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AMC leaders meet to discuss Comprehensive Airman Fitness

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  • By Master Sgt. Scott T. Sturkol
  • Air Mobility Command Public Affairs
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. --  In a continuing push to communicate the importance of Comprehensive Airman Fitness, AMC senior leaders and wing leadership from bases across AMC met via video teleconference Aug. 16.

Comprehensive Airman Fitness, or CAF, is a methodology that allows AMC to focus its efforts to take care of Airmen and their families, providing for their physical, social, mental, and spiritual fitness, officials said. The intent is to create and sustain communities on AMC installations that give Airmen and their families a sense of belonging to the Air Force community, in which they live, work, and play.

The teleconference by AMC leaders and the wings was part of AMC's Community Action Information Board, or CAIB. At each level--installation, major command and headquarters Air Force--the CAIB is supported by a multi-agency working group called the Integrated Delivery System. The IDS is comprised of various "helping agencies" that use their first-hand knowledge to develop initiatives to present to the CAIB.

In the teleconference, chaired by Lt. Gen. Rusty Findley, AMC vice commander, leaders shared ideas about what they were doing at each base to support CAF initiatives and make them sustainable. They also discussed ways to help people understand Comprehensive Airman Fitness and its goals.

"The CAF initiative is very important to this command and to the Air Force," General Findley said in addressing the group gathered in AMC headquarters and through the airwaves across the U.S. "We need to continue to work hard at this ... and let people know there are opportunities out there for them and their families."

Across the command, many bases are taking a "forward-leaning" approach to supporting the four pillars of the Comprehensive Airman Fitness--physical, social, mental and spiritual fitness--as well as the five "Cs"--caring, committing, communicating, connecting and celebrating.

For example, leaders at Dover Air Force Base, Del., are looking at ways to further help re-deploying Airmen with a redeployer transition program. At MacDill AFB, Fla., and Joint Base Charleston, S.C., "adopt a family" initiatives are taking place to support families of Airmen.

At McConnell AFB, Kan., leaders highlighted a success story from a recent spouse appreciation conference and at Travis AFB, Calif., leaders are putting forth initiatives in getting people to talk about Comprehensive Airman Fitness through an Internet blog and related social media outlets.

Across AMC, wings and command-level personnel are looking at every avenue to grow the Comprehensive Airman Fitness culture, officials said. This includes surveys to find out issues and generate improvements, working with unit key spouses to improve grass roots communications, and bring to bear all the cross-functional resources to do what CAF is designed to do--represent "Air Mobility Command's investment in readiness of the force and quality of life for our Airmen, family members and civilians."