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  • Force Generation Center commander's comments

    The year 2019 nearly over, and Reserve Airmen continue to impress me every day with their professionalism and dedication to defending American interests at home and abroad.  Wherever your mission may be, we stand ready to support you from start to finish and fully live up to our motto of “Ne Quid

  • 'Thanks for all your hard work over the past year'

    Heroes of the Air Force Reserve:Last month marked my first anniversary as commander of this amazing organization. It has been an incredibly busy year.My focus is taking care of our Reserve Citizen Airmen and their families while ensuring we continue to provide robust capability to the joint force. I

  • New law in Illinois will help reserve spouses

    The Illinois legislature recently passed House Bill 1652, a bill designed to help military members and their spouses with the licensing process.  House Bill 1652 provides for expedited licensure reciprocity for service members and military spouses and is designed to make it easier for members and

  • Remembering September 11th, 2001

    Staff Sgt. Ryan James, 932nd Mission Support Group commander’s support staff, shares his story from September 11th and how it changed his life, and how he supported his active duty spouse with organizing Team Scott’s 9/11 Memorial Ceremony and Reveille.

  • Enhancing trust is the first step to reforming the organization

    In my last commentary, I rolled out three individual lines of effort – comprehensive readiness, deliberate talent management and enhancing organizational trust – to align with our strategic priorities. Today, I want to focus on LOE3, enhancing organizational trust.

  • A civilian perspective on a change of command

    As a summer intern and absolute novice to military life, I had the honor of attending the recent Assumption of Command for Col. J. Scot Heathman, and wanted to share how interesting and inspiring it was for me.

  • Enlisted force lines of effort will help us meet strategic goals

    Since being selected as the command chief, I have been routinely asked about my focus areas for the enlisted force. At first, I was a little hesitant to establish focus areas because our priorities of prioritizing strategic depth while accelerating readiness, developing resilient leaders and

  • Building community, excellence, gratitude

    I owe a lot fo gratitude to the fellow Airmen, friends and mentors that have helped influence my career with their guidance, friendship and leadership. I have been blessed to work with some wonderful people and it is from them that I learned everything that brought me to this place in my career.