Air Force tries to develop more agile mindset
The Air Force is putting new focus on preparing airmen for tasks outside their specialties.
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The Air Force is putting new focus on preparing airmen for tasks outside their specialties.
The service has a new focus on preparing airmen for tasks outside their specialties and to move the force to a mindset more like the expeditionary units at the Navy’s Little Creek base, the Marines who board Norfolk-based amphibious ships and the Army’s Fort Eustis-based 7th Transportation Brigade.
(Tribune News Service) — Walking through the Atlanta airport on the first day of Block Leave last month to see how getting 45,000 young soldiers home for the holidays was going, Major Gen. Lonnie Hibbard spotted one wide-eyed and looking a bit lost. “I asked if I could help him find what he was looking for, and he said ‘No sir, I’ve just never been in an airport before. It’s really cool,’ ” Hibbard said. “It’s easy to forget ... for many of our soldiers, traveling this way is a new thing.” Just as it was a new thing for Hibbard and his team at the Fort Eustis-base...