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U.S. AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF VISITS THE 102ND INTELLIGENCE WING | PAGE 4 102nd INTELLIGENCE WING MAY 2017 www.102iw.ang.af.mil VOLUME 32 NO. 5 VOLUME 32 NO. 5 MAY 2017 CONTENTS COMMANDER 03 10 09 Col. Virginia I. Doonan 03 Command Chief’s Comments CHIEF OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS 04 CSAF Visits 102nd Intelligence Wing 2nd Lt. Aaron Smith 05 The Adjutant General’s Priorities PUBLIC AFFAIRS STAFF 06 New Massachusetts Air Component Mr. Timothy Sandland Commander Assumes Command Master Sgt. Kerri Spero Staff Sgt. Thomas Swanson 07 Director of Psychological Health and Airman First Class Junhao Yu Wing Care Provider Directory 04 14 08 First Sergeant’s Corner and 102ND IW PUBLIC AFFAIRS 170 Grandville Ave., Box 60 Chapel Call Otis ANGB, MA 02542-1330 09 Airmen Honored as Red Cross Heroes (508) 968-4003 10 Otis Microgrid Update: Construction Begins DSN: 557-4003 11 Cyberspace Engineering and Installation: An This Air Force newsletter is an authorized Asset to the Total force publication for members of the U.S. military services. Contents of the Seagull are not 12 480 ISRG Fills Training Gap necessarily the official views of, or endorsed by, the U.S. Government, the Department of 13 Intelligence Communications Systems Defense or the Department of the Air Force. 06 The editorial content is edited, prepared, Migrate Worldwide and provided by the Public Affairs Office of the 102nd Intelligence Wing, Massachusetts 14 102nd Deployers Around the Globe Air National Guard, 156 Reilly St., Box 60, Otis ANGB, MA 02542-1330. All photos are 15 Around Otis National Guard photographs unless otherwise indicated. 16 121st Boston Marathon Photos 17 102 IW History File 18 Accolades and Announcements 20 Military Vacancy Announcements facebook.com/102iw youtube.com/102iw twitter.com/102iw 16 11 2 Hello wing members, I hope this article finds you all trusted, or included—especially because of a work well. I am writing this article to align with this month’s environment that could have been fixed! National Guard Bureau focus areas of diversity and Take a close look at your sections to recognize where inclusion. cultural differences exist, embrace and incorporate Embracing a diverse culture of mutual trust and them. Doing so will not only reap benefits to your inclusion within our wing is of utmost importance. team, but also ensures that you have a workplace By not creating a diverse environment where Airmen where personnel are valued and have the opportunity (military and civilian) feel included and respected for to achieve their full potential while contributing to the their differences will ultimately have negative impacts. missions of our wing and the Air Force. Over time, this adverse environment will eventually “You have been created in order that you might make affect an individual’s work performance, attitude, and COMMAND CHIEF COMMENTS a difference. You have within you the power to change possibly the retention of a gifted member. the world.” ~Andy Andrews Diversity is an asset to embrace! According to a recent issue of Harvard Business Review, “diverse groups seem to process information better, more carefully tending to the facts. They also outperform in terms of production, yielding higher Diversity and Inclusion returns and innovating more.” NGB-PA writes, “The recruiting and retaining people of diverse backgrounds, cultures and experiences enables By Chief Master Sgt. Karen Cozza Guard members to successfully interact on the battle field, during domestic response operations, and within 102 IW/Command Chief local communities.” I have seen first-hand the amazingly talented members of our wing, performing and supporting our incredible missions day in and day out. I would hate to lose an Airmen because he or she did not feel respected, Sources: NGB-PA Harvard Business Review http://www.1000ventures.com/business_guide/crosscuttings/cross-cultural_differences.html 3 U.S. AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF VISITS THE 102ND By Mr. Timothy Sandland 102nd IW/ Public Affairs Reconnaissance Group and a tour of operations at Digital He went on to say, “My concern is that we moved people powerful experience.” Ground Station Massachusetts – the wing’s state of the art out but left duties behind on a smaller number of Goldfein then spoke of his third and most recent focus intelligence facility. people. As we consolidated and moved people out of the area, Enhancing Multi-Domain Command and Control by squadrons, we actually moved decision authority to higher Goldfein’s visit continued with an all call at the base saying, “The reality of future warfare is our ability to levels – so we’re looking at pushing that back down.” theater. There he talked to members of the wing, as sense the globe, create a common operating picture, well as active duty members from the 6th Space Warning Goldfein spoke of his second focus area, Strengthening make decisions at a speed that the enemy can’t match, Squadron based at Cape Cod Air Force Station. Joint Leaders and Teams. He explained, “Our joint service and create dilemmas from all these domains with the partners don’t necessarily see pilots, cyber or intelligence capabilities that we bring, is very much dependent on how Before his talk, Goldfein coined six deserving Airmen from experts – it says U.S. Air Force [on the uniform] and the we network together capability.” the 102 IW and 6 SWS. One coin recipient, Tech. Sgt. Alan expectation they have is that we walk into the room and Nancarrow said “It was great to hear him speak – he’s the He postulated, “How we share data on a common sit down at the table – we understand the operational art new Chief of Staff so it’s great to see what his vision is architecture – how we turn all of the volume of ‘ones and of integrating air, space and cyber.” going to be for the Air Force.” zeroes’ that we collect, every single day – how do we then The intention is to better prepare Airmen for the joint create that common operational picture so that decisions In his remarks, Goldfein discussed the attributes he sees service environment. makers can decide?” associated with future conflict that the Air Force needs to be prepared for – as well as the three foundational focus “How do we look at officer and NCO development and “You want to create an architecture so that if one part of areas that he considers critical in moving the total force ensure that we are appropriately exposed to those it is taken away you have so much resilience built in that forward into the future. domains and those capabilities to understand the your answer is ‘bring it!’” operational art of how they come together.” said Goldfein. On the first focus area, Revitalizing Squadrons, Goldfein Goldfein also talked about changing the mindset in He went on to say, “How do we migrate the development said “it’s where the culture is – the culture of what it terms of future warfare saying, “Doing this at a speed of our officer and NCO corps so that we can refine that means to be an Airman. It’s where innovation really that I believe future warfare is going to require is going expertise going forward?” occurs. It’s where we succeed or fail as an Air Force.” He to require us to think differently about how we acquire went on to say, “Across the active, guard and reserve we Goldfein also talked about initiatives in changing the way weapons systems in the future. Because how we’ve done have about 3400 squadrons – how do we ensure that the the Air Force deploys Airmen. it in the past I would argue is very industrial age.” squadron is healthy as it can be, because that’s the most OTIS AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mass. -- Air Force Chief “We’ve gotten to a point across the Air Force where Goldfein went on to say, “In the 21st century I think our important level of command in the Air Force.” of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein visited with military and we’re sending, in my mind, too many individual Airmen mindsets got to reverse. We’ve actually got to think of civilian Airmen of the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Otis Air Goldfein talked about pushing decision authority back into combat. We went from an AEF construct to more of the highway we ride on and everything on the highway as National Guard Base on Mar 30. down to squadron commanders, saying “Right now, a wing a scheduling model to augment formations down range.” merely an app or an aperture. Figuring out the highway commander has got 1150 Air Force Instructions that they Goldfein went on to say, “What we’re looking at is team and the network is going to be essential for us to be able Goldfein began his visit with an aerial tour of the base are responsible for – we are going to get rid of as many deployments. At the very minimum it should be a three or to get the kind of data sharing we need to turn data into on board an Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter of those as we can. We’re trying to push decision making four member team with an NCO or officer in charge that decisions.” accompanied by Brig. Gen. James LeFavor, Commander of authority back down where it belongs.” is actually responsible for getting that team ready to go the Mass. Air National Guard, Col. Virginia Doonan, 102 IW Goldfein’s remarks were not lost on an audience filled including all of the work, the training and equipment – the Commander, and Chief Master Sgt.