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Show v- t y V -' ' '" ' m" . !,; t V - ' 4i , i Studentbody officers serving Farmington Junior High School are Bret Barton, front, president; Jeremy Lawson, vice president; pres-ident; and Annalisa Semadeni, secretary. Accountability: One Major goal at HAFB HILL AFB Hill employees are now more accountable for their actions, due. to goals recently re- ; leased by the Air Force Logistics Command commander, Gen. Alfred G. Hansen. According to the general, AFLC can no longer afford to carry people who can't do the job, nor can it afford to keep the necessary authority au-thority and responsibility from those who can. In other words, give them the authority au-thority and responsibility to carry out the mission and ultimately, make them answerable for the actions ac-tions they take, or don't take. Accountability is just one of five major goals or areas the general identified in which the command, including the Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill, needs to focus its efforts and resources. The others" are people, user support, quality and financial program execution. The general announced the goals in response to the challenge the command is facing from mounting fiscal restraints, and said he is confident con-fident his people will achieve the goals and meet the challenge. Since taking command of AFLC and its workforce of more than 100,000 people Aug. 1, General Hansen has logged thousands of miles on personal inspection visits of the command's global logistics network. During his visit to Hill, he told members of the Top Three Noncommissioned Non-commissioned Officers that it is not all, "doom and gloom out there. You have to continue to show support sup-port to the people and then the people peo-ple through their great innovation innova-tion and American know-how will take care of those challenges ahead of us." After his command inspection, the general praised the command's employees, saying, "Everywhere I've gone, I've encountered the same pattern of skilled and dedicated dedi-cated professionals doing a tough and demanding job, and doing it well. He said the challenge now is to continue doing the job well, especially espe-cially as the command confronts constrained resources. "Expected budget cuts will impact im-pact our operations considerably, but the danger to national security will not diminish, and the responsibility responsi-bility of this command to supply combat capability to our fighting forces will not be any less," said General Hansen. The general said AFLC must take the lead in meeting the challenge chal-lenge of providing combat strength through logistics. General Hansen said AFLC must continue to exploit its greatest strength, its "top notch" people who have proven their ability to get the job done. "That's why my first goal for this command is to take care of our people, because they truly represent the single greatest resource we have." He said he will also push hard to reward top job performance at ev-; ev-; ery opportunity. As money becom-es becom-es tighter, he said, the importance of talent and hard work will increase in-crease and so will the obligation to acknowledge the contributions of the people, and give credit where credit is due. "It's also important, as members of a professional military organization, organiza-tion, that we remind ourselves of the common bond we all share a bond that grows from our mutual belief in freedom and democracy," General Hansen said. "Whether military service or civil service, the operative concept is still 'patriotic service' to those higher ideals." AFLC is in the business of supplying sup-plying combat capability to the using us-ing commands, such as Strategic Air Command and Tactical Air Command. "The primary reason we exist is to ensure Air Force weapon systems sys-tems have the logistics support required re-quired to do the job," he said. "Only in that way will the warfight-ing warfight-ing commands have the mission capability they need to protect this nation. and its vital interests. "Since customer support is really real-ly what we're all about, we must be 'pro-user' all the way. That means being responsive to the combat commands we support, and that means closely identifying with the combat role of which we're so much a part." The general said quality must be woven into the very fabric of AFLC. He said, "I hereby appoint every person a quality inspector the success of our quality involves a concern for improved productivity, productiv-ity, as well as reliability and maintainability, main-tainability, he added. Professional program execution, at its roots, means AFLC must use the money it's given in the most efficient and effective way possible. pos-sible. General Hansen challenged command com-mand managers to make fiscal 1988 a model year for financial program execution. The general said AFLC will continue con-tinue to be faced with many challenges. chal-lenges. "There's lots of uncertainty down the road, but one thing is -absolutely clear: for those of us in the logistics business and for those who bear the responsibility for providing pro-viding weapon system support, there will be no shortage of challenges. |