TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. —
In my final commentary, we talked about caring for our Airmen, which is the primary Motion Order laid out by Air Pressure Chief of Employees Normal CQ Brown Jr.
This month we’ll focus on Motion Order B: Forms
Everyone knows paperwork exists in any giant group – it’s a necessity to handle advanced Air Pressure-wide selections, however not a requirement for all of our selections. I consider paperwork throughout the wing requires a “tune-up” to allow us to make selections on the velocity wanted to higher help our mission companions, retirees, and dependents. Even with the perfect Airmen, poor organizational construction and bureaucratic course of is usually a barrier to growing effectiveness, driving innovation or reaching success.
This text is a cry for assist, if you’ll. I would like your ideas and concepts on the place we are able to do higher.
Right here is why.
At Tinker, during the last 10 years the inhabitants exterior the 72nd Air Base Wing has grown by roughly 2,300 folks. In that very same time, the ABW – the group that helps each different unit on this set up – has shrunk by about 50 folks. It is a downside. We now have recognized this difficulty all the way in which up the chain of command to the very prime. Headquarters understands the difficulty, however manpower sources can’t be resolved within the subsequent few years.
I let you know this to say, assist just isn’t coming from the skin. We should do that. We should have a look at all of the processes we work and all of the insurance policies we now have and shed these issues that don’t make it simpler to be more practical and environment friendly.
I’ve directed the 72nd ABW personnel to have a look at every course of and every coverage and see the place there may need been mission creep through the years. For instance, maybe up to now somebody didn’t comply with a course of correctly so some well-meaning particular person added a step to make sure that mistake didn’t occur once more. After which later one other particular person missed a unique step so one other double test was added. Over time these well-meaning changes have, maybe, added a number of time and complexity unnecessarily. We have to return and take away these steps, guaranteeing the Airmen working these steps are correctly skilled, and get again to enterprise.
Throughout this previous 12 months I requested the wing to look into growing circulate within the following areas: CAC difficulty, Customer Management Heart, car search, deployment processing, and some others. I want I may report we’ve make vital progress in these areas, however we haven’t. However, we’re not alone.
“After over a 12 months of study and work, vital progress on this motion order has confirmed elusive,” stated Chief Brown in his Motion Order replace.
We now have discovered some areas on the VCC to assist our computer systems course of quicker, however the positive aspects we had been hoping for haven’t but materialized. We’re down to only beneath quarter-hour to get a cross, on common. Whereas that is a few 50% lower, we are able to do higher, we should always do higher, and we’ll do higher. We’ve seen some enhancements in different areas as nicely however we’re nonetheless not getting after this quick sufficient.
I do know an enormous difficulty on the market proper now could be circulate on the gates and having gates down for building. We’re wanting into how we are able to easy circulate that as a lot as doable as nicely. I’ve additionally checked out a return to trusted traveler however proper now we now have some safety points that stop me from approving; nevertheless, by the top of the summer time we is perhaps in a spot we are able to return to trusted traveler.
Group Tinker, what are your concepts for the place we are able to acquire floor?
Mission companions, what points are you seeing the place we might be more practical and environment friendly for you?
Retirees and dependents what’s an space we is perhaps blind to?
Please cross these concepts in e-mail format to CommandersActionLine@us.af.mil. I’ll personally test this as soon as every week to be sure to are being heard and we’re taking your thought under consideration. One factor I ask: be constructive, not damaging. Constructive will help, however damaging solely makes yet another factor we now have to learn that takes time away from some constructive suggestions we’d be capable to act on.
