THE MOBILITYTHE MAGAZINE OF AIR MOBILITY COMMAND | SPRING 2016 FORUM Spring Break Survival: Booze n’ Binging 2015 Safety Award WINNERS Volume 25, No. 1 Spring 2016 CONTENTS THE MOBILITY FORUM AIR MOBILITY COMMAND Gen Carlton Everhart II DIRECTOR OF SAFETY 10 13 19 24 32 Col Michael R. Seiler [email protected] FROM THE TOP SEASONAL 3 Lt Gen Cox on Rapid CONSIDERATIONS EDITORS Global Mobility 28 Do YOU Like Spiders and Kim Brumley [email protected] 5 Chief of Safety Shares Vision Snakes? Sherrie Schatz Twister! Yes, It Happens! 6 Words of Wisdom from a Lifer 34 Sheree Lewis [email protected] RISK MANAGEMENT MOTORCYCLE CULTURE 7 ASAP Scoreboard Provides 32 Looking Back: Riders Graphic Design Valuable Hangar Flying Topics Helping Riders Elizabeth Bailey 22 Who’s on First? Learning to The Mobility Forum (TMF) is published four Communicate With Your Team times a year by the Director of Safety, Air REGULAR FEATURES Mobility Command, Scott AFB, Ill. 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Cox is unmistakably arrives from USTRANSCOM, we in USAF PHOTO BY A1C TAYLOR BOURGEOUS clear about how AMC the 18th turn the conceptual into air Ameets its number one priority of power.” Cox said. “General Everhart rapid global mobility. (AMC Commander) has provided the necessary authorities to allow military career that has now lasted “18th Air Force and our subordinate 18th Air Force to make his number over 30 years. units along with the AMC’s expe- one priority a reality—execute and ditionary wings and groups make sustain rapid global mobility.” “My father served in the Air Force for rapid global mobility happen every 30 years, working up from an enlisted day,” Cox said “Every time a T-tail Cox said he is fortunate to lead member all the way to a major,” he delivers pallets, or a J-model Herc superb commanders who know explains. “I attended the U.S. Air executes a combat aerial resupply, or that rapid global mobility start Force Academy after high school a tanker refuels strike aircraft … that with safety and understand the but without clear direction of what I is rapid global mobility.” inherent risks from manmade and wanted to do with my life. I knew the environmental threats. Air Force provided opportunities for As Commander of Air Mobility my dad and for our family, so I joined Command’s sole warfight- “They know that they are empow- for the opportunity.” ing numbered air force, Lt Gen ered to raise the flag any time their Cox is responsible for oversee- risk/reward calculation comes out However, Cox was not looking at a ing the command’s worldwide wrong,” he said. “Our people are too long career in the Air Force. operational mission of providing precious—our resources too scarce— rapid, global mobility and sus- for us to operate any other way.” “I wanted to do my best as a tainment for America’s armed professional aviator, but I didn’t forces through airlift, aerial refu- When Cox entered the Air Force fully appreciate the impact and eling, aeromedical evacuation, in 1980, he was glad for the importance of what we were and contingency response. opportunity but did not foresee a doing,” he says. “When I finally did Spring 2016 3 FROM THE TOP Airmen from the 379th Expeditionary SSgt Shawna Sims, a 92d Air Refueling Airmen deployed to Al Udeid Air Base, Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron treat Squadron KC-135 Stratotanker boom Qatar, deliver cargo to Incirlik Air an injured Airman at an undisclosed operator from Fairchild AFB, Wash., refuels a Base, Turkey, in support of Operation location in Southwest Asia. B-52H Stratofortress from Minot AFB, N.D. Inherent Resolve. USAF PHOTO BY TSGT NATHAN LIPSCOMB USAF PHOTO BY SSGT BENJAMIN W. STRATTON USAF PHOTO BY TSGT NATHAN LIPSCOMB understand, I became committed to i At TACC, living through The general noted that ongoing making the Air Force my career.” the infamous 2011 “March efforts exemplify how well Madness.” 18th Air Force leverages the In the decades since, he calls his capabilities of the Total Force to career “a great series of significant “The most important common- conduct its mission. positive activities,” such as Special ality in these experiences,” he Operations in the C-141; Squadron explains, “was working with, “The Mobility Air Force is the Command in the 14th Airlift and for, great people. For exam- standard when it comes to Total Squadron; Wing Command at ple, none of the former 18th AF Force integration, and that is not Dover; Commandant of Cadets commanders performed the job by accident.” he said. “We practice at the U.S. Air Force Academy; exactly the same way, but they and train as an integrated team and Command of Tanker Airlift all wanted the same outcome: every day, and that pays off in our Control Center (TACC). Cox adds operational effectiveness.” execution of operational missions. that each tour had “fantastic high Participating in exercises provides points,” including: Lt. Gen. Cox intends to carry on Active Duty, Air National Guard, that effectiveness, adding he is and Reserve forces the opportunity i Operation Just Cause in the proud that joint and coalition to perfect our interoperability.” C-141; flying with folks like Capt partners are confident in AMC’s Doug Hetzel and Capt Mike mobility capabilities. He credits Cox said leveraging the Speer; and being led by squad- the professionalism of mobility interoperability of every facet of the ron commanders of the highest Airmen for that confidence. mobility enterprise is the key to the caliber: Lt Col Jim Norris and Lt MAF’s success. Col Duncan McNabb; “Our Airmen are the greatest asset to the mobility mission,” “Eighteenth Air Force is the i In the 14th AS, working with he said. “I am dedicated to collective capability of the staff sergeant and tech sergeant ensuring that they understand operational wings, matrixed AMC loadmasters who are now chief their value to the mobility staff, and the 618th AOC,” he master sergeants, or working enterprise, and I am dedicated said. “Together, the pieces of the with captains who are now to providing them the tools mobility machine merge under the group and wing commanders; they need. That includes clear 18th Air Force umbrella to execute expectations from the top down, AMC’s number-one priority – rapid i At Dover, seeing the C-5 mature along with my promise to seek global mobility, delivered at the to the M-model; and feedback at all levels.” right place and the right time.” 4 The Mobility Forum Chief of Safety Shares Vision By MS. DARLENE Y. COWSERT, Air Force Safety Center Public Affairs aj Gen Andrew M. fatalities increased from 42 in fiscal Mueller has been the Air 2014 to 47 in fiscal 2015. Force chief of safety for less than six months but Fiscal 2015 aviation Class A total Mdescribes himself as a product of mishaps were nearly identical to the safety for 30 years. 10-year average of 18.5. On-duty ground fatalities were slightly above “Leadership involvement, “Lessons learned 68 years ago are the 10-year average of 3.8, and off- focus on compliance, just as applicable today,” Mueller duty fatalities were slightly below and decision-making said.