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ALTUS AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. – A team of Air Education and Training Command inspectors will be at the 97th Air Mobility Wing to conduct a Unit Effectiveness Inspection Aug. 10–17.
The inspection is part of the new Air Force Inspection System, which is meant to reduce the impact to a unit’s day-to-day mission.
The visit will be a capstone of the current UEI cycle that has included constant self-evaluation by the Wing Commander's Inspection Program. They will also look for areas of undetected non-compliance or other blind spots that may impact unit effectiveness.
“The purpose is for the AETC Inspection Team to validate and verify the wing commander’s inspection program at Altus AFB,” said U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Richard Weaver, 97th AMW Inspector General. “They’ll ensure that we are properly running our self-inspection programs at all our units and that our wing IGI and wing inspection team are properly conducting vertical and horizontal inspections of all the required programs according to Air Force Instruction 90-201.”
The current system will evaluate local operations on a five-tier grading scale to better reflect strengths or deficiencies. It will also focus more on local mission readiness instead of inspection readiness.
The foundation of the inspection is based on four major graded areas: Managing Resources, Leading People, Improving the Unit and Executing the Mission. The inspection will also include an evaluation of local leadership and management techniques, individual and group interviews, surveys and general compliance observations.
The Air Force Inspection System is meant to be a single coherent, integrated, and synchronized system of inspections conducted on behalf of the Secretary of the Air Force, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force and all commanders at levels. It benefits from the commanders' duty to inspect their operations to gain efficiencies and reduce the size of external inspection teams.
“There’s no more two year ramp-up cycle,” said Gary Cobb, 97th AMW IG director of inspections. “AETC is simply validating and verifying the overall health of the wing both from a compliance standpoint and health of the units. The intent is to not have any prep or spin up time, just day-to-day operations.”
The Air Force Inspection System program also helps reduce man-hours that have been previously used for outside inspection preparation. Capstone UEIs will occur bi-annually, while internal evaluation tools used by IG programs and unit self-assessments will continue to balance daily operations. The results will be available to higher commands in real time, allowing them to share with one another for a quicker dissemination of best practices across commands.
"I believe the return on a manpower investment to help the wing commander identify, report, analyze and fix problems is at least 10 to 1," U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Stephen Mueller, the former Secretary of the Air Force Inspector General, told Air Force News in a 2013 interview. "I'm convinced the efforts we're making together to strengthen command, reduce and prioritize our guidance, and reduce wasteful preparation for external inspections will be a catalyst for mission capability and cultural changes that will benefit every Airman, our Air Force and our nation. I don't say that lightly."
| Date Taken: | 08.03.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 08.03.2015 12:12 |
| Story ID: | 171956 |
| Location: | ALTUS AIR FORCE BASE, OK, US |
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