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Airman 1st Class Mya M. Crosby was very difficult because they all
had their set ways of doing things.
355th Fighter Wing Public A airs We created a standardized system
where a lot of the work is done be-
DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR hind the scenes.”

FORCE BASE, Ariz. -- Desert U.S. Air Force Maj. Jonathan
Guerrero, 355th CS deputy com-
Lightning Team members created mander, presented the tracker to
ACC leadership this past March
an innovative tool, now Air Com- after the squadron successfully cre-
ated and utilized the tool at the be-
bat Command-wide, for leader- ginning of the fiscal year 2015.

ship to track their Airmen down- “Last year Col. Meger, 355th
Fighter Wing Commander, want-
range at Davis-Monthan Air Force ed a better way to track deployed
members from D-M during our last
Base, Ariz. P2 deployment,” said Guerrero. “We
had over 1,200 folks deployed which
Two Airmen from the 355th was the largest deployment on base (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Cheyenne A. Powers)
since World War II.”
Communications Squadron craft- U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 355th Fighter Wing depart for a deployment from Davis-Monthan
With the help of the 355th Force Air Force Base, Ariz., Feb. 11, 2015. These Airmen were a part of the largest deployment of person-
ed an official tool, called the Blue Support Squadron, Installation Per- nel since WWII to deploy from D-M.
sonnel Readiness pulls deployment
Line Tracker, to create a more requirement manning documents tion for the four main functional ing optional data fields such as care
from a database that provides the domains: operations, logistics, package sent, spouse contact, and
simple way of keeping this infor- Air Force cross-functional integra- manpower and personnel. deployed email.

mation together. is information is later import- e wing commander all the way
ed into the tool. e tool is auto- down to unit deployment manag-
“ is could possibly replace the matically updated every week tak- ers all have access to this tracker to
ing only a few minute at just a click view unclassified information on all
different tools that people use to of the button. deployed Airmen in their unit.

track their deployed personnel and After the six default queries to in- e innovative tracker is now
put personal information about the being used by multiple ACC instal-
it makes things much easier for deployed member is completed, the lations to aid base leader’s manage-
squadrons have the choice of enter- ment of their Airmen’s deployments.
them,” said Senior Airman Brian

Johnson, 355th CS knowledge man-

agement journeyman. “ ere was

no set standard between the units

and when we all tried to come to-

gether and create a standard it

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