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Show July 22, 1993 iirowGD by Frances Kosakowsky Hilltop Times staff btsijSjj DyDnelhi " " Walk-aroun- getfs ds people talking ways to get ideas and other feed' back from the workers.'. "Basically, we're just bringing the command section and the people closer together," he said. ; The general has already visited the aircraft operations division in the Aircraft Directorate and the system d support division in the ICBM System Program Office. General Perez, formerly director of the Commodities Directorate at Ogden ALC, said, "This is a great way for me to personally get to know the other directorates and the various missions and see the processes firsthand," he said. Lyles and Perez, in an effort to improve communication between the commanders and the workers, have also planned for continental breakBoth generfasts and als plan to do them all, either together when their schedules allow it, or separately. For now, Perez plans to fit in approximately two hours a week doing . Keeping his pledge to communicate, communicate, communicate, Brig. Gen. Lester L. Lyles, Ogden Air Logistics Center commander, got together July 13 with Financial Management Directorate workers for a brown bag lunch although in this case, everyone had pizza. The general hopes to have brown baggers at different organizations a couple of times a month to give workers a forum to talk directly with him about their concerns and problems. "I want to explain my reasons for wanting to get together with people on base," Lyles said. "And then I want also aid in communication by Jay Joersz Hilltop Times staff mander, said communicate, the center vice commander listened. Both Lyles and Brig. Gen. Charles H. Perez have already visited several work areas during Both generals will visit with workers at all levels in areas across the base in hopes of finding out how the processes are working. "This program and the brown-bagge- r program are just ways to us help get out of the office and into the work areas to communicate our mission and priorities to the people," Perez said. "They are also walk-around- s. Approximately 45 FM workers from all levels attended the informal lunch in the FM conference room. The general encouraged a casual and egalitarian atmosphere where all were invited to give comments and ask questions. A sampling of those questions and their answers follows: Q. Isn't it a form of fraud, waste and abuse to transfer maintenance on the 4 to the Navy at Cherry Point when you consider all the costs involved? What are we doing about it? or three years work. Ogden ALC is making We've made the two-lev- el maintenance work, but what we have to guard against is any comments that we have let other efforts slide while we were working to make maintenance viable. two-lev- el Q. I think there's a duplication of processes going on between the Total Quality Office and the Internal Management Control Group here in FM. Shouldn't they be combined? A. I don't know. FM will look into it and see what needs to be done. Q. Are there any guidelines on what is going to happen to all the excess missile equipment we have now that we're downsizing? A. We don't have any guidelines. The ICBM System Program Office is going to have to decide what to do with it. But we must begin to attack the problem soon and start getting rid of it. Q. (From Brig. Gen. Carlos Perez, vice commander, Ogden ALC) What is one thing the center commander or vice commander could do to help people? A. (From the group) Insist on open communication and make sure the workers get the word. Q. (From General Lyles) What is the best way to get the word out? A. (From the group) Through the work to private industry? (Cams is the network, the Hilltop Times, comAir Force vice chief of staff.) mander's calls. (General Lyles' response: I A. Per General Yates, General Carns will try all ways possible.) was not speaking for the Air Force or Q. DBOF (the Defense Business OperAFMC. He does not set the policy for AF ating Fund program is a pilot depot maintenance. program that requires each organization Is it Q. What does Ogden ALC need to do to charge for services rendered) to get more workload? will or it to expand? go away going A. We need to figure out exactly what A. It's being assessed. The decision has our strengths are, where we need to im- been delayed pending completion of a prove on those strengths, what we need to study. We haven't heard anything, but we'll try to get an update. get there, and we must become competitive in the work we choose to go after. I can't Q. Is the Technology and Industrial emphasize enough that to do this we need Support Directorate going to be dishelp from everyone to get our overhead solved? costs down. A. No, not in the forseeable future. Q. What is the opinion of two-levGeneral (Merrill) McPeak (Air Force chief maintenance now that we're making it of staff) wants improved uniform structure work? across the command. Supply and transporA. It is working and it is going to be the tation functions need to go under the 649th wave of the future. It will become a major Support Group. We are working out how issue for the Air Force over the next two it can be done. Silo-Base- d drive-around- s. walk-around- s. Office-Visio- F-- the Base Closure and Realignment Commission decided to leave it off the list for this year. Also, California has a lot of political clout. I know this for sure, in the future, we're going to have to convince the commission that it's important that Hill AFB continue to exist. Q. In the future, will all the depots from all the services be thrown in a pot and forced to compete against each other? A. Yes. General (Ronald W.) Yates' (commander, Air Force Materiel Command) game plan for the next round of closures is based on our being able to pete successfully with the other services on the basis of costs, manpower, expenditures, A. A seven-steprocess was gone was made. Of decision before any through course, the fact that the workload is going to the Navy is very troubling, but when you weigh the fact that we are bidding for, and may get, the contract for maintenance on the Navy's FA-18- , it seems like a trade we can live with. This kind of thing is going to continue to happen as the downsizing continues. Q. McClellan AFB in Sacramento was the most likely ALC to close, yet they got off the hook. How did that happen? A. I think there are a couple of reasons. McClellan was clearly the weakest of the Air Force logistics centers, but it may not have been the weakest depot when compared with Army and Navy depots with similar functions. That may be one reason p etc. Q. 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