by Marvin Krause
43rd Airlift Group
9/15/2015 - POPE ARMY AIRFIELD, N.C. -- U.S.
Air Force Gen. Hawk Carlisle, commander of Air Combat Command, met with
battlefield Airmen assigned to the 18th Air Support Operations Group
during a visit here Sept. 9.
Carlisle's visit included mission briefings and equipment demonstrations
by 18th ASOG units including the 682nd Air Support Operations Squadron,
14th Air Support Operations Squadron and 18th Weather Squadron.
The general also presented his commander's coin to several top
performing Airmen and held an all-call with Airmen where he answered
their questions and praised them for their outstanding service.
"What 18th ASOG is doing forward and what the 18th ASOG is doing across
the board is simply spectacular," Carlisle said. "We ask a lot of you
folks and you're getting the job done, you're making it happen--you are
amazing! What you do for our nation and our Air Force cannot be
overstated. You ought to be incredibly proud of yourselves for what you
do in defense of this nation."
The general also highlighted the group's impact on the Air Force relationship with the U.S. Army since 2001.
"What you have done with the faith and trust of every officer from the
Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army down to the junior lieutenants and
infantrymen on the ground, you have changed the relationship for our
land component brethren--it's phenomenal," Carlisle said. "You have made
the Air Force the banner of the Department of Defense and the
services."
Carlisle also thanked the group's Airmen for their outstanding service.
"You don't hear it often enough and I can't say it often enough, but
thank you," Carlisle said. "From the bottom of my heart, I'll tell you
on behalf of Secretary James and General Welsh, you are incredible and
we can't thank you enough. The entire American population owes you a
debt of gratitude for what you do."
by Marvin Krause
43rd Airlift Group
8/10/2015 - POPE ARMY AIRFIELD, N.C. -- Airmen
from the 43rd Airlift Group participated in an operational readiness
exercise here Aug. 3-4 testing their ability to deploy personnel and
equipment worldwide on short-notice.
The deployment exercise was initiated by Col. Kenneth Moss, 43rd AG
commander, with a recall of personnel and a deployment execution order
informing the installation deployment officer, unit commanders and
deployment managers of the personnel and cargo requirements for the
exercise.
"Today, we are conducting a deployment exercise, testing our readiness
to deploy from home station to the AOR," said Ray Baloyot, Pope Field's
installation deployment officer from the 43rd Air Base Squadron. "On the
first chalk, we have 17 individuals and on the second chalk, we have 20
individuals from across the group including a little less than a ton of
cargo supported by the 43rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron and the
43rd ABS."
Deployment planning and execution is conducted by implementing the
group's installation deployment plan that provides detailed procedures,
instructions and comprehensive data required to expeditiously deploy
personnel and equipment.
To deploy personnel, a personnel deployment function is established
consisting of representatives from the military personnel section,
Airman and Family Readiness Center, medical, legal and finance that
serves as the focal point for monitoring all personnel processing
activities. The PDF includes eligibility screening, pre-deployment
briefings, orders preparation and production, passenger manifesting,
baggage handling and passenger loading.
"The PDF does a last spot check on everyone's mobility records prior to
their deployment and to just make sure everyone is good to go to
deploy," said Tech. Sgt. Donell Walker, Noncommissioned Officer in
Charge of the personnel deployment function from the 43rd Air Base
Squadron.
The group commander's inspection team comprised of twenty subject matter
experts from multiple specialties conducted the inspection and
evaluation of the deployment exercise. They provide inputs for exercise
scenario development, inspect assigned areas and functions, evaluation
scenarios and inputs to the inspection report.
"We're processing two lines right now and the people handling it are
doing a great job of handling multiple folks at once," said James McVay,
43rd Airlift Group director of inspections. "Overall, we're pleased
with the performance of the participants."
McVay and the inspection team will provide the group commander and
senior leaders with an inspection outbrief after the exercise
highlighting their findings during their evaluations. In 30-days, they
will prepare a validated official exercise report for the commander and
Headquarters, Air Mobility Command.
The group inspection team conducts quarterly exercises that include deployment exercises depending on the commander's intent.
The 43rd AG's 900 active-duty Airmen and civilians provide contingency
outload, en route support and mobility operations for Joint Special
Operations Command, Fort Bragg's XVIII Airborne Corps and the 82nd
Airborne Division. This partnership with the Army provides the nation a
unique Joint forcible entry capability through rapid global airborne and
air assault operations within hours of notification. Missions can range
from humanitarian assistance to providing combat capability to the
combatant commanders.
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