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BEACON
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Volume 80, Number 36
452 AMW Public Affairs
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Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron plans strategically
by Linda Welz
452 AMW public affairs
The 452nd Aeromedical Evacuation
meeting, August 18-20 at the March Field
Air Museum. The meeting, which identi-
fied areas needing improvement, will be
conducted every three to five years in or-
der to check the unit’s progress on those
and other critical issues, said Col. Monsita
Faley, commander.
I attended a three-day senior leadership
development course recently, and asked
Lt. Col. Scipiaruth Curtis, an AFSO-21
black belt, if she would facilitate training
for my unit, Faley said.
The goal of the meeting was for squad-
ron leadership to identify issues, set goals
and determine the steps it would take to
reach those goals, Faley said.
“Representatives from our Executive
Management Committee attended,” Faley
said. They are pre-identified leaders and
those who have important processes. We
also included those who play and impor-
(Air Reserve Technicians) for continuity.
They have a lot of interface with members
and see a lot of what’s going on in the unit.”
“It was very helpful for us all to get
our ideas together,” said Senior Airman
Brandi Myers, squadron aviation resource
manager who has been with the unit for
sure they were in line with what their unit
It was most helpful figuring out ways
to get their financial system going, Myers
said. They need to market themselves bet-
ter to show what they do and how impor-
tant their jobs are so they can get funded
for more training, she said.
“If there were to be a real world situa-
tion, they would need us to go get people
who are injured,” Myers said. “Without us
there would be no one to do anything med-
ically,” she said referring to their global
capabilities.
This is the first strategic planning meet-
ing Senior Airman Robert Kirby, medi-
cal administrative specialist and ART, has
been involved with.
They decided to make some short films
“I think it went fantastic!” Kirby said.
“We were able to critically analyze ongo-
ing issues and set goals for the unit.”
Kirby, who has been in the unit for two
months, said one issue that will impact
“I have to write the orders, so it’s a jug-
gling thing to try to get everyone funded to
get exactly what they need.”
Understanding everyone’s skill sets
and observing everyone participating in
the problem-solving process is something
Capt. Brian Goehner, flight commander of
medical readiness and executive officer,
said he got out of the meeting.
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scheduler; Senior Airman Brandi Myers, squadron aviation resource manager, Mas-
ter Sgt. Corey Cuba, unit deployment manager; Senior Master Sgt. Deanna Swick,
operations NCOIC; (front row) Master Sgt. Michelle Davis, Tech. Sgt. Jacqlyn Cope,
command support administrators, and Col. Monsita Faley, commander.
“It was successful on a number of acting out scenarios that supervisors might
fronts,” he said. “We were able to take a have to deal with, showing the right and
problem-solving process and apply it to wrong way to communicate, be account-
some issues we have in our unit, and find able, manage time and motivate.
some tangible actions that we can take to
improve our unit overall, complete with “We think there has been a lot of un-
action items, timelines and deliverables.” clear communication. Supervisors haven’t
been as engaged, and holding their troops
One of the top issues identified was accountable,” Faley said.
training, Faley said.
They determined a lot of supervisors
After recrafting their vision and mission may not be comfortable with their role as
statements so they were in line with Air a supervisor, and that the films will help
Force Reserve Command’s and the 452nd them learn to motivate, delegate appropri-
Air Mobility Wing’s statements, Faley said ately, and communicate better, Faley said.
they looked at their key processes to make
The concept of films is novel and
wanted. Brainstorming then led them to never been done before in the squad-
identify a gap in how they prepare and ron, said Goehner. He hopes squadron
plan to send their people for annual tour, members will remember the videos and
she said. their content.
“We weren’t as mission-ready as we People respond more to visual and com-
wanted to be, so the solution was to focus edy versus sending them an email, said
on training.” Myers. They probably wouldn’t read it, she
said. “Video will engage them more.”
In doing so, they determined that the
main problem was task saturation, in other “The end goal is to provide communica-
words, there were too many tasks, which tion. We will show them during the com-
resulted in lower morale and lower readi- mander’s calls and then post them on our
ness, Faley said. internal share point sights,” Goehner said.
“The root causes were time management, Although they haven’t gone far enough
accountability and motivation,” she said. down the road to post the films so members
“That’s where the idea for films came out.” might have access to them from home, he
said that is a discussion they need to have
going forward.