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ANG Ready Airman website and mobile app;
powerful resiliency, risk and safety resources
by Master Sgt. Marvin Preston executive director of the ANG CAIB. Ready Airmen Application (http://www.readyairman.org/directory)
ANGRC Public Affairs Ready Airman brings three successful
goal is resilient Airmen ready to execute active component, ANG families are
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md -- legacy programs under one umbrella to our missions in a downrange war fight, a typically not centralized around large
The Air National Guard Community serve as the ANG content hub for readi- home front domestic response, or build bases, but geographically distributed
Action Information Board, in partner- ness, risk and resilience information, as security cooperation through partner- throughout civilian communities in 54
ship with the safety, personnel and man- well as the home of the ANG’s suicide ships around the globe --to do that we states and territories. Ready Airman is
power, chaplains, and Surgeon General prevention outreach and wingman day need to engage families too. Unlike the
Directorates, have updated the portfolio planning efforts. The ANG pioneered See APP page 12
of applications available on the Ready- online delivery of resilience content for
Airman.org site and mobile app. airmen and families in 2007 with the
AF-best practice Wingman Project.
Initially debuted at the ANG Execu-
tive Safety Summit earlier this year, “When it comes to resilience, risk, and
ReadyAirman.org is already receiving readiness, we already had three well-per-
positive reviews from users and has forming brands in the public space with
topped 25,000 likes on social media. interconnected missions: Wingmanpro-
ject.org, Ready54.org and Wingmanday.
“Starting in 2005 with SeeAndAvoid. org,” said Lt Col Roberto Balzano, ANG
org, joint midair collision avoidance, Risk Management program manager.
ANG safety garnered more than a de- “We worked closely with our stakehold-
cade of experience innovating, devel- ers and customers to bring those pro-
oping, and fielding useful web and mo- grams into one-stop shopping for our
bile platforms for Airmen, families and Airmen and families...preserving those
communities--many of them going on functions that proved useful and adding
to recognition as Air Force or even joint new functionality that results in better
service best practices.” said Col. Ed- human-to-human interaction.”
ward L. Vaughan, director of safety and
Vaughan continues, “The ultimate
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