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Show NEWS Hilltop Time Feb. 15, 1991 Command adviser answers questions II III! A. Beduul 388th TFW Public Affairs Office by TSgt George . - , be in store in terms of promotions, of assignment stationed at Tyndall AFB (Fla.) when this thing kicked off. People were lined up outside the doors waiting to volunteer to go. I had people coming to see me, as the senior enlisted adviser there, to complain because someone else was chosen to go. So I think mentally w e had a lot of people who were ready, willing and able to go do their job. I was and am still very proud of how they responded to it. I was possibilities and opportunities? PeoI ple are asking, "Am going to be able to count on The following is a serbeing able to stay in for a full career?" ies of questions and anI try to address each specific question for them, swers exchanged bebut I also try to leave them with a feeling that if tween the staff of the you're a quality noncommissioned officer willing to 3S8th Tactical Fighter work hard, committed to the service and enjoy what Wing publication Fightyou're doing, don't worry too much about these er Country and the changes. If you're quality, we'll have a place for you. senior enlisted adviser Q Do you foresee Desert Storm as a strong for Tactical Air Compoint in gaining a stronger military budget? mand, CMSgt. Tommy A. Roberts, during his A It would be hard to predict what is going to visit to the Hill AFB come out of Desert Storm. Whatever money ConChief Roberts wing Jan. 22. gress appropriates to us, it's our job to make sure we spend it in the wisest way possible. Q For the record, exactly what do you feel Another possibility is that we may have to relook is your job as a senior enlisted adviser? at how fast we draw down the size of the armed forces. One thing I think Desert Storm and Desert A. I provide a two-waflow of communications Shield is proving to us is that we're doing very well from the enlisted members of the command to the TAC commander and on his behalf explain policies. because of the training we received. We've had I find out what issues and concerns are on people's realistic, high intensity training. Desert Storm is proving that training has been valuable. I hope that minds, what things are getting in the way of accomwe continue to get the money needed to support that plishing the mission, and listing any problems they type of training. Then, if we are ever called on to do have. our jobs again, we will be able to do them as well Q Since you have been the senior enlisted ad- as we have this time. viser for TAC, what is the most common problem Q The military trains to prepare its people for you have faced? war. How well do you believe the younger troops A Rather than a specific issue or problem, the were mentally prepared for Desert Storm? most common concern I get I put into the category A I don't think anyone is ever really mentally of "What does my future hold for me?" We've got prepared for war. Desert Storm going on. We've got the general reducIt has been so long since we had a conflict that in size of Air I tion the the think a lot of people were training hard, but not Force, which is coming about because of the perception of the diminished really feeling like it would ever happen to them as Soviet threat. All these major historical changes in quickly as it did. Once it started happening, howthe world are affecting the Air Force. A lot of young ever, the young people responded outstandingly. people, and older people too, are asking questions. They became mentally prepared. They put themWhat does my future hold for me? What's going to selves into it. And they fell back on their training. cross-trainin- g ' y Q Do you believe the waiting in the desert for operations to start adversely affected the tal preparations for the conflict? A. People went over there expecting to fight very quickly. When they discovered that they weren't, they became bored. Then they began questioning if they were ever going to fight, and questions began to play about how long were they going to be there and when were they going to get to rejoin their families. As the thing evolved though, once the United Nations established the Jan. 15 deadline, it focused everyone. They knew what they were there for and they put their minds back on getting ready to fight when the time came to fight. Q keeps telling of the protesters calling for no more Vietnams. Having seen action in that conflict, do you see Desert Storm getting bogged down in the same way? A No, I don't see that at alL There are so many differences that there's no way you can really draw a parallel between Vietnam and this war. One of the biggest ways they are different is that our senior American leadership and our national authorities have said we're not going to fight with one hand tied behind our back. We're going to go in with everything we've got and win this as quickly as possible with the minimum number of casualties. I don't believe this thing is going to last as long as Vietnam. It's not going to be over next week, but it's not going to get bogged down. TV SO. OGDEN NO. OGDEN LOGAN How! 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