Joint Base Journal Vol. 4, No. 36 September 20, 2013 News and information for and about the premier Joint Base and its region www.facebook.com/jointbase JOINT BASE ANACOSTIA-BOLLING www.cnic.navy.mil/jbab Our thoughts and prayers go out to our Navy Yard fallen and injured; their families, friends and co-workers Let’s make it possible: Combined Federal Campaign kicks off BY ROBIN PARKER The keynote speaker for the DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY event was Tammy Moore, advisor to the American Red Cross presi- dent and chief executive officer WASHINGTON -The Defense regarding policy, strategy and op- Intelligence Agency (DIA) kicked erations. She shared the diversity off the 2013 Combined Federal of American Red Cross services Campaign (CFC) at its headquar- which range from teaching ani- ters on JointBaseAnacostia-Bol- mal CPR classes and providing 40 ling (JBAB) Sept. 10 and announced percent of the nation’s emergency this year’s goal of $950,000. blood supply to providing food, Some may wonder why the shelter and emotional support to campaign goal decreased from the disaster survivors. The organiza- 2012 goal of onemillion?Acknowl- tion also supports wounded veter- edging the challenging fiscal envi- ans –American Red Cross volun- ronment and the unique economic teers are often the first Americans challenges facing the workforce, wounded service members see the Department of Defense (DOD) when arriving back on U.S. soil. reduced the goal proportionally Other special guests includ- across the community. However, ed first responders dear to DIA: as DIA CFC manager Bruce Shank members of DIA police, the JBAB pointed out, DIA wouldexceed the fire department and the Waldorf agency’s goal if each employee in Emergency Management Service. the National Capital Region (NCR) CFC recognizes the critical role of donates the cost of apremium cup DIA PHOTO BY STAFF SGT. JONATHAN LOVELADY of coffee each pay period through- The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) held aCombined Federal Campaign kickoff ceremony inside Tighe audito- out the year. See CFC,Page 5 rium Sept. 10. The campaign will run through Dec. 15. Happy 66th Birthday, U.S. Air Force! Vice commander acknowledges milestone birthday for Air Force BY PAUL BELLO While then President Franklin D. Roos- Joint Base Anacos- JOINT BASE ANACOSTIA-BOLLING evelt used the Sacred Cow only before his tia-Bolling Vice Com- PUBLIC AFFAIRS death in April 1945, Saunders said the air- mander Col. Michael craft was in presidential service during the E. Saunders and Air- WASHINGTON –Lunch at the Bolling first two years of President Harry Truman’s man 1st Class Josh- tenure as commander-in-chief. It was also Club Sept. 18 had an extra special item on ua Fleek, of the in- its menu –birthday cake. To honor the 66th while on board the Sacred Cow that Tru- birthday of the U.S. Air Force, Joint Base man signed the National Security Act of stallation’s Air Force Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB) Vice-Commander 1947 –which Saunders said established the Honor Guard, join for Col. Michael E. Saunders welcomed guests Air Force as an independent service. aceremonial cake and joined Airman 1st Class Joshua Fleek, of “It’s regarded as the birthplace of the Air cutting in honor of the installation’s Air Force Honor Guard, in Force. The Sacred Cow is just one of many the Air Force’s 66th aceremonial cake cutting to help celebrate interesting facts about our nation’s young- birthday Sept. 18 at the occasion. est service,” Saunders said. “As our Airmen the Bolling Club. From its start as the Aeronautical Divi- continue to accomplish the core missions sion, Signal Corps on up to being part of at hand, Ibelieve it’s significant to acknowl- the U.S. Army Air Forces, Saunders went U.S. NAVY PHOTO through some of the history behind the Air edge our past while looking ahead to the fu- BY PAUL BELLO Force, including its long, storied presence at ture. I’m faithful to our values and proud to the base formerly known as Bolling. It was be an Airman.” on this base that the presidential aircraft, Since 1983, the Sacred Cow has been dubbed the “Sacred Cow” and equivalent part of the National Museum of the U.S. Air to today’s Air Force One, would take off and Force at Wright- Patterson Air Force Base in land back in the nation’s capital. Dayton, Ohio. 2 Friday, September 20, 2013 Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling Joint Base Journal Acting Air Force secretary describes budget choices at aroundtable BY JIM GARAMONE provide immediate relief, he added. But manning and equipping the AMERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE “You can’t get money out of people force of the future also is important, fast enough -- it takes about ayear to Fanning said. In aspeech this morning, get savings out of personnel,” he said. NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -The Air he said the Air Force needs to ask the Fencing off priority programs puts a right questions to identify the game- Force may have to “cut vertically” in lot of pressure on the wedge of the bud- fiscal year 2014 to achieve the savings changers of the future. get pie that’s left, Fanning said. No one really knows what technolo- needed under sequestration, the ser- “You can see what some of the pro- gies or capabilities will change warfare vice’s acting secretary said earlier this grams are we might be after, but you in the future, he said, but the Air Force week. can’t get savings of the magnitude nec- Everything is on the table, Eric K. essary by reducing all your fleets,” he must “keep looking for it and investing U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO BY MICHAEL J. PAUSIC Fanning said in amedia roundtable in it so you are adaptable and agile and Betty Welsh discusses the impact of multiple deploy- said. “You have to take out some of the at the Air Force Association’s annual fleets entirely in order to get the whole better positioned to adjust to whatever ments on Air Force family members during the Spouse meeting. tail that would come with it.” that is ahead of your adversary. If you and Family Forum at the 2013 Air Force Association’s He would not confirm reports that The fiscal 2015 budget is in turmoil. are not asking the question, you are not Air &Space Conference and Technology Exposition the Air Force is looking at eliminating The Air Force -- along with all of DOD focused in the right direction.” Sept. 16. Betty is the wife of Air Force Chief of Staff the A-10 Thunderbolt II air-to-ground -- is formulating two separate budgets: Over the past four years, the Air fighter and the KC-10 refueling tank- Gen. Mark A. Welsh III. one with asequestration topline and Force has been doing not only an an- er, but said officials are “looking most one based on the president’s budget nual budget, but also multiple budgets, closely at single-mission fleets.” request. conducting efficiency drills and “driv- Cuts to the budget in fiscal 2014 “We are constantly balancing mod- ing all of our thinking and processes mean no ramp for the services -- they Air Force ernization versus recapitalization -- into this ever-tightening ‘do loop’ that will not enter these spending cuts grad- near-term risk vs. far-term risk,” Fan- takes the eye of people off of over-the- ually, the acting secretary said. ning said. horizon thinking,” Fanning said. “If we go into fiscal 2014 with se- All Air Force officials fully realize In atime of drawdown, officials have questration still in effect, you need to there are near-term commitments that forum focuses to set up and enforce priorities, he said. achieve those savings that quickly,” he areimperative. said. “You have to look at vertical cuts.” “We are still at war,” Fanning said. “But you need abudget baseline to The Air Force cannot save money “We are still required to go when con- build off of those priorities and look on family out of installations, because Congress tingencies arise. There is no greater over the horizon,” Fanning said. “If we will not support another round of base commitment we have than to support ask the right question, the Air Force … realignments and closures, Fanning the men and women being sent into is going to be in adynamic place 10, 15, said. And even personnel cuts wouldn’t harm’s way now.” 20 years in the future.” BY SENIOR AIRMAN TABITHA N. HAYNES AIR FORCE DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON PUBLIC AFFAIRS WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- In remarks and an in- teractivesession during theAir ForceAssociation’s Spouse and Family Forum earlier this week, spouses of Air Force senior leaders championed the service’s focus on families and support. Betty Welsh and Athena Cody, spouses of Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III and Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Cody, shared their per- sonal experiences with 2013 Air &Space Conference and Technology Exposition attendees during the fo- rum which featured discussions covering varied top- ics relevant to the total Air Force family. “I hope you realize it is the friendships, the sup- port, and the sense of contributing to something im- portant knowing you and your spouse are serving our nation,” Welsh said of military families’ advantages. “I hope you feel like Ido–that it is the joys of this lifestyle that we live and not the difficulties that form our rewards.” Welsh spoke candidly about her experiences hav- U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY PAUL BELLO ing three boys, one girl, and grandchildren amid Runners begin the Navy/Air Force Half Marathon Sept.