War, and matters more to the future each day," he said. "It makes sense, from warfighting and management standpoints, to assess requirements in terms of what they contribute to Global-Reacand Global-Powe- r missions," Rice said. ganizational fabric will assure a properly organized force that retains a winning edge. "I've used the term 'organized turmoil' to describe what's going on in the Air Force's organizational structure," Loh said. "We're deactivating certain units starting next year and will close some bases in 1993 and 1994. At the same time, we are reorganizing to fit within the Global Reach-Globa- l Power framework, the conceptual model for the application of air power in the future. "We've already started making some changes in TAC, such as the formation of composite wings with al h Two new commands Command. "Air Mobility Command will provide the rapid mobility element of Global Reach to our air forces. It will have a global airlift mission, as well as be responsible for tankers for aerial refueling," explained Loh. "Air Combat Command will provide versatile combat capability to support Global Power objectives. It will include fighters, bombers, command and control aircraft, recce and some tactical airlift and tanker aircraft, as well as intercontinental ballistic missiles," Loh said. "Air Combat Command will organize, train and equip these forces, to support the warfighting g members were Ball, Lt. Cols. Charles Morgan III and Ron Henry and Capts. Brian Barnes and David Rand. "We hammered 'em all week and won this thing as a team," Morgan said. Ball and Barnes were in the running for Top Gun throughout the gunnery meet, but lost to Disrud in the end. "He earned it," Henry said. "Anybody who can fly and shoot two perfect profiles deserves to be Top Gun. And it's even better because he's an A-1- pilot." Flying 0 since 1980, Disrud was an alternate for Gunsmoke 1985 the victory year for the 419th TFW but never flew, and felt he would never get the chance to participate again. "It's always been my goal to fly in Gunsmoke." He attributed computer modifications for putting s the s ahead of the faster and A-10- s A-lO- F-16- s, F-lll- s, A-7- F-15- refueling aircraft assigned, that almost make its name obsolete. "We love them. We love them as much as any pilot loves his plane," Henry said about the Tankor support noodod Warthog. Other award winners were: "Fighters can't perform their mission without tanker support, so it makes sense to consolidate those types of aircraft into a deployable force package whose people live, work and train together with one boss calling the shots. year-roun- "In the past, we consistently believed a Out of that new thinking has grown a design for the Air Force of the future that will result in the disestablishment of TAC, Strategic Air Command and Military Airlift Command. Two new commands will be established in their place. "They haven't been officially named yet, nor have the locations of their headquarters been officially announced," said Loh, "but for now we are calling them Air Mobility Command and Air Combat 0 nd A-1- 0 -- The merging of three Air Force major commands into two is evolution at its best, according to the commander of Tactical Air Command. "We are creating new commands that take the strengths of the current ones and build entirely new and more effective organizations," said Gen. John Michael Loh. "This restructuring translates into a much greater capability to support the Global l Power philosophy of our national o straps commands." The general said formation of composite wings and other changes under way in the Air Force's or "As we stop using the words 'tactical' and 'strategic' in describing units, and using them only in regard to target importance, I foresee additional opportunities to use what have heretofore been strategic aircraft in theater operations," he said. headsllp ter 777-271- 3. 2s high-altitu-de low-draTop Gun, low-angl- e, Copt. Jeffrey Gingros, 354th Fighter Wing, Myrtle Beach AFB, S.C. e, high-draLt. Col. Ron Ball, 175th TFG. Top Gun, g: low-angl- I?lfV,Brulc H-- Vlv-- Hensley, SSgt. Nina Brown g: Top Gun, level bomb: Capt. Jeffrey Gingras. Top Gun, strafe: Maj. Robert Tarter. Top Gun, navigation attack: Capt. Christian Peloza, 363rd FW, Shaw AFB, S.C. Aircraft category, A-- 7: 150th TFG, Maj. David Walker. Overall top strafe team: 442nd TFW. Time of arrival: 27th FW, Cannon AFB, N.M. On the first day of competition, all 14 Gunsmoke '91 teams arrived within five seconds of their scheduled arrival times. "We really do think this validates what you guys saw on TV during Desert Storm," the Nellis Gunsmoke director told a group of visiting media during the competition. "It proves our training to use these weapons systems is good. It works," said Col. Edward Clements. "It really does prove that we're ready to go do what we say we're going to do at a moment's notice. It really is the Super Bowl of flying fighters." Gunsmoke is a biennial Air Force-wid- e tactical gunnery and bombing competition sponsored by Tactical Air Command and hosted by the Air Force Tactical Fighter Weapons Center at Nellis. Gen. Forrest S. Wineborger Barbara Ann Vessels Capt. Tess T. Cowan Rickenbacker TFG. 419th TFW Brig. TFW, Overall top crew chief: SSgt. Jerry L. Rose, 944th TFG. Overall top weapons load team: 442nd TFW. Aircraft appearance: 944th TFG. dive bomb: Maj. Fred Clemovitz, 944th Top Gun, three-squadro- n F-11- 7s Editorial content is edited, prepared and provided by the 419th Tactical Fighter Wing Public Affairs Office. DEADLINE for submission of articles is 10 working days before each scheduled wing line. on a unit training assembly. Articles should be typed, double-space- d For more information, call the 419th Public Affairs Office, Overall top maintenance team: 121st ANGB, Ohio. d, wing with one type of aircraft was the way to go. We have to change that thinking because so many of the variables are changing. We just can't afford to do it that way anymore. "There's a place for the words 'tactical' and 'strategic' in today's Air Force, but they apply to situations rather than organizations or airplanes. "They're useful in describing an environment, a set of targets, a problem with timing. But they're not useful in describing a class of equipment like aircraft, or a mission like close air support or air interdiction, for example. "Desert Storm proved that point. from SAC close air and TAC provided attacked support in while we So, can acstrategic targets Baghdad. describe the targets as tactical or strategic curately in terms of their relative positions on the battlefield, the words don't really apply to the aircraft or the units involved in striking those targets. B-5- F-1- 6 STAFF 419th TFW Commander chief, Public Affairs Public Affairs Officer Editor, NCOIC, Public Affairs Affairs Specialist! plie |