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The Mississippi Army and Air National Guard seek to maintain and improve their already long standing relationship. The two are often tasked separate goals and objectives, but are united in keeping the state and the country safe.
Each branch of service has a niche, whether it is the Marines with their amphibious assaults or the Navy with sustained water presence, said Brig. Gen. Clint E. Walker, director of the joint staff. As our relationship improves so will our maximum effectiveness because we are learning about one another’s assets and unique skills the other brings.
“Each service has unique capabilities, it may be better for the Air Force to do a task versus the Army so you have to an awareness of what each other’s strengths are so you can both mutually support each other,” said Walker.
The Air Force is well known for its fixed wing aviation support with surveillance, attacking a target, and logistics of assets and troops, said Walker. The Army is the experts in all sustain ground operations from reconnaissance, humanitarian aid, and assaulting a target.
The Army and Air National Guards are different in a lot of ways, but it’s the relationship we are building on that help us operate together well, said Col. Mike Nabors, commander of the 186th Air Refueling Wing, Mississippi Air National Guard.
The boost of the relationship will come in handy when the Mississippi National Guard receives the call to serve.
“If you know the capability of your sister service then it will help you have a complete picture of what is available to complete the task,” said Walker.
The relationship has allowed senior leaders of both sides see what the other does to help complete the mission.
It gives us a better understanding when it comes time to deploy or natural disaster of how we can work together to complete our mission, which is protect our state and country, said Mississippi Air National Guard State Command Chief Master Sgt. Robert B. Knight.
A recent trip to the 186th Air Refueling Wing at Meridian's Key Field by Walker, Command Sgt. Maj. John Raines, senior enlisted advisor for the Mississippi National Guard, and other Miss. Army National Guard staff was organized to get the senior personnel familiarized with some of the capabilities of the wing.
They spent the day building the relationship to better understand what that wing does by going to every facility on-post. The two were captivated by how useful some of the assets and personnel could be in completing missions in the future.
More relationship building trips are planned to happen to keep and strength the bond with our sister-service.
We need one another to accomplish the mission, so a stronger relationship is necessary to have safe, successful missions, said Nabors.
| Date Taken: | 02.22.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 03.10.2017 21:03 |
| Story ID: | 226451 |
| Location: | MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI, US |
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