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242Nd Cbcs Motorcycle Squadron Tested During Exercise Agile Phoenix Safety Air Force Kicks Off the Third Annual Spring Pmv-2 Focus THE JETREADY TO SERVE...NEIGHBOR & NATION GAZETTEOFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE 141ST AIR REFUELING WING MAY 2021 242ND CBCS MOTORCYCLE SQUADRON TESTED DURING EXERCISE AGILE PHOENIX SAFETY AIR FORCE KICKS OFF THE THIRD ANNUAL SPRING PMV-2 FOCUS PEER TO PEER TRAINING NORI SUPPORT TEAM GAINS NEW MEMBERS NOTES FROM THE TOP JETTHE GAZETTE THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE 141ST AIR REFUELING WING VOLUME 58 ISSUE 5 ∙ MAY 2021 COMMANDER COL. LARRY GARDNER VICE COMMANDER COL. KURT TUININGA EXECUTIVE OFFICER MAJ. ZACH WAGNER COMMAND CHIEF CHIEF MASTER SGT. BRANDON IVES JET GAZETTE STAFF PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER CAPT. FRANCINE ST. LAURENT PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER 2ND LT. HOLLY HANSEN PUBLIC AFFAIRS SUPERINTENDENT MASTER SGT. MICHAEL STEWART PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST TECH. SGT. MICHAEL BROWN PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST TECH. SGT. KAYLEIGH PHILLIPS PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST TECH. SGT. ROSE LUST PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST STAFF SGT. JORDAN POLLOCK PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST STAFF SGT. JESSE CONNER PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST AIRMAN 1ST CLASS RICKY ARNOLD THE MISSION THE MISSION OF THE JET GAZETTE IS TO EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATE EVENTS AND INFORMATION OF THE 141ST AIR REFUELING WING TO UNIT MEMBERS, THEIR FAMILIES AND RETIREES AND TO RECOGNIZE PERSONAL AND UNIT ACHIEVEMENTS WITHIN THE WING. CONTENTS OF THE JET GAZETTE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE OFFICIAL VIEW OF, OR ENDORSED BY, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, THE DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE, OR THE AIR NATIONAL GUARD. THE EDITORIAL CONTENT IS EDITED, PREPARED, AND PROVIDED BY THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE OF THE 141ST AIR REFUELING WING, 1 EAST BONG STREET, FAIRCHILD AFB, WA., 99011-9417. ALL PHOTOS ARE AIR FORCE OR AIR NATIONAL GUARD PHOTOS UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED. THE JET GAZETTE WELCOMES ARTICLES AND IDEAS THAT WILL ENHANCE THE PUBLICATION. IF YOU HAVE SUGGESTIONS FOR FEATURES OR SPECIFIC ARTICLES, PLEASE CONTACT THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE AT 247-7345 OR 247-7003 ON PHOTOS USED FOR ILLUSTRATION BY TECH. SGT. MICHAEL BROWN UTA WEEKENDS. NOTES FROM THE TOP Greetings teammates and 141st Air Refueling Wing family. As always, I pray these words and this edition of our Jet Gazette finds you in great health and renewed spirits as we enter our spring and summer seasons. Welcome to our extended May RSD (I truly enjoy celebrating July drill in April). More importantly, welcome to our 2021 Nuclear Operational Readiness Inspection – NORI 21-1A. As everyone is intimately familiar, NORIs are performance-based readiness evaluations of wings tasked to provide nuclear execution forces to Combatant Command and Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)-directed OPLANs. Frequency: once every 48 to 60 months. Due to COVID-19 restrictions and significant uncertainties last summer, the 92d ARW/CC and I requested a waiver to extend our NORI timeline from June 2020 to our current April 28 – May 4, 2021, dates. This waiver request was made anticipating that our wings would be on the backside of the pandemic curve and well clear of any major distractions in the form of fires, state activations, and 502(f) orders while balancing our scheduled deployment commitments (100 teammates downrange as I author this). As I stare at the mask lying on my desk and read about a potential reversion back to Phase 2 here in Spokane County next week, I can officially state that our positive anticipations for this rescheduled NORI time period fell a bit short of our goals. What hasn’t fallen short — and never will — is the readiness, preparation, and (soon-to-be) outstanding execution of one of the most critical mission sets any Air Force wing in our nation could be honored of being tasked. I am responsible for ensuring unit readiness and your ability to perform all unit-assigned missions, especially our United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) 801X mission set. Truthfully, that’s the easy part. continued on page 4 3 NOTES FROM THE TOP The more difficult piece falls upon each of you. You makers by dissuading them with the inherent state demanded by NORIs — makes me thankful. are mandated to “be ready” at all times to carry out capabilities of our combat ready force and Thankful to be associated with professionals of your positive nuclear control orders, force generate our decisive response expertise. Each of you exemplify magnitude and talent. Thankful to be on your team. available KC-135 fleet for immediate employment via deterrence in how you prepare, how you conduct And thankful that the citizens of this great nation complex operational taskings, and reconstitute our yourselves professionally, and how — if called upon have each of you defending them 24/7/365. force for future nuclear operations and much more. — you will execute your inherent warrior ethos Regardless of our final NORI 21-1A grade (which Deterrence is a whole of the wing approach. It anytime, anywhere. I’m confident will be great), our guests from AMC happens — our enemies choose not to close with Over the past few days I have been honored to will leave Team Fairchild with a final report for us — because of you; because of your readiness, watch many of you transition from preparation to Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, AMC/CC, highlighting preparation, and ability to execute at the highest execution as we officially begin NORI 21-1A. I see something she already knows: The 141st Air Refueling of degree in force generation, employment and confidence befitting men and women that are ready Wing is ready — call us anytime. reconstitution endeavors. As 801X unequivocally to demonstrate our sharpened abilities to employ demonstrates, deterrence is not necessarily about and execute against directed OPLANs. Seeing Airmen Colonel G weapons but more so about influencing decision operate on a daily basis —especially in a heightened 44 242 CBCS Participates in multi-unit exercise, Agile Phoenix Story by Tech. Sgt. Rose Lust Photos by Lt. Col. Charles Parsons e plus ultra. This Latin phrase we were in the middle of nowhere,” said roughly translates to “nothing Lt. Col. Charles Parsons, 242nd CBCS N more beyond.” That’s the motto commander. “We haven’t been able to of the 242nd Combat Communications perform our mission as an entire team Squadron, a geographically separated in over a year because of issues with Air National Guard Unit from the 194th COVID…this is what we’re all about.” Wing, attached to the 141st Air Refueling In participating in the exercise, the Wing at Fairchild Air Force Base, 242nd had the unique opportunity to Washington. employ their newest cyber system, This past week the 242nd CBCS dubbed the Flexible Communications had the chance to put their motto to Package, and prepare to run a cyber the test and participate in a multi- security assessment to guarantee secure, unit exercise, Agile Phoenix, from impenetrable lines of communication on April 24 to May 2. The objective of the the network. exercise was to mobilize Guardsmen The 242nd was one of only two Air in a bare base scenario and provide National Guard units in a pilot program communications to the 262nd Cyber to run the new Flexible Communication Operations Squadron as well as the Package, which is a scalable 194th Intelligence Squadron in order for communications suite that can support them to complete their mission. large scale needs from 10 users up to “We’re basically participating in a 1,200 within one network. deployed environment, in our tents, “It’s a big deal for us to be here,” said providing all of our own organic power Parsons. “This was the first time my with generators and security, just as if unit has had the chance to use the new 5 cyber system in the field with customers. It “It provides us with more capabilities,” said was great to validate the system and I give it Master Sgt. Kalina Bryan, a 242nd CBCS a thumbs up.” shift lead working in cyber operations. “It’s The new communication package offers consolidated a lot of things which is nice for the ability to scale its reach because not all space saving and maintenance; it’s similar to missions require the same amount of support. our previous equipment but having the ease Commanders at deployed locations can of going virtual is a big benefit.” decide their needs, which is beneficial in that Along with new virtual capabilities also it can be quickly adjusted by changing the comes updated equipment on the ground, like amount of equipment mobilized. the power provided from generators to the communication units. “This is our first exercise using these new Seeing Airmen generators in the real-world and everything “ interact like they’re went flawlessly,” said Tech. Sgt. Thomas Gilmore, a power production technician with seeing family again the 242nd CBCS, “They’re a simpler start up, has been a great smaller, lighter, and much more efficient on “ fuel, with the same amount of power. We’ve morale boost for the very impressed.” The new generators are not only smaller unit. and more efficient, but they are much quieter, allowing for units to house them closer to —Lt. Col. Charles Parsons communication centers creating a smaller overall footprint. “Previous iterations of equipment were not “It is as much about getting our team out like that,” said Parsons. “Think of it as having in the field as it is the mission,” said Parsons. one 50-pound hammer and that’s all you have “Seeing Airmen interact like they’re seeing to get a job done, no matter the size. This new family again has been a great morale boost package allows us to adjust the extent of it to for the unit.” fit the supported commander’s needs.” The blows COVID has dealt over the past Many components of the package are also year have presented challenges in more now virtual, like cloud-hosted services.
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