April 22, 2010 Visiting Capitol Hill to showcase Scott AFB! Today Chief Master Sgt. James Suttles, 375th Air Mobility Wing Command Chief, and I will be on Capitol Hill visiting with Congressional leaders from Illinois districts as part of the Wing Commander Capitol Hill Visit Program.The Air Force Chief of Staff implemented this program in 1998 whereby wing
April 14, 2010 Child Abuse Prevention Month – Our responsibilities to children A little girl neglected, left alone to fend for herself since birth became the subject of a Pulitzer Prize winning feature story last year. The story dramatically unfolds as she is found by Florida social workers at age 7 in what they say was the worst environment they had ever seen.The conditions,
April 7, 2010 Our ‘ORI EXCELLENT’ Adventure! Congratulations 375th Air Mobility Wing! As a wing commander who is tasked with ensuring we can deliver combat power for America, hearing the validation that we can indeed accomplish our mission in an "Excellent" manner is just fantastic! This past Friday, the Air Mobility Command Inspector General
April 1, 2010 ORI Review and Fitness Focus! Wow! It's been an incredible week for executing our wartime mission during an intense Operational Readiness Inspection! We have "closed" and safely accomplished our mission and I am so very proud of our great men and women. Our teams began deploying March 22 and returned this past weekend from Volk
March 24, 2010 Getting into the “spring” of things The Operational Readiness Inspection has been launched and right now our teammates are at Volk Field undergoing a rigorous testing process. Our wartime readiness is the result of a year-long stream of training, conferences, coordination and validating, and the past several weeks have been especially
March 17, 2010 Everything counts – Let’s Go! It's here! The event we've been training for! We've traveled down a long road to get to the Operational Readiness Inspection and it's been quite a journey! Everything counts--from performing our mission to the smiles on our faces. "Let's Go!" is our rally chant as we generate our forces to respond
March 10, 2010 Building a winning ORI team During the past 10 weeks, we've been discussing specific areas where we need to focus our efforts to ensure we can execute a swift and precise deployment of our forces followed by successful operations in a wartime environment. While we've been practicing for the upcoming Operational Readiness
March 3, 2010 ORI and Checklist Discipline It was just over a year ago that the 375th Air Mobility Wing received our official notification from the Air Mobility Command Inspector General that the IG team would arrive here in March of 2010 to conduct our Operational Readiness Inspection. We have spent the past year preparing for this
Feb. 24, 2010 Focus on putting the “O” in ATSO It's another huge week for the warriors of the 375th Air Mobility Wing as we rally for one last practice of deploying our forces to the fight, even amidst a Health Services Inspection. With so many moving pieces in the mobility machine, it's great to see everyone working together to get the most out
Feb. 18, 2010 Leadership…key to OUTSTANDING performance! As we continue toward the final countdown to our Operational Readiness Inspection, I want to take a moment to emphasize the importance of leadership and followership.As leaders we must set the example and display excellence in all we do. Good leaders motivate people toward a common goal, and our ORI