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Aug. 4, 2006 Gulf Defender Page Vol. 65, No. 30 Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla.. Training Expeditionary Airpower Experts Aug.. 4, 2006 In Brief Staff sergeant pro- motion party Focus 56 invites Team Tyndall to celebrate with the base’s new- est staff sergeants at a promotion party 4 p.m. Aug. 11 at the Enlisted Club. New staff sergeant selects, please attend one of the promotion planning meetings at 11 a.m. or 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in The Zone at the En- listed Club to provide your input. Thrift Shop closes The Thrift Shop will be closed for cleaning this week. It will re- open Wednesday and resume regular hours of 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday – Friday and 9 a.m. to noon. Aug. 12. Lisa Norman Inside To the rescue As evaluators look on, Tyndall fire fighters pull an “injured” pilot from the woods in a major accident -re sponse exercise that took place July 25. Senior Airman Yvonne Smith, 325th Fighter Wing exercise plans information manager, simulated an F-22 Raptor pilot who crashed upon approach to the runway. Tyndall spearheads F-22, ABM integration 1ST LT. JON QUINLAN es from command and control that is a quantum leap above sible through the use of com- 325th Air Control Squadron platforms to the Raptor using what any one particular air munication links that allow air The 325th Air Control high-speed digital data link platform might be able to do battle managers to send text Squadron and 43rd Fighter technology, called Link-16. on its own.” messages to the pilots with out Squadron here are making “Integrating command and A Raptor can leave its using the radio. Ammo softball team is significant advances integrat- control with the F-22 enhances home base, locate, cue in on Building a three-dimen- champ again... PAGE 15 ing F-22 Raptor fighter tactics our air dominance capability and destroy all of its targets, sional picture of targets and with command and control as an air force,” Lt. Col. Ted receive the locations of all pos- threats for F-22 pilots is the operations, enhancing the ca- Davis, 325th ACS commander. sible threats, receive landing New bomber to join AF job of air battle managers who pabilities of both. “The benefit of integration instructions and come home fleet...P AGE 19 fly in command and control One of the new advances is comes from the fact that we safely without being seen or the ability to send text messag- are creating a synergy of force heard. This capability is pos- • SEE ABM PAGE 16 Trust, Teamwork, Training Page 2 Gulf Defender Aug. 4, 2006 ON THE STREET NCO Academy focus: What is the best advice you ever received? Lisa Norman Give blood, save a life Alice Session, Keesler Donor Center staff member, prepares Staff Sgt. Brian Martin, 325th Communication Squadron proj- ect manager, for donating blood July 27 at the community cen- “My grandma said, ‘Always wear “Everyone tells me to listen to my ter. The Tyndall blood drive collected 121 units of blood. The clean underwear in case you get in gut instinct, and most of the time next blood drive here is scheduled for Oct. 5. an accident.’” it’s the right answer.” MASTER SGT. BEVERLY DEMMERLY STAFF SGT. REBECCA BOBICK Communications Division superintendent Personnel Programs manager Can you identify this Identify this ... object? If so, send an e-mail to editor@ tyndall.af.mil with “Identify this” in the subject line. Three correct entries will be chosen at random and drawn from a hat to select the fi- nal winner. The prize can be claimed at the Public Affairs office. Staff Sgt. 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TIM REED tion devices in use today may be reason from Air Forces Northern to the 53rd mal opportunities to learn more about 325th Contracting Squadron commander for some to long for such “personal” Weapons Evaluation Group are also our customers every day. The added In 1989, a major U.S. airline interaction as a phone call or a fax. our customers. We also have customers bonus of learning about your custom- created what many media critics When this ad was created, there within our units who depend on us, just ers is that we are also simultaneously consider to be the best business-ori- was no wide-spread use of e-mail. as we depend on them. Our customers establishing personal relationships ented television advertisement ever Blackberries and text messages did are many and varied, and listening to with them. produced. not follow us everywhere we went. our customers will likely help us realize While step two requires you to The ad is set in an executive staff File sharing and on-line collaboration that we often don’t know as much about seek out opportunities to learn, and meeting. The CEO walks into the meet- tools did not allow us to review and some of them as we should. then engage your active listening ing and announces to the assembled edit documents without ever meeting The next two steps are ways to seek skills, step three is all about sharing managers that he received a phone call our teammates. opportunities to share information with your unit’s message. Before we can that morning from “an old friend.” He Advances in technology have al- our customers. I’d be remiss if I didn’t share our mission with our custom- goes on to say that the “old friend” had lowed us to become tremendously clarify that when I talk about sharing ers, we need to know it ourselves. just fired them. After twenty years of efficient in completing our mission, information. I’m talking about general Part of mastering our jobs should doing business together, the “old friend” but the unintended consequence of information about your unit’s responsi- be to gain a thorough understanding told the CEO he felt like he didn’t know deteriorating personal relationships can bilities. Always keep operational secu- of your organization. them anymore. diminish our knowledge of our custom- rity in mind and don’t disclose specif- Once you have, you’re ready to The CEO announces that he thinks ers to the point where no technology ics. If you ever have a question about share this important information with he knows why their old friend and can overcome the deficiency. what you should or should not discuss, others. long-time customer had terminated The fastest modem, the biggest ask your unit security monitor. Does your unit have a briefing pre- their relationship. supercomputer, and the newest Blue- The second step is gaining more pared to provide an overview to the “We used to do business with a hand- tooth-enabled PDA will be worth very knowledge about customers. Methods local PME courses here? If not, get shake, face-to-face. Now, it’s a phone little if you don’t know what your of gaining this knowledge can be as involved with creating one. If your call, a fax and, ‘we’ll get back to you customer needs.