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Sharing Flight Safety Information with Junior Maintainers THE MOBILITYTHE MAGAZINE OF AIR MOBILITY COMMAND | SUMMER 2018 FORUM Critical Days of Summer 2018 Air Force SE Maj Gen Sharing Rauch Talks About Flight Safety Who We Are Information with Junior and How We Maintainers Do Business Volume 27, No. 2 CONTENTS THE MOBILITY FORUM Summer 2018 AIR MOBILITY COMMAND Gen Carlton Everhart II DIRECTOR OF SAFETY Col Brandon R. Hileman [email protected] EDITORS Kim Knight 3 16 30 36 [email protected] Sherrie Schatz FROM THE TOP SEASONAL CONSIDERATIONS Sheree Lewis 3 Air Force SE Maj Gen Rauch 28 Harvey the Horrible [email protected] Talks About Who We Are and How We Do Business BASH PROGRAM GRAPHIC DESIGN 32 C-17 + Whitetail Deer = Changes Elizabeth Bailey FLIGHT SAFETY AMC HERITAGE The Mobility Forum (TMF) is published 5 Sharing Flight Safety Information four times a year by the Director of with Junior Maintainers 34 Secret WWII Mission Fueled the Fight Safety, Air Mobility Command, Scott AFB, IL. The contents are informative and RISK MANAGEMENT not regulatory or directive. Viewpoints 7 You Can’t Make This Stuff Up! REGULAR FEATURES expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the policy of AMC, AMC AIRCRAFT 20 Center Spread: Fireworks Safety USAF, or any DoD agency. 10 C-5M: A Class of Its Own 26 AMC Well Done Award Presented Contributions: Please email articles and SAFETY CULTURE to the 721st Aircraft Maintenance photos to [email protected], Squadron Impoundment Team, fax to (580) 628-2011, or mail to Schatz 12 Critical Days of Summer 2018 Ramstein AB, Germany Publishing, 11950 W. Highland Ave., Blackwell, OK 74631. For questions call 24 The Road Less Traveled 27 Spotlight Award: Petro 91 Crew, 60 (580) 628-4607. The editors reserve AMW, Travis AFB, California the right to make editorial changes to AMC NEWS manuscripts. 9 Rican 68: Honoring Their Memory 37 Mishap-Free Flying Hour Milestones DE denotes digitally enhanced photo. 13 732 AMS Inspection 39 Quickstoppers Diverts Disaster at Joint Base Subscriptions: U.S. 40 A Day in the Life Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska Government Printing Office: 2015-545- 114. For sale by the Superintendent of 15 AMC Safety Operations Flight Documents, U.S. Government Printing Hosts Second Biennial Conference Office. Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov. ON THE COVER Phone: toll free (866) 512-1800; DC 16 A “Rosie the Riveter” Honored Fireworks explode behind a C-130 area (202) 512-1800. Fax: (202) 512- with Lifetime Achievement Hercules during Celebrate America at 2104. Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC Award and C-17 Flight Yokota AB, Japan. 20402-0001. 18 Five Years of Hard Work Wins USAF photo by Yasuo Osakabe AMC RP 91-2. Dist: X Inaugural Spark Tank Innovation ISSN 1067-8999 Cup for AMC Airman 36 See Something, Say Something! Visit www.themobilityforum.net, HEALTH AND FITNESS or find the most current edition on THE TTHE MAGAZINE OF AIR MOBILITY COMMAND AMCs home page: www.amc.af.mil. 22 Top 10 List Honors an Airman FORUM Send comments or feedback to THE TTHE MAGAZINE OF AIR MOBILITY COMMAND Keeping Cool in Summer Heat FORUM 30 . THE [email protected] TTHE MAGAZINE OF AIR MOBILITY COMMAND FORUM THE TTHE MAGAZINE OF AIR MOBILITY COMMAND FORUM Stay up-to-date on happenings around AMC via these outlets: www.facebook.com/theofficialairmobilitycommand www.twitter.com/airmobilitycmd www.youtube.com/MobilityAirman 2 The Mobility Forum FROM THE TOP Air Force SE Maj Gen Rauch Talks About Who We Are and How We Do Business BY MS. RITA HESS, STAFF WRITER Maj Gen John T. Rauch Jr., Commander of the Air Force Safety Center at Kirtland AFB Like many o accomplish its mission, the have a good plan? Do you have the organizations, Safety Center responsibilities skills necessary?” the Air Force include promoting mishap prevention programs Rauch believes technology and Safety Center Tand policy; overseeing mishap the resulting data will continue to has a mission: investigations; developing safety dominate our future. He cited the Line and risk management education; and Operations Safety Audit, a program maintaining the mishap database. Air Mobility Command implemented, as something others want to emulate, Maj Gen John T. Rauch Jr. serves and says Air Combat Command, Air SAFEGUARD as Commander of the Air Force Force Special Operations Command, Safety Center at Kirtland AFB in and others are looking at latching onto AIRMEN Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is parts of LOSA. also Air Force Chief of Safety in Washington, D.C. Despite a busy “We are also making sure programs schedule, he says safety is his passion. like the Airman Safety Action Program PROTECT are where they need to be so Air “I don’t see safety as a separate Mobility Command can embrace the RESOURCES component of our business, and it opportunity for every Airman to be shouldn’t be a goal. Safety needs to be a sensor. Integrating Military Flight part of our Air Force culture—who we Operations Quality Assurance data are and how we do business.” gathered from airplanes is an area that nobody uses to the extent AMC does.” PRESERVE Over many decades, safety has tended to transition from risk-based Still, Rauch says progress continues, COMBAT management to operational risk as do ideas about ways to provide management. easier access to the magnitude of READINESS data collected to make it more useful. “Just telling Airmen to be safe is not However, he pointed out that the flip necessarily enough,” he explains. side of having so much information “We need to help Airmen manage is the challenge of protecting it. As risks. For example, maybe we present new platforms come on, whether a www.safety.af.mil information in easy to digest ideas. program of record like the K-loader Do you have the right gear? Do you or something entirely different, Rauch Summer 2018 3 FROM THE TOP The Air Force safety organization trains today at levels everyone understands, so Airmen know how to evaluate risks and make good decisions on and off duty.” Maj Gen John T. Rauch Jr., Air Force Chief of Safety and Commander of the Air Force Safety Center, and MSgt Michael Cupp stand ready to greet Air Force Chief of Staff Gen David L. Goldfein at Kirtland AFB, N.M., Oct. 19, 2017. Goldfein met with the Safety Center to learn how they support the nuclear mission and the Air Force nuclear enterprise. USAF photo by SSgt J.D. Strong II wants to be sure the service collects acquiring them more quickly does not In closing, Rauch says it is and uses information constructively. overshadow the need to ensure those interesting to watch AMC’s efforts products have the tools that we need applied to other areas of the “When the National Transportation built in. He explains that the Air Force service, and he wants to help all Safety Board and others investigate is looking at ways to blend safety and MAJCOMs solve issues for a very a collision, they pull data from a maintenance data efficiently, regardless important reason. multitude of sources. We are on of whether it is data AMC generated or the cusp of utilizing this same came from elsewhere. “Airmen are our most precious technology for our vehicles on the asset. It is painful to lose somebody, flight line that will likely be able to Rauch hopes we continue to learn from both for us as individuals and as an do the same thing we did in aviation our past and describes a few incidents organization. The Air Force safety where we recreate incidents to learn that made safety personal for him. organization trains today at levels from what happened. But we have to everyone understands, so Airmen figure out how to do that smartly. We “We used to learn about systems the know how to evaluate risks and need to develop something like what hard way when a mishap happened,” make good decisions on and off we call a Just Culture, so if you’re he says. “I lost a college friend to the duty. Still,” he concludes, “we have a making an honest mistake, we can all accident in Alaska when an AWACS moral requirement to do the best we learn from it.” flew through a flock of geese. In can to help keep our teammates safe another incident, an airplane collapsed as we execute the mission, and it is Another concern is the push to get during a maintenance procedure and more than just telling them to be safe. products and services faster than injured someone who mentored me in It is looking out for each other, and ever. Rauch hopes our focus on my first operational squadron.” always being a good wingman.” 4 The Mobility Forum FLIGHT SAFETY Sharing Flight Safety Information with Junior Maintainers BY MR. LALO MAYNES, HQ AMC FLIGHT SAFETY s a safety professional in the don’t know that, we can’t prevent it It is a challenge to Air Force, one of the biggest from happening again. That is why challenges I’ve had is ensuring privileged safety information is ensure the most Aour Airmen “wrench-turners” protected—to ensure it’s used only by junior members of the receive current and accurate safety people and agencies whose duties mishap information. The information include relevant mishap prevention maintenance community in most aviation mishap reports is responsibilities. I’ve shared with you receive flight safety privileged safety information (PSI) why we have an obligation to protect and must be protected in accordance PSI, now let’s find out what PSI is.
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