HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah
In an Air Force that often laments the only constant is change, unprecedented encouragement from senior leaders to innovate is dissolving this phrase s negative connotation and driving Airmen at all levels to enact positive change within their organizations.
Innovators from across the Minuteman III enterprise have embraced Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr.’s strategic imperative to “accelerate change or lose,” adopting a rapid, collaborative approach to implementing innovation.
The Innovation Team aspires to serve as a model for system program offices and warfighter partnerships across the Air Force. In March, the team launched a joint Airmen Powered by Innovation (API) campaign to solicit innovative ideas from weapon system operators, maintainers and defenders, to name a few. The campaign is open to submissions from DoD employees and contractors through Dec. 31, 2021.
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Celebrate Armed Forces Day with this story from an Air Force veteran
In today s Neighbors column, Bob Lind shares former North Dakotan John Mertes Air Force jump experience as sent in by his sister. Written By: Bob Lind | ×
“Stand in the door!’ shouts the jumpmaster.
“I shuffle my way to the door, static line clenched in my sweaty fist, and enter the stream of rushing air as it passes between the open doors.”
Thus begins the story of his Air Force jump experience as written by
John Mertes and which was sent to “Neighbors” by his sister,
Jane (Mertes) Priebe, Wahpeton, N.D., after he died last fall in Mesa, Ariz., at the age of 64.
CommUNITY Cleanup hailed as a success by organizers
NeighborWorks Great Falls
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GREAT FALLS â Last week, NeighborWorks Great Falls hosted its annual CommUNITY Cleanup, starting with a free community shred day sponsored by Montana Credit Union. More than 16,000 pounds of personal information was shredded and properly disposed.
NeighborWorks Great Falls said in a news release that 24 sites around Great Falls were cleaned up by 15 teams of volunteers, with the Malmstrom Air Force Base Dirt Boyz picking up rubbish along 56 miles of roads.
Vanessa Hayden of Vision Net said, âWe care about the communities we live and work in so weâre always looking for opportunities to make our community better.â Vision Netâs team of volunteers spent several hours on Friday picking up debris along the Riverâs Edge Trail.
At Louisiana Tech University, you can find different people with special talents, hobbies, stories, and backgrounds around each corner. On the 14th floor of Wyly Tower, you can find one of these individuals, Lt. Col. Christopher S. Ritter, with his engaging stories about his experience in the United States Air Force and journey into the United States Space Force.
Ritter was born in England, as his dad served in the Air Force. Growing up, he was accustomed to military life.
“I grew up in a military family,” he said. “I have a brother in the Air Force. My father and sister were in the Air Force. And I had an uncle in the Army and my grandfather was in the Navy.”